Jan
27
Intellizence has highlighted layoff trends for the month of December 2020. The following insights are based on the analysis of Intellizence layoff dataset. Key Takeaways: Over 300 US companies announced layoffs. Layoffs were primarily concentrated in the industries that were most impacted by COVID-19 – tourism & hospitality, manufacturing, restaurant... read more →
Jan
26
Intellizence highlights Merger & Acquisition trends for the month of December 2020. The most active sectors we monitored were technology, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and retail. Key Highlights : Most of the M&A activity in the technology sector was focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and... read more →
Jan
26
Intellizence publishes monthly reports about Startup Funding, Venture Capital/Private Equity Investment Deals. The following in-depth insights are based on the analysis of the Intellizence Startup Funding Dataset for the month of December 2020. Key takeaways: The top 3 most well-funded startups were the Chinese online education app Zuoyebang ($1.6 billion),... read more →
Jan
18
Almost a month since the United States, Canada, and other countries approved the vaccine developed by Oxford, BioNTech, and Pfizer, against COVID-19, a group of healthcare and technology organizations have come together to create a digital vaccine passport. The passport can help individuals provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19. The... read more →
Jan
09
The year 2020 was a transformational year. The onset of COVID-19 earlier saw the emerging technologies - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Open Hybrid Cloud, Internet of Things, drones, autonomous vehicles, and more that came into focus and impacted the way we work and conduct business. These technologies helped achieve... read more →
Dec
30
According to the WHO COVID-19 vaccine landscape document, ten companies are in various stages of clinical trials and over a hundred companies are in preclinical stages. The top ten companies that are leading the race of COVID-19 Vaccine are CanSino Biological, Moderna, SinoVac, University of Oxford, BioNTech, BioNTech, Novavax, Wuhan... read more →
Dec
28
Intellizence has curated a list of the latest major layoffs. Many of the mass layoffs announced recently are primarily in sectors impacted due to COVID-19 - Airlines, Retail, Oil & Gas, etc. Intellizence monitors various sources like news, regulatory filings like WARN filings for the latest layoff announcements, normalize, de-duplicate,... read more →
Dec
28
Intellizence has curated a list of mega startup funding deals announced recently. In 2020, many of the deals were in transportation ( autonomous vehicle, electric vehicle), education technology, and life sciences sectors. Many of those startups are located in the United States and China. Source: Intellizence... read more →
Dec
23
Intellizence has curated mega Merger & Acquisition (M&A) deals announced in 2020. Despite the economic turbulence due to COVID-19, there are many multi-billion dollar M&A deals announced during the year across sectors. Few of the deals are announced but still not completed due to review by the regulators. [table... read more →
Dec
22
Leading technology companies acquire startups regularly to stay competitive. The technology focus areas of acquired companies provide signals about current and emerging technology trends. Intellizence tracks acquisitions by top technology companies from various public sources. We have analyzed over 40 acquisitions by 13 top technology companies so far this year.... read more →