Artificial Intelligence Trends 2019

By CB Insights - Feb 1, 2019

Key findings:

• There is growing interest in AI drug discovery startups: there were 20 equity deals to such startups as of Q2’18, equal to all of 2017.

• Deals to AI companies focused on industrials and energy are rising: nearly 116 deals in 2018, worth $1,118.37M in value in aggregate.

• Early-stage SaaS startups focused on natural language for e-commerce are emerging, selling search technologies to third-party retailers.