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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

2020… where to start? If you look at the prediction lists of 2020, none (or at least very few), would have foreseen the chain reaction of Covid-19 to both enterprise and consumer trends. billion (up from $175 billion in 2020) but not sustaining the 20% growth experienced in the pandemic. Twitch stats in 2020.

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Your cloud data needs a reality check: our investment in Cyera

Cracking the Code

Latest estimates are that the 65 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1 billion terabytes) of global data in 2020 will have nearly tripled by 2025**. With the elite initial team they’ve assembled, they’ve managed to build their first product in record time and secure large six-figure deals while still in stealth mode.

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Venture Capital Superheroes

David Teten

In fact, I recently had dinner with a well-known VC who said that he was surprised to see the CB Insights database includes investments his firm has made in stealth companies which haven’t even been announced yet. We think that our job is to invest in the growth areas of 2018-2020, and we don’t know in advance what those are.

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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End of Year Update

Austin Startup

Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange. We also have several stealth startups that sit at the intersection of AI and healthcare.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

In addition, according to the IVC-LeumiTech Israeli Tech Review 2023 showed that while total capital raising declined, the capital raising median has shown stability over the year and is normalising with 2020 levels. Fast forward to mid 2020, at the peak of Covid. It can now be used to track players in official games.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

just months after it came out of stealth. From March to August 2020, Melio saw payments volumes increase by 700% as US small businesses rushed to find a solution to pay their suppliers online. Melio is the poster child of one of the key trends highlighted in the Accel 2020 Euroscape : the fintech stack shifting to the cloud.

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The State of Consumer Tech in Israel in 2023

VC Cafe

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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