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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. The company unveiled its latest model in January 2017 at CES, offering the blind the ability to read and recognize faces. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world.

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2018: Year in review and a look ahead

Version One Ventures

After the 2017 price run up, reality set in during 2018; both BTC and ETH value plummeted. Lots of ICOs and capital poured into the frenzy of this market in 2017. This should serve as a reminder that while we are spending lots of time in crypto and bio, we are still excited about network effects that exist in VR/AR, autonomy, etc.,

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. The trend now seems to be bending toward incentivizing network participation , where those who see the opportunity will want to not just invest in a new network, but put their time and resources into participating by running nodes themselves. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017).

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

and launched in April 2017. Long Range Wide Access Network (LoRaWAN) technology, more frequently known as “LoRa.” Sapient will be using LoRa (or similar technologies) to expand to three more countries in 2020 because it allows us to remove the need to use customer WiFi networks to connect our devices in a seamless and inexpensive way.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. I wanted [a term for] something similar (between debt and equity) but on an extremely small scale.”.

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