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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ?? Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io

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2023 Global Venture Reports were Gloomy, but there are reasons to be optimistic

VC Cafe

2023 was a rough year for Venture Capitalists and startups alike Plummeting deal volume (US down 40%, UK %50, Israel 60%) back to 2017 volumes. The rise of generative AI is expected to affect every vertical: health, education, fintech, gaming – creating opportunities for startups.

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Generative AI mega rounds and opportunities for Israeli startups

VC Cafe

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

Cracking the Code

Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. From a geographic standpoint, the UK and Israel lead the pack with 20 companies each, followed by France with 18 and Germany with 8.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

Tom from Omaha, Nebraska, shared an update about what is going on in that part of the world, as did other audience members from New York City, Israel, and Columbus, Ohio. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably.

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Hey Graduates: Forget Plastics - It's All About Machine Learning

Seeing Both Sides

It was an interview question, posed by then senior Google engineer Christophe Bisciglia (later founder of red-hot cloud software company, Cloudera and more recently WibiData ) to job applicants. Most recently, we announced a new investment in a big data company out of Israel called tracx.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer.