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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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. Interesting overview of vertical AI companies by IVP ( source ) Revenue per employee.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man” George Bernard Shaw NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Yotam Segev and team Cyera on your impressive $300M series D, doubling the company’s value to $3 billion to be the Crowstrike of data security! series A to help authors self-publish their books with the help of AI!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

which has become the most used open source LLM, Meta AI available across all their apps for free, a new affordable version of their Meta Quest VR headset, but perhaps most excitingly, Meta Orion, smart AR glasses with holographic display (still not officially launched). Way to go Ori Tamuz and team DoorLoop on your $51.6M Well done Marina S.

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VC Cafe

MAY 14, 2024

The generative AI market is exploding globally, with venture capitalists pouring $12.8 Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally. Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

.” Bill Gates NEW VENTURE ROUNDS Congratulations Tomer Shussman and team OneStep on raising a $36M series B to advance your AI-driven care platform , powered by smartphone motion intelligence! Kudos Or Shoshani and team Stream.Security on securing a $30M series B for your cloud detection and response platform ! Funding for U.S.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

creator startups secured an impressive $692.7 The trend extends globally, with creator startups worldwide raising approximately $767.9 This upward trajectory is particularly evident in the second quarter, where U.S. million in funding. million during this period, marking a 49% year-over-year growth.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

on securing a $70M series C bringing the total funding to $200M in one year, and the new unicorn status (at a $1.4 Great stuff Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on your $25M series A (weeks after a $21M seed) at a $500M valuation , to pioneer scalable, cost efficient generative AI training!

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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. Microsoft AI for Humanitarian Action – Microsoft offers AI for Humanitarian Action grants.

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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

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

MAY 1, 2023

Android may have a larger global market share, but Apple’s loyal customer base, strong brand, and profitable ecosystem made it the clear winner. A strong focus on online services, exclusive games, and innovation secured Microsoft’s position at the top. I wrote about this in a recent post on VC Cafe.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Fantastic news Ben Kliger and team Zenity on securing a $38M series B to secure enterprise copilots! Way to go Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on coming out of stealth with a $21M seed round for a new inference model that enables companies to dramatically reduce the cost of generative AI – wow ? Mazel tov Isaac B.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

” — Anonymous NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Daniel Barel and REE Automotive on securing a strategic investment of $45M to scale new electric delivery vehicle platform! Way to go Itai Tevet and team Intezer on raising $33M series C for your Autonomous SOC Platform to tackle cybersecurity threats with AI!

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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.

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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

Kudos Yoav Oz and team Rep AI on your $8.2M series A for your AI concierge to rescue lost revenue! for raising a $6M seed extension for your AI devops workflow automation platform! Well done Amit Eyal Govrin and team Kubiya.ai EXITS Congratulations Neal Eigler M.D. and team V-Wave on the $1.7

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VC Cafe

JUNE 28, 2024

Way to go Inna Tokarev Sela and team illumex on your $13M series A for your AI data readiness platform!! Kudos Keren Leshem and team OCON Therapeutics on securing a $10M seed round for your revolutionary drug delivery technology for women! Global: From VC Cafe : consumer startups still got Mojo!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Bach (1970) from JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL NEW VENTURE ROUNDS Congratulations Guy Podjarny and team Tessl on your impressive $125M in funding unveiled ($25M seed and $100M series A ) for your AI coding platform ! on securing a $13.3M seed extension) to scale your AI-based video ad optimisation! Way to go ?Asaf

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Helping to build and market the most secure cryptocurrency ATM network in the Gulf South has been incredibly rewarding. I wanted to create a business that didn’t just focus on the wealthy or the high-net-worth clients but also catered to everyday Australians who want to secure their financial future. I realized there was a gap.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

and team GoPerfect on your $23M seed round to transform talent sourcing and engagement platform with AI! Kudos Iftach Ian Amit and team Gomboc AI on your $13M seed round to eliminate the security backlog that delays critical business transformation! Lots of data here.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

“Since ChatGPT’s launch just nine months ago, we’ve seen teams adopt it in over 80% of Fortune 500 companies” OpenAI blog OpenAI announced this that ChatGPT Enterprise is now available , offering better data protection/privacy, more security, improved speed/performance and longer context windows.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For you have, at your fingertips, a technology revolution that doesn’t come around more than once every few hundred years: Artificial Intelligence—or AI. We are not only entering the AI Generation. You are the AI generation. You are Generation AI. This brings us back to you, Generation AI.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Helping to build and market the most secure cryptocurrency ATM network in the Gulf South has been incredibly rewarding. I wanted to create a business that didn’t just focus on the wealthy or the high-net-worth clients but also catered to everyday Australians who want to secure their financial future. I realized there was a gap.

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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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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. It offers secure servers and 256-bit AES encryption, the strongest level of encryption currently available. To illustrate, the U.S.

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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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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. Mazel tov Ron Shafran and team FLYZ Robotics on securing an undisclosed seed round for a new sensor system revolutionising drone capabilities!

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

LLMs for chip design ASIC and FPGA optimisation tools using AI Target 5100x performance improvements Focus on energy efficiency (10100x gains) 6. Build AI-first financial products without legacy constraints Target underserved markets in insurance and wealth management Focus on global payment solutions 7.

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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

Flash , and announced it will launch an ‘ AI search mode ‘ to compete with new rival chatbots. Databricks secured a new $10B funding round at a $62B valuation and Perplexity raised $500M at $9 billion valuation. Good stuff Ronel Veksler MD, PhD and team Promise Bio on securing an $8.3M

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2025

Ralph Waldo Emerson NEW FUNDING DEALS Big congrats Shay Sandler and team Vega Security on raising $65M in two successive funding rounds for a more effective approach to cyberattack detection! Congratulations Shachar Bialick and team Curve on securing a $48M series D to simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money!

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