Board Effect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As generative AI becomes more widely accepted, many leaders in the nonprofit and charity sector are no longer asking whether they should use it, but rather where else they can use it. Issues around generative AI are rife in every industry, but there are enough parallels to see trends in both opportunities and cautionary tales.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By contrast, they backed 620 funds in the last three months of 2021 First time fund managers hit hard: In 2022, limited partners backed 141 funds run by first-time managers, a 59% decline from the prior year and the lowest number since 2013 How does the constrained LP environment manifest for funds and startups?

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world. More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products.

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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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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Voice AI applications will unlock $10B of new software TAM over the next five years Bessemer Venture Partners Remember when talking to machines felt like science fiction? Agentic Automation for Enterprise Functions: Generative AI agents are being deployed to automate complex business processes across various functions.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

2023 was the year of generative AI, but more specifically, the year we witnessed the power and potential of LLMs, large language models. Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. Visual generative AI made strides as well.

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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. We are bullish on the future of gaming as the leading form of entertainment for anyone under 50 and are excited about the potential that new technology like generative AI or blockchain has on the future of the gaming industry.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2024

The renewed investor confidence in the creator economy can be attributed to several factors, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a pivotal role. ” This integration of AI technologies is opening up new avenues for innovation and scaling within the creator ecosystem.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 30, 2023

The post Scott Belsky on Creativity in Generative AI appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For example, our focus at Remagine Ventures on gaming, generative AI, and entertainment tech enabled us to create a relevant, focused network of founders, operators, co-investors and strategics who are active in our verticals. As a result, we started investing in generative AI in 2019, as a way to scale content creation.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2024

Back then, we called it synthetic media, and over time we evolved to calling it creative automation and now you’d have to live under a rock to not know about generative AI. This is a game changer in so many levels, one I started writing about in 2019 (when we at Remagine Ventures made our first investment into HourOne).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While incumbents like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have vast resources and existing integrations, startups have the advantage of speed, focus, and the ability to attract top AI talent interested in building from the ground up. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 30, 2024

The post Why customer centricity is the key to success in generative AI appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We still believe that there are huge opportunities in decentralized networks, especially in DeFi, as well as the blockchain’s capacity as a “system of record”, especially now with the explosive progress of generative AI (another emerging theme we’re spending time on). Best wishes to you and your loved ones this holiday season.

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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

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

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

A new landscape by Greenfield Partners mapped 25 startups (and several unicorns) operating in this space was published by Calcalist in Jan 2023. The Israeli open source startup landscape (credit: Greenfield Partners). The Israeli Generative AI landscape. Open source tech.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The post How generative AI can improve the doctor-patient relationship appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I was watching a fireside chat from SaaStr 2023 between Jason Lemkin and David Sacks (ex Paypal Mafia, All In podcast co-founder and managing partner at Craft Ventures, with $3.3 Interestingly Craft Ventures divides AI opportunities into three main buckets: ?? billion under management).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The post Generative AI is the buzziest new technology in Silicon Valley. appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners. Meet the investors backing it.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Key Characteristics of Non-Consensus Investments Radical Differentiation : Solving problems in ways no one else perceives Technological Leap : Introducing paradigm-shifting innovations Counterintuitive Approach : Challenging existing market assumptions At Remagine Ventures , we’re two GPs and a venture partner in the investment committee.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B 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. APPOINTMENTS Congrats Sarai Bronfeld on your promotion to partner at NFX !

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The state of Generative AI startups in Israel According to The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, Israel is the 7th most attractive AI hub globally. Are they too late?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. He's a co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey's Shareholders Council. This is John Jantsch.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

AI can also save boards time by summarizing meeting notes, analyzing complex data or research reports and sending meeting reminders. Because nonprofits usually have tight budgets and small staffs, generative AI in the form of ChatGPT and other natural language processing tools offer much needed support.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I have been thinking lately about the impact of generative AI on the future of the internet. One aspect I am particularly intrigued about is how our world of media and entertainment will look like with AI. The content explosion fueled by generative AI is just beginning.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 19, 2024

The post Generative AI and The Future of Interactive Media appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and GTP-3, Sequoia.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 9, 2024

The post Skild is bringing Generative AI to the real world appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The post How generative AI can improve the doctor-patient relationship appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The post Four Ways Generative AI Will Transform Gaming appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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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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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. You can view the full agenda here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They're a reliable partner for consistently finding the perfect fit for your business. So actually the previous edition, the third edition was a thousand pages, and so we had to cut down quite a lot because the more material in a book, the fewer copies that sell it gets a little bit ridiculous. Who wants to read a thousand page book? (01:33):

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The spend is way off whack, and businesses are spending less and less of marketing because even with generative ai, what you're seeing is you're seeing sameness in content people now people are generating content through generative ai. This will give you a list of potential partners. Who do they fund?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The rise of generative AI is likely to have a significant impact on the gaming industry in 2023. While the hype cycle for Generative AI is as its peak, we can expect it to play a big role in creating more immersive and personalised gaming experiences. Generative AI for games market map ( source ).

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