CB Insights

Overview

CB Insights is a company founded in 2008 by Anand Sanwal and Jonathan Sherry. The company provides business intelligence analytics and an executive network as part of their technology insight platform. Legally known as CB Information Services, Inc., the New York-based incorporation targets private equity, venture capital firms, investment bankers, and angel investors as well as consulting professionals. The company works with PwC to publish a quarterly MoneyTree Report that contains historical trend data and emerging trends on venture capital startups and industry ecosystems.

CB Insights acquired data assets from Dow Jones' VentureSource, a data field aggregator founded in 1983, for an undisclosed amount on July 15, 2020.

Timeline

July 15, 2020

CB Insights acquires data assets of Dow Jones' VentureSource.

September 1, 2015

CB Insights raises a $10,000,000 series A round from Pilot Growth Equity.

August 15, 2015

CB Insights raises a $1,200,000 grant from National Science Foundation.

October 13, 2011

CB Insights raises a $500,000 grant from NYSERDA.

January 1, 2008

CB Insights was founded by Anand Sanwal and Jonathan Sherry.

Funding rounds

People

Name

Role

Alex Parayannilam

Employee

Alexander Sacco

Employee

Alexandre Testu

Employee

Amanda Gerhardt-King

Employee

Amit Abbi

Employee

Anand Sanwal

Founder

Arieh Levi

Employee

Chima Atufunwa

Employee

Diana Aguilar

Employee

Henry Lansang

Employee

Jack McCown

Employee

Jennifer Foulon

Employee

Jessica Schneider

Employee

John Nico

Employee

Jonathan McKenna

Employee

Jonathan Sherry

Founder

Luxi Huang, CFA

Employee

Lydia Rahill

Employee

Mandy Dobler

Employee

Marc Jacobs

Employee

Marcelo Ballve

Employee

Matthew Wong

Employee

Menaka Chang

Employee

Michael Galvin

Employee

Nephi Mata

Employee

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At $16.5 bn, Byju's most valuable startup in India after raising $350 mn

IANS

June 13, 2021

@bsindia

As per CB Insights data, as of June 2021, Byjus is the 11th most valuable startup in the world

Global investment in telehealth, artificial intelligence hits a new high in Q1 2021

Heather Landi

April 20, 2021

FierceHealthcare

The first quarter of 2021 continued to see strong investor interest following 2020's record highs. Telehealth investment hit an all-time high of $4.2 billion in just 139 deals in the first quarter of 2021. Healthcare AI also broke another funding record, according to CB Insights.

Clari Named to the 2021 CB Insights AI 100 List of Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups

Clari

April 20, 2021

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- Clari, the revenue operations leader, announced today that CB Insights has named the company to the fifth annual AI 100: The Artificial...

WINT Named to the 2021 CB Insights AI 100 List of Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups

WINT

April 9, 2021

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights today named WINT to the fifth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in...

Fiddler AI Named to the 2021 CB Insights AI 100 List of Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups

Fiddler AI

April 8, 2021

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights today named Fiddler AI to the fifth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence...

Five Canadian startups named to CB Insights' 2021 AI 100 list | BetaKit

Josh Scott

April 7, 2021

BetaKit

Five Canadian AI startups have made CB Insights' fifth annual AI 100 list, which aims to highlight the most promising and innovative private AI companies.

Why 2021 could be the year of healthcare SPAC deals and the unicorns ripe to go public

Heather Landi

March 10, 2021

FierceHealthcare

Healthcare unicorn exit activity including IPOs and mergers and acquisitions reached record levels in 2020. What's driving this exit activity? One word: SPACs. All signs point to 2021 being the year of healthcare SPACs, according to CB Insights senior intelligence analyst Marissa Schlueter. Here's why SPAC deals are blowing up and the digital health unicorns to watch this year.

The Station: Another Uber spinout is born and EVs dominate SPACs

Kirsten Korosec

March 8, 2021

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here -- just click The Station -- to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to [...]

The top 8 VCs backing health startups that want to end fee-for-service

Blake Dodge

February 24, 2021

Business Insider

Startups looking at new ways to pay for and provide care like Cityblock Health and VillageMD collectively raised $3.6 billion in 2020.

Insurtech: European VCs name the top 26 startups to watch

Callum Burroughs and Martin Coulter

February 20, 2021

Business Insider

More than $7 billion was invested in insurtech startups globally last year.

CB Insights: Consumer genomics' future lies in drug development

Patricia Kelly Yeo

February 9, 2021

Business Insider

The future of consumer genomics lies in healthcare partnerships and drug development, according to a new CB Insights report released last week.

What's going on with fintech venture capital investment?

Alex Wilhelm

January 5, 2021

TechCrunch

The aggregate fintech venture dataset shows an active sector with global demand from investors, but demand is not even.

SFOX Named to Blockchain 50 Ranking by CB Insights and Blockdata

SFOX Inc.

December 19, 2020

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights has named independent crypto prime broker SFOX as one of the world's top 50 blockchain companies. The firm was given a place on CB...

Retail Zipline Named to the 2020 CB Insights Retail Tech 100 -- List of Most Innovative B2B Retail Startups

December 3, 2020

WebWire

CB Insights today named Retail Zipline to its inaugural Retail Tech 100 ranking, which showcases the 100 most promising B2B retail tech companies in the world. The 2020 Retail Tech 100 cohort highlights startups reimagining the retail experience across 13 categories, from e-commerce infrastructure to supply chain automation and cashier-less checkout. 21 countries represented this year include India, China, Canada, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, among others. "The rate of chan...

Rapyd Named to the 2020 CB Insights Retail Tech 100 -- List of Most Innovative B2B Retail Startups

Rapyd

December 3, 2020

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights today named Rapyd to its inaugural Retail Tech 100 ranking, which showcases the 100 most promising B2B retail tech companies in the...

Namogoo Named to the 2020 CB Insights Retail Tech 100 -- List of Most Innovative B2B Retail Startups

Namogoo

December 3, 2020

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights today named Namogoo, the pioneer of Customer Journey Hijacking Prevention to its inaugural Retail Tech 100 ranking, which showcases...

How challenger banks are grabbing market share from big banks - Business Insider

Shannen Balogh

November 27, 2020

Business Insider

Reports from CB Insights and BlueOcean show how digital-only banks have gained traction this year, and will look to maintain it going forward.

Digital health funding expected to drop in Q4 after record-breaking Q3: report

Heather Landi

November 25, 2020

FierceHealthcare

After hitting the high-water mark in the third quarter, global healthcare funding is projected to slow down in the final quarter of 2020. Here is where things stand halfway through the quarter and why 2020 is still on pace to be a record-breaking year.

Global healthcare funding hit a record in Q3. Here's how much digital health companies raised

Heather Landi

October 19, 2020

FierceHealthcare

Global healthcare funding soared in the third quarter, hitting a new record of $21.8 billion across 1,539 deals. Here are the sectors drawing the most interest from investors.

Here's how Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are targeting the health insurance market

Heather Landi

October 7, 2020

FierceHealthcare

Tech giants are ramping up their investments in digital health initiatives, signaling some significant moves to target the health insurance space. Here are the different strategies the companies are taking and why they are worth watching.