Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We still believe that there are huge opportunities in decentralized networks, especially in DeFi, as well as the blockchain’s capacity as a “system of record”, especially now with the explosive progress of generative AI (another emerging theme we’re spending time on). Best wishes to you and your loved ones this holiday season.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Way to go Itamar Golan and team Prompt Security on your $18M series A to help companies secure their generative AI tools! series A to help authors self-publish their books with the help of AI! Great milestone Dvir Hoffman and team CommBox on your $15M series B to build the future of customer experience powered by AI!

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Well done Eyal Malinger and Oren Peleg and team Resurge Growth Partners on the first closing of an investment vehicle focused on helping companies caught between the venture capital and private equity worlds. In total, generative AI companies received $35 billion in 2024.AI Thank you for tuning in. Keep on creating.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

AI can also save boards time by summarizing meeting notes, analyzing complex data or research reports and sending meeting reminders. Because nonprofits usually have tight budgets and small staffs, generative AI in the form of ChatGPT and other natural language processing tools offer much needed support.

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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. Twilio, Docker, and Kubernetes all appeared on the GlueCon stage long before they were known by the wider tech community.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Firgun is all about genuinely feeling and expressing happiness, pride, or admiration for members of our community’s accomplishments, good fortune and wins. The world’s first AI audio-to-video foundation model designed to generate UGC content. AI inference spending expected to grow 70% YoY to $208.2B

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2024

NEW FUNDS Congratulations Amikam Norkin and team Ace Capital Partners on launching a new fund focused on military tech startups! There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. Thank you for reading. Keep on creating! The post Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – August 30 2024 appeared first on VC Cafe.

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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, Kudos Eyal Azoulay on joining Entrée Capital as the newest partner! the most powerful open source LLM to date.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 28, 2024

Enterprises are less concerned about the use of generative AI but penetration is still low (study by Bain & Company ) source The next big challenge for the AI industry to solve will be energy – we’re consuming a lot of it GenAI investment will not let up. GenAI companies have raised $14.3B Thank you for reading.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Find online communities: Identify niche online forums, subreddits, or social media groups where your target audience spends time (LinkedIn and FB Groups, Product Hunt, Discord, Slack groups etc). Engage with these communities by answering questions, sharing valuable content, and subtly promoting your product.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2024

Finally, Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon just reported that the company is using generative AI to increase its productivity, updating 850 million product catalog entries 100 times faster than human-led methods. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community, Keep on creating! Anduril Industries raised $1.5

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Firgun is all about genuinely feeling and expressing happiness, pride, or admiration for members of our community’s accomplishments, good fortune and wins. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small’ community! Keep on creating. The original version of the newsletter was published on Linkedin.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Generative AI now has the potential to exponentially grow the quantity of content created. Articles, ads, images, videos, voice, graphs, 3D objects, music, scientific papers… all can be created today with AI. Base10 includes 300 startups in their generative AI landscape (source). Such a milestone!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

APPOINTMENTS Congratulations Eran Westman on your appointment as Managing Partner at Planven to lead growth investments in Israel! There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community! One door closes and another one opens, Iddo Gino and team Rapid API. That’s all for this week. Thank you for reading.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Take generative AI as an example: these tools can make repetitive work tasks easier, but employees create risk when they upload sensitive information to third-party content generators. Keep software up to date (and work with savvy partners): Its one of the 13 best practices for the public sector , but it applies to all.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2025

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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Hyper-Personalization Powered by AI 2. The Rise of Decentralized Communities 3. Generative AI: Revolutionizing Creative Production 4. AI-Driven Marketing Orchestration 5. The Rise of Decentralized Communities People are looking beyond traditional social networks. Brand Marketing: Back to Basics 6.

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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. Keep on creating.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

APPOINTMENTS Kudos Nofar Amikam on being appointed managing partner at the Glilot Capital Partners seed/pre-seed fund! 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. Keep on creating!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2025

Introduces Click-to-Game AI Technolog y That Creates Playable 3-D Games in Under a Minute (disclosure: it’s one of our portfolio companies at Remagine Ventures ) GLOBAL Ten principles for building strong vertical AI businesses – by Bessemer Venture Partners Interesting slide deck by Evan Shap?ro Keep on creating!

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2025

Firgun is all about genuinely feeling and expressing happiness, pride, or admiration for members of our community’s accomplishments, good fortune and wins. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. By me on VC Cafe. The 2025 European Deep Tech report – by Dealroom.co Keep on creating.

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