VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There is an increasing convergence of content generation, data & identity, and marketing automation , driven by AI. Generative AI in the Enterprise by Deloitte The Q3 2024 report of Generative AI in the Enterprise by Deloitte surveyed 2,770 senior leaders from organisations with active AI implementations.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. Highlights from the report: Global gaming industry saw record year with over 1300 deals and $127B in disclosed deal value.

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VC Cafe

MAY 14, 2024

The generative AI market is exploding globally, with venture capitalists pouring $12.8 While still in its early days, this transformative technology is seeing rapid adoption by consumers and businesses alike. Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally.

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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. That has slightly improved with time and as technology progresses. million in funding.

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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. The AI Saviour?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8 For example, Tiger Global, a crossover fund which was one of the most active venture investors in 2021 went from 194 deals in 2021 to a mere 20 in 2023 and has been trying to actively sell its positions in the secondary market at steep discounts to get liquidity.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

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! 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

His clients include global brands such as Citizen Watch, ExxonMobil and bva. AI is part of that story. Dale (03:16): Yeah, so Perplexity is one of many generative AI search engines. So they've got new competitors and then also new technology. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Dale Bertrand.

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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

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 trillion to the global economy, with $6.6 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12

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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. Boards must provide oversight of ethical AI as part of responsible governance.

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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

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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Prior to starting MarketMuse in 2015, Jeff was a marketing consultant in Atlanta and led the Traffic, Search and Engagement team for seven years at TechTarget, a leader in B2B technology publishing and lead generation. Questions I ask Jeff Coyle : [01:54] Can you set the record straight on the discourse of the inauthenticity of AI? [03:49]

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

In the early days of the Internet, we witnessed the browser wars and as technology continued to advance, we saw the number of wars, and the number of players involved in them grow. Android may have a larger global market share, but Apple’s loyal customer base, strong brand, and profitable ecosystem made it the clear winner.

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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. Calcalist gaming summit 2022.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Startups leveraging AI attracted over 60% of all capital raised in 2023. The country ranks 3rd globally in private AI investment, demonstrating its strong position in the global AI market. Israel’s deep domain expertise in these sectors positions it as a potential global leader.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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 ? Well done Avner Geva and team Vensica Medical on raising an $11M funding round for your ultrasound drug delivery technology!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

In November 2022 I published a post titled “ generative AI will go mainstream when it goes from playful to useful “, and I think you will agree that this transition is in full swing. 2023 was the year generative AI went mainstream The pace of advancement in generative AI has been astounding.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital is down 36% globally QoQ and a lot of startups face an uncertain future. Here are tips for founders who want to raise money in this environment: Adjust your pitch – In a down market, investors are more interested in companies that have long-term potential than those that will generate immediate returns.

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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. AI will reshape the lives of all of us.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Here’s where the money is flowing in Agentic AI October 2024 broke a record in global venture capital deployed, $32 billion in a single month, with AI attracting $12.2B, or 38% of the total funding. The returns will likely be more concentrated. The stakes are higher, and the technical barriers to entry are substantial.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But theres more to it than just technology. Hyper-Personalization Powered by AI 2. Generative AI: Revolutionizing Creative Production 4. Generative AI: Revolutionizing Creative Production AI isnt just for writing blog posts. AI offers marketers exciting new opportunities. MLaaS fills that gap.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2024

14- To support both companies and freelancers Photo Credit: Disha Jain I started my business to address a critical gap in the market: the need for a comprehensive, global workforce management platform that supports both companies and freelancers. We also wanted to utilize modern technology to offer more cost-effective solutions.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. All of which the AI companion providers claim they have guardrails against – of course, we’ve heard this before. Disruptive Implications The biggest technology disruptions are usually accompanied by simultaneous social changes. Things are now much more real than that.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

14- To support both companies and freelancers Photo Credit: Disha Jain I started my business to address a critical gap in the market: the need for a comprehensive, global workforce management platform that supports both companies and freelancers. We also wanted to utilize modern technology to offer more cost-effective solutions.

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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

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). Well done Marina S.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Advances in technology : For 33%, the rapid rate of technological advances is the biggest challenge. 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.

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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

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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Deloitte announced this month its 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, placing a spotlight on a number of innovators. We are proud to celebrate their achievements and recognize them as the driving force behind the country’s technological advancement and economic prosperity.”

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s just been the first anniversary since ChatGPT burst into the world and launched the term ‘generative AI’ into the mainstream. It’s been a big year for AI. billion invested in generative AI startups globally in the first half of 2023 according to Pitchbook.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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. Industry leaders Google and Massy aim to close the gap between the Caribbean, Latin America, and AI. While AI is set to contribute 5.4% While AI is set to contribute 5.4%

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Ron DeSantis have already used fake AI images of each other and we are still 16 months out from the vote. This is an election where the capabilities of Generative AI will quite simply have a massive influence. The potential repercussions on geopolitics and the global economy are staggering.

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