VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M source: Felicis ) Europes top 50 SME Vertical SaaS scale-ups according to Eight Roads ( source ) The Prosumer top 50 startups, according to German VC fund Headline includes 3 Israeli startups! Great stuff Dor Sasson and team Stigg on your $17.5M

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. 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.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial). Many companies in the Agentic AI space choose to remain in stealth, but just know that it’s never too early to speak with us. Can be niche markets where the large companies or foundational LLMs are not likely to compete with.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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. EnPowered is led by Tomas van Stee and Mike Kirkup. To learn more, visit www.getenpowered.com or @GetEnPowered.

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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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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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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. Many of these companies, however, exhibit similar characteristics to the things we invest in outside of the health vertical. They can be surprisingly capital efficient.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

All of your complaints apply equally to just as many freeware programs and many commercial applications (ever worked on a vertical market app? But in the vertical market of source control software, the commercial options are far better and far less buggy than any open source version control software I’ve seen. Use open source.

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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

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. At Remagine Ventures we’re active deploying in this space. We’re excited to share more about these companies soon.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

I believe there are a lot more coming (some currently choose to be in stealth) and that we will be seeing tools for automation enter every role in the company (coding, sales, marketing, design, etc) across many verticals. We are likely see more specialisation i.e. text for doctors/lawyers, design for commerce/gaming etc.

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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. Much has been written about the Uberification of the economy over the past year.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food food that provides environmental benefits beyond health?—?PurePlus

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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. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link. Shocking, I know.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd. Up to 25 percent of the units in such buildings can be used as fully licensed STRs?

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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. 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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Genuine VC

MARCH 20, 2012

Many people, though, take the opportunity with a physical card to make an impression with a unique spin on their card (size, vertical orientation, etc.). info@startup.com <– The team is running in stealth-mode to look inconspicuous, but really wants people to ask.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 20, 2012

Many people, though, take the opportunity with a physical card to make an impression with a unique spin on their card (size, vertical orientation, etc.). info@startup.com <– The team is running in stealth-mode to look inconspicuous, but really wants people to ask.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2025

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! Kudos Roy Baharav and team Hi Auto on raising $15M series A to automate drive-thru orders with AI! The memes kept coming U.S.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

Vertical AI Even with the commoditisation of foundational models, vertical AI is a huge opportunity because it addresses complex, industry-specific demands with tailored functionalities, deep integrations, and specialised workflows. Below are three examples of potential winners. Madrona’s Jon Turow has a great primer on this.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Within AI, Im particularly excited about the potential of AI Agents and vertical AI applications tailored for specific industries. I believe well continue to see Israeli startups excel in cybersecurity , addressing new threat verticals like deepfakes, as well as innovations in defense tech.

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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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