Also, today is the last day to get discounted tickets for The Future of Fintech Conference. The speaker lineup is bonkers. Here’s just a sampling of the 40 speakers.
We looked at startup failure and VC-backed deal activity within the renewables space. In the last 5 years, top investor in the space Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers saw a drop in deal activity from more than 12 overall to just 1 in 2016.
A real pie chart
Never hated pie so much.
Into the deep
We identified over 60 startups in the deep learning space. The companies below operate across 10 different categories, from computer vision to robotics to healthcare, and more.
I’ll never get this time back
I spent 25 minutes trying to figure out what this was trying to say.
I’ve got problems.
Startups to watch
We identified 10 early-stage bitcoin and blockchain startups to watch based on recency of funding, quality of investors, and company health. The companies on our list have all raised funding in the past 20 months.
Ever wondered where US foreign aid goes? This pie chart breaks it down.
The Industry Standard
CB Insights data is the most trusted by those in the industry and the media. A few recent hits.
Business Insider. Julio M. Ottino & Mark P. Mills write about the need for educators to foster innovation-as-a-skill, a key feature of entrepreneurship, and refer to the CB Insights Unicorn Tracker.
Betakit. Amira Zubairi (@amirazubairi) reports on a University of Toronto study identifying top Canadian companies using CB Insights data on VC-backed Canadian startups.
