By analyzing news articles and social media commentary by venture capitalists, BPI France's dashboard identified the most popular and upward-trending topics in High Tech, discovering valuable insights to help inform the bank's investment decisions.
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VIRTUAL REALITY/SNAPSHOT
• Virtual Assistants/Home automation
Alexa, ghome and now LG’s Hub Robot (recognize your voice), Emotech’s Olly (learn your personality!)
• VR Gears
HTC Vive trackers. new set of gears… weapon like, Lenovo/MSFT, Fove
• VR Sports
Get Some VR glasses to train NFL referees. Vsport = VR+Sport/VirZoom for exercise challenges, more on
NextVR/NBA (daydream compatible)
• AR Glasses
Vuzix M3000 and Lumus and ODG R8 and 9 : google glass reborn
• FR talks about holograms
• Large VR Space opening both in France and US Casinos
• VR Feelings. Eating. Heating. Porn.
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19. A.I./SNAPSHOT
• Chatbots/Robots
Self taught robots (Audi/MB), Brain driven toys/arms, RobotCafe, LendingBot
• Ethics
FTC complain, EU and Asimov law, Tech Giants to set ethic standards
• Deep/Machine learning
IBM Watson Health, AlphaGo behind 60 Go parties won, TensorFlow 1.0
• Westworld opened eyes
• Japanese Co. replacing employees with AI
• AI reveals bat carriers of Ebola
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
20. IOT/SNAPSHOT
• Security
in both senses: Protection (larger offer for home) and Privacy (big concern for enterprises)
• Health
Blood tests, Parkinson devices, Optune battles breast cancer, (almost) the whole baby-sitting >
• Wearables
Beyond more Smartwatches, and wrist band (to feel the basses), is the focus on saving life (FitBit CEO),
detect alcohol presence
• Phones/Cameras
Everyone but Apple, even Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is thought to be inspired by… iPhone 8!
• Bluetooth 5 is (almost) here!
• 92% of everything data will be in the Cloud by 2020
• Gov is watching. Fed suing WeVibe for data collection, FTC suing D-Link for security hole, offering $25k
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
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TRANSPORTATION/SNAPSHOT
• Drones (to be covered separately)
US drone returned by China, deliveries, info on animals/US, pollination/US
• Autonomous/Electric
#moralmachine/VC, 10Gb/mile/VC, Self driving by watching you (MB/Audi/Tech), Holography in interiors
• Shared economy
FR/VTC, Crit’air and Polution, US/Uber beacon to drive riders to their cars
• TSLA charge no longer free ($15)
• Airbus flying car in 2017 (VTOL, Uber’s 99p white paper)
• Gov is watching. After VW, FCA, Renault? PSA? In Dieselgate. $1B fine for Takata’s faulty airbag
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* Adjusted ratio: articles between countries adjusted by the number of sources. Ex: US: 1000 articles, FR: 500 articles = 2x but US have 100 sources and FR 10 sources = 10x. Adjusted ratio: x0.2 US = x5 FR
** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
23. SMARTCITY/SNAPSHOT
• Energy
Smartgrid/Smart lighting system (saves 62% in Oslo), network of underground irrigation (-25% Barcelone)
• Internet
largest/fastest internet network NYC wifi by 2025. 300 miles fiber and 700 hotspots in Barcelona
• Traffic
Midtown in Motion in NYC since 11 (-10% in commute time), smart asphalt to guide cars to parking (Oslo)
• Vehicle-to-X (ATT for Ford and Honda)
• NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress: 1st quantified community: to create a self sustainable city,
100% controlled/managed.
