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The coronavirus has moved the future forward in many technology markets.  

In areas ranging from healthcare to manufacturing to retail, we’ve recently covered:

• The telehealth startups working to cover gaps in pandemic care

• The startups looking to change how infectious diseases are prevented, diagnosed, treated, and managed

• Last-mile delivery startups offering delivery solutions to restaurants

• Emerging tech startups leveraging AI to predict and track viral outbreaks

• Supply chain tech startups helping retailers and brands adjust to manufacturing disruptions
• Senior care startups improving aging at-home, end-of-life services, and healthcare

We also discussed AI-powered supply chain robots, mobile endpoint security, and contact-center-as-a-service technology in our client note yesterday.

In addition to sectors destined for growth, we also detailed 13 wounded travel tech unicorns.

We’ll keep monitoring the areas that enterprises are focused on right now and where VCs see the most opportunity.

To see all the research we’re issuing, log in and view it here.

If your mother says she loves you, check it out

Covid-19-related disinformation and misinformation have been rampant on social media.

From political-bot armies to deepfakes to computational propaganda, we dig into the future of information warfare here. 

Pie charts are still terrible

178% of people are worried about the coronavirus.

Thank you to the 34 folks who flagged this for us via Twitter and via email. We love that ugly data viz is something you now look out for.

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2020’s been a tough year for small startups and some of the top-funded tech cos: Juul saw one of its top execs leave today and Magic Leap was reportedly exploring a sale in early March.

Take a look at the rest of the top-funded tech startups in the US here. 

New dates, more speakers

We're excited to share some of the speakers joining our fintech stage at Future of Fintech on November 16-18:

• Alyssa Henry, Head of Seller Business, Square
• Anand Selva, CEO of US Consumer Banking, Citigroup
• Blake Murray, CEO and Co-founder, Divvy
• Jason Wilk, CEO and Co-founder, Dave
• Jason Gardner, CEO and Founder, Marqeta
• Joanne Bradford, President, Honey (Acquired by PayPal)
• Nick Molnar, Co-founder and US CEO, AfterPay
• Pierpaolo Barbieri, Founder and CEO, Ualá

Influencers' time to shine
 

As people stay at home due to the crisis, livestream commerce could become more relevant than ever. 

Clients can take a look at 4 startups working on livestream shopping here.

Wall Street Journal. Angus Loten (@angusloten) reports on the dwindling funds available to startups, quoting CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal (@asanwal) and referencing CB Insights research.

Financial Times. Hannah Kuchler (@hannahkuchler) covers smartphone diagnostics company Healthy.io and quotes CB Insights senior healthcare analyst Marissa Schlueter (@mschlueter13).

Business Insider. Callum Burroughs (@CallumBurroughs) cites CB Insights research in the 10 Things In Tech You Need To Know newsletter.

P.S. We’re looking for a content marketing manager. Check out the job listing here. 

If these pants could talk. Wearables could become sleeker, smaller, and more ubiquitous by tapping into 5G.

Fortune

Fill in the blank. An AI model was taught to restore fragmented ancient Greek inscriptions.

DeepMind

Let’s play “flatten the curve.” The Snapchat-owned Zenly app has made a game out of staying home.

The Verge

Wanted: best friend. With the workforce spending more time at home, dog adoption applications in NYC have surged 10x.

Bloomberg

Bottoming out. In the age of video calls, the pants market is taking a hit.

CNN