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Analyzing the AI Investment Landscape artificial intelligence ecosystem intelligence artificial investors, and hot markets within the the within markets hot and investors, A data-driven look at financing trends, trends, financing at look data-driven A Landscape AI Investment Investment AI Analyzing the the Analyzing TM INSIGHTS CB TM INSIGHTS CB About CB Insights A unique combination of data science and machine learning to help you see what’s next. Backed by the National Science Foundation and RSTP, CB Insights uses data science and machine learning to help our customers predict what’s next—their next customer, their next nvestment, the next market they should attack, the next move of their competitor or the next company they should acquire. The world’s leading global corporations including the likes of Cisco, Salesforce, Castrol and Gartner as well as top tier VCs including, NEA, Upfront Ventures, RRE, and FirstMark Capital rely on CB Insights to make decisions based on data, not decibels. To make your life easier, visit http://www.cbinsights.com cbinsights.com 2 Table of Contents Funding and Deals Deep Interest in AI: New High in Deals to Artificial Intelligence Startups in Q4’15 5 Corporates in AI Bloomberg and Samsung Among the Corporates Betting Big on AI Startups 11 AI in Healthcare 32 Artificial Intelligence Startups in Healthcare 17 Early-Stage Startups to Watch 14 Early-Stage Virtual Assistants to Watch 24 10 Early-Stage AI Startups to Watch 27 Robotics Funding and Deal Activity to Robotics See New Highs in 2015 31 Seven Grant-Funded Robotics Companies to Watch in the US 37 Here Are 11 Robotics Startups to be Afraid Of 41 cbinsights.com 3 Funding and Deals cbinsights.com 4 February 4, 2016 Deep Interest In AI: New High In Deals To Artificial Intelligence Startups In Q4’15 Deal activity almost doubled in the last quarter. Data Collective, Bloomberg Beta and Khosla Ventures are the most active investors in AI startups. Advancements in AI were recently spotlighted by AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google’s DeepMind team. The program — which relies on decision-making algorithms and neural networks — defeated a human European champion at the board game Go in a feat previously believed to be years away. On the investor side, Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital has said AI will deliver massive returns for investors betting on applications for industries including healthcare and entertainment. With this in mind, we used CB Insights’ database to look at funding to artificial intelligence startups since 2010. Our artificial intelligence category covers startups primarily focused on developing AI, across areas including image processing, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, and predictive APIs, among other core applications. We found that AI startups have raised an aggregate $967M in funding since 2010, with investments going to companies in 13 separate countries and 10 industry categories, including business intelligence, e-commerce, and healthcare. cbinsights.com 5 Annual deals and dollars Funding in the AI sector has multiplied nearly sevenfold, from $45M in 2010 to $310M in 2015. Some of largest funding rounds were raised by California-based startups Sentient Technologies ($103.5M Series C in 2014) and Ayasdi ($55M Series C in 2015). The year 2014 saw the highest number of deals and investments in AI, with $394M across 60 deals. Three AI-focused companies have already raised funds in 2016, with Ontario-based Maluuba, which was previously seed funded by Samsung Ventures, raising a $6.2M Series A from other investors. The other two are United Kingdom’s Seldon, and US-based Kitt.ai. Quarterly trends After deals dropped by more than 35% from Q3’14 to Q3’15, activity rose rapidly once more and reached an all-time quarterly high of 19 deals in Q4’15. In that quarter, H2O.ai raised the largest round — a $20M in Series B — followed by RapidMiner’s $16M Series C. Q4’14 had an all-time quarterly funding high of $201M, more than half of which was from Sentient Technologies’ Series C round. cbinsights.com 6 The peak in funding in Q1’14 was driven by the $40M Series B round raised by Vicarious Systems. Q1’15 saw $121M raised from 12 deals to companies including Ayasdi, RapidMiner, and Viv Labs. Deal share by stage A wide majority of deals to artificial intelligence companies from 2010 to 2015 involved early- stage startups, with seed deals dominating, accounting for 50% of overall activity in 2015, while Series A took 19% of deals that year. Over 60 AI companies received seed/angel funding during these six years. Mid-stage deals have begun to take more deal share recently, with Series B and Series C deals combining for a 20% share in both 2013 and 2014, but a 26% share in 2015. Series C deals climbed from a 7% share to a 15% share from 2014 to 2015. cbinsights.com 7 Dollar share by stage Dollar share in AI funding has swung from early-stage to mid-stage investments. The