Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Today, as logic chips continue to become more complex, all Electronic Design Automation companies are beginning to insert Artificial Intelligence aids to automate and speed up the process. The business model of Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) like Intel is rapidly changing. (See the figure of the design process below.).

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

Venture investors are realizing that generative artificial intelligence might not be enough to stem years long startup downturn. Clever founding teams can do much more with limited resources and automate workflows for both consumers and enterprises across verticals. But not all is rosy.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Using machine learning, the system can be used for plug load reduction, demand peak shaving, preventative maintenance, anomaly detection, machine diagnostics, sub-metering, occupancy tracking, and space optimization. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

We’re fast and lean in our decision making and support companies beyond the money with our strong network in the media, entertainment and gaming space.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon. Vertical lines draw the eye upward. Softer curves are more calming to look at.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

In AI implications on Marketing and Analytics , I placed my considerations explaining how and why Artificial Intelligence (AI) will shape the next generation of Analytics and Marketing SaaS products. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This is why we’re so excited to announce our investment in Chainalysis , a company that uniquely leverages deep analytics and machine learning to help law enforcement agencies track illicit crypto transactions and financial institutions comply with anti-money laundering rules?—?important

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2020

In this post I’ll aggregate a collection of recent Israeli startup landscapes across Artificial Intelligence, retail tech, sports tech, Fintech, health (specifically relating to Covid-19), wellness tech and others. Israeli Artificial Intelligence startup landscape. Covid-19 Israeli tech landscape.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Believe it or not, I think artificial intelligence was the most overhyped tech. as a marketing term, when in reality they don’t use any deep learning techniques. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The potential for blockchain to make elections more verifiable and less contested as well as AI/machine learning for fraud detection and a better voting experience. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023. Sam Altman and others say that the foundational model race (and funding opportunity) is largely over and that the competition now is on the applicational layer.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2023

for example, the company that raised $250M from A16Z to develop LLM chatbots that can act as a specific character. Interestingly, according to Google Marketing , AI searches are actually growing: “people’s interest in the topic of “artificial intelligence” on Google Search, which has increased by 3.5X

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial). Can be niche markets where the large companies or foundational LLMs are not likely to compete with.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

‘Generative AI’ is described as “unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning algorithms that enable computers to use existing content like text, audio and video files, images, and even code to create new possible content” . Sequoia, Generative AI: A Creative New World.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By taking advantage of TikTok’s vertical split-screen, the ad cleverly demonstrates the before and after effects of the product to show its USP. To help creators make impactful videos, TikTok uses machine learning to glean insights from top-performing content. Shoot videos vertically in 9:16 aspect ratio.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

That what used to be more vertically integrated efforts by different companies are being picked apart by especially entrepreneurs coming in and taking various pieces of their value chain, again, leveraging digital. And then perhaps even more fundamental, we're seeing things like what we call the de construction of the value chain.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

2023 was the year of generative AI, but more specifically, the year we witnessed the power and potential of LLMs, large language models. Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The pace of innovation we’re seeing in the cloud ecosystem is unprecedented, driven by the continued shift to cloud infrastructure, the need for more automation to support digital transformation, increasing security challenges and the growing amount of data to be managed and leveraged for insights and machine learning.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 13, 2013

A few months ago we started spending more time on the healthcare vertical and got extremely excited about the amount of innovation that we were seeing. Yesterday we published a guest post on VentureBeat outlining our investment thesis for the health care vertical.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

The computational power available today, in conjunction with the ability to collect and store large amounts of data, allows us to do things that were not possible before. However, historically, artificial intelligence software has required a lot of training.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

That spark nearly five years ago led to an investment thesis here at Flybridge, where we have looked to invest behind Big Data applications and uses across a number of vertical industries. One of the common threads and underlying skills requried across these Big Data investments is Machine Learning.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Nevertheless, there are two foundational models represented in Israel with AI21 Labs on the LLM side. The report also includes a landscape of vertical and horizontal AI companies. Vertical AI is a stronghold. Vertical AI attracts the largest share of private funding (50% of total funding in 2023, reaching $6.6

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

Find out more about how to use AI to grow your business at hubspot.com/artificial-intelligence. That's hubspot.com/artificial-intelligence. (01:14): So put a vertical line down the center and on the top of the left hand column, put words to lose on top of the right hand column, put words to use.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Getting real with artificial intelligence: CRM and AI are quite a dynamic duo. Machines that dance to your algorithms: Once an external function of CRM, machine learning is now integrated into advanced CRM solutions for SMBs. Today’s best SMB-focused CRMs capture metrics more effectively than ever before.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 25, 2023

But it might be a different story when it comes to enterprise software as there’s an opening for start-ups to create more value for their customers with vertical-specific AI products. If that’s the case, how can an AI enterprise company create a differentiated product on top of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms.

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View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2018

Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn’t a requirement. . Where can artificial intelligence be utilized in the enterprise?”. What are the use-cases of augmented reality?”

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. « Machine learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem. A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is: how [.]. link] Nivi. People copy success, not ideas. startupcto

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Now that data is on the cloud, products can begin to leverage it and use AI/machine learning to create a 10x better user experience. When we consider SaaS products in virtually every vertical, we realize how much potential there still is to re-invent the user experience. This is an exciting time for SaaS startups.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. The technology is advancing at a breathtaking pace and it’s enough to look at Hugging Face’s LLM leaderboard to understand that generative AI is much more than just ChatGPT.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2016

We have established clients in some of the world’s largest companies, across multiple interesting verticals such as telecom, banking, travel and entertainment, and commerce. I also really enjoy exciting people about the possibilities of technology rather than fearing it and bringing new talent and diversity into Artificial Intelligence.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

My old friend Krishna Gade and his new co-founder, Amit Paka, were teaming up to build a new startup in one of the most exciting technology spaces out there today — artificial intelligence. But Gade’s and Paka’s vision wasn’t simply to leverage AI for a vertical application.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have developed a proprietary machine learning algorithm that assesses the risk and return profile of the business and determines whether to invest in the business. We have reviewed the application process of other RBI lenders and have not found one that has more API connections that ours.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. Startup landscapes, while not perfect, are useful as they provide a way for us to define a space/category and the players of that vertical. Is it only one exciting vertical within the broader umbrella.

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