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

VC Cafe

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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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

“Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio. I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers.

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What could go wrong with Vinod Khosla’s techno-optimistic vision of the future

VC Cafe

What makes something go viral on TikTok (like Bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ did recently ), is still a black box. We are excited about the potential of AI Agents, but sometimes it means that things get out of hand. Can we avoid the 3 conditions that make AI very dangerous in the next 5-10 years?

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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – February 14 2025

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Ilya Sutskever , co-founder of OpenAI is in talk to raise billions for Safe Superintelligence Inc. Who are the AI Agents at each line of the P&L? by Madrona Interesting stat: about 10% of Y Combinator companies achieves an exit – by Lenny Rachitsky Bonus: opening moves in global AI – report by Dealroom.co

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Requests for startups in 2025

VC Cafe

” Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom AI startups attracted a record 46.4% Sarah Guo and Conviction Capital Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an early stage VC fund, Embed is an acceleration program launched by Conviction, investing $150K into pre-seed AI startups. Time to build !

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