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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8 social media.

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The ever growing Israeli Generative AI landscape April 2023

VC Cafe

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4 billion at the end of the first day (on $58.9 billion (on $76.5

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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – February 21 2025

VC Cafe

Way to go Ronit Belson and team Sawmills on coming out of stealth with a $10M seed round to transform telemetry data management with AI! Humanoid robots are coming… and not just from China. Kudos Ido Ben-Natan and team Blockaid on your $50M series B to combat rising blockchain threats! Plane is taking off. Keep on creating!

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The Age of Digital Colonialism

Start Up Blog

And to that list we can add any country which isn’t the USA or China. China and the USA are the only countries that we know of on the globe who are building these pieces of metastructure at a Nation State Scale. I think the smartest country in the world right now is China. Welcome to the age of digital colonialism.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

Amy Keller’s startup PurePlus transforms produce that would be wasted into healthful candy The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the U.S. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Female entrepreneurs must have grit.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

I no longer fly to back and forth to China every three weeks so that feels like a huge positive change. Essentially, living in California and staying up to date with our China team 15 hours ahead means I’m always sort of in two time zones. We’ll triple our user base in 2018, which is currently around 1.5