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We mined earnings calls, analyzed business relationships, and dug into investments and acquisitions to survey the AI activities of some of the world’s largest companies across industries. Explore our findings here: https://cbi.team/3XQjYlo

How do you assess an AI startups' potential? Here's your step-by-step guide: https://cbi.team/3xEJeAB

The #venture ecosystem remains tepid in Q2’24. Even as investors remain highly selective with their dealmaking, they’re reserving their dry powder for fewer, bigger deals in areas with strong growth potential. Join our expert as he digs into the sectors gaining the most moment in the second half of the year, plus the latest data on deal activity, funding, exits, and more. In this webinar: https://cbi.team/4eOhEBz

The number of deals to AI startups backed by US big tech companies & their strategic venture arms jumped 50% year-over-year. This is the next big super trend, much like the internet and mobile phones, and big tech is committed to not just not missing it but to driving it. They are all in on genAI. We map out all of the 75 AI startups big tech backed in 2023 here: https://cbi.team/3VTyMx5

We zoomed in on early-stage activity in payments to see which markets are gaining momentum. Cross-border payments tech topped the list, having drawn $149M across 22 deals since last June. Investors are betting on early-stage startups in the space to tap into the opportunity presented by growing cross-border payment flows. However, cross-border payments tech is not alone in the limelight. What other payments markets are gaining traction? Find out right here: https://cbi.team/4eKHQwH

Celebrities can give a much-needed boost in brand recognition to the companies they back. But some celebrity investors stand out from the pack when it comes to picking future unicorns or identifying strong M&A targets. We used CB Insights data to cut through the hype and see which celebrities-turned-investors are the strongest. To create the Celebrity VC Index, we dug into recent financing and exit activity, unicorn metrics, and portfolio company Mosaic scores — CB Insights’ proprietary algorithm measuring startup health and potential.

Corporate strategists, execs, and consumers should watch these genAI trends: ▪️ Multimodal AI becomes table stakes ▪️ Lonely Gen Z befriends AI ▪️ Bad actors target language models Explore these and 15 more trends in our report: https://cbi.team/4btVpOb

The latest trends in #VC? ▪️ AI dominates ▪️ Fintech rebounds ▪️ Funding gains momentum ▪️ Deals keep sliding And that's just scratching the surface. Dig into our just released 200 page report for all the data on venture in Q2'24: https://cbi.team/3VSkJId

Our book of strategy maps shines a light on the strategies of the world’s most important companies. These strategies are not found by listening to senior executives rattle off carefully coached talking points. They’re found by mining data. Where is a company deploying its resources? Who are a company’s partners, investments, and M&A targets? These are the non-BS predictors of strategy. https://cbi.team/3z6OmgY