June 20, 2026

Hi there,

Here is this week's top research.

ICYMI

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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The agentic commerce market map

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

The fraud prevention market map: 200+ companies building fraud & trust infrastructure for the AI era

Using CB Insights data, we surfaced and mapped 200+ of the most promising companies building the tech and tools behind AI-powered fraud prevention, from deepfake detection to on-chain intelligence and agentic trust infrastructure.

AI 100: The most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2026

CB Insights launched the 10th annual AI 100 — our ranking of the world’s top emerging AI companies based on CB Insights’ predictive signals. From the infrastructure layer to enterprise and industry-specific applications, this year’s winners are shaping how industries think, decide, and act.

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.

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.

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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