VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We are seeing Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta rushing to integrate generative AI features into their products for consumers, enterprises and developers, and every week we learn of new mega rounds into AI research teams looking to bring generative AI technology to every field, from health to education, commerce, entertainment, etc.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. 15 Useful Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? 20 Useful Tools For Designer and Developers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Hopefully by that time you’ve developed the idea much further and in much greater detail – by talking to as many people as possible. Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

” Justin Borus, Ibex Investors Another company that largely benefited from Israel’s innovation is Nvidia, which became the third largest tech company in market cap: “Israel is home to world-leading AI researchers and developers creating applications for the next wave of AI.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process. .

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Adam Fisher , Bessemer Venture Partners NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Gal Moav and team Evinced on your $55M series C to provide accessibility tools to software developers! Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M Well done Nadav Keyson and team Riverside.fm

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation. Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Thumbs up Benny Porat and team Twine Security on coming out of stealth with a $12M seed round to automate security tasks starting with identity management! seed round to accelerate drug discovery and development with AI! seed round to accelerate drug discovery and development with AI!

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Publicly traded dutch company Nebius announced it has raised $700M from VCs and strategics like NVIDIA to build out a full-stack AI infrastructure including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms and tools and services for developers. Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. The symmetric key algorithms of the Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) Suite were selected to be secure for national security systems usage even if a CRQC is developed. This is the ultimate goal. Quantum Timing.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. 2 exits including yhat (sold to AlteryxAYX NYSE) and init.ai , one an early investment in a data science platform and the other on NLP for developers.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. But what if you can use data to reduce the risk, by finding better targets for development? Of course there are exceptions?—?last

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. For example, we provide direct coaching on how to pitch investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation. Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling.

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www.startupnextdoor.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

By the way , Less CSS is some cool technology that web developers should check out, but I wonder how long it took them to rise to the top. About SND StartupNextDoor is a site for entrepreneurs starting their own businesses without venture capital. Stealth Startups (9). Make it short enough and unique enough for Twitter.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. AYX NYSE) and init.ai , one an early investment in a data science platform and the other on NLP for developers. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx? 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. In the past, the complexity of monolithic banking and payment infrastructure made it difficult for non-financial institutions to develop financial services. On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. The round will include participation from existing investors including Benchmark Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, and Cisco Systems. services developer Xconnect.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Congratulations Elad Raz and team NextSilicon for coming out of stealth with a $100M series C round (and over $300M raised to date) to create the next generation of AI semiconductors, starting with Maverick 2! Kol hakavod Benjamin Segal and team Matia for coming out of stealth with a $10.5M

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Worth noticing that Battery Ventures and Sequoia are picking pace amongst the foreign funds and Carmel and Gemini. On June 22, 2010 - Perfecto Mobile closed an undisclosed third round of funding from new investor Vodafone Ventures and returning investors Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Worth noticing that Battery Ventures and Sequoia are picking pace amongst the foreign funds and Carmel and Gemini. On June 22, 2010 - Perfecto Mobile closed an undisclosed third round of funding from new investor Vodafone Ventures and returning investors Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation. Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed. Reply Ben C. ,

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

But there’s a catch – the rise of agentic AI will likely lead to increased startup formation and venture capital activity, creating a more complex and competitive market. Sapphire Ventures created a dedicated landscape for AI powered design tools. At Remagine Ventures we’re active deploying in this space.

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