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Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything

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But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI. Digiday reported conversations with media executives, with one publisher seeing a more than 50% decline in its search referral traffic since AI Overviews rolled out last year.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

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AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing. Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Team Opportunities for startups I’m a big fan of the content A16Z has been publishing on generative AI over time.

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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

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It’s only been a bit over a month since the start of 2025 past year has witnessed seismic shifts in technology, from breakthroughs in generative AI to emerging solutions in climate tech and healthcare. B2B Financial Transparency Many SMB-dominated industries suffer from complicated payment flows and low trust between parties.

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Consult with Ease: Personalize Your Customer Stragtegy Using AI

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So what are the big ways that AI is really impacting the approach to personalization? And it's not just generative ai, it's a whole range (03:50): Of capabilities that are coming together. Let me give you an example and just show how AI plays a role in all of this. David Edelman (03:46): Yeah, sure.

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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

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It’s particularly interesting to think about voice AI in terms of the tech stack needed to build the voice engines, but note that the application layer (for both B2B and B2C apps) sits on top of the tech stack doesn’t require to build the full infrastructure.

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How to Navigate the New Era of SEO: Strategies for Understanding Consumer Search Behavior

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AI is part of that story. Marketers are just starting to use AI and wrap their heads around how it can be useful for what we're doing for SEO, and then Google is implementing ai, so generative AI on the search results pages, and that can be scary depending on exactly how Google implements it going forward.

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2023-2024 B2B SaaS Benchmarks

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This post explores the most important benchmarks VCs look for in B2B SaaS with data brought to you by 20VC/La Famiglia, Serena Capital, Emergence Capital, and Openview Ventures, providing definitions and insights into the most critical metrics for SaaS companies.

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