VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Mention that you do “Consumer tech” as a startup founder and you’d be limiting your funding options to one third of the venture capital funds (in Israel that figure is probably closer to 10%). But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. Meanwhile in the US, B2C startups raised $100 billion in 2022, 40% of the total funding.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

It’s impressive to see what the self described ‘little red dot’ accomplished in its 65 years of independence and I couldn’t avoid comparing and contrasting to Israel. To add more heat, Microsoft launched generative AI search results for Bing. AI at Meta launched LLaMa 3.1,

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

Israel must #BRINGTHEMHOME. 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. in Q2 2024 alone, which is 16.5%

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2025

In December 2004, 19 years ago, I started VC Cafe with the simple goal of sharing insights, resources, and perspectives on venture capital and startups (with a spotlight on Israel). Looking Back: A Year Defined by Generative AI 2024 will go down in history as the year generative AI truly went mainstream.

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