Fortune Magazine dug into the AI 100 and ID’d 50 companies leading the AI revolution. The article by Brian O’Keefe and Nicolas Rapp will appear in the March 1, 2017 print issue of Fortune as part of a feature entitled “Betting on AI” (see a short excerpt in The Industry Standard).
They also put together this great infographic below featuring the AI 100 companies.
This is also why you want to submit your data to CB Insights. Besides potentially being highlighted in our market maps and at our events, it leads to media coverage. Yes — free PR.
And we told you not to use jargon when submitting data.
But some of you couldn’t resist.
So we have now instituted a jargon filter.
It works like this.
If you use jargon, you won’t be able to submit your company profile until you remove it.
We really want to feature great companies including yours. Just write like a normal person and not some PR robot vomiting up marketing gibberish.
If you’re a virtual reality / augmented reality startup that wants to be featured in our coming market map, submit your data here to be considered.
International dealmakers
We analyzed deals between 2012 and 2016 to sales tech startups outside the US and mapped top international VC-backed companies that have received funding in the last 18 months. Last year, the countries with the highest level of sales tech deal activity behind the US included the UK, India, Canada, and France.
Nothing good about this map
Men commit suicide at higher rates in almost all countries.
Valuation extension
Some VCs submitting data for our NY Times VC rankings asked for more time as they needed to get clearance from their portfolio companies to share valuation data.
So we’re extending the deadline to submit your firm and individual partner data until this Wednesday, March 1st.
In May 2009, DST Global, founded by Yuri Milner, invested $200M in Facebook at a $10B valuation.
At the time, many suggested they overpaid and were crazy to pay this price.
And now we know how that turned out. Facebook IPO’d at over a $100B.
DST keeps a relatively low profile (which is remarkable given their recent fund is $1.7B), but after doing their diligence on The Future of Fintech Conference, they’ve decided to join us.
We’re super excited to announce that DST’s managing partner focused on fintech, Tom Stafford, will be joining us.
Tom and DST bring a unique global perspective to financial services disruption and have invested in a number of fintech unicorns and emerging unicorns including Funding Circle, Klarna, GreenSky, Lending Club, and NuBank among others.
This is a reminder that prices go up by $1000 in < 2 days (on March 1st). Use the discount code NLFintech17 to get $1000 off until tomorrow.
