VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2023

Prices for generative AI startups continue to climb As the number of generative AI startups grows exponentially, partly due to the increase in models and APIs made available for the application layer of generative AI, established categories like copywriting for marketing or document summarisation are getting more crowded.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. So far in 2023, generative AI startups raised $16 billion, according to Dealroom. billion, a 2.5x

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Team Opportunities for startups I’m a big fan of the content A16Z has been publishing on generative AI over time. Always Pick Up the Phone – Voice generation quality and LLM capability are approaching the ability to handle many transactional calls. trillion by 2030.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For example, our focus at Remagine Ventures on gaming, generative AI, and entertainment tech enabled us to create a relevant, focused network of founders, operators, co-investors and strategics who are active in our verticals. As a result, we started investing in generative AI in 2019, as a way to scale content creation.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Agentic Automation for Enterprise Functions: Generative AI agents are being deployed to automate complex business processes across various functions. This includes a wide range of verticals like In-car entertainment, hospitality, commerce, personal health, financial services etc.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. What events sparked the major revolutions in business models and distribution? /1 First and foremost, PGC it’s a meeting palooza – I received over 40 requests for meetings, mainly from game studios all over Europe.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

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. Durable distribution advantages. The Modern AI Stack – Menlo Ventures ( source ) If not LLMs, where will the value accrue in Generative AI?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In fund one, our strategic backers from the worlds of media and entertainment always instilled in us the interest to find technologies to scale and automate content creation, distribution and monetisation. That led us to start investing in generative AI in 2019 (consider that ChatGPT only came out in November 2022, that’s pretty early).

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The startup connects business teams in VR, merging game-like features with collaboration tools in one platform to help overcome some of the challenges of distributed teams and remote work. Remio (led by Jos van der Westhuizen ) marks our first VR investment !

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! With the rapid advancement of generative AI, we’re seeing content creation, distribution and monetisation being disrupted faster than ever before.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and GTP-3, Sequoia.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

I searched for internships that would allow me to explore generative AI. Israel’s track record of producing innovative tech startups like Waze, Fiverr, Lightricks, and more, made Israel a natural choice for emerging generative AI startups. Moreover, I was able to contribute to the Israeli generative AI landscape.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

Textio relied on both of these strategies for a few years before launching our first truly generative AI capabilities back in 2019. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020. Customers know what they’re getting when they first use the product and can make an informed choice.

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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).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

However, entrepreneurs have never really stopped building new consumer experiences and technology (in particular Generative AI) is unlocking a new wave of innovation in consumer startups. Categories like AI companions, productivity enhancers, and new creative platforms, are being launched with significant user engagement.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This figure only includes studios, and doesn’t include gaming infrastructure and supporting services (advertising, payments, distribution etc) which serve the gaming industry. Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6 The rise of generative AI is likely to have a significant impact on the gaming industry in 2023.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

As a pre-seed investor at Remagine Ventures , half of our investments are in B2B Software, especially around technologies in the content creation, distribution, monetisation and analytics space. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m Companies faced higher customer churn and downgrades.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The spend is way off whack, and businesses are spending less and less of marketing because even with generative ai, what you're seeing is you're seeing sameness in content people now people are generating content through generative ai. TikTok, Facebook, all the CPMs are up. So that is the third thing.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This could involve distributing flyers, putting up stickers, or even setting up a booth at a local event. Generate Excitement and Word-of-Mouth: Create a waitlist: This creates a sense of exclusivity and anticipation around your product. It’s so much easier to create content these days with generative AI.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Meta is on track to become the most used open source AI by the end of the year. Way to go Haim Halpern and team Datricks on your $15M series A for your AI-powered compliance and risk management platform! Interesting overview of vertical AI companies by IVP ( source ) Revenue per employee. via Trung T. Keep on creating!

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ? What do you think?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s just been the first anniversary since ChatGPT burst into the world and launched the term ‘generative AI’ into the mainstream. It’s been a big year for AI. billion invested in generative AI startups globally in the first half of 2023 according to Pitchbook.

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