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Deal activity, however, remains relatively high with six straight quarters of 200+ deals to private e-commerce companies. The global e-commerce industry is seeing more maturity as...
VR went from less than 25 to almost 100 deals in 2015, although deal activity ticked down in the first quarter of this year. Magic Leap...
Digital health startups are bucking the trend in VC and enjoying a strong quarter, with a flurry of $100M+ mega-rounds buoying numbers. While VC-backed companies saw a...
Corporate investment in drones climbed to a record high last year, but deals and funding plunged in Q1’16. Corporations and their corporate venture arms — including...
Q1’16 only saw 2 deals to drone startups of $20M or more in size, compared to 7 the previous quarter. However, Q1’16 was the third quarter...
Investors are piling into robotics. Funding to the category, excluding drones, was up 115% in 2015. Innovation Works, Intel Capital and High-Tech Grunderfonds were the most...
The IIoT trend affects asset-heavy industries from oil and logistics to agribusiness. Deals also surged in 2015 to nearly 200, but a weak Q4’15 has cast...
Singapore saw the most deal activity in the last quarter. Taiwan-based Gogoro and Singapore’s ASLAN Pharmaceuticals bagged the region’s top deals. VC-backed deals surged in Q4’15...
In deal terms, activity was the lowest since Q1’13, dropping 13% compared to the previous quarter. Overall funding to VC-backed companies has been on a steady...
The new funding and deal highs in 2015 were bolstered by several large mega-rounds to well-funded companies like Tanium, Cloudflare, and Tenable. Cybersecurity is increasingly a...