Venture Scanner Innovation Quadrants

Our Innovation Quadrants act as a framework to guide you in the startup scouting process. The Innovation Quadrant organizes categories into four states of innovation by plotting the sector categories on two axes. One axis uses average age to show maturity. The other uses average funding to give a sense of traction. Knowing which quadrant each category sits will help in developing your scouting strategy.

In this post we share our most up-to-date Innovation Quadrants for all of our 16 sector reports. They are all available for download.

Venture Scanner Innovation Quadrants

3D Printing: 9 categories, 389 companies, $3B in funding

Artificial Intelligence: 13 categories, 2545 companies, $63B in funding

Blockchain Technology: 12 categories, 1155 companies, $17B in funding

Energy Technology: 12 categories, 815 companies, $78B in funding

Financial Technology: 16 categories, 2768 companies, $160B in funding

Health Technology: 22 categories, 2470 companies, $95B in funding

Human Resources Technology: 8 categories, 164 companies, $8B in funding

Insurance Technology: 14 categories, 1549 companies, $30B in funding

Internet of Things: 20 categories, 2327 companies, $88B in funding

Marketing Technology: 15 categories, 1883 companies, $50B in funding

Real Estate Technology: 12 categories, 1815 companies, $80B in funding

Regulatory Technology: 10 categories, 601 companies, $15B in funding

Retail Technology: 21 categories, 1932 companies, $98B in funding

Security Technology: 14 categories, 1266 companies, $41B in funding

Transportation Technology: 17 categories, 1495 companies, $181B in funding

Video Technology: 11 categories, 878 companies, $43B in funding

Virtual Reality: 13 categories, 770 companies, $13B in funding