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Understanding and analyzing software with transcripts: Why value trumps volume

Understanding and analyzing software with transcripts: Why value trumps volume

Here’s why our structured software buyer conversation transcripts have become critical to investors, corp dev teams, and IT teams to speed their diligence of companies and markets.

Oct 18, 2023

Maximize ROI: How CB Insights’ software buyer interview library can transform and enhance your expert network strategy

Maximize ROI: How CB Insights’ software buyer interview library can transform and enhance your expert network strategy

Expert networks, such as GLG, AlphaSights, and Third Bridge have long been the go-to for in-depth industry insights. But what if there was a way to achieve deeper insights, reduce expenditure, and make each expert interaction more impactful?

Oct 12, 2023

Reduce the time it takes you to conduct startup research by 90% — in just 1 click

Reduce the time it takes you to conduct startup research by 90% — in just 1 click

Pull up company financing, competitor, investor, and market data as you’re doing web research with the CB Insights Chrome plugin or Edge Extension.

Oct 5, 2023

How corporate development teams identify targets and speed diligence with our software buyer interview transcript library

How corporate development teams identify targets and speed diligence with our software buyer interview transcript library

In the ever-evolving corporate landscape, success hinges on unique insights and actionable intelligence. Our library of curated software buyer interview transcripts gives you this advantage.

Oct 5, 2023

Innovation Spotlight: NFX

Innovation Spotlight: NFX

In this short interview, Pete Flint discusses how increased digitization is unlocking opportunities for marketplaces.

Team Blog

Sep 15, 2021

Understanding Tech Company Health And Predicting Future Success

Understanding Tech Company Health And Predicting Future Success

Bet on the right tech companies and management teams with data, not opinion.

Sep 1, 2021

Innovation Spotlight: How Lockheed Martin Is Building For The Future Of Aerospace And Defense

Innovation Spotlight: How Lockheed Martin Is Building For The Future Of Aerospace And Defense

In this short interview, Scott Garwood shares how Lockheed Martin takes a customer-focused and holistic ecosystem approach to drive rapid innovation.

Team Blog

Apr 29, 2021

Innovation Spotlight: How NTT DATA Uses A Data-Driven Approach To Partner With Leading Startups

Innovation Spotlight: How NTT DATA Uses A Data-Driven Approach To Partner With Leading Startups

In this short interview, Wes Jang shares NTT Data’s objective process for identifying players in key emerging markets and assessing prospective partners.

Team Blog

Apr 23, 2021

Site Reliability Engineering 101: Observability & Visibility

Site Reliability Engineering 101: Observability & Visibility

We look at what it takes to build site reliability and how to fix problems within an application.

Feb 16, 2021

Mocking Techniques For Go

Mocking Techniques For Go

Discover the options for mocking your Go code in specific situations without a framework.

Dec 16, 2020

Implementing End-To-End Testing With Detox

Implementing End-To-End Testing With Detox

We dig into end-to-end testing in React Native with Detox, and why we made the switch.

Oct 21, 2020

Recreating The CB Insights Office In Minecraft

Recreating The CB Insights Office In Minecraft

For Hack Day #14, a team reconstructed our New York City-based office in a video game.

Team Blog

Sep 2, 2020

9,600+ Investor-Backed Companies Received PPP Aid. Here’s How We’re Tracking The Data

9,600+ Investor-Backed Companies Received PPP Aid. Here’s How We’re Tracking The Data

On the CB Insights platform, you can view all the VC- and PE-backed companies that received PPP loans on our latest Paycheck Protection Program profile.

Aug 27, 2020

Using Collaboration To Move Companies Through Your Funnel, Faster.

Using Collaboration To Move Companies Through Your Funnel, Faster.

Covid-19 has forced companies to rethink how they collaborate across their organization when managing their technology vendor, M&A, partnership, or investment pipeline. Learn how to embrace the future of collaboration and turn it into a competitive advantage.

Team Blog

Jun 11, 2020

Breaking Up Circular Dependencies

Breaking Up Circular Dependencies

We removed 235+ circular dependencies from our main web application, all with the help of teammates, a new build configuration, and a little data visualization.

Mar 4, 2020

Measuring The Success Of Your Team’s Design System

Measuring The Success Of Your Team’s Design System

We focus on 3 key areas to make sure our design system is successful: Adoption, coverage, and shared ownership.

Feb 11, 2020

Experimenting To Make Python Services Faster

Experimenting To Make Python Services Faster

We tested the implementation of Protobuf in C++ for Python to see if it would make inter-service communication more efficient.

Jan 29, 2020

Building An Aggregation Tool To Collect & Organize Data

Building An Aggregation Tool To Collect & Organize Data

There’s a wealth of data sources out there that could be useful when building a feed. Aggregating them in a way that makes sense for a user is key.

Dec 24, 2019

CB Insights Engineering: Expectations & What It Takes To Succeed

CB Insights Engineering: Expectations & What It Takes To Succeed

On the engineering team, we strive to work hard to deliver new and innovative solutions. We dig into what it takes to be successful.

Dec 20, 2019

CB Insights Gives Back In The Spirit Of The Holidays

CB Insights Gives Back In The Spirit Of The Holidays

From serving food at a soup kitchen to mentoring high school students, CBI employees from all departments signed up to give back this volunteer week.

Team Blog

Dec 20, 2019

CB Insights 2019 Year In Review: Product Enhancements, New Features, And More

CB Insights 2019 Year In Review: Product Enhancements, New Features, And More

At CB Insights, we're always looking to enhance our market intelligence platform for our customers. Check out what we did in 2019.

Dec 16, 2019

Webpack Rebuild Improvement: How A One Line Change Yielded A 93% Increase

Webpack Rebuild Improvement: How A One Line Change Yielded A 93% Increase

As our product features have evolved, so has our codebase. Here is our approach to shortening build times.

Oct 21, 2019

What College Students Taught Us About Predicting Future Tech Trends

What College Students Taught Us About Predicting Future Tech Trends

Our interns used the CB Insights platform to analyze emerging trends in computing, DNA data storage, aviation, and more.

Oct 21, 2019

How To Improve Single Page Application Health Monitoring

How To Improve Single Page Application Health Monitoring

We dig into the difficulties of monitoring the client side of a web application along with suggestions on how it can be done to enhance your application's reliability and end user experience.

Oct 3, 2019

CSS-In-JS Vs Traditional CSS — Which Should You Use?

CSS-In-JS Vs Traditional CSS — Which Should You Use?

At CB Insights, we adopt a traditional CSS approach. Here's why.

Sep 23, 2019

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