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VCs Fuel Quantified Self Movement With $318M in the Last Year
Hardware is in? Within the Internet of Things, venture investments into "Quantified Self" startups are heating up. On a year-over-year basis, funding to quantified self startups has jumped over 160% after a number of notable large fundings in Q3 2013. See the full analysis of financing trends in the Quantified Self market here.
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CB Insider Posts
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Peter Thiel - Because One VC Fund Is Not Enough
Founders Fund impacted? Peter Thiel has gone on to become a prominent venture capitalist starting not just one VC fund but three - all of which are currently active. Have the Paypal co-founder's new VC firms impacted the deal pace of his oldest VC, Founders Fund? The data is here.
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Analyzing Venture Capital Investment Syndicates
Network centrality is an important predictor of VC performance (LPs are actually trying to understand this). With an interactive Investor Syndicate dashboard now on every CBI investor profile, we've recently delved into the co-investment trends of several VCs including:
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Silicon Valley Is Becoming a One-Trick Pony
The rise of SV tech (and the fall of everything else) Anecdotally, there seems to be some chatter that Silicon Valley is shying away from hard problems in favor of "building apps." And the data shows that there is indeed a tech vs. non-tech financing shift happening. While SV internet and mobile VC deals are on pace for 5-year highs in 2013, healthcare and energy companies look to hit five-year lows in both deal and funding activity. See the full analysis on Silicon Valley's shift to tech here.
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