Blockchain and Robots: Buzzy, But Not Yet VC Blockbusters

Publishing numbers about the level of investment in core technologies can lead to something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, as investors use such data to influence their own investment strategy. Nonetheless, GlobalData has laid out how the money flowed last year both by charting the number of investors and the number of companies that received investments. And for good measure, it sized the circle of each intersection by the size of the investment. Bringing up the rear is blockchain and robotics. The former is a bit of a surprise given the hype around the space and its near endless applications, but we can expect momentum to pick up in 2018.