VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

From Open Source LLMs, to new APIs, both startups and tech giants continue to push the envelope on what is possible to automate and improve using generative AI technologies. Open Source might be the future, but it faces big hurdles Tools like Chatbot Arena are useful in comparing the quality of results on various models.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

This is the most complete guide online on how to start a business in 2019. To learn more about great website design, check out Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices and 7 Modern Web Design Trends for 2019. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. Create a sales plan.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

You can find the previous editions from Q3-Q4 2022 , Q1-Q2 2022 , July 2021 , July 2020 and May 2019. Open source tech. The Israeli open source startup landscape (credit: Greenfield Partners). I used various sources to create this landscape, including the NFX open source list of generative AI startups.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Compvis, @runwayml @StabilityAI , everyone who participated and the whole open-source community. That’s why I’m excited about the rise of open source. At Remagine Ventures , our first investment in this space was in HourOne in 2019, followed by Munch last month.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019. We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

There are self-hosted open-source portfolio apps available that allow you to combine your uniquely branded website with a gallery of your work. To learn more about great website design, check out Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices and 7 Modern Web Design Trends for 2019. Create a sales plan.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 12, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. What are your goals for SkyWeaver in 2019? To ship the game this year and have people love it. Anything we can dream, we can do.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. The go-to-market strategy was to start free and open source and grow from there. Everything about it was built through that lens.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. We have two kinds of users at Snyk: the open source developers, who are never going to pay but will help build the community. in just 30 months.

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VC Cafe

MAY 24, 2023

He only moved to a full time role at OpenAI in 2019. He also said they will release some open source models and that he’s excited about the progress in the open source community when it comes to LLMs (though he hopes to keep an edge). Back in 2018, they didn’t think about LLMs.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

There is the free Open Source edition built by the community. Facebook retargeting ads should be a priority in both 2018 and 2019. Magento offers a good architectural framework for optimization and scaling, as well as a predictable architecture that makes the work of the IT team transparent to the business.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. 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.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 billion in 2019 (despite a lower deal count). In April 2019, the Okta launched a $50 million fund to support the future of modern identity, security and privacy solutions. Out of which, CVC participation grew to €14.7 YoY increase.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Audacity is an open-source program that is widely used by both first-time showrunners and Top 100 shows. Podcast Insights created a list of the top hosting options in 2019 that will help you find a good fit for you. But in reality, the only thing you absolutely need is a way to record audio. And that’s it.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

Shippo announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C after posting 100% growth in 2019. . Coinbase launched Rosetta, an open-source specification and set of tools that makes integrating with blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. Product Launches, Accolades and Other News.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the last few months we’ve seen a number of advancements in text to image generators, enabling users to create art from text prompts: Open AI’s Dall-e 2 , Midjourney and Stability , an open source solution. We already invested in two startups in the space.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

By 2019, WhatsApp had 1.5 Musk, by making his fast chargers available to others and open-sourcing Tesla’s patents , has intentionally filled a potential moat. Note: As of April 2019, Zappos had 2.5 Zuckerberg paid , in other words, for the network-based moat: “WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

To learn more about great website design, check out Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices and 7 Modern Web Design Trends for 2019. There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality.

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

I wrote about the streaming wars on VC Cafe back in December 2019 , and it’s interesting to see how many of my predictions came true: sports, gaming and live content to name a few. New contenders including HuggingFace open source model, Anthropic, AI21 Labs Jurassic, Meta’s LLaMa and others continue to keep this space red hot.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Stepping back from the deluge of new work and productivity apps, 2019 almost feels like the year of the “Slack and Zoom Effect.” Templates presents Humble Dot users the ability to take their experience and make it fit to other typical types of work interactions that occur on a weekly or monthly basis.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

By 2019, the total public cloud services spending in Asia Pacific will rise to $13 billion, highlighting how well-received subscription-based services are in the Asian business landscape. Not to mention they need to align themselves with the open source communities defining them. percent in 2017 to total $10 billion.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.”

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Dig into the numbers and run your own scenarios with an open spreadsheet and video walkthrough. Take SparkToro, for example, which raised an unusual round of financing and open-sourced all their documents. v3: Austin (Roadshow 2019). Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro. One-Page Term Sheet. FOR FURTHER READING.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Moov can provide the connective tissue (say, to port data into a new, flexible ledger) or the APIs for more reliable ACH payments, based on their open source libraries. OnDeck struggled with this, as evidenced by the low LTV to CAC (which had halved, pre-COVID from 3Q 2019 ). There may be thousands of banks in the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Stanford University has been running a clinical trial on irregular heart rhythms for Apple since 2017 with a completion date in 2019. Apple has attempted to get medical researchers to create new health apps by developing ResearchKit , an open source framework for researchers. What’s Not Working? Great idea.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2018

With a separate open-source edition that’s ideal for developers, SugarCRM differentiates itself with lots of custom options and exceptional customer service. Updated September 2019. Its strongest feature is its ability to be customized, allowing small businesses to fit the platform to their processes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua : So, Fred and I met in about May of last year, of 2019. Eric Ries : Have you or has the City of LA open sourced this playbook of what are the complementary pieces that have to get done to make a lab like this effective? Now, how do you know each other? I had just moved over from Oxford.

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