VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

David and Craft are considered top SaaS investors and David said that basically, the industry has been waiting for a catalyst, something that will accelerate digital transformation and help SaaS companies grow faster, and Generative AI seems to be it. Interestingly Craft Ventures divides AI opportunities into three main buckets: ??

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I covered my personal journey to venture capital, what makes our partnership work at Remagine Ventures , and gave an intro to Generative AI, a current theme that connects to our investment thesis (we made 3 investments in the space). Some use general data sets, and others train their models on proprietary data.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

State of the cloud 2024 by Bessemer Emerging trends in Voice AI Real time AI Audio Agents and live conversations – which coincided with the launch of its OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode , enables users to have a real time voice conversation with the chatbot, and even get it to sing. Another example is Cartesia AI.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2023

“The unanticipated demand to create AI software has outstripped the cloud service capacities of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle” The Information The big challenge in generative AI is GPU shortage and costs. They get their investment dollars back in the cloud bill.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2023

Generative AI might be the next major platform shift and Big tech has no intention to stay behind. Building foundational models in generative AI because it requires a lot of engineers, vast cloud resources and huge amounts of data, all the capabilities that big tech posses.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many investors complain that the technology is over hyped -and now it’s official – generative AI is at the peak of Gartner ‘s hype cycle for emerging technologies in 2023. After all, the adoption of generative AI has been faster than many other technologies, including smartphones.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Potential Impact on Various Industries Data Management and Storage Users will generate and consume more data as the metaverse becomes more prevalent. Generative AI: The Forbes article Startup Trends, Industries, and Technologies in 2024 suggests that the evolution of Generative AI will play a crucial role in the business sector.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Kudos Or Shoshani and team Stream.Security on securing a $30M series B for your cloud detection and response platform ! In total, generative AI companies received $35 billion in 2024.AI AI companies have reached a combined value of $9 trillion.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2024

Facebook was just stepping out of college campuses, the revolutionary iPhone was still in the realm of Apple’s future plans, and burgeoning concepts like big data and cloud computing were just starting to emerge.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to be a powerful tool for nonprofit organizations, but it also requires board members to understand the challenges and ethical concerns it presents, along with its benefits. Insider Intelligence predicts that generative AI adoption will climb to 77.8 million users by 2024.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. We are bullish on the future of gaming as the leading form of entertainment for anyone under 50 and are excited about the potential that new technology like generative AI or blockchain has on the future of the gaming industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Train your AI models at twice the speed and less than half of the cost of other clouds. 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. I found it.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! With the rapid advancement of generative AI, we’re seeing content creation, distribution and monetisation being disrupted faster than ever before.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A new report by F2 Venture Capital, Google Cloud and Deloitte Israel shines a spotlight onto the buzzing emerging AI landscape in Israel so I couldn’t resist covering it. On a high level: The Israeli AI startup ecosystem is booming, with over 2,150 active AI companies, representing ~30% of the local tech sector.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. The first year that GlueCon occurred, it seemed like nearly every session began with someone defining “what cloud computing is.”

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

Cloud Wars: As businesses increasingly adopt cloud services, the battle between cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) intensifies. Cloud Cybersecurity: With the rise in cloud adoption, securing cloud infrastructure has become a critical concern.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2023

Streaming and Cloud Gaming offer new ways for gaming monetisation. The death of Google Stadia left a void in the cloud gaming space, and it’s being filled by Microsoft xCloud, Steam and Amazon Luna, which allow players to stream games directly to their devices without the need for expensive hardware.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The rise of generative AI is likely to have a significant impact on the gaming industry in 2023. While the hype cycle for Generative AI is as its peak, we can expect it to play a big role in creating more immersive and personalised gaming experiences. Generative AI for games market map ( source ).

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

It’s impossible to ignore the impact that Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Apple and Tesla/xAI have on AI. With a combined value of $14 Trillion (representing 32% of the S&P 500), these companies invest $400 billion a year into frontier technologies, namely AI and cloud infrastructure.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 2, 2024

Funding for AI startups has cooled in recent months. The case for continued AI momentum: ? It’s still early innings for LLMs – Microsoft and Google are still early in their rollouts of generative AI in search, productivity software, cloud and more. Meta is working on its open source LLaMa.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

With the advancements in GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), AI is rapidly advancing the space of video production using real human characters. This a relatively new space, as the processing power required to generate these videos in near-real time over the cloud has only recently become possible.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

So I look, I I'll give you an example, uh, the answer to that using like generative AI, which is like the hottest conversation topic in the world right now, right? So I will, I'll use generative AI as an example again, right? Now that data, the data you need, you know, does need to be in the cloud, right?

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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, Great news Merav Bahat and team Dazz on your $50M series B to accelerate AI-powered cloud security remediation!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

As a result, VCs aren’t just excited – they’re recalibrating their entire investment thesis around agentic AI. The pie for software businesses has just grown dramatically, and smart money is betting that agentic AI will create more unicorns than mobile or cloud computing did.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I took out their last, well, I dunno if it was their last record, but the one with cloud something cloud, it was their last really poppy record from the nineties. So it's specifically regenerative AI and text generative ai, which is where I live. Let's just talk about the Jay Hawks latest Kate (05:24): Novels talk.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Most people have a complicated combination of data in cloud storage and on hard drives across their PCs and smart phones. Just like the computer did, the AI will become personal. Our own devices are filled with everything that matters to us. We get a new device and transfer that data to the next, and the next, and so on.

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

which has become the most used open source LLM, Meta AI available across all their apps for free, a new affordable version of their Meta Quest VR headset, but perhaps most excitingly, Meta Orion, smart AR glasses with holographic display (still not officially launched). Well done Marina S.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

The greater opportunity lies within the application layer. Their scale and resources enable them to innovate rapidly, making it challenging for startups to compete directly in this space.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. Synthetic data generation-to feed false information. AI Attack Surfaces. Classic Computers.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2024

OpenAI is talking to chip designers and announced it will work on a ‘search product’, NVIDIA and Mistral AI released Nemo, a new powerful open-source model, Amazon made a record $14.2 billion in revenue for ‘Prime Day’ is rolling out ‘Rufus’ generative AI assistant to all U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Train your AI models at twice the speed and less than half of the cost of other clouds. It's time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud. Oracle Cloud infrastructure or O-C-I-O-C-I is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. I found it.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s just been the first anniversary since ChatGPT burst into the world and launched the term ‘generative AI’ into the mainstream. It’s been a big year for AI. billion invested in generative AI startups globally in the first half of 2023 according to Pitchbook.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER Israel Israel’s AI expansion Blueprint report by F2 Venture Capital , Deloitte and Google Cloud Israeli startups raised nearly $1 billion in October 2024. Well done Adiel Gopas on joining Third Point LLC to expand the Israel office!

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