VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

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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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. Compliance and Audit: YC sees a large opportunity to automate compliance and audit tasks using AI.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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. So it's a different way of operating.

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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

JUNE 6, 2024

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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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

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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Ben's Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

A strong multiproduct strategy is a cornerstone of a credible growth story for any scaling B2B company. As we referenced earlier, we’re also starting to see more companies navigate this question as they adopt usage-based pricing, particularly with generative AI.

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