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Oct 11 2026
The state of venture q3'26
Overview
The 10 October 2026 edition of the CB Insights newsletter presents research on venture capital, artificial intelligence, financial technology, digital health and manufacturing robotics. Featured reports include State of Venture Q3’26, State of AI Q3’26, the Money Awards Finalist Spotlight 2026 and the TradFi–DeFi Market Map.
The newsletter also examines investment in healthcare automation. Although digital-health deal volume has declined for six consecutive quarters, funding for startups that automate healthcare operations has remained comparatively resilient.
Details
Newsletter: CB Insights Newsletter
Edition date: 10 October 2026
Primary coverage: Venture capital, artificial intelligence, digital health, financial technology, blockchain and manufacturing robotics.
Digital Health and HLTH USA
Research partnership: CB Insights has partnered with HLTH USA to monitor major developments in healthcare and healthcare investment.
Deal activity: Digital-health deal volume has declined for six consecutive quarters.
Healthcare automation: Startups that automate healthcare operations have continued to attract investment despite the broader decline in deal activity.
Forus: The prior-authorisation company raised at least $100 million during the third quarter.
Candid Health: The healthcare-billing automation company raised at least $100 million during the quarter.
Penelope Health: The healthcare-coverage company also raised at least $100 million.
Established relationships: Major funding rounds are increasingly going to companies whose technologies are already being used or developed with healthcare systems.
Candid Health and Flatiron Health: The companies are working together to introduce billing automation into oncology practices.
WellSpan Health and Hippocratic AI: The organisations are developing voice-based AI agents to handle patient telephone calls.
HonorHealth and Qventus: The companies are jointly developing AI agents intended to automate staff workflows.
Insights Hub: Additional trend analysis is available through the CB Insights–HLTH Insights Hub.
HLTH USA 2026
Conference invitation: CB Insights invited readers to attend HLTH USA 2026.
Registration discount: Participants may receive a $550 discount by using the promotional code H26PAR_CBI250.
Price deadline: Registration prices are scheduled to increase after 30 October 2026.
State of Venture Q3’26
Report: State of Venture Q3’26
Funding outlook: Global venture funding is reportedly on course to reach its highest annual total on record in 2026.
Research focus: The report examines major funding trends, investment activity and developments across the global venture-capital market during the third quarter.
Money Awards Finalist Spotlight 2026
Research collaboration: CB Insights partnered with Money20/20 to analyse the companies selected as finalists for the 2026 Money Awards.
Number of finalists: The research examines 67 finalists operating across the financial-services industry.
Areas covered: The finalists represent sectors ranging from blockchain-based payment infrastructure to consumer neobanks.
Purpose: The analysis identifies companies and technologies that may influence the future direction of financial services.
Investors Backing Rival Coding Agents
Industry dispute: A public disagreement between Factory and Cognition brought attention to the investors supporting both companies.
Overlapping investors: The research finds that investment firms commonly back competing startups within the coding-agent market.
Unequal exposure: Although investors may hold stakes in rival companies, the size and importance of those investments can differ considerably.
TradFi–DeFi Market Map
Report: The TradFi–DeFi Market Map
Industry trend: Blockchain technology is gaining adoption within traditional financial services.
Applications: Major areas include stablecoin payments, tokenised assets, digital-asset custody and transaction settlement.
Companies mapped: The report identifies 167 private technology companies.
Market categories: The companies are organised across 15 categories supporting the convergence of traditional finance and decentralised finance.
Research collaboration: The market map was produced using CB Insights data in association with Money20/20.
State of AI Q3’26
Report: State of AI Q3’26
Deal count: Artificial-intelligence deal activity fell to an 18-month low during the third quarter.
New unicorns: Despite the decline in transaction volume, the number of newly created AI unicorns accelerated to its highest level in several years.
Market contrast: The report highlights the difference between falling overall deal numbers and increasing concentration of capital in highly valued AI startups.
Customer-Exclusive Research
Manufacturing robotics map: CB Insights mapped 116 companies across 14 manufacturing-robotics markets.
Research objective: The analysis identifies companies and emerging trends shaping increasingly automated factories.
Predictive signals: CB Insights used its proprietary indicators to identify developing opportunities within manufacturing robotics.
AI-agent predictions: A separate report presents five predictions concerning AI-agent markets in 2026.
Deployment challenge: As AI agents automate work and attract labour-related budgets, the central challenge is shifting from creating agents to deploying, securing and scaling them.
Commercial opportunity: The research identifies markets and providers positioned to capture value from enterprise AI-agent adoption.
Platform access: The complete reports, underlying data and additional emerging-technology research are available through the CB Insights platform.
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