• 15/20 most populated cities in France are Open Data ready
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* Adjusted ratio: articles between countries adjusted by the number of sources. Ex: US: 1000 articles, FR: 500 articles = 2x but US have 100 sources and FR 10 sources = 10x. Adjusted ratio: x0.2 US = x5 FR
** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
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ADTECH-MARTECH/SNAPSHOT
• Methods
FR/go beyond classic ads. MDM. Use of APIs. Bots. US/Video, time limited emails and ads. Both:
influencer marketing
• Legal
EU to impose cookies, Vizio $1.5M fine for spying on its users, FB to have 3rd party validating metrics, FR
to forbid JCDecaux to gather infos from billboards
• Formats
Native. Visual. Personalized. Google kills intersticials on mobile. Penalize not-mobile friendly sites
• Money
3 out of 4 marketers to increase martech spendings. US/2/3 of US digital Ad spending are on GOOGL
and FB. 37% of ALL ad spending in US is online. 46% by 2020
• Adblock tools: +30% in 2016
• Since 1998, attention span -50% vs 5x information intake.
• Google to train 1M africans to IT
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
26. CLEANTECH-ECOTECH-GREENTECH/SNAPSHOT
• Jobs
Greentech seen as a job creation opportunity. Job fairs. “Enernet, the new Internet”
• Politics
India to become the 3rd solar producer in the World. Gov to fight Dieselgate like scandals. SF wants to
become the DC of green
• Funding
Gates leads a $1B investment fund (made of billionnaires) to finance climate control initiatives
• Research
New engineered reefs, underwater robots to combat invasive species, electronic noses to detect illegal
trading of species
• Few, but deep, documented articles
• Since 1960, daily garbage has doubled. US only: 3500 landfills producing 20% of methane
• Samsung announces 300miles in 20mn charge
• Next month, Tesla announces 335 miles
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
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HRTECH/SNAPSHOT
• Need to change
Everybody hates annual reviews. Need to use BigData and AI to react way faster.
• Purpose
Fundamentals: organizational and individual company purpose and brand values. US/volunteering
• Experience
The key word. Employee and Team Exp. Involves max digitalization, user exp., Mooc, short videos
• Hiring
Employer branding is key. Lucrative referral prg. Increase HR tech, starting w/ social media. FR/behind
• DRH to become DEE (Director of Employee Experience) by 2021
• “HR and Business… where the power of leadership development is a known factore for transforming
organizations at every level”
• NamelyHR raised $50M in Series D (Sequoia, trueventure…)
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
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EDTECH/SNAPSHOT
• Financing
Student debts still high after y. of repay., Navient lawsuit, startup crea./found high. FR/FH 1B€/3y plan?
• Methods/Results
US/FR: STEM vs Alternate Schools, MOOCs everywhere, FR/Muslim schools?, US/Religion in curriculum?
• Performance
US:Half 25-34 hold a degree, hehind SK, Canada, IRL, JP. 1/3 Tenn. Higrades below. Poor FR perf/PISA
• Life
Education and travel: CodingNomad, RemoteYear. Education to be closer to life “6 C’s”: collaboration, communication,
content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence
• Betsy DeVos/Trump
Hearing/insult to democracy. Doesn’t know diff between profiency and growth
• By the age of 6, girls were already less likely than boys to describe their own gender as 'brilliant', and less likely to join an
activity labelled for 'very, very smart' kids.
• Research shows that kids who show perseverance and self-control perform better academically than those with higher
IQs.
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
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AGRITECH-FOODTECH/SNAPSHOT
• AgTech
Hot in both US (Farmer Biz Net.+Agrible scores farming. Device in tractor to what/where, automation/drones) and FR (Sencrop,
Samsys, Connectagri/digital farm.). FR more sensitive to Hyperfood
• Evolution
Hot on Both:Fast Delivery (McDo/UberEAT), Ugly products. Ynsect to feed animals (insects). FR/eat healthier. US/ all app.
• Health
US EPA: Monsanto no-glyphosate, Flynn. FR: Acrylamide/Biscuits (Nesle), Listeria. Charcuterie/Asthma. Both: Bird flu.
