FinTech Investment Trends Report

Earlier this summer, we issued the FinTech Investment Landscape report sponsored by our friends at Accenture, the FinTech Innovation Lab and The Partnership Fund for New York City. Here it is in all its data-driven glory. Or hit the big green button. As always, all the underlying data is available on CB Insights.

Intel and Intel Capital Get Cozy in Perceptual Computing

Keeping it in the family? Year-over-year deal activity to perceptual computing has jumped over 40%, and with the creation of its own $100M Perceptual Computing fund, Intel Capital is among the sector's most bullish investors. Now it looks like the mothership is setting its eyes on its venture arm's perceptual computing portfolio. Since 2012, Intel has acquired three Intel Capital-backed perceptual computing startups. See our full analysis of the closer ties between Intel and it's VC arm here.

The Bloated "Series A"

The more things change... From GitHub's $100M Series A to Clinkle's $25M seed round, there has been some notable early-stage mega deals. The reality, however, is that these jumbo and juiced Seed and Series A transactions are outliers which garner a lot of attention but which are not emblematic of any real change in deal sizes within tech. See a breakdown of average and median early-stage tech deals since 2009 here.

CB Insider Posts

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• The 30 Most Well-Funded Private Big Data Companies
• Private Co. eCommerce Exit Valuation Multiples: Median 2.0x and Avg. 5.8x
• The Most Active Investors in the Genomics Space

As Apps Hit the Enterprise, VCs Bet on Mobile App Development

Enterprise apps fuel funding growth. With companies enlisting the help of mobile app development startups to build out secure and accessible mobile apps, venture investors have poured $262M into mobile app development space since 2012. And growth is accelerating quickly as can be seen here.

Tech VCs & Corporate Investors - Play Nice

It's all about the Benjamins. Earlier this week, Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures suggested that Google Ventures is able to lead mega-rounds in companies like Uber and AngelList because they don't have to worry about earning a return. And Fred Wilson was critical of corp VCs earlier this year. But the reality is that the largest tech deals increasingly have corporate participation. Rabois and Wilson's comments and the data about corporate's increasing prominence in tech VC are here.

Last Week's Newsletters

In case you missed them:

• VC Myth? Fred Wilson on Startup Success and Financial Runway
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