VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. Meanwhile in the US, B2C startups raised $100 billion in 2022, 40% of the total funding.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Yesterday was Halloween (also my birthday) and Israeli startups have certainly received a lot of ‘candy’ As if in a parallel universe to the war, over the past week alone Israeli startups raised over $500M in investments. Will the Israeli startup ecosystem overcome them? We must #BRINGTHEMHOME. absolutely.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A bright spot is emerging in early-stage funding, signaling renewed investor risk appetite and startup momentum. The revival of seed funding is an encouraging sign of a return to startup growth after a period of caution. If the seed funding resurgence continues, it could mark a turning point for the startup ecosystem.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Readers of VC Cafe will know that I’m a big fan of startup landscape s. A new report by F2 Venture Capital, Google Cloud and Deloitte Israel shines a spotlight onto the buzzing emerging AI landscape in Israel so I couldn’t resist covering it. Startups leveraging AI attracted over 60% of all capital raised in 2023.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I pointed him to a couple of recent reports that showed that Israeli startups raised 35% more in the first nine months of 2024, than the equivalent period in 2023 (pre-war). All of this AI usage is creating a power problem: nearly half of AI data centres may lack enough power by 2027, according a report by Gartner.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

In the tech world, Israeli startup Wiz turned down the $23 billion acquisition offer from Google and opted for going public instead. 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.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

In this post, I collated some of the latest research published on Agentic AI , with the aim to share knowledge, primarily with founders, about what can be built in this space. The pie for software businesses has just grown dramatically, and smart money is betting that agentic AI will create more unicorns than mobile or cloud computing did.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. Synthetic data generation-to feed false information. Data analysis – for AI-assisted classical attack generation. AI Attack Surfaces. The analogy for AI is closer to microelectronics than it is EW.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A new report on the Israeli startup ecosystem (see links section below), suggests that 657 startups will need to secure funding soon, with 431 requiring immediate capital to survive. That’s why initiatives like Startup Nation Central , the Israel Export Institute ???? ????? We must #BRINGTHEMHOME NOW ??

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Abrams discusses how “ Westworld ” explored “this question about what it is to be human… Yes, there are real things about creating robots and AI, but what you’re really telling is this entire story that plays out all of these very canonical human tendencies.”. Generating stories, generating conversation.

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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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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2024

NVIDIA introduced the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a $249 compact generative AI supercomputer that delivers significant performance gains at half the previous model’s price. Great job Avihai Sodri and team Antidote Health on securing a $22M series B to advance AI Telehealth and ACA plans.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2025

Amazing news Alon Dror , Hamutal Meridor and team Kela Technologies on coming out of stealth with $39 million in funding ($11M seed and $28M series A ) for your Defence tech startup dedicated to protecting Israel and our Western allies! Way to go Tal Chalozin and team 257 on coming out of stealth with a $9.2

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

STOPANTISEMITISM Israeli startups raised $987 million in October alone, across 26 deals, with 3 companies completing rounds of over $100M. AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $400M from the likes of Jeff Bezos and OpenAI, Mistral AI launched an API for content moderation. 94% YoY in AI funding in Oct.

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