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. A solid governance framework built around three pillars — data, IT and privacy and security — proves paramount with the use of AI in education.

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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. . – Startup Nation Central: One Year of Israeli Innovation in War NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Big congrats Oded Melamed and team Quantum Source on securing a $50 million series A to advance photonic quantum computers! Hope we get a chance to collaborate!

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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 26, 2024

billion invested in coding agents and co-pilots alone, with Google, Salesforce, Meta, and other incumbents heavily investing in Agentic AI. Management Layer : Critical functions include managing AI agents, securing permissions, and enabling payments. Google is also leaning in on AI Agents. For example, take Salesforce.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I was in Helsinki this week and met a great number of European and US VCs, LPs and founders. Mazel tov Israel (Srulik) Dvorsky and team TailorMed on securing a $40M to connect patients with financial aid solutions! Way to go Itamar Golan and team Prompt Security on your $18M series A to help companies secure their generative AI tools!

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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

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. on securing a $70M series C bringing the total funding to $200M in one year, and the new unicorn status (at a $1.4

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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

MARCH 14, 2025

Cohere debuted Command-A , a generative AI model aimed at complex enterprise tasks that can run on minimal compute. billion and Sony is experimenting with AI-powered characters on Playstation. Clarke NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Arik Shtilman and team Rapyd on securing $500M series F at $4.5M on your $7.5M

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

That’s not to say that application layer startups didn’t raise large funding rounds: Jasper ($125M), RunwayML ( $141M ) Tome ( $43M ), ElevenLabs, But Israeli startups, to a large extent, have been excluded from this trend, only securing smaller round. Are they too late?

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2023

GenAI startups secured $14.1B Many investors complain that the technology is over hyped -and now it’s official – generative AI is at the peak of Gartner ‘s hype cycle for emerging technologies in 2023. After all, the adoption of generative AI has been faster than many other technologies, including smartphones.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2023

This means that founders should prioritize understanding their customers’ needs and pain points, and then developing products that directly address those issues. Take for example from this pitch by Rener Gracie, the founder of QuickFlip, at Shark Tank: Rener Gracie on SharkTank. Roey Mechrez, posted on LinkedIn.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Let’s dive in to the founders and investors who made an impact in Israeli tech this week. ” — Anonymous NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Daniel Barel and REE Automotive on securing a strategic investment of $45M to scale new electric delivery vehicle platform! Mazel tov Alon Zieve and team Aption on securing $2.4M

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise, given that entrepreneurs are obsessed with data and metrics, but in the conservative VC market of 2024, it feels even more important for founders to know what ‘good’ looks like and what investors expect. It takes longer to secure rounds, and the size (and number) of rounds has decreased compared to 2021.

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VC Cafe

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, Great news Merav Bahat and team Dazz on your $50M series B to accelerate AI-powered cloud security remediation!

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

In conclusion When it comes to startups, to survive in the generative AI market, founders need to find opportunities that aren’t core to the magnificent seven, unless they’re able to secure enough funding to compete.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2024

The report emphasises the urgency of investment in startups and education for underrepresented populations to secure one of the main sources of tax revenue. In the wider tech world, Google launched Pixel 9, its first AI powered phone and a new image generator, Imagen3 , criticised for being too censored. for its defence tech.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2024

One more impressive milestone is a new foundational AI model released by AI21 Labs this week, who unveiled a new family of open source language models called Jamba. Kudos Yoav Oz and team Rep AI on your $8.2M series A for your AI concierge to rescue lost revenue! Well done Amit Eyal Govrin and team Kubiya.ai

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

remain to be solved. All the videos from the event , as well as our newly published landscape of the UK startups building the Metaverse can be found here. As the underlying technology for the Metaverse continues to evolve, we will see more and more use cases brought to life across verticals.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

As we referenced earlier, we’re also starting to see more companies navigate this question as they adopt usage-based pricing, particularly with generative AI. Though these analyses are standard fare for pricing exercises, it’s still important to take time to do them, and do them early.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

and it seems many investors and founders are focused on the infrastructure layer. Big tech firms are integrating GenAI into many existing tools, B2B and consumer facing, so this is something founders should watch out for Who owns the Gen AI platform? (by AI travel planning and exploration Entertainment – eg.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A new report on the Israeli startup ecosystem (see links section below), suggests that 657 startups will need to secure funding soon, with 431 requiring immediate capital to survive. Ilya Sutskever , co-founder of OpenAI is in talk to raise billions for Safe Superintelligence Inc. Who are the AI Agents at each line of the P&L?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 24, 2023

.” Thomas Friedman Bill Gates, Thomas Friedman and Sam Altman, recently published thought pieces/interviews on why the rapid development of AI technologies means we’re entering a new era for humanity. This has been demonstrated in AI-generated text that displays gender, racial, or cultural stereotypes.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

” Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom AI startups attracted a record 46.4% AI Augmenting Human Capabilities ? 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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2025

Congratulations Nadav Czerninski and team Oligo Security on securing a $50M series B for your application detection and response cybersecurity tech! Kudos Amir Hever and team UVeye on raising $41M in new equity funding (in addition to $150M in debt) to scale your AI powered vehicle inspection systems!

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2024

From the founders who chose to start companies this year against the odds, to the new funds that managed to attract capital despite the news, and to all the participants in the Israeli tech ecosystem in Israel and abroad – keep on creating! Good stuff Ronel Veksler MD, PhD and team Promise Bio on securing an $8.3M

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