VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. Highlights from the report: Global gaming industry saw record year with over 1300 deals and $127B in disclosed deal value.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Great stuff Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on your $25M series A (weeks after a $21M seed) at a $500M valuation , to pioneer scalable, cost efficient generative AI training! AI is already making an impact on jobs (automating customer support for example) and cost reduction.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8 For example, Tiger Global, a crossover fund which was one of the most active venture investors in 2021 went from 194 deals in 2021 to a mere 20 in 2023 and has been trying to actively sell its positions in the secondary market at steep discounts to get liquidity.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion on 78 generative AI deals —almost as much as was invested in all of the previous 5 years combined, according to PitchBook data. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy, with $6.6 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

I was interviewed by TheMarker (Hebrew only) on why Israeli startups haven’t been part of the mega funding rounds in AI. Amidst this bleak funding environment, AI has been a saviour, reports the WSJ. Companies categorized as AI in Crunchbase raised $25 billion in the first half of 2023, representing 18% of global funding.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As a volunteer board member of a mission-driven organization, you may be wondering how your organization can optimally leverage artificial intelligence (AI). From gaining insights through data analysis to increasing efficiency, the potential impacts of AI are significant. AI can also reduce errors and eliminate redundancies.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Generative AI Explosion – Now that the internet is a brain and not just a filing cabinet we are about to see unprecedented levels of creativity, automation, and efficiency in content creation, design, and problem-solving. Expect rapid global expansion and a transformative shift in urban mobility starting in 2025.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel. Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6 Global gaming revenues. Generative AI for games market map ( source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

John (01:39): So when you proposed this topic of AI and authenticity, I jumped on it immediately because certainly that's one of the biggest complaints. I mean, you hear people out there saying, oh, well never use AI because that's inauthentic. So why don't you just globally set the table for how you're approaching that topic?

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

The CrowdStrike global outage is estimated to have cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn. 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.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Way to go Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on coming out of stealth with a $21M seed round for a new inference model that enables companies to dramatically reduce the cost of generative AI – wow ? Find the detailed ranking and the drivers behind it here What is generative AI currently being used for in the enterprise ?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 28, 2024

It started as a Linkedin post (which kept running out of space), moved into Mailchimp (which disappointed for its cost and lack of discovery) and is now a LinkedIn newsletter. Global: From VC Cafe : consumer startups still got Mojo! Over the past three and a half years, I’ve shared the #Firgun newsletter every Friday.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

which reportedly cost a few tens of millions of dollars to train, similar to Claude 3.5 and cheaper than GPT-4, which cost over $100M. Alibaba Group has just released Wan2.1 , a family of open-source AI video models designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs. We must #BRINGTHEMHOME NOW.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Kudos Alon Arvatz and team PointFive on your $20M series A to track cloud usage across multiple clouds to optimise costs! seed extension) to scale your AI-based video ad optimisation! in seed funding to launch your AI-based dubbing platform ! (I Way to go ?Asaf Asaf Yanai and team Alison.ai on securing a $13.3M

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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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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2024

14- To support both companies and freelancers Photo Credit: Disha Jain I started my business to address a critical gap in the market: the need for a comprehensive, global workforce management platform that supports both companies and freelancers. We also wanted to utilize modern technology to offer more cost-effective solutions.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. But the more engaged the end user becomes and the more human one makes the AI, and the more the AI interactions which are had, the more the money it costs the user. And I’m not just talking about a text based chatbot people can flirt with.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

14- To support both companies and freelancers Photo Credit: Disha Jain I started my business to address a critical gap in the market: the need for a comprehensive, global workforce management platform that supports both companies and freelancers. We also wanted to utilize modern technology to offer more cost-effective solutions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Iuri Struta , S& P Global ( source ) I was listening to Bret Taylor , the founder and CEO of Sierra, former co-CEO of Salesforce, ex CTO of Facebook and current chairman of OpenAI on the 20VC podcast. He talked about where we are in the timeline of generative AI and it made me realise that we’re making an interesting shift now.

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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. Consider the $1 million the Seattle Public Library paid in recovery costs after a ransomware attack.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Ron DeSantis have already used fake AI images of each other and we are still 16 months out from the vote. This is an election where the capabilities of Generative AI will quite simply have a massive influence. The potential repercussions on geopolitics and the global economy are staggering.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

Build AI-first financial products without legacy constraints Target underserved markets in insurance and wealth management Focus on global payment solutions 7. Space companies Capitalise on 10x launch cost reduction Build businesses around satellite applications Create infrastructure for routine space access 8.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2025

Max, performing advanced reasoning and code generation tasks while reducing infrastructure costs by up to 60%. The news on the much cheaper, equally or more efficient Chinese models caused a huge amount of speculation: Is AI a bubble? AI is having its moment. on raising $3M for your workplace, autonomous AI agents!

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