VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial). The country’s unique blend of technical expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and cross-industry innovation makes it a hotbed for potentially game-changing AI agent technologies.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Great technologies exist to help businesses reduce their electricity usage, emissions, and energy bills. It’s similar to how Stripe removed friction from taking payments for many verticals. EnPowered closed their initial seed round in February 2020 and have been developing their platform in stealth mode over the past year.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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 At Remagine Ventures, about half of our portfolio companies are building in the vertical and horizontal AI categories.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

9 How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob | Information Technology on 08.11.09 All of your complaints apply equally to just as many freeware programs and many commercial applications (ever worked on a vertical market app? at 11:07 am [.] 10 Silas Marner on 08.11.09 23 Sean Harlow on 08.11.09 Use open source.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. 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.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Here is where the money is flowing for AI Agent startups: AI-First Applications/ Vertical AI: Instead of bolting AI onto existing software, startups are building intelligence-first solutions. There’s a whole range of startups in this space, including open source ComfyUI , which offers developers a powerful design companion.

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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. Instead of rebuilding its WWII forces, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

While it may seem like an easy choice, few people who love technology and who work on black projects leave. These technologies which allowed the U.S. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. These projects are incredibly seductive.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

or Midjourney 4, have taken this technology mainstream and for the first time even risked Google’s dominance in search. It will be tough for new startups to compete on AI core technology. Like with any new technology, there are risks associated with the use of Generative AI and there will be bad actors who will abuse it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. See the PurePlus pitch in the category of Consumer Technology & CPG , 9:30 am to 10:30 am Sunday, March 15, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food food that provides environmental benefits beyond health?—?PurePlus

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

A finalist in the Health and Wearables Technology category, AirPop is pioneering the innovation of air wearables for personal and public health. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology. Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before? I attended in 2007.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

This technological shift may require established players to adapt to avoid being outpaced by more agile competitors. While foundational AI players focus on technology, vertical AI applies those tools to meet industry requirements. Below are three examples of potential winners.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

There are a lot of broken consumer journeys that were excited to tackle with technology across entertainment, education, gaming, health, lifestyle, etc. Within AI, Im particularly excited about the potential of AI Agents and vertical AI applications tailored for specific industries. Could the global IPO drought end in the coming year?

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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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