the pie’est of pie charts

Pies on pies

Hi there,

We’re announcing the winners of our first ever caption contest today.

I know, I know.

Very exciting.

Cybersecurity exits

We looked at acquisition activity in cybersecurity over the last six years and created a timeline of acquirers and acquisition targets spanning from Q4’16 through 2017 year-to-date. Since October of last year, seven cybersecurity startups have been acquired for more than $100M.

Oh, nice one

You know what’s better than a pie chart.

Pie charts within pie charts within pie charts.

Thanks to Anurati Mathur of Sempre Health for sharing this beautiful creation with us.

For nonprofits & foundations

We’ve gotten a lot of emails from people at foundations & nonprofits asking about discounted rates to The Future of Fintech Conference.

So we’re making 10 discounted tickets available just for nonprofits.

Tickets are currently $2995 to $3995.

These 10 non-profit tickets will be $1495 for one ticket or $1990 for two ($995/ticket).

Fill out this form by Monday, June 5th if you want one or more of these tickets.

Note: Startups that don’t have a revenue model or which have negative gross margins are not considered nonprofits.

Drone zone

If you’re a startup focused on drones or an investor in drone companies, ensure your profile is updated/added to CB Insights via The CBI Editor so your company can get in front of our research team and eventually the 275,000+ on this newsletter.

Submit or update your data here.

Stop, Drop, Tweet, and Roll.

Software is eating common sense.

Wealth tech wins

We looked at funding trends to private wealth tech companies and highlighted select early-stage investments and companies to watch. Q1’17 set a new record for deals with 30 deals worth approximately $164M.

Cuz I’m a winner

We asked you to think of a caption for this pie chart.

And over 100 of you responded.

The winners are:

1. The audience choice (had the most favs) award goes to Tom Sharkey (prior to the deadline).

   

2. And the CB Insights team choice award goes to Sarah Z. Wexler for this caption.

   

You both will receive super comfortable, grass fed CB Insights “data > opinion” t-shirts.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone for their captions. 

200 unicorns later

Ed tech startup Yuanfudao and health intelligence platform Outcome Health entered the unicorn club this week. There are now 200 private market companies valued at $1B+ featured on our Unicorn Tracker.

The Industry Standard

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

Digiday. Max Willens (@maxwillens) on the state of AI adoption in media with a reference to CB Insights acquisition data.

Business Insider. Ayoub Aouad (@_ayouba_) writes about merchant acquirer Worldpay entering the VR space and mentions CB Insights investment data.

Singapore Business Review. A report on China’s tech IPOs with a reference to CB Insights unicorn data.

I love you.

Anand
@asanwal

P.S. We’ll be digging into AI in cybersecurity in an upcoming research briefing on June 14th. Sign up here.