• Legal/Finance
Both: exp.date confusing (US), nutrition facts too confusing, info. On food not pertinent (FR). FR worried for 20k farms. CETA/EU
• Diets
US/News:Apple Cider Vinegar, US/Tech:Plan based bloody/juicy burgers, FR/Tech:app for eating advices
• Life expectancy has declined in the US for the fist time since 93
• Mouth to feed: 10B ppl 2050, 60% in large cities. Using existing farmland to grow more food isn’t sustainable. $1.6B inv. 2015.
• USDA: US less milk, but more cheese; much less sugar, but much more high-fructose corn syrup; and 23% more calories in 2010
than in 1970.
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
30. BIG DATA/SNAPSHOT
• Performances
US elections surprise, exp: 81% better biz, 49% satisfied , Caterpilar saves millions in predictive maintenance
• Open Data
FR/INSEE Sirene 10M biz, Chinese gov selling personal data, 50% ppl in large cities to share data for smartcities.
• Legal
Danish Ambassador in Tech, EU wants to keep an eye on healthcare and insurance, G20 for Policy 4.0
• Surveillance
FR/DGSI/Airbus signs w/Palantir. US:more real time,wider data access to solve crimes, Alibaba signs Olympics 28
• Technology
MIT discovers ways to shink data into models. Columbia/Princeton/Harvard introduce i-score. Google offers
TensorFlow 1.0
• How big is big data: 10Zettabytes (1021) in 15 to 180Zettabytes in 25
• Millions will be needed to translate data analytics (Netvibes’ vision with Dashboard Intelligence).
• 60% of the jobs in 2030 don’t exist today
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
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BIOTECH-MEDTECH-DIGITAL HEALTH/SNAPSHOT
• Industry
FR/Sanofi on Actelion buyout,lost to J&J ($30B), Nokia/Withings, Doctolib: 26M€, US/ Trump on Drug prices,
Google and Apple on health
• Ethics
US/Tom Price as Health secretary and conflic of interests, Scientific Panel Says Editing Heritable Human Genes
Could Be OK In The Future
• Legal
CRISPR lawsuit (molecular scissors for gen modifications) about inventorship between Berkeley/MIT/Harvard.
FDA to regulate gene editing
• Wearables
Stanford launches Center for Digital Health+Program to Discover 'Innovative Uses' for Apple Watch in Healthcare,
Wearables Could Soon Know You’re Sick Before You Do.
• Pushing the body’s boundaries: BodyHacking Conference 2017 kicks off
• Why The Arctic Apple Means You May Be Seeing More GMOs At The Store
• DARPA's Biotech Chief Says 2017 Will "Blow Our Minds"
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** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.
33. FINTECH/SNAPSHOT
• Politics
News mostly: EUWide Banking stress. Brexit:FR/-30k jobs/City, US/London Fintech leadership?/Dubai Fintech Hive, Bots
to monitor politicians: Digital Democracy/US, Nosdeputes.fr/FR
• Hitech
News: Credit Agricole/FB communities, SocGen tests chatbots, Court agrees with Credit Mutuel/CIC employees to
evaluate Watson, US/Tech: Payments will move further away from banking, into chat, social, embedded…
(FBMessenger/Transferwise), FR/VC: hot on #InsurTech
• Digital tokens
US/Numerai, FR/Utocat, US/Blockchain moves beyond finance, into adtech with ConsenSys-adChain collabo,
#Blockchain helps insurance by enabling protection (via capacity), risk modelling (pricing) & servicing
• 47 percent of all Americans would be unable to cover a surprise $400 expense
• Half of global fintech investments are in Asia (singapore/china)
• After it hit $19 billion in total in 2015, worldwide fintech funding hit $15 billion by mid-August 2016.
• Goldman Sachs’ CFO#2 was its CTO: proves the future of finance is technological and automation is coming up big time
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* Adjusted ratio: articles between countries adjusted by the number of sources. Ex: US: 1000 articles, FR: 500 articles = 2x but US have 100 sources and FR 10 sources = 10x. Adjusted ratio: x0.2 US = x5 FR
** Flat or stable:: less than 2.5% movement in linear regression, sharply up or down: +/-5+%. Negligible when below 10 articles.