VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There is an increasing convergence of content generation, data & identity, and marketing automation , driven by AI. Gaming by Konvoy The latest report by Konvoy , a gaming venture capital firm, analyses the state of the gaming industry in the third quarter of 2024. billion in earn out based on performance.

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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 22, 2024

Way to go Itamar Golan and team Prompt Security on your $18M series A to help companies secure their generative AI tools! series A to help authors self-publish their books with the help of AI! Great milestone Dvir Hoffman and team CommBox on your $15M series B to build the future of customer experience powered by AI!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. Gaming is a sector that traditionally struggled to attract venture capital investment in the early days, as mentioned by Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins in the Gamecraft podcast. billion in 2022.

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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 25, 2024

Well done Eyal Malinger and Oren Peleg and team Resurge Growth Partners on the first closing of an investment vehicle focused on helping companies caught between the venture capital and private equity worlds. In total, generative AI companies received $35 billion in 2024.AI

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

AI has become the year’s venture capital buzzword. 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).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s easy to find bad news about venture capital these days. In other words, the venture capital bust has only just started. 2023 was a rough year for Venture Capital and for startups, and it might get even worse. Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

Proud to support the ecosystem with Remagine Ventures as we are in the process of closing 4 deals right now. In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B of global venture capital volume. in Q2 2024 alone, which is 16.5%

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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

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. Amidst this bleak funding environment, AI has been a saviour, reports the WSJ.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital is down 36% globally QoQ and a lot of startups face an uncertain future. The nature of venture capital cycles. Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market. Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and GTP-3, Sequoia.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He talked about where we are in the timeline of generative AI and it made me realise that we’re making an interesting shift now. Venture capital fund Accel noted this tension between the major and minor league in AI in their Euroscape 2024 report. So where should VC investors place their bets?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2024

That led us to start investing in generative AI in 2019 (consider that ChatGPT only came out in November 2022, that’s pretty early). Our first investment in this space was Hour One , the AI avatar text to video company.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

I learned so much about the culture, current events, and the Israeli venture capital industry. After spending just two months in the industry, I recognize the importance of venture capital for spurring innovation, especially in Israel. I searched for internships that would allow me to explore generative AI.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

of all venture capital investment in 2023 went to consumer companies in the US, according to Carta. However, entrepreneurs have never really stopped building new consumer experiences and technology (in particular Generative AI) is unlocking a new wave of innovation in consumer startups. But are investors paying attention?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Together, we mapped 89 companies, that collectively raised over £2 billion in venture capital across consumer experiences, enabling technologies and infrastructure. Access to capital and talent remains the big barrier for growth. The first UK Metaverse landscape ( download a high res copy here ). Looking ahead.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

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. billion in VC deals, more than the UK venture investments per year combined. So far in 2024, the magnificent seven invested $24.8

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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 ? source in links section) Israel ranks amongst the top markets based on stock option policy according to Index Ventures.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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. On a high level: The Israeli AI startup ecosystem is booming, with over 2,150 active AI companies, representing ~30% of the local tech sector.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2024

Finally, Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon just reported that the company is using generative AI to increase its productivity, updating 850 million product catalog entries 100 times faster than human-led methods. 25 years of the venture capital industry booms and busts visualised by SVB. Anduril Industries raised $1.5

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Generative AI is a beacon of hope In this grim scenario, Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically Generative AI, emerges as the global industry’s lifebuoy, attracting investments and elevating valuations of entities across the spectrum.

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VC Cafe

MAY 10, 2024

For example what if you could pay an AI agent to file your taxes, manage your stock portfolio, write your content, summarise your meetings and remind you of action items, and so on and so on. In practice however, AI agents are unfortunately still not so reliable, and you’d be taking a big risk by using them blindly.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 28, 2024

Enterprises are less concerned about the use of generative AI but penetration is still low (study by Bain & Company ) source The next big challenge for the AI industry to solve will be energy – we’re consuming a lot of it GenAI investment will not let up.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI poses a lot of interesting new opportunities in this space and you’ll be smart to be ahead of the curve. Raising investment can be a long and challenging process, and not every game will necessarily fit the venture capital model.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kudos Adi Perry and team with on securing a $10M seed round to turn cities into communities with generative AI! ROI from Generative AI is a rising concern. Salmanson and team Cherre on the $30M series C for your real estate data analytics and management platform! The EU has a competitive problem.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

But there’s a catch – the rise of agentic AI will likely lead to increased startup formation and venture capital activity, creating a more complex and competitive market. The returns will likely be more concentrated. The stakes are higher, and the technical barriers to entry are substantial.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Other themes covered: – The creator economy – Meta and it’s current woes – Open vs close Metaverse – The importance of content, and how new tools like generative AI can help – Regulations and legal challenges (more coming!) – Many examples of brands experimenting with the Metaverse – The many challenges that (..)

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Bonus – Listen to a radio Interview I did with Dwayne Russell to discuss AI’s impact on AFL and other sports AI Substitutes – Deep Fake Love While we are all familiar with Deep Fakes being used in politics and business, emerging from the same servers as image generation AIs and the power of large language models are AI girlfriends.

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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. billion (despite the war) Israeli web3 startup landscape by Entrée Capital. 64% of the 2024 winter batch of YC had “AI” or “AI-related” tags in their Y Combinator company profile in the company’s directory. via Trung T.

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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. There are still 101 Israeli hostages in G**a.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

The greater opportunity lies within the application layer.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While the seemingly overnight success of ChatGPT was culmination of more than a decade of iterations in ‘creative automation’, the progress we’ve witnessed in AI over the last couple of years is poised to forever change the landscape of content creation. But Generative AI has yet to live to that hype.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Adversarial attacks against AI fall into three types: Data misclassification – to generate false positive or negative results. Synthetic data generation-to feed false information. Data analysis – for AI-assisted classical attack generation. AI Attack Surfaces.

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