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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. Yet while the U.S. In response the U.S.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – December 13 2024

VC Cafe

Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M We looked at ~5600 exits (IPOs and acquisitions) over the last decade in the US, Europe, Australia, and Israel. Great stuff Dor Sasson and team Stigg on your $17.5M seed round to build live, interactive AI assistants!

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

just months after it came out of stealth. Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. planned strikes with nuclear armed bombers if war in Europe broke out.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – Dec 20 2024

VC Cafe

William Arthur Ward NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Big congrats Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on raising a $32M series A (at a reported $500M valuation ) just three months after coming out of stealth with your (this was previously wrongly reported as a $25M round). But they’re still chronically outraised by US peers by Dealroom.co