VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2023

LLMs leadeboard in ChatBot Arena High competition and no moat is giving investors jitters According to the State of AI Q1’23 report by CB Insights, during Q1 2023, AI startups raised $5.4B, a 66% drop from the previous year’s figure and a 43% decline quarter-over-quarter.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

Goldman Sachs economists predict that 300 million jobs could be affected by the latest wave of AI. Simultaneously, new startups are forming, and venture capital is already pouring money into the field at an outstanding rate that will only accelerate the impact of this generation of AI. Welcome to our brave new world.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Israeli startups raised $2.43 Israel continues to be a relatively liquid market Another strong indicator for the strength of the Israeli startup ecosystem has been exits/ liquidity, especially given the shortage of exits in the venture capital industry. The current environment presents opportunities for resilient Israeli startups.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to Gergo Vari, the founder of Lensa, if your startup is ready to ride the metaverse wave, staying informed and investing in the skills and expertise needed for this new era are crucial. Adapting to emerging trends and staying agile will be crucial for startups as the metaverse grows.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s become a cliche in our technology startup world: disruptive technologies start as toys and are dismissed as such. So we are now at the dawn of Generative AI. It can also be used to generate 3-D models from 2-D images, or to turn sketches into detailed photos. ” source. It’s great for newspapers.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

The most common analogies I’ve been considering with the current wave of generative AI are blockchain, self-driving cars, and Web 2.0. Blockchain There are a lot of similarities between this era of generative AI and the Blockchain. The stark difference between crypto and AI lies in their use cases.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The report highlighted the resilience of Israeli startups despite the geopolitical challenges and shared the curret sentiment on trends in pre-seed deals. Similarly, 74% of investors reported that 75-100% of their seed investments were in AI-driven startups. Below are the key findings. Read the full report here.

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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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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The breakneck speed of AI advancement is one of those areas where the stream of information is so constant and so dense, that it’s very hard to process it all, let alone STAND OUT in the crowd. This creates a challenge, but also an opportunity for startups in the generative AI space. How many of them do you know?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Generative AI is already being used in developer workflows. We expect AI to further augment content creation pipelines by generating images, audio, video, and code. The applications for generative AI are vast, for us at Remagine Ventures, naturally the impact it can have on gaming is really significant.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For the past 10 years, with interest rates near zero, VC investors plowed record amounts into tech startups and enjoyed a seemingly ‘easy’ investing environment. Prices went up from round to round, and startups were encouraged to grow, grow, grow, and not to worry about profitability.

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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. This includes OpenAI’s latest round of $6.6

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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

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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This is not only helpful for startups and investors who are actively deploying in those sectors, but also to founders at the beginning of their journeys who are looking for ‘requests for startups’ or problem areas worth diving into. I chose to focus on 5 areas that are particularly relevant to us at Remagine Ventures.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this post I cover a non-exhaustive list of content categories that are being re-invented with AI. GPT-3, a complex algorithm for AI text generation, is making text automation broadly available. In 2021, more than 1,000 new startups will be powered by this technology. Watch this impressive demo.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

Hunter Walk: Textio , the startup you founded and CEO’ed until a few months ago, is almost 10 years old. A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business. The first one is simply focus.

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VC Cafe

MAY 14, 2024

The generative AI market is exploding globally, with venture capitalists pouring $12.8 billion into startups in just the first quarter of 2024, according to Pitchbook data. Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally. million, closely followed by security ($781.34

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices. Riches in Niches.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

creator economy startups, with investments in the first half of this year already matching the total raised throughout the entirety of 2023. creator startups secured an impressive $692.7 The trend extends globally, with creator startups worldwide raising approximately $767.9 million in funding.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

Readers of VC Cafe know how big of a fan I am of startup landscapes. The Israeli startups building the Metaverse (updated Jan 2023). I’m proud of the work done by my team at Remagine Ventures, to publish the updated map of the Israeli startups building the Metaverse. The Israeli Generative AI landscape.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion invested in coding agents and co-pilots alone, with Google, Salesforce, Meta, and other incumbents heavily investing in Agentic AI. 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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2024

During these nearly two decades, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of being a front-row witness to Israel’s incredible startup scene. I’ve seen the explosion of new unicorns created, from cybersecurity pioneers to AI disruptors and billion dollar revenue gaming startups.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2025

Startups need to navigate with limited resource-type budgets and an ever-changing market. Photo by Canva Studio: [link] In this guide, we’re going to walk you through some of the main points of data-driven marketing, its benefits, and actionable steps to implement in your startup. What is Data-Driven Marketing?

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2023

Is generative AI headed in the same direction? Generative AI, on the other hand, seems to be going from strength to strength. Have we reached generative AI peak? Are we on the way up or down in generative AI use and adoption? The post Has Generative AI hype peaked?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I covered my personal journey to venture capital, what makes our partnership work at Remagine Ventures , and gave an intro to Generative AI, a current theme that connects to our investment thesis (we made 3 investments in the space). Some use general data sets, and others train their models on proprietary data. Jasper, Copy.ai

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Well done Assaf Rappaport and team Wiz on your undisclosed round of funding to continue the journey of as the fastest growing Israeli startup in history! Way to go Itamar Golan and team Prompt Security on your $18M series A to help companies secure their generative AI tools! Kudos Yehuda Niv and team Spines on your $16.5M

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We must #BRINGTHEMHOME It’s been a slower news week in Israeli startups due to the holidays of Sukkot and Simchat Torah. NEW FUNDS Congratulations Gili Raanan and team Cyberstarts on the new (and fourth) $60M fund to invest in seed stage Israeli cybersecurity startups! AI companies have reached a combined value of $9 trillion.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion on 78 generative AI deals —almost as much as was invested in all of the previous 5 years combined, according to PitchBook data. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12 In 2022, VCs poured $1.37

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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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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. Remio (led by Jos van der Westhuizen ) marks our first VR investment !

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. So far in 2023, generative AI startups raised $16 billion, according to Dealroom. billion, a 2.5x

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

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. Book your call today, DTM World slash scale. (01:02): This is John Jantsch. There's no ads around it.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

I was interviewed by TheMarker (Hebrew only) on why Israeli startups haven’t been part of the mega funding rounds in AI. I thought it’s a good timing to elaborate on where I see opportunities for Israeli startups in this rapidly growing space. billion, a 73% YoY drop, according to a new report by Viola.

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