October 10, 2026

Hi there,

We’ve partnered with HLTH USA to track the biggest shifts in healthcare, including where the money is going.

Digital health deal volume is down six straight quarters, but startups automating healthcare operations have held steady. In Q3, Forus (prior authorization), Candid Health (billing), and Penelope Health (coverage) each raised $100M or more.

Those rounds are going to companies that health systems are already working with, a topic we’re exploring at HLTH:

Candid Health and Flatiron Health are bringing billing automation to oncology practices.
WellSpan Health and Hippocratic AI are building voice agents for patient calls.
HonorHealth and Qventus are co-developing AI agents to automate staff workflows.

See the full trend analysis in the CB Insights-HLTH Insights Hub.

And be sure to join us at HLTH USA 2026 for $550 off with code H26PAR_CBI250. Prices increase after October 30. Register here.

And now, here is this week's top research.

ICYMI

State of Venture Q3’26

Venture funding is on pace for its highest total ever in 2026. Here’s what you need to know.

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.

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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The TradFi-DeFi Market Map

Blockchain is gaining traction inside traditional financial services, from stablecoin payments and tokenized assets to digital asset custody and settlement. Using CB Insights data and in collaboration with Money20/20, this market map identifies 167 private tech companies across 15 categories serving this shift.

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State of AI Q3’26

Deal count hit an 18-month low, yet new unicorn births accelerated to their highest rate in years. Here's what happened.

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.

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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