VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But substantial investments are also being deployed into emerging startups, particularly into vertical applications. Vertical Applications Taking Off. A large portion of the funding and innovation in voice AI is concentrated on applications for specific industry verticals. This includes OpenAI’s latest round of $6.6

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products. 25% of the value of the 10 public cloud companies born in Europe and Israel.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Although we took part in a number of significant M&A deal negotiations that were not carried out due to price gaps, we believe that there are more mature companies in Israel than ever. ” In addition, another hypothesis is that acquisitions slowed down due to new verticals being launched in the space of AR, VR, Robotics.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!

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VC Cafe

MARCH 12, 2025

Fusion Ventures published an interesting report on the state of pre-seed in Israel in 2025. Israeli Pre-Seed Characteristics: Fast, Focused, and (Slightly) Smaller Rounds: Israel being Israel, things are moving quickly. More than half of pre-seed investment in 2025 went towards application-layer AI solutions and vertical AI.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

Since then, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of generative AI startups worldwide, as well as in Israel. Most operate in the application layer, and use APIs to power new automations and consumer experiences across various verticals and functions in the company: coding, copywriting, advertising and marketing, design, etc.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 30, 2024

Other hot verticals included fintech, IoT, and digital media. Foreign investors return The cybersecurity sector led the charge, netting $630 million across multiple large rounds, including $400 million for unicorns Axonius Solutions, Coronet, and Claroty. Notably, there were no Israeli IPOs in Q1 amid the prolonged public market drought.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2020

According to recent analysis by Cardumen Ventures, there are 1,042 active AI companies in Israel as of June 2020, with over 150 new AI startups created in 2019. Israel’s growing deep tech landscape includes over 150 Semiconductors; Quantum Computing; Sensors; Space 2.0; Wellness is a category that mixes several verticals within.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

The Israel Innovation Road Trip , is an effort to raise both funding and awareness. event, following 14 similar ones in Israel, Turkey and Europe. Israel Innovation Road Trip company list. You hear about them when they raise money, and then the news comes far and apart. This is the firm’s first U.S.

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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

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. Nevertheless, there are two foundational models represented in Israel with AI21 Labs on the LLM side. Vertical AI is a stronghold.

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VC Cafe

MAY 14, 2024

Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally. The 2024 AI Index report by Stanford University placed Israel in the top spot for AI talent concentration in a geographic area. As the Generative AI sector matures, we’re confident we’ll see big startup successes coming out of Israel.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2020

The event will highlight startups and technologies in the media, entertainment, gaming and esports domains, with a spotlight on Israel. The event will be streamed via Zoom and Facebook live on June 23th, 16:00-20:00 Israel time (UTC+3). Join us (free). The speaker line up includes various industry leaders (Snap Inc.,

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VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2016

Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post, I collected the top startup landscape visualizations for Israel, covering VR/AR, Fintech, IOT, DevOps and Cybersecurity. Virtual and Augmented Reality.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

A s every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. The company is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. For previous editions, click here. Oracle Corp.,

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

T he Commercial Office at the Embassy of Israel in London and the Israel Export Institute have organized a New Media delegation , taking place on the first week of July. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc. It is a global world – I plan to make sure I’m tapped into Europe, Israel and increasingly Asia to know what trends I can look for here in California. Tencent market cap on public market is $21 billion, Facebook’s is a theoretical $3-15bn (slide 52).

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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. For example, Munch , providing automated vertical video clips from long form content or KwaKwa , the latest product by Piggy, powering communities.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

2023 was a rough year for Venture Capitalists and startups alike Plummeting deal volume (US down 40%, UK %50, Israel 60%) back to 2017 volumes. The rise of generative AI is expected to affect every vertical: health, education, fintech, gaming – creating opportunities for startups.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 20, 2022

Six months ago I published a post on VC Cafe titled, the state of creative automation , diving into vertical applications of AI on content creation of all sorts; from text (GPT-3 and the likes) to Synthetic video (powered by companies like HourOne). Social content.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Do@ – vertical search inside applications, on your tablet. Israel's dollar volume of deals is up almost 100% compared to the previous quarter. Israel's dollar volume of deals is up almost 100% compared to the previous quarter. Number of deals: The number of VC investments in Israel for Q2 2011 remained flat.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The state of Generative AI startups in Israel According to The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, Israel is the 7th most attractive AI hub globally.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER ISRAEL An interesting report and survey of 25 early stage venture funds in Israel (including us at Remagine Ventures ) shows the major trends in pre-seed and seed. I wrote about the major takeaways on VC Cafe and you can access the report by F2 Venture Capital here.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

eCommerce is the smallest vertical in the US tech venture investments, with only $39 million invested in Q3, in eight companies. A notable deal in the software vertical includes Israel-Massachusetts-based uTest ( CEO interview on VC Cafe ), who landed $13 million from Scale Venture Partners and others.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Sacra estimates that Perplexity hit $63M in ARR at the end of 2024, up 800% from $7M in 2023.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

A shameless plug for Remagine Ventures In the generative AI landscape for Israel I published on Jan 13 2023, I listed 50 startups across various categories. We are likely see more specialisation i.e. text for doctors/lawyers, design for commerce/gaming etc.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. From a geographic standpoint, the top three regions for SaaS companies are the UK, France and Israel, with around 20 logos each in our top 100.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. Overall, Israeli startups raised $7.3 But I’m generally optimistic.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. Israel's largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, deputy CEO at Libox.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

That spark nearly five years ago led to an investment thesis here at Flybridge, where we have looked to invest behind Big Data applications and uses across a number of vertical industries. Most recently, we announced a new investment in a big data company out of Israel called tracx.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

When Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center wanted to improve their sites mobile experience, BlueTrain Mobile made an example of how one page of their website would have looked if they had adopted responsive design, and how the page would have looked in a dedicated mobile site. Faster load times.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Every year, LinkedIn recognises the most in demand companies in each of the major startup hubs, but this year they failed to include Israel. After several comments, the editor said that they will add Israel and a couple of other countries next week. Daniel Roth now said that Israel will be added next week.

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