Hi there,

We're excited to welcome Henry Kravis, KKR’s co-chairman and co-CEO to the virtual CB Insights Technology Conference (June 16-18).

Henry brings a cross-industry and global perspective that few have, so we're excited to get his thoughts on:

• How companies don't just survive but thrive after global shocks

• Where he and KKR believe there are opportunities in technology & beyond

• The thesis behind KKR's recent $1.5B investment in India-based telco Reliance Jio

Register here and save $100 with code 100CBI. Prices go up Friday.

Big tech goes after healthcare

Big tech cos — i.e. Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon — have muscled their way into nearly every industry, from AI to entertainment to workplace apps ... and now healthcare. 

The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated tech adoption in healthcare, from healthcare data management to drug supply chains to telehealth — but the industry has been ripe for change for some time, given shifting demographics, changing healthcare buyers, the healthcare data explosion, and more. 

Now, FAMGA is using this opportunity to push ahead with their healthcare ambitions. What's Facebook doing with its user data? How about Amazon with its experience in back-end infrastructure? 

We cover how these giants are leveraging their core competencies to go after the $3.6T US healthcare market in our latest report on Big Tech In Healthcare. 

Fintech's cockroaches

Covid-19 has scrambled fintech's winners and losers, but some parts of the ecosystem may see long-term benefit from the pandemic. 

We take a look at the short-term and long-term effects of Covid-19 across payments, banking, insurance, and more.

Pro tip: don’t do this
 

Here we have terrible data viz volume 298.

According to this, statistics and math are useless but data science is useful?

Hitting a new low

Deals to Asia-based AI companies hit a 5-quarter low in Q1’20. 

We dig into funding trends for Asia-based AI companies here.

Open for submissions

The Fintech 250 is CB Insights' annual list of the most innovative fintech startups that are transforming the finance, wealth management, and insurance industries. 

2018’s Fintech 250 cohort has raised $53B in aggregate funding across 947 deals since 2013, and includes startups at different investment stages of development, from early-stage (seed/Series A) companies to well-funded unicorns. You can view those companies here.

In light of Covid-19, the deadline for this year’s Fintech 250 submissions has been extended to 11:59 p.m. ET on June 19. Winners will be announced later in the year. 

CNBC. Saheli Roy Choudhury (@sahelirc) covers ride-hailing platform Gojek’s latest funding round and cites CB Insights data. 

Forbes. Gil Press (@GilPress) analyzes recent AI news and mentions the CB Insights AI In Numbers Q1’20 report.

Becker’s Health IT. Laura Dyrda (@LauraMiller19) reports on Google’s ambitions in healthcare and references CB Insights research.

P.S. We’re looking for a strategic account manager. Apply for the role here.

Feat. Hacker. Scammers on Spotify are manipulating song metadata to tie themselves to popular artists on Spotify — and cash in.

OneZero

Check your sources. Medical imaging algorithms can’t work properly when tested on populations that aren’t equally represented in training data.

STAT

Talking heads. VR holds promise for virtual work collaboration, but the tech still has a ways to go.

Protocol

Work that smize. While fear and surprise can be hard to detect behind a face mask, a smile relies enough on the eyes that it’s easy to discern.

Scientific American

I go out walkin’. Changes in foot traffic in various locations — barber shops, cities, whole states — show Americans moving again in fits and starts.

Washington Post