Is it like the ocean? What devotion?

Hi there,

We're hosting our first invite-only conference, A-Ha!, at SFJAZZ in San Francisco on Dec 12 – 13th.

As we always do, we've got a great lineup of interesting speakers coming together including:

• Daymond John — ABC's The Shark Tank, founder of FUBU
• Chamath Palihapitiya — Social Capital (founder & CEO), Golden State Warriors (co-owner)

In addition, on Dec 12th, we're hosting Demo Day (for paid clients only).

In just one week, we've had 1499 startups sign up.

If you're an early-stage startup, it'd be dumb not to apply.

• keep your equity
• find investors
• find customers

We mapped the top venture capital investors in Europe by country, based on number of portfolio companies the investor had backed. At the top of the list, High-Tech Grunderfonds has made nearly 200 deals to 150+ German companies since 2012.




Is this fake news?

The gap between TV and online news consumption continues to decline.




Baby breakdown

We dove into funding trends to the baby and kids tech sector and visualized where investors are placing bets across different categories within the space. The bulk of deals has gone to startups in the Coding / STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subsector within ed tech.

Machine learning hype winner

According to CB Insights Trends, deep learning is tops for media mentions among machine learning terms.

Startups — be sure to sprinkle deep learning or neural net into your pitch deck. #growthhack



Eaten up

Today, food delivery and meal kit startup Plated was acquired by grocery chain Albertsons. The deal comes just a few months after Amazon's noteworthy acquisition of Whole Foods Market in June. We take a closer look at the consolidation in the food delivery space over time. 



The Industry Standard

Europe’s top venture capital investors by country

Where deals are going in baby & kids tech

Eaten up: the consolidation of the food delivery space in one timeline

The Blurb