Zachary Hickey
February 13, 2019
Sunday night’s Grammy’s brought together some of the most talented artists of the 21st century. Just as the Grammy’s aims to recognize and promote the brand of celebrities in the music industry, Techstars Music Accelerator is looking to acknowledge, promote, and mentor the next cohort of companies in music technology. Techstars Music Accelerator, founded through…
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Zachary Hickey
February 12, 2019
In light of Softbank’s recent investment of $940M into Robo-Delivery startup, Nuro, it can be seen that major investors are becoming increasingly interested in alternate applications of self-driving or automated technologies. Using Cyndx Finder, we wanted to investigate the automated delivery market in order to understand the dispersion of market players, whom the leading investors…
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Zachary Hickey
February 6, 2019
SEC Confidential Filings For companies with less than $1 Billion in annual revenue, confidential IPOs afford firms to receive feedback from the SEC and subsets of investors prior to a global analysis. Not only is the information kept private from the public (most importantly the media and competitors), the company need only submit 2 years…
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Zachary Hickey
February 6, 2019
Facebook: Cyndx Company Spotlight When Mark Zuckerberg launched the social network “The Facebook” in Harvard’s dormitories in 2004, few suspected the site would reach the coups it has. Now, as arguably one of largest corporations in the world, with over 1.5Billion daily active users, “Facebook” (renamed in 2005) has globalized opinions and connected the world.…
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Zachary Hickey
January 21, 2019
Recently, IBM and Vodafone agreed to launch a joint venture valued at $550 million to boost Europe’s 5G, AI and cloud capabilities. Using Cyndx Finder, we wanted to see some top industry trends in this space. Cyndx Finder Trends in AI, 5G, and Cloud Capabilities As we can see above, median acquisition price for…
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Zachary Hickey
January 21, 2019
In the spotlight for Cyndx this week is the frontrunner in new-age media services: Netflix. Here are some recent key developments about this media mogul Added 8.8M subscribers to the platform in Q4, more than analyst predictions of 7.6 million Accounts for 10% of U.S. TV screen time Major contribution to the increase in subscribers…
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Zachary Hickey
January 21, 2019
Sweeping across Facebook as the newest viral media campaign, the 10 year challenge has captured the attention of all audiences. At Cyndx, we ask how would the 10 year challenge look in the eyes of the stock market. If we had purchased $1,000 of Netflix, Apple, or Amazon’s stock in 2009, you would have:…
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