Case Study: Large Auto Manufacturer achieves faster startup investment decisions with CB Insights

Finding Startups To Fuel A Large Automaker’s Future Success

A Large Auto Manufacturer’s venture capital team needed a faster, more reliable way to find and evaluate startups as the automotive industry shifted toward new technologies, services, and partnerships. Using CB Insights, the team struggled less with the flood of inbound companies and the time-consuming process of researching potential partners across multiple sources.

CB Insights provided a single platform to source, assess, and track startups with real-time data, detailed company profiles, and its Collections feature for sharing target lists across the team and executives. CB Insights helped the company filter out about 90% of startups early, saving weeks of research, speeding up decisions, and supporting investments such as supply chain visibility and EV charging solutions with more confidence and better alignment to its goal of deriving 50% of revenue from services.