VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Mention that you do “Consumer tech” as a startup founder and you’d be limiting your funding options to one third of the venture capital funds (in Israel that figure is probably closer to 10%). But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI.

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VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2023

Google is throwing everything at AI and positioned the company to make AI its top priority. It’s multilingual (100 languages), can do math and reasoning and it is able to code. trillion token dataset that follows the LLaMA recipe) are gaining popularity due to their flexibility and affordability.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

* Originally published on Calcalist , April 20 2023 Since the day ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, it has become the fastest growing consumer product, putting the words ‘generative AI’ in the mainstream. Generative AI is advancing at a breakneck speed.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. Pre-seed round tends to be the first ‘institutional’ round of funding in a startup. A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Major companies, such as Unity, have also started developing tools and software for developers to build robust and innovative applications within this space. Adapting to emerging trends and staying agile will be crucial for startups as the metaverse grows.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

However, the current hype around generative AI feels different. Naturally, a technology like generative AI has the potential to transform and impact many industries, if not all. Many intelligent individuals and consulting firms have written about various industries and their potential use cases for generative AI.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The startup connects business teams in VR, merging game-like features with collaboration tools in one platform to help overcome some of the challenges of distributed teams and remote work. They’ve achieved many accolades and launches as we summarized quarterly: Q1 , Q2 , and Q3 (our Q4 review to follow in a few weeks).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We must #BRINGTHEMHOME It’s been a tough year for Israeli startups, but they fought hard to keep their companies alive, despite dealing with war, record low venture capital volumes, and the usual challenges of running a startup. Israeli startups deliver #NOMATTERWHAT. Salesforce spent $2.6 Well done Marina S.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

We must #BRINGTHEMHOME During November, Israeli startups raised over $750M and we saw the creation of a new Unicorn (more on Eon below). 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

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He's been an SEO specialist to Fortune 500 companies and venture backed startups around the world for two decades. AI is part of that story. Dale (03:16): Yeah, so Perplexity is one of many generative AI search engines. This is John Jantsch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

11:29] What’s the strategy for a startup to take on a really big entrenched industry that doesn’t want to go away? [16:08] 16:08] There are some social implications and policies when talking about AI. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! But we should observe that AI is, it's been around for a while.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So I'm sort of like a software engineer by background. So I started building, you know, like simple websites, like personal websites and lots of other things possibly I've built like 10, 15 different micro startups as I like to call them or the last five, six years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

More About Lloyed Lobo: Follow Lloyed on LinkedIn Listen to the Traction Podcast Lloyed’s website Pre-order From Grassroots To Greatness: 13 Rules to Build Iconic Brands with Community Led Growth Get Your Free AI Prompts To Build A Marketing Strategy: Download now Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

OpenAI for enterprise key features: Enhanced privacy, SOC2 No usage caps performs up to two times faster 32k context in Enterprise, allowing users to process 4x longer inputs or files Samsung Electronics, Google and others have restricted employees from using generative AI bots for fear that confidential information will be leaked.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Furthermore, with over 97% of technology companies planning on investing in IT in the next year, the survey shows that generative AI has gained momentum in only a year. The nation is second only to the US when it comes to software service exports, generating an estimated €16bn for its economy each year.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2024

According to a new report by Startup Nation Central, the Israeli tech ecosystem defied the odds in H1 2024. In the wider tech world, today millions of Windows based computers got the blue error screen, affecting banks, airlines, hospitals etc, due to a faulty update from CrowdStrike. We must #BRINGTHEMHOME Now. for an undisclosed sum!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

” Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom AI startups attracted a record 46.4% Requests for startups are a way for investors to communicate what might work and where they are actively looking for startup teams. The predictions offer significant opportunities for startups across different sectors.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

Until now, the majority of the value in generative AI has been captured by the infrastructure layer: foundational models (LLMs), the cloud providers and the hardware infrastructure/ data centres. However now, the AI landscape is undergoing a significant shift, prompting a crucial question: Where will the future value of AI accrue?

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