Lose the Zero, Get With the Hero

Before you renew your overpriced subscription to a VC data platform whose UI will "make your eyes bleed and your head hurt" (real quote by a customer), we should talk. Fifteen minutes will save you money and a year's worth of frustration. Just call or email me (Anand) at 646-964-5091 or asanwal@cbinsights.com. Or just hit the big button.

Top Investors in Energy Storage

Wanna meet NEA and Braemar? Energy storage saw a nearly six-fold increase in investment over the last five years. Check out the 8 most active investors in the energy storage space in this research brief along with a sampling of their portfolio companies. We're proud that both NEA and Braemar will be speaking at our Green Tech Monster conference on Oct 2nd in NYC.

Cloud Storage VC Booming

What, Dropbox Hasn't Won? Think Dropbox, Carbonite, Box and Google Drive have locked the data storage market down? VCs don't seem to think so. Q2 2012 saw a 10 quarter high in deal activity within the market. The trend is here.

We Heart Lowenstein Sandler

Free data, Free data. Many of you have been getting a free week of our FundingFlash financing newsletter courtesy of the tech group at Lowenstein Sandler so we wanted to say thanks to LS for making that happen and for being avid supporters/users of CBI for a while. Ed Zimmerman who co-leads the group has a great post on Pause Points during Due Diligence that you should def check out here.

Payments Startups Get Shown the Money

$1.9 Billion in Funding. We released a research brief about the increasingly active online and mobile payments space last week. VC deal activity to the sector is hitting record levels. Here's the data. 

Love Pivot Tables?

And Like to Write? We want a Data Editor to tell compelling data-driven stories using our data. Interested? Send a note and resume to jobs(at)cbinsights(dot)com.