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April 25, 2020

Hi there,

Join us on May 7 at 1 pm EST for our webinar on how insurers are using digital technology to protect their businesses and lower costs. If you can't make it, sign up anyways and we'll send you the slides and recording after.

And now, here are this week's top research briefs.

ICYMI

The United States Of Digital Health Startups
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, digital health categories including telehealth, at-home diagnostics, and remote monitoring have been the object of renewed attention. In this map, we highlight the top-funded digital health startup in every US state.

What We Can Learn From Smart Money VCs’ Bets In Quantum, AI, Fintech, And More
The CB Insights Smart Money list contains the world's best-performing VC investors. We analyze their early-stage investment portfolios to identify where they see opportunity and risk.

Shopper Engagement Tech Trends To Watch In 2020
Personalized rewards. Virtual advisors. Deepfake brand content. Our analysts identified 9 of the biggest shopper engagement trends to watch in 2020.

CORE INTELLIGENCE

Feeling Lonely? Sony Files To Patent A Gamer Robot Friend That Will Cheer You On
The 'feeling deduction unit' is no couch potato. It's fuzzy and amiable, unless you do the one thing that it hates.

US-Based Startup Unicorns See The Impact Of Covid-19

The number of new US-based unicorns in Q1'20 hit a 2-year low, while aggregate valuations fell. Is this the beginning of the end for the unicorn?

How Covid-19 Has Impacted Seed Funding In Q1’20

A drop in seed deals accounted for nearly 80% of the decline in deals in Q1'20 as investors rethought riskier, early-stage rounds.

What SMBs’ Cash-Flow Crisis Means For Fintech

For many small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the Covid-19 pandemic and recent economic shocks magnify some of the usual vulnerabilities and risks in servicing this segment. We examine the risks and opportunities SMBs' current financial troubles present to the fintech ecosystem.

How Covid-19 Is Impacting First Fundings To Startups In 3 Major US Tech Hubs
We use CB Insights data to analyze how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected startups' ability to raise their first round of outside capital in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston in Q1'20.

CLIENT-EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH

These Technologies Could Enable Faster, More Effective Clinical Trials
Clinical trials may become more efficient as emerging tech transforms processes like study management, patient recruitment, and more. We look at how the clinical trial landscape is changing.

EXPERT INTELLIGENCE

40+ Startups Driving Digitization And Efficiency In P&C Claims Management
These startups are streamlining claims management, a traditionally manual and time-consuming process, by applying AI, telematics, and more.

EXPERT INTELLIGENCE

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