VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. It’s been a while since they’ve updated their RFS list and it captures all the buzzword’s of today’s tech world: AI, defence tech, climate, spatial computing, etc.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

The most common analogies I’ve been considering with the current wave of generative AI are blockchain, self-driving cars, and Web 2.0. Blockchain There are a lot of similarities between this era of generative AI and the Blockchain. The stark difference between crypto and AI lies in their use cases.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? Not only the bar for seed rounds has gotten higher (as less seed rounds get done) but also the founders prefer to build their company based on milestones. especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? who’s talking to customers?)

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Investors are more cautious and focus on defensible AI use cases and GTM abilities. The bar for Seed has moved up : Seed rounds saw rising expectations, requiring founders to demonstrate traction and strong unit economics. It also notes that consumer-facing generative AI apps with low technical barriers may be overvalued.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

However, NextView’s initial Generative AI investing hypothesis has been focused not on the amusement factor of democratizing access to art, music, and text generation for the masses layperson/hobbyists which has captured much of the attention in the popular press and zeitgeist.

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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 type of expertise allows founders to innovate on the entire software stack.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Despite the war, in the last nine months Sequoia , Greylock and Accel all opened offices in Israel, and Founders Fund appointed a partner to cover Israeli deals. With the ongoing conflict, many founders and employees are serving in reserve duty, and the frequent flight cancellations have made it harder for international investors to connect.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2024

I decided to use these steps to more effectively segment the surveyed individuals, and speculated that generative AI tools would be most useful during ideation and MVP development, particularly benefiting non-technical founders by facilitating code generation. Entrepreneurs Are Already Unlocking Generative A.I.’s

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most founders reported (in several different surveys) that knowledge and belief in their industry/sector and personal connection is one of the key reasons they would choose one investor over another. See the recent reports by Frontline Ventures and Creandum on what makes founders choose one offer over another.

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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. Why does this happen?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to Gergo Vari, the founder of Lensa, if your startup is ready to ride the metaverse wave, staying informed and investing in the skills and expertise needed for this new era are crucial. In a world dominated by ongoing digital advancements and the technological revolution, staying informed and ready to adapt is essential.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As generative AI becomes more widely accepted, many leaders in the nonprofit and charity sector are no longer asking whether they should use it, but rather where else they can use it. Issues around generative AI are rife in every industry, but there are enough parallels to see trends in both opportunities and cautionary tales.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Generative AI is already being used in developer workflows. We expect AI to further augment content creation pipelines by generating images, audio, video, and code. The applications for generative AI are vast, for us at Remagine Ventures, naturally the impact it can have on gaming is really significant.

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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. billion to re-hire the founders of Character.ai If you’re a founder building the future of AI Voice applications/agents, we’d love to hear from you.

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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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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

APRIL 30, 2023

ChatGPT has barely been out for six months, but it seems like generative AI automation has just taken a leap forward with AutoGPT. Driven by GPT4, AutoGPT is able to code, execute scripts and push the boundaries of what is possible with AI. Cointelegraph AutoGPT essentially creates its own list of prompts.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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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.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The breakneck speed of AI advancement is one of those areas where the stream of information is so constant and so dense, that it’s very hard to process it all, let alone STAND OUT in the crowd. This creates a challenge, but also an opportunity for startups in the generative AI space. apply here: [link] ).

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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. APPOINTMENTS Way to go Koren Gilbai on joining Founders Fund as Partner to cover Israeli investments! 64% of the 2024 winter batch of YC had “AI” or “AI-related” tags in their Y Combinator company profile in the company’s directory.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion invested in coding agents and co-pilots alone, with Google, Salesforce, Meta, and other incumbents heavily investing in Agentic AI. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels. Google is also leaning in on AI Agents. Since then, we’ve seen approximately $1.5

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And our mission-driven founders continue to build category leading companies, collectively raising half a billion dollars in follow-on capital this year. While our North Star is to invest in mission-driven founders at the earliest stages , the second most important criterion is “Why now?” On developing theses in emerging areas.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Mira Murati , co-founder and CTO of OpenAI announced she’s leaving as well as the company’s head of research. YouTube launched a bunch of generative AI video capabilities for creators and Google made several upgrades to the impressive NotebookLM. So far it hasn’t deterred the investors putting $6.5

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

But in the coming age of generative AI, endless synthetic content and misinformation – there might be an opportunity for traditional media companies to regain their reputation as a 4th branch within a democracy. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I covered my personal journey to venture capital, what makes our partnership work at Remagine Ventures , and gave an intro to Generative AI, a current theme that connects to our investment thesis (we made 3 investments in the space). Some use general data sets, and others train their models on proprietary data. Jasper, Copy.ai

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Yet, these are the risks we are being asked to take with our live Generative AI experiment, at least according to some AI experts. P(Doom) is the term AI researchers are using to describe the probability that Artificial Super Intelligence will emerge and become an existential risk for humanity. Would you do it?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion on 78 generative AI deals —almost as much as was invested in all of the previous 5 years combined, according to PitchBook data. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12 In 2022, VCs poured $1.37

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I was in Helsinki this week and met a great number of European and US VCs, LPs and founders. Way to go Itamar Golan and team Prompt Security on your $18M series A to help companies secure their generative AI tools! series A to help authors self-publish their books with the help of AI!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

More about Firgun and why it matters on VC Cafe : [link] The founder and CEO of Stripe , Partick Collison, posted a picture on X with the innocuous statement “Great to be back in Tel Aviv. Way to go Maor Sason and team Appcharge on your $26M series A to help gaming companies keep more of their in-app-purchases revenue!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

AI is part of that story. Marketers are just starting to use AI and wrap their heads around how it can be useful for what we're doing for SEO, and then Google is implementing ai, so generative AI on the search results pages, and that can be scary depending on exactly how Google implements it going forward.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I was watching a fireside chat from SaaStr 2023 between Jason Lemkin and David Sacks (ex Paypal Mafia, All In podcast co-founder and managing partner at Craft Ventures, with $3.3 This is an opportunity for founders as large companies are less likely to venture in here. ? billion under management).

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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

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. Task completion: monitor the prices for the best holiday packages, products and deals Startup Opportunity: Platforms enabling secure AI-to-AI transactions.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The state of Generative AI startups in Israel According to The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, Israel is the 7th most attractive AI hub globally. Are they too late?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we are in the early phases of a Cambrian explosion of generative AI applications, I’ve been thinking about how to make sense of the madness. Especially when the prices of AI companies founded by these sorts of folks approach or exceed what we saw during the most recent bubble. Something does not compute. Similar to Web2.0,

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I have been thinking lately about the impact of generative AI on the future of the internet. One aspect I am particularly intrigued about is how our world of media and entertainment will look like with AI. The content explosion fueled by generative AI is just beginning.

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