VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

“ Video games will move to the center of the entertainment and pop-culture universe next year” Axios, Future of media: Gaming Over the past two days, I had a chance to attend the Pocket Gamer Connects (PGC) London and meet and greet game developers, execs, studios, investors and service providers to the gaming industry.

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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

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 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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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

Luma AI has introduced Ray2 Flash , an upgraded text-to-video model for fast generation. Reka AI launched Flash 3 Reasoning , an open-source 21B model. Tencent released Hunyuan-TurboS the first ultra-large Hybrid-Transformer-Mamba MoE model and also launched a free image to video model.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

So if those of you that watch the video clips, I know those of you listening won't, but I love your hat. 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.

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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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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. Enthusiasts will tell you that this is the beginning of being able to insert yourself into video games, recreate scenes of things that happen to you in the past, or things that didn’t happen at all.

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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. Obviously you go to experience the product before you buy, watch an unboxing video, it comes with that length of cable or does it work this way?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In June this year, we at Remagine Ventures, supported GameIS, the Israeli Gaming Association, and Deloitte in the creation of the report “The Israeli Video Games Ecosystem: Converging Technologies, Emerging Opportunities. Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6 Global gaming revenues. Gaming in Israel in 2022.

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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. Do they differentiate with their clout to differentiate with exciting imagery video?

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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

JUNE 19, 2024

As the head of a video marketing agency for Doctors, Atiba de Souza combines his deep understanding of human relationships with cutting-edge marketing strategies. Atiba de Souza shared his systematic approach to breaking down long-form videos into engaging short-form content that resonates with different audience segments.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

You can find a lot more information, including videos from the event in this dedicated Metaverse page. 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. Main use cases include education, health, entertainment and gaming.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Amazon launched Alexa+ , an AI makeover of its home assistant. Alibaba Group has just released Wan2.1 , a family of open-source AI video models designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs. Meanwhile, Veo 2, Google ‘s text to video model will cost 50 cents per second.

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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. How do you iterate on video so it performs best on both TikTok and Instagram? via Captions ).

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. Finding Love Online Online dating is very big business. Things are now much more real than that.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

More about Firgun and why it matters on VC Cafe : [link] I felt a knot in my stomach this week, watching the video of the tunnel where Hersh, Carmel, Alex, Eden, Or, Almog were held in inhumane conditions for for 11 months, only to be brutally mur ed. Interesting overview of vertical AI companies by IVP ( source ) Revenue per employee.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December (codename: Orion ). Also, two OpenAI researchers published a paper describing a new continuous-time consistency model (sCM) that increases the speed at which multimedia including images, video, and audio can be generated by AI by 50 times compared to traditional diffusion models.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Machine Learning is most advanced and widely applied today in processing text (through Natural Language Processing) followed by understanding images and videos (through Computer Vision) and analytics and anomaly detection. Recognize and Understand Images and video streams. An AI can see and understand what it sees.

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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

APRIL 15, 2024

But in the coming age of generative AI, endless synthetic content and misinformation – there might be an opportunity for traditional media companies to regain their reputation as a 4th branch within a democracy. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ?

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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. Last but not least Lionsgate announced a partnership with Runway to bring AI into Hollywood filmmaking. ByteDance introduced Seed-Music, a Suno -like music generation system.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is only 2 years old, considering the amount of capital that has been invested in generative AI startups since. Task completion: monitor the prices for the best holiday packages, products and deals Startup Opportunity: Platforms enabling secure AI-to-AI transactions.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Arm plans to launch a new AI chip this summer to compete with NVIDIA. YouTube Shorts adds Veo 2 to let creators make GenAI videos. Anthropic is said to develop hybrid AI model combining LLM, reasoning to take on OpenAI. Apple is rumoured to launch a new iPhone in Feb and is exploring humanoid robots. Baidu, Inc.

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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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