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Who Needs an Apple a Day When $15M Can Keep the Doctor Away
Earlier this month, CureFit, a stealth startup operating in the fitness and preventive care space in India raised $15M in VC funding. A few days ago, Swedish start-up Lifesum, which provides an app...
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20+ Unicorns Is What It Took for KPCB to Be the Unicorn Fund
Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins closed two funds amounting to $1.4B late last month, securing $1B in the firm’s Digital Growth Fund, and $400M in its early-stage fund. According to NVCA...
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30+ Years of Research That Will Make it Possible For You To Drink And Drive
Self-driving cars have become a reality because of 2-3 prominent universities in USA and Europe. It all started with a pioneering effort in 1984 by CMU labs at the Carnegie Mellon University. At around...
View ArticleTracxn Weekend Reads – 22 July 2016
Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list. Biotech’s Paradox: A Robustly...
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M&A Wars: Google, Apple Are the Top Acquirers of AI Startups
AI startups have seen a rise in M&A activity this decade, from 6 acquisitions in 2011 to 34 in 2015. 2016 seems to have continued the trend, with 21 acquisitions so far. Google, Apple, Nuance, and...
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Big in Japan: 10 Cool Things You Should Know About Line Messenger, the Year’s...
The biggest tech public offering of 2016, Line Messenger started trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Tokyo Stock Exchange, and is now valued at over $8.6B. We take stock of interesting aspects...
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Pokemon Go Mania: 5 Games and 14 Game Studios Poised to Seize AR’s WhatsApp...
You can hardly call it an overnight success. Google-spinoff Niantic Labs perfected the mechanics for the game when working on moderately successful AR game, Ingress. Pokemon Go was market tested...
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15 SportsTech Startups Going for Gold at the Rio Olympics
More than 10,000 athletes will take part at the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, putting the world’s greatest sportspeople to the ultimate test, with glory and national pride at stake....
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Season of Billion Dollar Exits: FinTech and Enterprise Apps are the Hottest...
Tech M&A activity has seen a surge in 2016, with 26 acquisitions above a billion dollars so far, compared to 41 $1B+ deals in 2016. We’ve crunched the data to below get an idea of sectors with the...
View ArticleTracxn Weekend Reads – 31 July 2016
Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list. Hard Forks by Fred Wilson “In...
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Unbreakable: 7 Startups That Help Make Your Smartphone Splash Proof and...
It’s a problem every smartphone owner around the world has encountered – all it takes is a small drop, face-first to the floor for the display to crack, leaving a spiderweb on the face of screen. A...
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12 EV Companies in the Spotlight Following Tesla’s 2nd Master Plan
Elon Musk published the second version of his master plan recently, which generated plenty of ripples in the tech ecosystem, and the industries Tesla is now setting its sights on. For those who haven’t...
View ArticleTracxn Weekend Reads – 7 August 2016
Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list. Seriously, What’s Up With...
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Ethereum Hard Fork, an Inconvenient Truth
Bitcoin, the blockchain’s currency use-case is succeeded by Crypto 2.0, a trend that brings blockchain and cryptography in the non-financial space while improvising on its existing applications in...
View ArticleTracxn Weekend Reads – August 12, 2016
Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list. Apple, Google, Amazon, and...
View ArticleTracxn Weekend Reads – August 19, 2016
Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list. If It Smells Bad, It Probably...
View ArticleIndia Unicorn Club: 50 Soonicorns To Watch Out For
To date, 11 privately held internet companies from India belong to the unicorn club, and are valued at over a billion dollars. To answer the million dollar question — who’s likely to be the next Indian...
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The Other Side of Artificial Intelligence – Next Generation AI Specific Chips
Most of the attention that AI has received over the last decade has only been on the software side, but the ‘Silicon’ side of things have not received much attention, even though there was (still) a...
View ArticleTracxn Weekend Reads – 28 August 2016
Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list. The Unicorn Hedge by Dave...
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Why IoT in Healthcare Could Trigger the Next Big Digital Health Revolution
What’s next after EHR? Obama care and governments in other developed countries have given a huge push to the Healthcare IT sector in order to improve the efficiency of their healthcare systems. In...
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