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June 27, 2026

Hi there, 

 

Here is this week's top research. 

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The Money Awards 2025 Winner Performance Tracker

We partnered with Money20/20 to track their 2025 Money Awards winners through mid-2026, covering hiring momentum, market context, and funding predictions.

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Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 batch is its most technically complex cohort yet — here’s what it signals about physical AI

We analyzed all 199 companies in YC's Winter 2026 batch to uncover the trends shaping physical AI, AI-native services, and the infrastructure powering them.

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Book of Scouting Reports: Anthropic AWS Agentic AI Accelerator

We dive into the predictive signals, including key financial metrics and market opportunities, on the 40 startups in the Anthropic AWS Agentic AI Accelerator.

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The agentic commerce market map

The 170+ companies building the tech and tools behind autonomous buying — from orchestration platforms to agentic payments.

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Book of Scouting Reports: BIO International Convention 2026

We highlight the most promising private biotech companies exhibiting at BIO International Convention 2026, analyzing the data to help you prioritize the right ones to meet.

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Customer-Exclusive Research

 

The manufacturing robotics market map: 115+ companies building the automated factory of the future

We mapped 116 companies across 14 manufacturing robotics markets, leveraging our predictive signals to identify emerging trends.

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The pharmaceutical manufacturing value chain market map

We mapped 90+ companies across 17 markets in the pharmaceutical manufacturing value chain and leveraged our predictive signals to identify emerging trends.

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