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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

For the past 10 years, with interest rates near zero, VC investors plowed record amounts into tech startups and enjoyed a seemingly ‘easy’ investing environment. From a technology point of view, new tech tools like generative AI means that tasks can be accomplished with fewer resources and at a higher speed.

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Impressions from Pocket Gamer Connects in London

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One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. The reasons for the reduced spend on US gaming include: reduced discretionary spend due to inflation, reduction in post-COVID gaming hours and a thinner release slate of big titles, according to Matthew Ball.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

We had initially wanted to begin with a performance review product or a more conventional marketing product, but we started off in recruiting for very practical reasons: 1) We cared about the problem and 2) We were pretty sure we were going to win. Today, you’d look at Textio and say it’s an HR Tech company.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

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Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. Product/ tech/ insight – In many cases, pre-seed startups might already have a minimal viable product or at least some initial functionality to demonstrate potential.

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The State of Creative Automation

VC Cafe

With new advances in AI, creativity is now being transformed by technology and offered as a services for consumers and companies. Creative automation is the ability to create original, high quality content (text, video, images, music, art, etc) leveraging data and technology. Watch this impressive demo. Audio and Music.