Over 25 companies raised equity funding rounds in the last quarter. Deal activity was up 7x from Q1'11.
Deal activity in artificial intelligence has now hit record highs for two quarters straight.
Deal count had already leapt to 24 in Q4’15, ten more deals than the previous quarter. The trend continued in Q1’16, with deals reaching a 5-year quarterly high, and passing the 25-deal threshold.
However, total funding dropped 18% to $83M from $101M in Q4’15, when over 20 companies raised funds.
From consumer to industrial verticals, the Internet of Things (IoT) is touching all types of business and use cases. Our prior research has examined startups working in general IoT, Industrial IoT, and healthcare IoT. While funding to certain IoT sub-categories such as wearables has cooled off, the IoT has broadly experienced a steady growth in funding.
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The field of artificial intelligence has experienced a striking spurt of progress in recent years, with software becoming much better at understanding images, speech, and new tasks such as how to play games. Now the company whose hardware has underpinned much of that progress has created a chip to keep it going.
Whether the car of the future runs on electricity, hydrogen, or old-fashioned gasoline, it will emit billions of bytes of data. And the battle to control and exploit that data is just getting started.
On Monday, the Japanese carmaker Toyota announced a new subsidiary, called Toyota Connected, that will manage and mine the data collected from its vehicles, and the company said it would collaborate with Microsoft on the venture. The data collected and delivered might include mapping data, engine statistics, and records of driver behavior. Most immediately, this could mean updating vehicle features or patching bugs remotely. But the goal is also to develop new kinds of interfaces that predict a driver’s intention.
In a three-month period at the end of 1879, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric lightbulb, Karl Benz invented a workable internal-combustion engine, and a British-American inventor named David Edward Hughes transmitted a wireless signal over a few hundred meters. These were just a few of the remarkable breakthroughs that Northwestern University economist Robert J. Gordon tells us led to a “special century” between 1870 and 1970, a period of unprecedented economic growth and improvements in health and standard of living for many Americans.
GE’s new Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) looks like a futuristic set for a Stanley Kubrick movie. Everything seems to be white: the walls, the gleaming floors, even the noise from rows of laser-powered 3D printers near the entrance, quietly making everything from jet engine blades to oil valves.
Located by a new highway exit just minutes from the Pittsburgh airport, the center, which opened on Tuesday, is so new even Uber drivers require human navigation. But the center is no mirage.
Hope is the founder and CEO of Pegasus Sustainability Solutions, whose software helps connect organizations or individuals that generate waste with groups that can come take it away. One mechanism behind this matchmaking is the reverse auction, where a waste-removal contract goes to the bidder willing to accept the lowest amount in payment.
“Auctions tap into deep human emotions and motivations,” Hope says. “We see a lot of interesting reasons why auctions are a compelling way to market products.”
Window glare is something that have been solved for decades with simple blinds, but now a glass company is making windows smarter and more energy efficient, bringing in auto-tinting that can be controlled by a mobile phone. View’s Dynamic Glass offers connected windows that can be programmed to darken or brighten depending on outdoor conditions, and prevent glare in doing so.
The system tracks the location of the sun using a sensor, and gathers information on light conditions from the internet. View offers a smartphone app that connects to the window’s IP address, connecting them to the network of IoTs and enabling them to be controlled independently.
The food industry still causes vast amounts of waste, and a lot of waste happens in homes. Much of the food consumers buy end up being thrown out after it goes bad, and organic fruits and vegetables often don’t stay fresh for long due to a lack of preservatives. But a new Israel and China-based startup hopes to extend the life of fresh produce with their innovation.
Phresh has developed Food Protectors, a kitchen gadget that could increase the lifetime of fruit and veg by up to a month. The protectors use a powerful, plant-based organic powder that counteracts the bacteria that cause food to go bad.
