August 14, 2024

Built different

Hi there,

Big tech won’t be your next bank. 

They’ve all reeled in their efforts to offer their own finserv products.

But they will still play a part in many of your transactions. 

Amazon and Google in particular continue to embed themselves in financial transactions on others’ platforms and in the broader ecosystem. 

For example, last week, Amazon landed partnerships with TikTok and Pinterest to let users buy products directly from ads without leaving the social media apps. 

Via partnerships and investments, they’re reaching customers across more geographies and offerings.

Amazon’s recent fintech activity points to a focus on growth markets like India and LatAm, while Google is elevating Google Wallet and is investing in financial infrastructure via its venture arms. 

Learn much more — including all of the data and insights — in our big tech in fintech report.  

So close you can almost taste it

The human experience is intimately connected to the 5 senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

And a wave of startups and researchers are innovating to enhance, extend, and digitize these senses.

The Future of Senses Report, a partnership between the VSP Global Innovation Center and CB Insights, explores how this development could revolutionize well-being, performance, and more.

Learn more in the free report.

World’s best bot

Enterprises: prepare yourselves for a new era of AI-powered work.

AI-driven copilots are entering the office and working alongside humans to speed up key workflows across the enterprise, from software development to customer service.

Discover 102 agent and copilot developers across 13 categories in this market map.

Safe and sound

Cisco is getting into the AI game. 

It is investing in pure-play AI infrastructure startups, forming AI partnerships, and embedding AI in its products.

The communications giant is also tackling the security element of AI workloads by investing heavily in cybersecurity solutions spanning use cases like cloud security and quantum networking.

Dive deeper into its activity in these areas in our Cisco Strategy Map.

The only exception

Despite a spike in deals, climate tech funding continued to drop in Q2’24.

Almost all sub-sectors within climate tech saw a downturn. One sector bucked the trend with funding rising 8% QoQ: renewable energy.

Learn more in our State of Climate Tech Q2’24 Report.

I love you. 

Anand 

@asanwal 

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