$100B Mobile Exits as Investments/valuations Peak in 2015
It’s hard to call the top of an investment market, but the massive numbers around mobile interne...
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Silicon Valley's $585 Billion Problem
VCs have pumped up the value of the “unicorn” startups. Now tech IPOs are in trouble. Good luck...
There are Now 229 Unicorn Startups, with $175B in Funding and $1.3T...
Tales of the tech unicorn’s impending demise might be somewhat exaggerated. [click to enlarge]Sp...
(Infographic) A Global Perspective Of Israeli Tech In 2015
Israel felt the effects of these global trends, with an unprecedented $5 billion in investments,...
Venture Investing Declined Sharply at the End of 2015
RIP Good Times? Venture Capital Funding, Unicorn Births, And Mega-Deals Plummet in Q4’15. 2015 w...
What’s The Half Life Of A Unicorn ?
“Cybercorns” are companies that have surpassed the magical $1 billion valuation. Several of the...
10 High-Flying Companies To Watch At CES 2016
These are some of the companies you should be watching at CES based on CB Insights' predictive Mo...
2015 Tech IPO Score Sheet
A lot of big tech companies are staying private for longer than ever before, leading to a rise in...
(PDF) The State of Hardware for 2015
2015 is soon coming to a close, and the world of hardware startups has been changing even faster....
(Infographic) The Increasingly Crowded Unicorn Club
Visualizing the rise of today's unicorn companies since 2011. Things are getting crowded in the o...
Top 10 Unicorns by Valuation
On Tuesday, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said he was resisting pressure to take his company public, a...
Despite New York’s Growing Stable Of Unicorn Companies, Only A Few...
Since 2013, 3x as many new $1B+ companies emerged in New York as there have been tech exits. This...
Fintech Unicorn Adyen Grabs First Silicon Valley Investor at $2.3B...
Adyen, the Amsterdam-based payment processing company, announced today that its valuation had jum...
Detail-Rich “Leaderboard” for the Unicorn Obsessed
These days, everyone seems to have a unicorn list. And why wouldn’t they? The number of privatel...
How Traditional Media Giants Are Betting On Startup Investments
Media's future is still up in the air, and big media players like Comcast and NewsCorp. are compe...
Unbundling iOS : 44 Startups Attacking Apple’s Core Apps And Services
For mainstream consumers, the most visible feature of iOS are Apple's stock apps, and few of them...
Average Mobile Unicorn Now Worth over $9 Billion
It’s not surprising that mobile unicorns are multiplying, with mobile internet revenue forecast...
These Investors Are The Best Unicorn Hunters
Which investors have the most billion-dollar companies in their portfolios? And who got into thos...
The Investors Who Passed on Airbnb’s Seed Funding Had Their Reasons
Over the weekend, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky shared some of the rejection letters he received in 200...
The Venture Capital Firms That are Best at Spotting Unicorns
By analyzing data from research firm Pitchbook, the goal was to find out which firms participated...
Grand Rounds Is Raising At Around A $750M Valuation
Sources are telling TechCrunch that Grand Rounds, which sells companies a service that gives empl...
Sizing Up AirBnB’s Reported $24B Valuation
AirBnB is poised to become more valuable than Marriott, Starwood, and Expedia. At first glance, t...
(Infographic) Art Schools Have Minted More Massive Unicorns than MIT ?
Among the 48 founders of these companies, seven have attended Stanford. But perhaps more surprisi...
The Sharing Economy Has Created 17 Billion-Dollar Companies (and 10...
Sharing is big business. Big big business.There are now 17 billion-dollar companies with 60,000 e...
How Ever-Higher Valuations Lead Unicorns Into A Cycle Of Private Ca...
Unicorns and dragons have become so ubiquitous that some argue investing in these companies is th...
Mobile Valuations Split as Investments and Exits Diverge
Mobile investment is growing as quickly as mobile usage and revenue, with $14 billion invested in...
(PDF) KPMG-CB Insights Report on 'Unicorns'
There was a time when it was rare for a startup to reach the exclusive “Unicorn” club, the term...
Uber Funding Talks Highlight the Speedy Pace of Investments
Uber raised a total of more than $2 billion from investors in June and December last year — and...
Circa : What Went Wrong
Circa, the clever smartphone news app, failed to live up to its promises. The fiasco stems from t...
What Kind of Fin Tech Startups is JP Morgan Chase Investing In ?
JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon has warned that Silicon Valley is coming. His firm is meeting the challen...
Banks Are Betting Big on a Startup That Bypasses Banks
Online peer-to-peer lending platforms have surged in popularity by connecting people who want to...
Up Close with Ring: Maybe Smart, Definitely Gigantic
In the wide world of crowd-funding unicorns, smart rings have been hustling for the top of the he...
