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A love letter to mgmt consultants

Hi there,

Today, we have annoying management consultants, a chart made while high, and a post by a founder whose company was acquired that is not nauseating. And a lot more.

But first.

Series Eh?

The PwC Moneytree Canada report is coming out in April.

If you’re a Canadian VC or startup who wants to be featured in the report, ensure your info is up to date by Friday, March 17th. The first report got a ton of media coverage so if the chance at free PR is interesting to you, update your data/info asap.

Edit/update your data here.

Can I get some of that?

And the pie chart assault continues.

In good news, whoever made this pie chart was smoking some great stuff.

Hacking DNA

We looked at global corporate equity investment in private synthetic biology startups since 2012. The most active corporates include Novartis, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Syngenta, and Monsanto.

Can you smell the synergy?

Dear Management Consulting Firm,

No, you can’t have free data in exchange for attribution at the bottom of the slide.

Love,
CB Insights

Market map madness

From financial technology to artificial intelligence to CPG, and more, we put together a collection of all our market maps and unbundling/disrupting graphics.

Snap’s sweatpants

Two really interesting perspectives in The Blurb today.

One is by Rob Cox (@rob1cox) who is critical of investors pony’ing up for Snap’s IPO writing they “abrogated their rights to fair treatment, good governance and reasonable valuations.”

Farm funds

We analyzed funding trends into the agtech space from 2012 to 2016. The last two years saw more than $200M in financing across 68+ deals.

Not just a humble brag

The other notable post in the Blurb today is by Scott Galloway who just sold his company L2 to Gartner. It is one of the most honest post-acquisition notes I’ve ever read devoid of the typical “excited for this next part of the journey” bs that pervades most of these self-congratulatory, humblebrag’y notes.

Scott writes about giving back, writing that he is the son of immigrants and also benefited from state-sponsored education and hopes to help continue that. He also writes how everyone was happy with the deal except those who made the most off of it and how critical timing is in the sale. It is worth a read.

IIoT highs

We looked at funding trends within the industrial IoT space from 2012 to 2016. IIoT saw its 4th straight year of growth in 2016, with investment totaling over $2.2B across 321 deals.

The Industry Standard

CB Insights data is the most trusted by those in the industry and the media. A few recent hits.

New York Times. Katie Benner (@ktbenner) writes about Airbnb’s latest round of financing and cites CB Insights funding data.

TechCrunch. Connie Loizos (@cookie) reports on real estate platform RealConnex’s latest funding round and refers to CB Insights investment data.

WWD. Matt Kaden (@mattkaden) on how direct-to-consumer brands and related fashion tech companies should build strategic alliances with old-economy companies with a reference to CB Insights financing data.

Happy Monday.

I love you.

Anand
@asanwal

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