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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

Fresh data from 15,000+ SAFEs signed last year (source: Carta ) Technology makes it possible to do more with less – LLMs, generative AI have are rapidly changing the game with all kinds of automations, from coding to content creation. We’d like to see that the relevant functions are covered (who’s writing code?

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Impressions from Pocket Gamer Connects in London

VC Cafe

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. Gaming is a sector that traditionally struggled to attract venture capital investment in the early days, as mentioned by Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins in the Gamecraft podcast. billion in 2022.

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Raising venture capital in down market?

VC Cafe

Venture capital is down 36% globally QoQ and a lot of startups face an uncertain future. The nature of venture capital cycles. Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market. Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market.

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The future of service marketplaces is AI

VC Cafe

Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and GTP-3, Sequoia.

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Deep Fake Love & AI Girlfriends

Start Up Blog

The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. Many of these are funded by respected venture capital firms such as AZ16. The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue.