VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Finally, the Israeli stock market outperforms global peers despite war, surging 27% in 2024. Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M Funding for startups is also up 35% in the first 9 months of 2024 compared to the equivalent period in 2023, pre-war.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers. Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial). Can be niche markets where the large companies or foundational LLMs are not likely to compete with. I.e. Copilots for coding, marketing, customer support, etc.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EnPowered Payments links business customers (such as large electricity users like manufacturing facilities, hospitals, hotels, and greenhouses) to a market of lenders. It’s similar to how Stripe removed friction from taking payments for many verticals. In many cases, the monthly savings is greater than the monthly cost. .

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Way to go Ronit Belson and team Sawmills on coming out of stealth with a $10M seed round to transform telemetry data management with AI! Kudos Ido Ben-Natan and team Blockaid on your $50M series B to combat rising blockchain threats! Great news Yoav Einav and team Guidde on your $15M series A to scale your AI powered instructional videos!

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Market Hard. You have a marketing budget; odds are high your open source competitor does not. Like UI designers, usability testers, product managers, user researchers, visual designers, information architects, technical writers, testers, user experience testers and — yes — marketers. 4 Richard Cunningham on 08.11.09

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. The venture capital market in this category is fairly concentrated among series A and expansion-stage funds that prefer to invest in companies with substantial revenue.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The country ranks 3rd globally in private AI investment, demonstrating its strong position in the global AI market. The report also includes a landscape of vertical and horizontal AI companies. Vertical AI is a stronghold. Vertical AI attracts the largest share of private funding (50% of total funding in 2023, reaching $6.6

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

VCs see Agentic AI as $4 Trillion Opportunity “A multi-trillion-dollar opportunity to reimagine software, services, and work” Insight Partners A new report by Battery Ventures is calling it the Coming AI Market “Supercycle”. If you take into account the $2 trillion dollar spend on services, $1.5 billion in 2024 to $47.1

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12 On the other hand, mistakes can be costly, especially in a tough market environment like today. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy, with $6.6 trillion coming from increased productivity and $9.1

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. military realized that our advantage over the Soviet Union was in silicon, software and systems. These technologies which allowed the U.S.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2016

Last year, we quietly invested in the seed round of Booster Fuels, a then-stealth on-demand gas delivery service. Last May, Boris said that we shouldn’t expect an Uber in every vertical. This is a huge market that’s up for grabs. Much has been written about the Uberification of the economy over the past year.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. We built a team of specialists from the food innovation and operations arm of the baby food company Plum Organics, and the marketing arm of companies like JUST Water, Red Bull, Stance, and GoPro, and the business development arm of companies like This Bar Saves Lives.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

million daily active users, expand into India as a second home market and launch the second generation of our Halo Sensor that has significantly more sophisticated sensing capabilities. It’s one that I can’t talk about, they are in stealth for at least another three years but it involves the most insane team of talent I’ve ever heard of.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

Austin is also a destination market for many of the increasingly large segment of startups that manage STRs one could describe as either “aparthotels” or “boutique STRs”: a modern spin on the corporate apartment concept, if you will. is one of the companies most worth watching. It also generated an impressive $2.6

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Andy Dunn of Bonobos , a vertical web retailer, will be driving attention to one of their core values in 2011: Focus on self-awareness, the core trait of leaders, both people and firms. Marketing who we are, not who we may want to be one day. We will measure our traction in three ways: 1. We will measure our traction in three ways: 1.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2025

trillion from the market this week amid uncertainty. Well done Shay Levi and team Unframe AI on coming out of stealth with $50M in funding ($30M series A and previously undisclosed $20M seed round) to replace legacy software with rapid, tailored solutions! Thoma Bravo expects the tech market to continue to grow.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

The costs later turned to likely be higher in reality, but the possibility of disrupting the dominance of US foundational models and the infrastructure they rely on (Nvidia) rattled the market and triggered a huge tech sell off and Nvidia’s loss of $650 billion in market cap in a single day.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

“However, a supportive US administration can foster collaboration and open doors for Israeli entrepreneurs in the US market.” However, a supportive US administration can foster collaboration and open doors for Israeli entrepreneurs in the US market. ” You can read the entire interview below.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2024

William Arthur Ward NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Big congrats Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on raising a $32M series A (at a reported $500M valuation ) just three months after coming out of stealth with your (this was previously wrongly reported as a $25M round). theres reason to be optimistic that capital will flow more freely next year.

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