Scout is an on-demand service that sources emerging technology companies in your areas of focus. You spend your time on strategy, relationship-building and execution. Scout takes care of the sourcing.

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SCOUT

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Scout is an on-demand service that sources emerging
technology companies in your areas of focus.
You spend your time on strategy, relationship-building
and execution.
Scout takes care of the sourcing.
Who uses Scout? →

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Scout is the
perfect solution
for anyone charged
with understanding and
engaging with
emerging technology
companies
How do we do it? →
Venture Capital
Deal sourcing and
market mapping
Corporate M&A
Deal origination
and M&A pipeline
development
Innovation
Innovation scouting
to address enterprise
digital opportunities
and challenges
Partnerships / BD
Digital partner
identification
Corporate strategy
Market Mapping and
competitor tracking
IT
Vendor landscaping,
identification and
selection

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Over 10 years, we’ve built a data gathering
infrastructure that feeds the CB Insights platform
The power of Scout →
CBI Data Infrastructure CBI Platform
Crawl Classify Extract Verify Analyze Organize Visualize
Verify each
data element
via on-demand
research analysts
Confirm company
and investor data
directly with
parties (“enlightened
self-interest”)
Provide context
to data via market
landscapes, target
lists, trends
created by 40+
Intelligence Analysts
with deep domain
knowledge
Classify company
“life events” using
ML classifier models to
determine if they’re
financings, M&A,
partnerships, hiring,
lawsuits, etc.
Crawl 3 million
unstructured
sources daily
Including media,
regulatory filings,
patents, blogs, portfolio
pages, websites
Organize data to
enable tagging,
editing and
collaboration
Refresh data
automatically,
making it dynamic vs
point-in-time
Visualize industry
trends and market
maps in a click for
rapid understanding
and to decrease
time-to-influence
Extract company-
specific structured
data via ML models
with a focus on
maximizing precision
and recall

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Scout allows clients to plug into our infrastructure
as a service for their own sourcing efforts
Are there examples of how clients have used Scout? →
Scoping call
with analysts
Provide input to
CBI Scout on market,
objectives and targets
they’re seeking
Project delivery
You can focus on
strategy, execution and
relationship-building
Clients
Output hosted on platform,
which dynamically sources
new data
Clients can review,
share, and collaborate
on output in-platform
CBI Data Infrastructure CBI Platform

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Emerging cashierless store
technology partners identified for a
big-box retailer’s innovation team
Early-stage sustainable packaging
tech companies sourced for a global
CPG and snack foods corporate
venture team
Our most recent Scout missions cover a broad
range of topics
What industries does Scout cover? →
Leading startups in drug discovery
AI to to help a corporate strategy
team identify potential partners
Companies in building materials
technology for an M&A deal origination
effort by a major materials company
Latin American emerging
payments tech startups sourced
for a major global credit-card client
exploring geo expansion via M&A
Vendors focused on RPA
and back-office automation
shortlisted for a large P&C insurer
evaluating prospective IT vendors

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We handle a variety of requests across emerging
technologies in a range of sectors & functions*
What are pricing & options? →
● Banking
● Payments
● Insurance - Life/ Health / P&C
● CPG
● Healthcare & Pharma
● Retail & e-commerce
● ...and 100s of others
● HR
● Finance
● IT
● Sales
● Marketing
● Corp. Dev.
● ...and many others
Industries Emerging technologies
● Artificial Intelligence
● Internet of Things
● Robotics
● 5G
● Blockchain
● Quantum computing
● ...and many others
Functional areas
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E.g., RPA & back-office automation companies for P&C insurance
E.g., LatAm emerging payments tech for a credit-card client E.g., RPA for HR functions
*See appendix for categories covered

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Type of seat Scout Scout Select
What is included? Unlimited Scout missions Unlimited Scout Select missions
Scout Select includes prioritization of targets and
identification of top 5 targets per mission
Scout subscription models
How do we get started? →
Scout is offered on a named seat basis as part of a CB
Insights subscription. There are 2 types of Scout seats.
Need more than 1 Scout seat? We can do that. Let’s discuss.
Scout seats are on a named-user basis and named licensees must participate in all steps of a Scout Mission.

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Contact:
scout@cbinsights.com
Want to have Scout
take care of your
sourcing needs?
Let’s talk.