lion’s share of investments – 93% — went to early-stage startups in 2012, consistent with the peak in early-stage deal share that year. Fifteen startups on our list raised seed/angel or Series A rounds that year, with the largest being Vicarious Systems’ $15M Series A. From 2013 to 2015, over 50% of dollars went to startups raising Series B or C rounds, including Sentient Technologies, Ayasdi, Vicarious Systems, Digital Reasoning Systems, Nervana Systems, and H2O.ai. Mid-stage (Series B and C) dollar share peaked at 66% in 2015. Most well-funded companies Sentient Technologies, which recently launched an online AI sales associate, Visual Filter, with SHOES.COM, is the most well-funded AI startup on the list. It is followed by California-based Ayasdi, backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, Citi Ventures and GE Ventures. The top 10 companies on the list below are developing products ranging from the next generation of AI assistants to advanced machine-learning tools. cbinsights.com 8 Most active investors The top spot went to California-based VC fund, Data Collective. The firm has backed AI startups including Vicarious Systems, Scaled Inference, SigOpt, and New Mexico-based Descartes Labs. Bloomberg Beta, which launched in 2013, was tied for second spot with Khosla Ventures. The former’s investments include Diffbot and Context Relevant, while the latter invested in startups including Atomwise, MetaMind, and Scaled Inference. cbinsights.com 9 Corporates in AI cbinsights.com 10 February 12, 2016 Bloomberg And Samsung Among The Corporates Betting Big On AI Startups Corporate activity in AI slowed in 2015 after reaching a six- year high in 2014. Major players include Bloomberg Beta and Samsung Ventures. VC-backed artificial intelligence startups, which have seen a sevenfold increase in funding since 2010, have also seen corporations take a greater interest. While acquisitions of VC-backed AI startups by major corporations — including Vocal IQ by Apple, Wit.ai by Facebook, and DeepMind by Google — have been in the spotlight recently, corporate involvement in investing in these startups has also grown. Deals to AI startups involving corporates saw a 15x increase between 2010 and 2015. Just in the last quarter, companies including H2O.ai (Transamerica Ventures and Capital One Ventures), Gridspace (Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator) and Mobvoi (Google) saw backing from prominent corporates. Our artificial intelligence category covers startups primarily focused on developing AI, across areas including image processing, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, and predictive APIs, among other core applications. Out of the companies on the list, Expect Labs had the most corporate backers, with investments from Google Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, Telefonica Ventures, and Liberty Global Ventures. The San Francisco-based startup is working on intelligent voice interfaces. cbinsights.com 11 Two other startups also had more than three corporate backers: New York-based Clarifai (backed by NVIDIA, Qualcomm Ventures, Google Ventures, and LDV capital) and California’s Api.ai (backed by Intel Capital, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, SAIC Capital and Alpine Technology Fund). Corporate-backed deals and dollars Funding from deals involving corporations skyrocketed in 2014, when startups netted $230M in 21 such deals. That year, Intel Capital backed Api.ai in its Series A and B rounds (Motorola Solutions Venture Capital also joined in the Series B); Tencent invested in Scaled Inference; and Google Ventures backed Clarifai in a seed round (Qualcomm Ventures joined in a second seed round to Clarifai in that year). Google Ventures, now known as GV, also backed Luminoso Technologies in a $6.5M Series A round in 2014. But the spike in 2014 AI funding can be attributed mainly to Sentient Technologies’ $103.5M Series C mega round, which saw participation from corporate India’s Tata Communications. Corporate-backed deals dropped 29% in 2015, but was still higher than every other year except 2014. cbinsights.com 12 Quarterly trends After very low deal activity in the first three quarters, the pace picked up in the Q4’15, with number of deals growing and almost equaling that of Q4’14 and Q3’14 each of which saw 8 deals. Corporate activity during Q4’15 was spotlighted by Google Inc.’s interest in China with its large — reportedly in the “tens of millions of dollars” — investment in artificial intelligence startup Mobvoi. Corporate deal and dollar share by stage The majority of corporate participation during the 2010 to 2015 period — 65% — was in early-stage deals. The 4% late-stage deal share includes two Series F financings raised by Nexidia, which is backed by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners. The “other” category includes Digital Reasoning Systems‘ corporate minority round, funded by HCA Healthcare (Hospital Corporation of America).
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