VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There is an increasing convergence of content generation, data & identity, and marketing automation , driven by AI. Data & Identity : AI excels at analysing user data to deliver personalised content recommendations, targeted advertising, and tailored user experiences. billion in earn out based on performance.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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. For example Speak and Praktika, which use voice AI for language learning, grew very quickly to over $20M in revenue in the last 12 months.

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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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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

JANUARY 3, 2024

I’ve seen the explosion of new unicorns created, from cybersecurity pioneers to AI disruptors and billion dollar revenue gaming startups. 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.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

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! 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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. AI is part of that story. Dale (03:16): Yeah, so Perplexity is one of many generative AI search engines. It's time to transform your approach.

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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

12:22] Would you look at the value derived by digital technologies differently than by producing customer value or revenue? [14:23] So I look, I I'll give you an example, uh, the answer to that using like generative AI, which is like the hottest conversation topic in the world right now, right? Is it just an evolution?

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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

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. New donors now constitute a fourth of their total YouTube donation revenue.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2025

AI enhances marketing efforts by: Predictive analytics: AI can forecast customer behavior trends and campaign performance, which means that startups can make better proactive decisions. Content generation: AI tools can generate unique content ideas for startups, helping them to maintain a consistent publishing schedule.

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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. AI inference spending expected to grow 70% YoY to $208.2B Interesting news in gaming: Niantic, Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. In the early days of User Generated Content, the mantra was “everyone can be a creator” and we talked a lot about the long tail of artists. That’s why I’m bullish on creator tools like Highnote.

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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. And new technologies, like generative AI, are creating new opportunities for founders to stand out in the consumer space. Surpassed the $100M revenue mark in 2022.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2023

billion in revenue per year from 2025 ( source ). Currently, the streaming space is dominated by Twitch, Youtube and FB Gaming and I would expect to see this trend continue and new tech (perhaps leveraging generative AI) for better viewer engagement. Generative AI enters Gaming in a big way. billion in 2019 to $3.2

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Marketing was like me, and we bootstrapped this business to 10 million in revenue through building this traction community where we're bringing our ICP, our audience together around their aspiration and their goals. I asked their chief revenue officer, how do you do attribution on this community? TikTok, Facebook, all the CPMs are up.

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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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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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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 Global gaming revenues. Generative AI for games market map ( source ).

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

App Store Wars: Apple dominated the app store wars, building a walled garden around its App Store and generating significant revenue from app sales and in-app purchases. We are seeing some of this play out in the generative AI space, where the cloud providers are active investors to attract future revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. Even prior to generative ai, we had content farms where people would just generate crappy low quality content. It's time to transform your approach.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. Those still are whether they were using generative AI or not. Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

However, entrepreneurs have never really stopped building new consumer experiences and technology (in particular Generative AI) is unlocking a new wave of innovation in consumer startups. Categories like AI companions, productivity enhancers, and new creative platforms, are being launched with significant user engagement.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

Key Metrics for B2B SaaS Startups: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) Definition: ARR is the yearly value of a company’s recurring revenue from subscription-based services. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) Definition: MRR is the predictable revenue a company expects to receive monthly from subscription-based services.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

billion in revenue at Angi. So much of what Regal focuses on, and what we invest in as angels focuses on role-specific or industry specific workflow tools for generative AI to solve problems that LLMs alone cannot. I love that sense of accountability.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

UK XR startups generated over $1.4 billion in revenue in 2022. The pandemic was generally viewed to have been a net positive for the industry. New technologies, like Generative AI (which I covered extensively on VC Cafe ) create exciting opportunities to scale creativity and content creation. Looking ahead.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 2, 2024

It’s still early innings for LLMs – Microsoft and Google are still early in their rollouts of generative AI in search, productivity software, cloud and more. OpenAI scaled to over $1 billion in revenue in less than six months. ? Meta is working on its open source LLaMa.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Kudos Iftach Ian Amit and team Gomboc AI on your $13M seed round to eliminate the security backlog that delays critical business transformation! Well done Erez Agmon and team Vayu on your $7M seed round to redefine billing and revenue management with AI! There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small’ community!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Build a strong team – this sounds obvious, but is especially important at the early stage, where there are less metrics or revenue to assess the attractiveness of your company to investors. Generative AI poses a lot of interesting new opportunities in this space and you’ll be smart to be ahead of the curve.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

So it's specifically regenerative AI and text generative ai, which is where I live. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. All other generative AI doesn't know you in any way and can never give you results that are essentially really meaningful.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

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. This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!) Where Are We Now?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

As we referenced earlier, we’re also starting to see more companies navigate this question as they adopt usage-based pricing, particularly with generative AI. Though these analyses are standard fare for pricing exercises, it’s still important to take time to do them, and do them early.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. We’ve come a long way from the dating videos from the 1980s – a place where mostly awkward people, and mostly men, sat in front of a camera in cable knit jumpers. We now expected that people in a relationships met online. Things are now much more real than that.

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