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Fintech VC Backing Dipped 13 Percent in 2016, Mirroring Rest of Tech

Xconomy

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. According to a report released today, financial technology companies around the world attracted $12.7 Fintech has seen a frothy flood of.

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Third-Quarter Report Shows Slowdown in VC Activity, & Top 10 Deals

Xconomy

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. deals (1,796 companies) during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to the inaugural “Venture Monitor” report released today.

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Edtech Venture Funding Down in 2016, But Still Tops $1B

Xconomy

While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. billion (across 138 deals) in 2016. The EdSurge report. education tech companies totaled $1.03

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Cybersecurity Firm Illumio’s Alan Cohen on the Tech Backlash of 2017

Xconomy

One of the largest and most consequential data breaches in 2017 afflicted credit reporting agency Equifax, and it was hardly the only victim.

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New U.S. “Roadmap” Lays Out Routes to Accelerate Robotic Technologies

Xconomy

But robotics is moving slower than expected in some key areas, such as the development of dexterous gripper technology, intuitive user interfaces, and in integrating software and hardware through the full chain of systems engineering, according to Henrik Christensen, director of UC San Diego’s new Institute for Contextual Robotics.

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Family & Kids’ Advocate Shum Preston on the Tech Backlash of 2017

Xconomy

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Slowdown Continues in First-Quarter VC Funding—and Top 10 Deals

Xconomy

According to the latest Venture Monitor report, VCs invested slightly more than $16.5 billion that VCs invested during the same quarter of 2016, and a 24 percent drop from. venture firms refueled last year by raising a near-record $51.6 billion in 1,797 startups in the first three months of the year.