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JANUARY 29, 2024

That’s the case for most companies that are already in the market, especially if they raised funding at imaginary valuations before. Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8 To put in context, the major crossover funds Tiger Global, Temasek, Coatue and Softbank participated in $148B of VC deals in 2021.

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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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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. valuation to complete the acquisition of PayU ! AI inference spending expected to grow 70% YoY to $208.2B

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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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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Generative AI is a beacon of hope In this grim scenario, Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically Generative AI, emerges as the global industry’s lifebuoy, attracting investments and elevating valuations of entities across the spectrum. The proposed judicial reforms caused some short-term uncertainty.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Big congrats Yevgeny Dibrov and team Armis on your $200M series D (at a valuation of $4.3 Mabruk Matan Bar and team Melio on your $150M series E (at $2 billion valuation ) to integrate cash flow management, accounts receivable and accounts payable solutions! billion), to protect the entire attack surface of companies!

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

OpenAI in on course to raise $7 billion at $150 billion valuation (and on course to do $3.4 Microsoft and BlackRock are teaming up for a new $100 billion AI infrastructure fund. Kudos Adi Perry and team with on securing a $10M seed round to turn cities into communities with generative AI! billion in revenue this year).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

billion round at a $61 billion valuation. DeepSeek AI sparked a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments. Mira Murati s Thinking Machine Labs said to raise $1B at $9B valuation. A new foundation model called Magma , claims to be the first for multimodal AI agents.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Bitcoin topped a record of all time at $87,000, Chinese gaming giant Tencent reported 47% surge in profits from gaming and AI, and Perplexity is nearing $500M funding round at $9 billion valuation as it started introducing ads.

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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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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. OpenAI announced it will be raising another $40 billion at a whooping $340 billion valuation.

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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. Israel launches new programs to address AI talent shortage. There have been some BIG rounds.

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