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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

It’s been a while since they’ve updated their RFS list and it captures all the buzzword’s of today’s tech world: AI, defence tech, climate, spatial computing, etc. I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. trillion by 2030.

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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As a Human, I’m Excited About AI. As an Investor, I’m Still Wrestling With a Few Questions

Hunter Walker

And then I read Charles Hudson’s post, which prompted me [AI PUN] to just write this down. In “ Honest and Naive Questions from a Generalist Seed VC Grappling with the Generative AI Revolution ,” Charles (whom I love) touches on similarish topics to what Satya and I have been chatting about.

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Say Hello to My New AI Marketer: How Gen AI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales

Ben's Blog

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!)

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – August 1st 2024

VC Cafe

In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B There’s been huge progress in AI in the past two weeks including new models from Meta , Google DeepMind , OpenAI searchGPT and voice models, Hugging Face SlolLM. It’s a testament to the fact that Israeli tech delivers #NOMATTERWHAT.

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Creative Automation: How Generative AI is reshaping creativity

VC Cafe

While the seemingly overnight success of ChatGPT was culmination of more than a decade of iterations in ‘creative automation’, the progress we’ve witnessed in AI over the last couple of years is poised to forever change the landscape of content creation. But Generative AI has yet to live to that hype.

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Requests for startups in 2025

VC Cafe

They believe that AI can eliminate much of the toil associated with compliance while preserving the principles of independence, monitoring, and executive responsibility. ? Startups can develop solutions that leverage web crawling, price tracking, and negotiation capabilities to help consumers save money on purchases. ?

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