20 Jul’16

The Role of Intellectual Property in Unicorn Valuations: Insights from Silicon Valley

It seems that not a day goes by without a commentary about Unicorns, a Silicon Valley-coined term used to describe a startup (pre-exit) with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. The number of Unicorns has recently crossed the 150 mark, and they have captured the attention of investors, analysts and other market observers who are trying […]

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25 Apr’16

Securing the Industrial IoT: Security Challenges and Solutions in the Petroleum Industry

The oil & gas industry, which is one of the largest segments of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), is facing increasingly growing security challenges as the pace of technological advancement is accelerated. All layers of security: data storage, physical access and network connectivity, represent some of the primary concerns of the Industrial IoT ecosystem. […]

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19 Apr’16

Unicorn Valuation Panel

Current research conducted by Foresight Valuation Group, based on Innography published patent data and CrunchBase startup funding and valuation data, reveals that 30% of US Unicorns (startups with valuations higher than $1 Billion) have no US patent assets (issued or pending), and about 62% of US Unicorns have only 10 or less US patents assets […]

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