Pricing Increase (reminder)

Our pricing changes which we'd mentioned earlier this month go live on May 1st (in 2 days). You can see our new pricing here. Our old pricing will be honored through the end of April (it is here). In addition to the Team and Group plans, you'll see that we've added a new Company level plan which features Mosaic which you'll see/hear about in the coming weeks. To subscribe before things change, email info@cbinsights.com or call 212.292.3148. To see the new pricing, hit the big button.

Greycroft Hearts CBI

"Best quality data" Greycroft, a VC who invested very early in one of NY's big tech exits of last year, Buddy Media, is now on-board with CB Insights. Partner Ian Sigalow provides some insight into how they use us here and why they like us. We're blushing Ian - thanks and glad to have you and the team on-board.

Medical Device M&A Multiples Slipping

Activity Up & Valuations Down. Private medical device companies acquired in 2013 are showing a tighter valuation range and contracting Price/Revenue multiples. That's not good. Some data here.

NY Green Tech 50 Cleans Up

Money finds great companies. In October, we'd unveiled the NY Green Tech 50 and since then, eight of these privately-held firms have already raised financing. Congrats to American Aerogel, EnergyHub, Gotham Greens, Sweetwater Energy, NOHMS Technologies, Urban Electric Power, Vnomics and WATT Fuel Cell. If you're an investor, acquirer or involved in clean tech, be sure to check out the complete list of 50 here. 

Tech IPO Predictions Prove Out

Sometimes, we're so money. In late 2012, we put together a list of companies with real or rumored valuations of greater than $100 million which represent future IPO prospects. In the last 4 months, seven of the companies we'd put on our Tech IPO Pipeline exited for muchos dolares (translation: $2.56 billion). See stats about the big exits we'd predicted here.

Developer Tools Garner $646M in VC Funding

<cash>Picks & shovels</cash> Tools to help software developers collaborate, track, debug and otherwise manage their development efforts is becoming a big business. And as a result, financing to the dev tools arena has exploded. Early-stage and international deals are growing quickly in this increasingly popular segment for VCs. Check out the funding stats to the developer tool industry here.

Check Us Out in Today's NY Times

Food tech data featured. An article about the trend of VCs investing in food startups featured CB Insights data on food tech. Check out the NYT article here and our initial food tech research brief here.