VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It’s only been a bit over a month since the start of 2025 past year has witnessed seismic shifts in technology, from breakthroughs in generative AI to emerging solutions in climate tech and healthcare. AI enables new solutions in revenue cycle management, payor-provider workflows, and patient experience optimization.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In addition, the metaverse will create new marketplaces, revenue streams, and employment opportunities, which will impact both traditional and digital economies. Generative AI: The Forbes article Startup Trends, Industries, and Technologies in 2024 suggests that the evolution of Generative AI will play a crucial role in the business sector.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Their Google search engine commands a 90%-plus share in most of the markets it operates in. Will your company be the Disrupter or the Disrupted with AI ? Get me in to share my mind blowing new Keynote Speech – and win in the new AI era. Currently Microsoft only generates 5% of its revenue from Bing pay per click advertising.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As a VC watching this space, I’m seeing a perfect storm brewing: massive investment, breakthrough technologies, and untapped markets ripe for disruption. On the B2C side, with advancements in real-time conversational AI, businesses can now deliver seamless, interactive voice experiences that feel increasingly natural and personalised.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Media and Entertainment (includes Martech and Adtech) by Luma Partners LUMA Partners released their Q3 2024 Market Report for the Digital Media & Marketing sector. There is an increasing convergence of content generation, data & identity, and marketing automation , driven by AI.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

An AI leverages deep natural language processing, text analysis, and computational linguistics to gain insight into customer opinion, understanding of consumer sentiment , and measuring the impact of marketing strategies. Synthetic data generation-to feed false information. AI Attack Surfaces. AI Hardware for the Edge.

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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. With the increasing competition in the mobile gaming market, developers are recognising the need to keep players engaged and invested in their games for longer periods of time in order to drive monetisation and retention. billion in 2022.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Why You Should Read Business Books That Are Not About Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast, I had the pleasure of being INTERVIEWED by Sara Nay. Sara Nay is the COO of Duct Tape Marketing.

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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. 64% of the 2024 winter batch of YC had “AI” or “AI-related” tags in their Y Combinator company profile in the company’s directory. Interesting overview of vertical AI companies by IVP ( source ) Revenue per employee.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by ActiveCampaign Try ActiveCampaign free for 14 days with our special offer. 01:02): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. AI is part of that story. It's time to transform your approach.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2025

Startups need to navigate with limited resource-type budgets and an ever-changing market. One of the most effective ways to tackle these challenges is through data-driven marketing. By using data to inform your marketing plans, you can make better decisions, target the right audience, and maximize your ROI.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Awesome news Omer Slavin and team BiltOn on your $15M series A for your construction operations and risk management platform that already serves 70% of the local market! Way to go Raz Zohar and team Mave on your $2 pre-seed for your AI Assistant for the Real Estate Industry! AI companies have reached a combined value of $9 trillion.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Rewiring Organizations For A Successful Digital Transformation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Rodney Zemmel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Rodney Zemmel. 01:03): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Impact of Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lloyed Lobo In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lloyed Lobo. 00:30): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. Would you support that idea? [10:39]

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jeff Coyle, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for MarketMuse. This is John Jantsch.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2023

“The unanticipated demand to create AI software has outstripped the cloud service capacities of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle” The Information The big challenge in generative AI is GPU shortage and costs. This affects both big players like OpenAI / Stability AI as well as small startups.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI can also segment donor lists based on donor giving patterns, which makes it easier to target marketing efforts effectively. 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

How to Win The Consumer Boredom-Span: The Key to Cutting Through Clutter written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Alan Dibb. 04:12] What replaces organic search once it starts to decline? [06:18]

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

trillion was erased from the public market this week in what seems to be a ‘correction’ that is at risk of putting the US in a recession. That can certainly trickle down to the private markets and might keep the IPO window closed, for now. billion and Sony is experimenting with AI-powered characters on Playstation.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These are the first marketing images of an upcoming movie that I star in with my daughter Mirren about an aging superhero that is absolutely too old for this s**t that winds up having to save some mystical star child. Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

Whether it’s gaming, commerce/ DTC or creator economy, there are many Israeli startups selling at over $10M and even $100M in annual revenue. I recently attended the Meta Marketing Summit in Tel Aviv, which shined a spotlight on Israeli B2C tech. Crossed the $200M in revenue and reached over 400 million unique users.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2023

While the crypto gaming market is still relatively small, as only an estimated of 320 million crypto wallets online, that is likely to change in 2023, as blockchain moves the background and wallets become digital, enabling users to buy tokens/crypto with a credit card. billion in revenue per year from 2025 ( source ). billion in 2024.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6 billion in revenue in 2021, an 8x increase over a five year period, representing 5% of the global gaming revenue. For example, Genshin Impact by miHoYo , the studios’a first title, has generated $3.7 billion market cap. Global gaming revenues.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Generative AI Explosion – Now that the internet is a brain and not just a filing cabinet we are about to see unprecedented levels of creativity, automation, and efficiency in content creation, design, and problem-solving. Trend that wont happen – Labour organising in union form to push back against AI taking jobs.

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

Past Tech Wars Smartphone Wars: Apple took the lead in the smartphone wars, capturing a significant share of the market with the iPhone. Android may have a larger global market share, but Apple’s loyal customer base, strong brand, and profitable ecosystem made it the clear winner. I wrote about this in a recent post on VC Cafe.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

But that flexibility comes with operational pain points, especially when it comes to predicting revenue. With the right processes and infrastructure in place, however, your usage-based revenue can actually become more predictable over time than it might be in traditional seat-based SaaS.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

billion in revenue at Angi. Looking ahead, I hope my story is one where I continue to take on challenging opportunities, create something where nothing existed before, and build companies that truly change their markets. And once we felt that market fit, we jumped in fast. And, ideally, not just oncebut many times.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

High profile failures of consumer companies, like Peloton, which fell from grace following a meteoric rise during the pandemic, Allbirds, the sneaker company that lost 98% of its value in the public market, Fast’s grocery delivery which shut down after raising $120M in capital, didn’t help the case for consumer businesses.

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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. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

What gets less attention, but is equally (if not more) valuable, is the business-use side of GenAI content creation: marketing. 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.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2024

Another rare milestone for startups is reaching a billion dollars in revenue and that happened for two Israeli companies in the past two weeks: monday.com and Moon Active (the latter raked $1.2 Kudos Yoav Oz and team Rep AI on your $8.2M series A for your AI concierge to rescue lost revenue! billion annually since 2020.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

billion in revenue this year). 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! ROI from Generative AI is a rising concern. has released some new AR glasses.

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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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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

And then I read Charles Hudson’s post, which prompted me [AI PUN] to just write this down. In “ Honest and Naive Questions from a Generalist Seed VC Grappling with the Generative AI Revolution ,” Charles (whom I love) touches on similarish topics to what Satya and I have been chatting about.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Do your research and understand the market. Before you start pitching to investors, make sure you have a deep understanding of the gaming market, including the latest trends, the target audience, and the competition. How big is that market? What genre are you in? Is it growing? Who would be your closest competitors?

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