VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In smaller funds, ticket sizes tend to be lower, so pre-seed is the only stage where micro funds are able to secure their minimum equity targets. This list by Shai Goldman is a good sample , and I’m proud that Remagine Ventures is included in this group.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Metaverses are emerging concepts that combine technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, blockchain, etc. Metaverse Growth As the metaverse grows, an array of powerful technologies come to the forefront: Virtual Reality (VR): A fully immersive environment allows users to explore and engage with digital worlds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Repeatedly recognized by Forbes as one of the “Most Influential CMOs in the World” and by AdWeek as one of the “Top 20 Marketing and Technology Executives,” his work has attracted over 1.1 Currently, David advises top executives on AI and personalization. Let me give you an example and just show how AI plays a role in all of this.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever. Let’s dive in!

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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. But identifying potential uses is just one element of responsible AI governance. Start with an AI framework. “If

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm since ChatGPT was released nearly a year ago. The technology has been adopted with astonishing speed. Insider Intelligence predicts that generative AI adoption will climb to 77.8 million users by 2024.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2024

I decided to use these steps to more effectively segment the surveyed individuals, and speculated that generative AI tools would be most useful during ideation and MVP development, particularly benefiting non-technical founders by facilitating code generation. Sources “86% of CIOS Have Implemented Formal AI Policies.”

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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. . – Startup Nation Central: One Year of Israeli Innovation in War NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Big congrats Oded Melamed and team Quantum Source on securing a $50 million series A to advance photonic quantum computers! via Trung T. Keep on creating!

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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

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

MAY 14, 2024

The generative AI market is exploding globally, with venture capitalists pouring $12.8 While still in its early days, this transformative technology is seeing rapid adoption by consumers and businesses alike. Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Management Layer : Critical functions include managing AI agents, securing permissions, and enabling payments. Data Layer : AI agents will rely on both exclusive private data and public datasets. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels. Google is also leaning in on AI Agents.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2024

creator startups secured an impressive $692.7 Michael Mignano, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, highlights the transformative potential of AI in this space: “New creator platforms have the added advantage of being able to leverage AI to make what they do bigger and better.” million in funding.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Yet, these are the risks we are being asked to take with our live Generative AI experiment, at least according to some AI experts. P(Doom) is the term AI researchers are using to describe the probability that Artificial Super Intelligence will emerge and become an existential risk for humanity. The AI Saviour?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

which has become the most used open source LLM, Meta AI available across all their apps for free, a new affordable version of their Meta Quest VR headset, but perhaps most excitingly, Meta Orion, smart AR glasses with holographic display (still not officially launched). Way to go Ori Tamuz and team DoorLoop on your $51.6M Well done Marina S.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

on securing a $70M series C bringing the total funding to $200M in one year, and the new unicorn status (at a $1.4 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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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. Boards must provide oversight of ethical AI as part of responsible governance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

His new book Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation, explains how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. In the digital age, technology has pervasive impacts, and data plays a central role in transforming customer value propositions, operations, and the structure of industries. [02:44]

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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. This analysis spotlights 10 key trends set to redefine media, entertainment, gaming, and commercedomains where technological disruption is felt most profoundly.

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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. But that is not very scalable.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

That’s not to say that application layer startups didn’t raise large funding rounds: Jasper ($125M), RunwayML ( $141M ) Tome ( $43M ), ElevenLabs, But Israeli startups, to a large extent, have been excluded from this trend, only securing smaller round. Are they too late?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2023

GenAI startups secured $14.1B Many investors complain that the technology is over hyped -and now it’s official – generative AI is at the peak of Gartner ‘s hype cycle for emerging technologies in 2023. According to eMarketer, generative AI adoption is forecasted to climb to 77.8

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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. billion and Sony is experimenting with AI-powered characters on Playstation. Interesting news in gaming: Niantic, Inc.

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

In the early days of the Internet, we witnessed the browser wars and as technology continued to advance, we saw the number of wars, and the number of players involved in them grow. A strong focus on online services, exclusive games, and innovation secured Microsoft’s position at the top.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

It’s impossible to ignore the impact that Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Apple and Tesla/xAI have on AI. With a combined value of $14 Trillion (representing 32% of the S&P 500), these companies invest $400 billion a year into frontier technologies, namely AI and cloud infrastructure.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Fantastic news Ben Kliger and team Zenity on securing a $38M series B to secure enterprise copilots! Way to go Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on coming out of stealth with a $21M seed round for a new inference model that enables companies to dramatically reduce the cost of generative AI – wow ? Mazel tov Isaac B.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2023

What triggered me to write about this is a post by afriend, who’s an experienced CTO and expert in AI. He commented on the way founders are pitching generative AI startups: I had the chance to meet several generative AI startups in the last few weeks. The post Are you telling a story or pitching features?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 2, 2024

Take for example some of Google’s recent AI results spewing ridiculous answers. Questions remain about training data/copyright, privacy, security and costs. Funding for AI startups has cooled in recent months. The case for continued AI momentum: ? Meta is working on its open source LLaMa.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

To add more heat, Microsoft launched generative AI search results for Bing. Mistral AI released two new open-source LLM models (Nemo in partnership with NVIDIA ) and Large 2. AI at Meta launched LLaMa 3.1, Great news Merav Bahat and team Dazz on your $50M series B to accelerate AI-powered cloud security remediation!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It takes longer to secure rounds, and the size (and number) of rounds has decreased compared to 2021. As a pre-seed investor at Remagine Ventures , half of our investments are in B2B Software, especially around technologies in the content creation, distribution, monetisation and analytics space.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 28, 2024

Way to go Inna Tokarev Sela and team illumex on your $13M series A for your AI data readiness platform!! Kudos Keren Leshem and team OCON Therapeutics on securing a $10M seed round for your revolutionary drug delivery technology for women! EXITS Huge congrats Alon Lev and team Qwak on the $230 Million acquisition by JFrog !

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like any new and emerging technology, the Metaverse has faced its share of challenges and criticisms. Layoffs, technology difficulties and expensive hardware didn’t massively help build a positive story. Like any new and emerging technology, the Metaverse has faced its share of challenges and criticisms.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Helping to build and market the most secure cryptocurrency ATM network in the Gulf South has been incredibly rewarding. The vision of transforming lives through innovation and technology continues to inspire everything we do. We also wanted to utilize modern technology to offer more cost-effective solutions.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For you have, at your fingertips, a technology revolution that doesn’t come around more than once every few hundred years: Artificial Intelligence—or AI. We are not only entering the AI Generation. You are the AI generation. You are Generation AI. AI will reshape the lives of all of us.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

“Since ChatGPT’s launch just nine months ago, we’ve seen teams adopt it in over 80% of Fortune 500 companies” OpenAI blog OpenAI announced this that ChatGPT Enterprise is now available , offering better data protection/privacy, more security, improved speed/performance and longer context windows.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Helping to build and market the most secure cryptocurrency ATM network in the Gulf South has been incredibly rewarding. The vision of transforming lives through innovation and technology continues to inspire everything we do. We also wanted to utilize modern technology to offer more cost-effective solutions.

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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. .” Nice job Shmuel Bachinsky and team Quantum Transistors on securing $17.5M

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