The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

According to Deloitte’s annual survey of Technology Fast 50 program executive leaders, the top ranked challenge facing the fastest-growing technology companies is attracting and retaining a qualified workforce, followed closely by developing new products and services and expanding globally.

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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

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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

First and foremost, PGC it’s a meeting palooza – I received over 40 requests for meetings, mainly from game studios all over Europe. One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B of global venture capital volume. There’s been huge progress in AI in the past two weeks including new models from Meta , Google DeepMind , OpenAI searchGPT and voice models, Hugging Face SlolLM. in Q2 2024 alone, which is 16.5%

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The picture that emerges is one of a major decline in venture activity (consistent, but a bit stronger than the declines in US and Europe), but on the other hand, we’re starting to see the signs of stability in the rate of decline. Two new industry reports paint the picture of the Israeli tech ecosystem in 2023.

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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. Europe is definitely more than a few years behind on that.

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