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

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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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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

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This trend is evident in the success of companies like DeepL (translation), Speak (language learning), and Retell AI (call centres). Voice AI tech stack – by A16Z The landscape is still relatively small, but growing. billion to re-hire the founders of Character.ai Google paid $2.6

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19 years of VC Cafe

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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.