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Top 48? Why not 50, or 100?

After working for Dow-Jones, WallStreetJournal.com, MarketWatch, and enjoying a high-energy luge ride with Jim Cramer as one of his original columnists for TheStreet.Com, I learned you need to draw a line somewhere or risk spending effort in places of little significance.

When I began this series of articles in 2018, I set that lower limit at $1 million. When I was doing technology investments, that amount was significantly higher: usually a bottom limit of $10 million.

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• Top 48: The Chart

• So, Why $1 million cut-off point

• Lack of transparency makes precision impossible

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Previous Wine Industry Insight/Wine Executive News wine tech funding profiles:

• Drizly more than doubles funding with New $34.5 Million Series C — Powers ahead of Coravin & Vivino to #3 position overall
  

• VinoVolo landed $17 million before being bought
  

• Minibar Delivery: #18 in Wine Executive News Wine Tech Funding Series
  

• Wine Communications Group/Wine Business #17 in Wine Executive News Wine Tech Funding Series
  

• Kuvée brings in $8.25 million before biting the dust at #16 in WineTech funding
  

• SevenFifty Ranks #15 in U.S. WineTech Funding (premium subscribers only)

• At $20 million, Vinfolio (after 15 years of financial instability) moves into #12 position in wine tech funding series
  

• Saucey #2 in on-demand delivery
  

• WX Brands – Edges out DRINKS.
  

• $15 million in new funding elevates DRINKS into Wine Tech Funding Top 10
  

• Plum Wine rounds out top 10 Wine Tech Fundings
  

• eSkye Solutions moves up to #4 in wine-tech funding. Overall rankings adjusted by new data.
  

• Vinventions restructures company finances, moves into #1 position in wine investments ahead of Wine.Com
  

• Winc (Formerly Club W) comes in at #7 In WII’s Winetech funding survey
  

• Lot 18 funding: $44.5 million good enough for 6th place in winetech venture funding
  

• At $53 million, Drizly places #4 in winetech funding, but #1 in the total number of investors.
  

• Vivino surfs to online prominence atop a wave of Euro Cash
  

• Wine.Com’s $140 million funding foundation takes #1 position in WII’s wine venture funding series
  

• List of top 50 wine business venture fundings + Coravin #1 in total financing
  

• Chinese wine venture capital investments blow away United States efforts

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