New in December
from CB Insights
- Strategy Maps — predictive competitive intel, now on company profiles
- Shortlist Analyst — an AI agent for early diligence on high-stakes shortlists
- Anthropic Claude integration — CB Insights data inside your AI
- New Mosaic study — how we identify the 30% of unicorns smart money misses
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10 Fortune 500 firms trust CB Insights.
Fortune favors the data-driven. The top 10 Fortune 500 firms trust CB Insights.
Strategy Maps: Visualize any company’s strategy – today and over time
Strategy teams need to understand how competitors and partners are actually allocating capital – before moves show up in filings or press.
Strategy Maps visualize how a company’s M&A, partnerships, and investments are evolving – revealing the strategy behind every move. Now, Strategy Maps are available on company profiles, with historical “rewind” and parent/subsidiary views, so you can spot changes over time and see what’s next.
Shortlist Analyst: narrow down to a shortlist — then let this agent handle early diligence
Evaluating a shortlist is where sourcing turns into side-by-side comparison — and teams need a clear way to see how companies differ.
Our Shortlist Analyst is a power tool designed for this moment. Once you’ve narrowed to a shortlist using our Advanced Search filters, the agent analyzes them together – surfacing comparative strengths, risks, and patterns using CB Insights’ predictive intelligence. Teams get a shared, evidence-based view of which companies deserve time – fast.
Anthropic Claude add-on integration: reliable private markets context for your AI
Teams are doing real work inside AI tools — but most models still reason from public, unverified information. That’s a problem when the decision matters.
With the CB Insights integration for Anthropic Claude, questions asked in Claude can be answered using CB Insights’ predictive intelligence on private companies, markets, and competitors. The result is AI output grounded in validated data and structured context — not internet noise. Not an Anthropic shop? We integrate with other AI models, too.
Mosaic benchmarking study: find the 30% of unicorns the smart money misses
Following “smart money” has long been a shortcut for sourcing — but it’s an incomplete one. Our latest study shows 30% of unicorns were not backed by top-decile VCs before they broke out — yet our Mosaic success probability score identified them earlier. Overall, Mosaic is 4.7x more predictive of future unicorn status than investments from top-tier venture firms.
The study shows where consensus sourcing fails, why that creates blind spots, and how Mosaic surfaces opportunities others overlook.
Bonus: we’re expanding the early access program for Insight Columns
Watchlists are where monitoring turns into decision-making — but analyzing dozens or hundreds of companies one by one doesn’t scale.
Insight Columns let you apply complex, AI-powered analysis across an entire Watchlist at once. Ask a question — Which companies look like the best partners? Where are the M&A risks? — and populate a column with insight for every company on the list, grounded in our predictive intelligence.
