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. I recently attended the Meta Marketing Summit in Tel Aviv, which shined a spotlight on Israeli B2C tech.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

High profile failures of consumer companies, like Peloton, which fell from grace following a meteoric rise during the pandemic, Allbirds, the sneaker company that lost 98% of its value in the public market, Fast’s grocery delivery which shut down after raising $120M in capital, didn’t help the case for consumer businesses.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

What gets less attention, but is equally (if not more) valuable, is the business-use side of GenAI content creation: marketing. 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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2023

What triggered me to write about this is a post by afriend, who’s an experienced CTO and expert in AI. He commented on the way founders are pitching generative AI startups: I had the chance to meet several generative AI startups in the last few weeks. Instead of just listing off the features of the lock (e.g.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

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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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

To add more heat, Microsoft launched generative AI search results for Bing. Mistral AI released two new open-source LLM models (Nemo in partnership with NVIDIA ) and Large 2. AI at Meta launched LLaMa 3.1, The CrowdStrike global outage is estimated to have cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

A strong multiproduct strategy is a cornerstone of a credible growth story for any scaling B2B company. You’ve found product-market fit before, so we’re not going to rehash those processes for you. Many successful product launches into adjacent markets respond to “pulls” from existing customers. Let’s make this more concrete.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

Consequently, I do not believe GenAI will disrupt the infrastructure market, according to Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation. Big tech firms are integrating GenAI into many existing tools, B2B and consumer facing, so this is something founders should watch out for Who owns the Gen AI platform? (by

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2025

Looking Back: A Year Defined by Generative AI 2024 will go down in history as the year generative AI truly went mainstream. It wasnt just startups leveraging generative AIcorporates like Adobe, Salesforce, and Google integrated AI-powered features into their core products, making it ubiquitous.

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