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Weekly FIRGUN Newsletter – March 7 2025

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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. Mistral AI launched Mistral OCR, a new API designed for document understanding. Thank you for reading.

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Israel Generative AI predictions for 2024

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Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. Overall, Israeli startups raised $7.3 But I’m generally optimistic.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ??

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – September 27 2024

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It shows Kinneret Gat, 69, defiantly sticking her tongue out at a Hamas attacker, even as the community was being overrun. Every year, LinkedIn recognises the most in demand companies in each of the major startup hubs, but this year they failed to include Israel. Daniel Roth now said that Israel will be added next week.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – December 13 2024

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I was having lunch with a senior investor in London, who asked me: how long until business in Israel returns to normal? billion, according to a new report by PWC Israel. Mazel tov Israel Krush and team Hyro on the $15M series B extension to tackle healthcares AI needs! It’s time to build. The answer is: it already has.

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Weekly FIRGUN Newsletter – September 13 2024

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And so much more it’s genuinely hard to keep up… QUOTE OF THE WEEK Israel continues to draw investors seeking bold, determined solutions to global challenges. Interesting overview of vertical AI companies by IVP ( source ) Revenue per employee. There’s so much to celebrate in our “small” community.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

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There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).