CB Insights is a private company with a

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platform and global database that provides

market intelligence Market intelligence (MI) is gathering and analyzing information relevant to a company's market - trends, competitor and customer (existing, lost and targeted) monitoring. It is a subtype of competitive intelligence (CI), which is data and infor ...

on private companies and investor activities. The platform is targeted at

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venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

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, and

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professionals by providing insights about high growth private companies.

Founding

CB Insights was founded on January 1, 2008, by Anand Sanwal, and Jonathan Sherry and is headquartered in New York. CB Insights uses a combination of

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tools and algorithms, as well as sentiment analysis on publicly available signals to gather and analyze data about private companies, investors, and industries.

Funding

The company has raised capital in three rounds of funding with the most recent one being $10 million in

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raised in 2015, led by the growth stage investment firm RSTP. The company had previously raised $1.15 million in grants from the

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for its private company scoring software, called Mosaic.

Clients and partners

Some of CB Insights clients include Cisco, Salesforce, Castrol, Gartner, as well as top-tier VCs including, NEA,

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, RRE, and FirstMark Capital. The company periodically partners with companies such as

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, and

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, to generate reports on the health of private companies, growth startups, and venture capital across industries. CB Insights' primary competitors include Crunchbase, and

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CB Insights AI 100

Since 2017, CB Insights publishes the annual global rating of companies in artificial intelligence classified into multiple categories. This rating is considered to be very prestigious with ranked companies often issuing press releases. The rating is commonly used by the venture capitalists and large corporate partners to identify investment opportunities. Winners of 2022: https://research-assets.cbinsights.com/2022/05/18100414/AI-100-MM-2022-V9.png Winners of 2021: https://research-assets.cbinsights.com/2021/05/03185016/AI-100-export-min.png Winners of 2020: https://research-assets.cbinsights.com/2020/03/06102351/100-AI-startups-to-watch-in-2020_CB-Insights_AI-100.png Winners of 2019: https://research-assets.cbinsights.com/2019/02/01125325/AI-100-2019-2.png Winners of 2018: https://research-assets.cbinsights.com/2017/12/12124740/2018-AI-100-Market-Map.png Winners of 2017: https://research-assets.cbinsights.com/2017/06/08001719/AI_100_market_map_2017-NEW.png

Acquisitions

The company announced acquisition of VentureSource data assets from

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on July 15, 2020. The assets will add to the company's private market coverage capabilities.

References

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