VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Climate tech – We have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New details about the real costs of training the model (much higher) and the source of the data (distilled from OpenAI against the T&Cs) are slowly surfacing, but it’s clear that Chinese AI startups are here to stay. Baichuan AI is pivoting toward specialized AI models for finance and healthcare.

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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

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

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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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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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. Equally, as AI is so prevalent in pre-seed deals, it became the norm, and investors expect to see the moat less in the technology and more in the go to market.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. AI in National Security.

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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. In the creative realms of music, written word, and visual imagery – previous new technologies have encountered this skepticism. . .” So we are now at the dawn of Generative AI.

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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

With new advances in AI, creativity is now being transformed by technology and offered as a services for consumers and companies. Creative automation is the ability to create original, high quality content (text, video, images, music, art, etc) leveraging data and technology. Watch this impressive demo.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2024

Among these are the Lean Startup Method, Business Model Canvas, and Design Thinking*. Of the respondents, 70% acknowledged employing generative AI tools at some stage of their entrepreneurial journey, with chatbot assistants being the most popular tool mentioned (including ChatGPT and Claude). Survey of 10 HBS entrepreneurs.

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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Israeli startups raised $7.8 While the figures are slightly down from 2023, they reflect the resilience and strength of the Israeli startup ecosystem, even at a time of war. More interesting figures in the Startup Nation Central report linked below. More interesting figures in the Startup Nation Central report linked below.

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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 billion into startups in just the first quarter of 2024, according to Pitchbook data. While still in its early days, this transformative technology is seeing rapid adoption by consumers and businesses alike. million), consumer ($422.5

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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 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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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

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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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

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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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 ! Best wishes to you and your loved ones this holiday season.

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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

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. So they've got new competitors and then also new technology. This is John Jantsch.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Peter Thiel The statistics for startup success are well known. About 90% of startups will fail within three years of starting. Within the group of startups that succeeds, the returns for venture investors are concentrated in few companies. Our first investment in this space was Hour One , the AI avatar text to video company.

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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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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. Or is the infrastructure finally good enough to build proper application layer startups at scale? Security protocols for AI-driven commerce.

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