More than half of gadget startups raised their first funding on a crowdfunding website, according to CB Insights.

But investor enthusiasm has waned and the market has continued to consolidate as smaller players are acquired or shut down, according to CB Insights.

According to CB Richard Ellis land values have declined by as much as 20 per cent and sales of pubs and hotels have been subdued.

Australia boasts lucrative retail assets with Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne among the world's top 10 most expensive retail rental markets, according to CB Richard Ellis.

Japan's tech scene remains dominated by established players, with artificial intelligence startup Preferred Networks the country's only unicorn as of January, according to CB Insights.

The minimum bid for the pier will be $2.5 million, according to CB Richard Ellis, the Journal reported.

Early-stage insurance tech companies raised $508 million in 2016, up 56 percent from the previous year, according to CB Insights.

By midyear, leasing by law firms in Manhattan was off 16.5 percent to 1.4 million square feet, according to CB Richard Ellis.

Some $3.1 billion had been raised this year already by companies in the autonomous driving space, according to CB Insights data.

As if those numbers weren't dismal enough, according to CB Insights Data from 2010, only 1% of VC-funded startups were founded by Blacks.

Investors have spent more than $1.5 billion on blockchain and bitcoin start-ups over the past four years, according to CB Insights, an internet research company.