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Boom: Meet the 2024 Digital Health 50, the most promising private healthcare companies across the globe. This year’s winners are working on everything from next-gen diagnostics to clinical intelligence. They span 9 countries, have raised $3.5B in equity funding, and 56 percent of winners are early-stage. See the full list and dive deep into the data on the 2024 cohort: https://cbi.team/4gehDGU #DigitalHealth50 #DH50

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Autonomous vehicles are back. Equity funding to the AV space has tripled this year to $7.5B. That’s thanks to Waymo and Wayve (with a combined ~90% of funding). Key growth drivers: *Robotaxi momentum *Generative AI advancements *Potential for regulatory pullback

Turkey day conversation 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. Need some talking points for your dinner table? In the spirit of giving, we got you covered. Sink your teeth into 15 tech trends to watch in 2025: https://cbi.team/497MF0S

Deflating valuations Across VC, exit valuations on a per employee basis have deflated — from $1.7M in 2021 to $1.3M in 2024. (AKA divide M&A exit valuation by employee headcount at the time of the acquisition.) Fintech exit valuations in particular have been compressed (at $1.1M per employee since 2023) compared to other sectors. The reset is creating opportunities for strategic acquirers.

Corporate VCs 🤝 early-stage startups Two-thirds of all corporate VC-backed deals this year have gone to early-stage startups. That’s the highest level in over a decade. The trend highlights a strategic shift toward emerging opportunities, especially in AI. AI startups now capture 1 in 3 venture dollars, and across investor types, 72% of deals to AI companies this year are early-stage.

❌ Startup shut downs ❌ So far this month, two companies that raised hundreds of millions in funding shut down: *Bowery Farming— vertical farming startup *Forward— high-tech unmanned medical stations Both had high capital costs and failed to secure fresh funding (or sufficient revenue). They top the list of startup failures so far this year based on total funding. Get details on 480+ more startup failures: https://cbi.team/3Zireqw

New report: 15 tech trends to watch closely in 2025 To identify these trends, we used CB Insights datasets, including acquisition data, valuations, key people data, earnings transcripts, our proprietary scoring algorithms to measure business health, and more. Here is a selection of key findings from the report: > AI agents are given money to spend: AI agents’ utility is limited until they can make transactions seamlessly. A small group of tech players is building new infrastructure to make that happen. > The future data center arrives: With data center power usage expected to more than double by 2026, big tech companies are morphing into energy innovators to support AI workloads. There’s a huge opportunity in improving data centers’ energy efficiency. > Disease management enters a new phase with AI: AI is improving care delivery across 3 key areas of disease management: precise symptom evaluation; testing/screening for earlier disease detection (including before symptoms even appear); and finding at-risk individuals in datasets of entire patient populations. Get all the data & key recommendations in the 93-slide report: https://cbi.team/40SV3zb

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AI M&A is fueling the next wave of corporate strategy. Out of all corporate tech M&A deals, the share that AI companies represent has doubled since 2020. As companies look to bring in fresh AI tech and talent in 2025, where are the clearest opportunities? We map out the most likely AI acquisition targets here: https://cbi.team/3ZjBUoE