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October 3, 2026

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Here is this week's top research. 

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The Money Awards Finalist Spotlight 2026

CB Insights has partnered with Money20/20 to dive into the data on the 67 finalists driving the industry forward across financial services--spanning from blockchain payments rails to consumer neobanks.

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Who’s on both sides? The investors backing rival coding agents

Factory and Cognition's public fight pulled their investors in with them. Across coding AI, backing rival startups is standard practice, and the shared investors' stakes are far from even.

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Insurtech 50: The most promising insurtech startups of 2026

CB Insights partners with ITC Vegas to launch its fifth annual list of the insurance industry’s top startups.

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Inside Asia’s fast-track to global tech scale: A regional innovation powerhouse beyond Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley concentrates tech development in one place, but Asia takes a different approach, with whole markets specializing in different stages of the startup lifecycle. We analyzed CB Insights data to map how this model is creating a new path to global tech scale.

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The 3 forces shaping the future of insurance agencies and brokerages

Why talent will increasingly be the key differentiator for the industry’s leading agencies and brokerages.

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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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5 AI agent predictions for 2026

As agents delete work and win labor budgets, the bottleneck shifts from building them to deploying, securing, and scaling them. CB Insights’ signals reveal the markets capturing that value in 2026.

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