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Venture Scanner Innovation Quadrants

Our Innovation Quadrants are a framework to guide you in the startup research and scouting process. The Innovation Quadrant organizes emerging technology categories into four states of innovation by plotting the categories on two axes. One axis uses average age to show maturity. The other uses average funding to give a sense of traction.

Virtual Reality Q2 Funding Update

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The pandemic and resulting economic toll has presented challenging headwinds for startups. In this post we look back on Q2 ending funding trends for VR startups to determine the trajectory of innovation in this emerging technology sector.

Venture Scanner Innovation Quadrants

Venture Scanner Sector Maps

Our sector maps are snapshots of our emerging technology research areas. We show the categories that make up a sector and a random sampling of the startups that are innovating in each category. In this post we share our most up-to-date sector maps for all of our 17 sector reports. They are all available for download.

VR Q1 2020 Exit Activity

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The below chart summarizes VR year-to-date exit activity compared to last year. As you can see, there were 3 exits in Q1 2020, which is a 50% increase from Q1 2019. A quarter of the way through 2020, and we are at 27% of the 2019 full-year exit activity.

Notable VR Startups and Light Field Lab Profile

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As you may know, Venture Scanner provides emerging technology research services to support corporate innovation and startup scouting. To give you a view into our client-only research, here is an excerpt focused on notable startups.

Venture Scanner Innovation Quadrants

Our Innovation Quadrants are a framework to guide you in the startup scouting process. The Innovation Quadrant organizes emerging technology categories into four states of innovation by plotting the categories on two axes. One axis uses average age to show maturity. The other uses average funding to give a sense of traction.

Venture Scanner Sector Maps

Our sector maps are snapshots of our emerging technology reports. We show the categories that make up a sector and a random sampling of the startups that are innovating in each category. In this post we share our most up-to-date sector maps for all of our 17 sector reports. They are all available for download.

VR 2019 Funding Increased From 2018

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The below chart shows VR funding over time and calls out the largest funding rounds in recent years. As you can see, VR funding achieved an all-time high in 2017, and dropped in 2018 while growing again in 2019 to $2.4B.

VR 2019 Exit Activity Slowed Down

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The below chart shows VR exit activity over time. As you can see, VR exit activity achieved an all-time high in 2017, and then slowed down thereafter to 9 exits in 2019.