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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Meta is on track to become the most used open source AI by the end of the year. NEW VENTURE FUNDS Congratulations to Shai Policker and team Edge Medical Ventures on the new $70M med-tech fund and venture studio focused on early stage Israeli startups! Mazal tov Yael Leventer Nacker on joining Pitango Health as Principal!

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

which has become the most used open source LLM, Meta AI available across all their apps for free, a new affordable version of their Meta Quest VR headset, but perhaps most excitingly, Meta Orion, smart AR glasses with holographic display (still not officially launched).

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. Textio relied on both of these strategies for a few years before launching our first truly generative AI capabilities back in 2019.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Spoiler alert: I believe that 2024-2025 will be an amazing time to invest in early stage startups. And not a particular sector, but AI startups, in particular generative AI attracted close to $50 billion in funding last year, globally. Generative AI is game changer. billion invested in 2022.

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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 application landscape, while still in the early stages, seems to be rapidly growing. How far can this tech go?

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JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

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MAY 24, 2023

The post Impressions from Sam Altman’s talk in London appeared first on VC Cafe.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ive experienced both large and small companies, and Ive found that I thrive in early-stage environments. So much of what Regal focuses on, and what we invest in as angels focuses on role-specific or industry specific workflow tools for generative AI to solve problems that LLMs alone cannot.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A bright spot is emerging in early-stage funding, signaling renewed investor risk appetite and startup momentum. A recent study by Capital Economics suggests that the US will lead the AI revolution, with the Asian Tigers, UK, Israel, and parts of the Nordics also well-placed to benefit.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Benchmark: Serena Capital suggests that B2B SaaS startups should aim for a 10% month-over-month MRR growth rate in the early stages. ARR growth rates decreased significantly in 2023 and growth stage companies were most impacted. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kudos Adi Perry and team with on securing a $10M seed round to turn cities into communities with generative AI! NEW FUNDS Kudos Gilli Cegla on the launch of UNICAMEL , a $10M venture fund focused on early stage Israeli startups! ROI from Generative AI is a rising concern. The EU has a competitive problem.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The majority of the decline comes from much lower investment volumes in the growth stage, but also fewer companies getting funded in the early stages. If you’re a gaming founder, at the earliest stages, looking to raise money, below are a few tips to maximise your chances of success. games, every single day.

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JULY 29, 2024

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. AI at Meta launched LLaMa 3.1, The CrowdStrike global outage is estimated to have cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

However, in reality the Metaverse is still in its early stages of development, and yet, we already can see positive examples of its impact. And there’s there’s of course the tarnishing of everything crypto and web3 related thanks to scams and public collapses like the FTX saga. Into the Metaverse event in London.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER ISRAEL An interesting report and survey of 25 early stage venture funds in Israel (including us at Remagine Ventures ) shows the major trends in pre-seed and seed. I wrote about the major takeaways on VC Cafe and you can access the report by F2 Venture Capital here.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It’s so much easier to create content these days with generative AI. Make it easy to use and understand: The easier it is for people to get value from your product, the more likely they are to stick around and tell others Too many startups, especially in AI, focus on the technology vs. on the benefits for the users.

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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. The Modern AI Stack – Menlo Ventures ( source ) If not LLMs, where will the value accrue in Generative AI? So where should VC investors place their bets?

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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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JANUARY 7, 2025

Looking Back: A Year Defined by Generative AI 2024 will go down in history as the year generative AI truly went mainstream. It wasnt just startups leveraging generative AIcorporates like Adobe, Salesforce, and Google integrated AI-powered features into their core products, making it ubiquitous.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

by Madrona Interesting stat: about 10% of Y Combinator companies achieves an exit – by Lenny Rachitsky Bonus: opening moves in global AI – report by Dealroom.co MEDIA OF THE WEEK The capital amount of M&As in the range of $100-$500m and $500-$1000m in Israel increased sharply, setting a decade record.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Sarah Guo and Conviction Capital Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an early stage VC fund, Embed is an acceleration program launched by Conviction, investing $150K into pre-seed AI startups. Stripe anticipates these trends to create significant business opportunities for new and existing companies.

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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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