VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

” And the best three VC vintages in the last 25 years came in the three years after the global financial crists – 80% of those returns came from emerging managers. As a result, we started investing in generative AI in 2019, as a way to scale content creation.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2024

The trend extends globally, with creator startups worldwide raising approximately $767.9 The renewed investor confidence in the creator economy can be attributed to several factors, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a pivotal role. million during this period, marking a 49% year-over-year growth.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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! Great milestone Dvir Hoffman and team CommBox on your $15M series B to build the future of customer experience powered by AI!

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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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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Process Automation and Efficiency AI can automate repetitive tasks, such as data entry and generating reports, to free up staff and volunteers for activities that require a human touch. AI can also reduce errors and eliminate redundancies. Again, human oversight is a crucial element in a successful AI strategy.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

The world’s first AI audio-to-video foundation model designed to generate UGC content. Freepik partnered with Google to integrate Veo 2 , and now it supports image-to-video. Cohere debuted Command-A , a generative AI model aimed at complex enterprise tasks that can run on minimal compute.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The conference took place during a challenging time for gaming startups: in the same week Playtika, the largest gaming employer in Israel, announced it was laying off 615 people globally, of which 180 are in Israel. Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6 Global gaming revenues. Generative AI for games market map ( source ).

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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. The US currently has more than 2.5x

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2024

Finally, Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon just reported that the company is using generative AI to increase its productivity, updating 850 million product catalog entries 100 times faster than human-led methods. Perplexity answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023. Anduril Industries raised $1.5 for its defence tech.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 28, 2024

Global: From VC Cafe : consumer startups still got Mojo! Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 by World Economic Forum AI’s $200B question has turned into AI’s $600B question by David Cahn MEDIA OF THE WEEK We remember the important words and legacy of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as we combat the ever-growing virus of antisemitism.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Ori Goshen of AI21 Labs reveals what is broken in Enterprise AI and what’s needed for the next phase. Gigi Levy-Weiss predicts that the next 10 years will be all about the AI Agent Economy GLOBAL Accelerating Europe report (part 1 of 3) by Dealroom.co Lots of data here.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

VCs see Agentic AI as $4 Trillion Opportunity “A multi-trillion-dollar opportunity to reimagine software, services, and work” Insight Partners A new report by Battery Ventures is calling it the Coming AI Market “Supercycle”. This isn’t just automation ; it’s autonomous problem-solving.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!)

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

To stay competitive, several of these startups are shifting strategies: MiniMax is focusing on international expansion with its AI conversation app, Talkie , targeting U.S. Baichuan AI is pivoting toward specialized AI models for finance and healthcare. and European enterprise markets.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

No need to leave the couch to find a potential partner, just sit and swipe in your comfy tracksuit pants. The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. An AI girlfriend who is there for her “partner’s” every beck and call, giving him (and it is mostly men), the kind of response he wants, every single time.

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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. Meta is on track to become the most used open source AI by the end of the year. And so much more it’s genuinely hard to keep up… QUOTE OF THE WEEK Israel continues to draw investors seeking bold, determined solutions to global challenges.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Well done Eyal Malinger and Oren Peleg and team Resurge Growth Partners on the first closing of an investment vehicle focused on helping companies caught between the venture capital and private equity worlds. In total, generative AI companies received $35 billion in 2024.AI Global funding also dropped. Funding for U.S.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2024

NEW FUNDS Congratulations Amikam Norkin and team Ace Capital Partners on launching a new fund focused on military tech startups! Thank you for reading. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. Keep on creating!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

APPOINTMENTS Congratulations Eran Westman on your appointment as Managing Partner at Planven to lead growth investments in Israel! One door closes and another one opens, Iddo Gino and team Rapid API. Congrats on the sale to Nokia for an undisclosed sum to boost API-driven 5G monetization !

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Techheavyweight Google, alongside Massy, have announced that they are partnering in the Caribbean with TBR to help further theregion’s tech ecosystem. Up to 38% of jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean could be exposed to generative AI, the World Bank Group identified in its 2024 report.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Hyper-Personalization Powered by AI 2. Generative AI: Revolutionizing Creative Production 4. AI-Driven Marketing Orchestration 5. Generative AI: Revolutionizing Creative Production AI isnt just for writing blog posts. Generative AI is changing how we create content including videos and graphics.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2024

OpenAI is talking to chip designers and announced it will work on a ‘search product’, NVIDIA and Mistral AI released Nemo, a new powerful open-source model, Amazon made a record $14.2 billion in revenue for ‘Prime Day’ is rolling out ‘Rufus’ generative AI assistant to all U.S.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Take generative AI as an example: these tools can make repetitive work tasks easier, but employees create risk when they upload sensitive information to third-party content generators. Keep software up to date (and work with savvy partners): Its one of the 13 best practices for the public sector , but it applies to all.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2025

AI is having its moment. Global AI funding surged past the $100B mark for the first time ever in 2024 and just by this week’s announcements, it’s more than likely that will at least double that amount in 2025. on raising $3M for your workplace, autonomous AI agents! Bonus: Israeli startup PLAYO.AI

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2024

NVIDIA introduced the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a $249 compact generative AI supercomputer that delivers significant performance gains at half the previous model’s price. NEW FUNDS Kudos Eitan Reisel and team vgames on your new $142M fund III to invest in global gaming companies!

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2025

Below is the startup landscape for MCP and the future of AI tooling according to Andreessen Horowitz ( source ) The concentration of venture capital: 31% of All VC Money Last Year Went Into Just 20 Deals according to report by Redpoint ( source ) Eli Sharabi spoke to the UN Security Council this week – watch his powerful testimony.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Global VC hit a new high with $32 billion invested in October 2024, Bitcoin crossed the $75K mark since Trump became president, an all time hight. AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $400M from the likes of Jeff Bezos and OpenAI, Mistral AI launched an API for content moderation. 94% YoY in AI funding in Oct.

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