VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever. This includes OpenAI’s latest round of $6.6

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This is not only helpful for startups and investors who are actively deploying in those sectors, but also to founders at the beginning of their journeys who are looking for ‘requests for startups’ or problem areas worth diving into. I chose to focus on 5 areas that are particularly relevant to us at Remagine Ventures.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

Hunter Walk: Textio , the startup you founded and CEO’ed until a few months ago, is almost 10 years old. A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business. The first one is simply focus.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world. More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices. Riches in Niches.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2024

creator economy startups, with investments in the first half of this year already matching the total raised throughout the entirety of 2023. creator startups secured an impressive $692.7 The trend extends globally, with creator startups worldwide raising approximately $767.9 million in funding.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Peter Thiel The statistics for startup success are well known. About 90% of startups will fail within three years of starting. Within the group of startups that succeeds, the returns for venture investors are concentrated in few companies. Our first investment in this space was Hour One , the AI avatar text to video company.

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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

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 ). Andrew Chen, “What’s next for marketplace startups?

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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. You may have noticed that the fundraising market for startups has slowed down.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2024

As competition heats up, plowing money into foundation model startups is fraught with risk. 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. So where should VC investors place their bets?

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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. 14:21): So that was the second piece.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

The rumours on the death of consumer startups have been greatly exaggerated, it seems. 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. So much so, that in fact, that only 7.1%

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The event was a get together for the Israeli ecosystem: startups, corporates, investors and academics in the gaming space. Israeli startups are mainly known for their prowess in cyber or semiconductors, but over the past few years, the country has also become a gaming powerhouse. Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

I searched for internships that would allow me to explore generative AI. The Israeli landscape was very appealing because of my personal connection to the land and Israel’s reputation as a breeding ground for startups. Kevin and Eze are incredibly knowledgeable in the AI, media, and entertainment space.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

The first time I wrote about startup benchmarks was in 2019 and it became one of the most popular posts on VC Cafe. Key Metrics for B2B SaaS Startups: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) Definition: ARR is the yearly value of a company’s recurring revenue from subscription-based services.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

” Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman Getting your first 1,000 users is an important early milestone for any B2C startup. This post is about how to get to your first 1,000 users, and how to get to know your users better, in particular for B2C startups. Can you get people excited about your startup? But how do you get there?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Israeli startups raised $7.8 While the figures are slightly down from 2023, they reflect the resilience and strength of the Israeli startup ecosystem, even at a time of war. More interesting figures in the Startup Nation Central report linked below. More interesting figures in the Startup Nation Central report linked below.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It’s only been a bit over a month since the start of 2025 past year has witnessed seismic shifts in technology, from breakthroughs in generative AI to emerging solutions in climate tech and healthcare. This is an extension of the previous list with new sources and startup requests. You can find the 2024 RFS list here.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is only 2 years old, considering the amount of capital that has been invested in generative AI startups since. Or is the infrastructure finally good enough to build proper application layer startups at scale? Security protocols for AI-driven commerce.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

Until now, the majority of the value in generative AI has been captured by the infrastructure layer: foundational models (LLMs), the cloud providers and the hardware infrastructure/ data centres. However now, the AI landscape is undergoing a significant shift, prompting a crucial question: Where will the future value of AI accrue?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

” Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom AI startups attracted a record 46.4% Requests for startups are a way for investors to communicate what might work and where they are actively looking for startup teams. The predictions offer significant opportunities for startups across different sectors.

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