VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

The state of Generative AI startups in Israel According to The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence, Israel is the 7th most attractive AI hub globally.

Generative AI 89

Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 89

VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

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.

Generative AI 172

Generative AI Global Venture Capital Valuation 172

VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Harnessing Specialised Magazines for Vertical LLM Development Everyone knows that in AI, garbage in (when it comes to data training) means garbage out. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation. But is the opposite true as well?

Generative AI 142

Generative AI Media Artificial Inteligence Vertical 142

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. Founded by CEO Meir (Iri) Zohar, eXalate has offices in New York and Kfar Saba, Israel. This is the startup’s second round, coming to a total of $19 million to date.

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

VC Cafe

APRIL 20, 2022

Six months ago I published a post on VC Cafe titled, the state of creative automation , diving into vertical applications of AI on content creation of all sorts; from text (GPT-3 and the likes) to Synthetic video (powered by companies like HourOne). Social content. This list of use cases is just scratching the surface.

Audio 186

Audio Algorithm Advertising Video 186

VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

For years, investors asked founders “what if Google/Facebook/Amazon copy you?” Demis Hassabis, the founder of Deepmind, is urging we should proceed with caution. A shameless plug for Remagine Ventures In the generative AI landscape for Israel I published on Jan 13 2023, I listed 50 startups across various categories.

Generative AI 97

Generative AI API ChatGPT IP 97

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. If not, you might be like me and have 7 different email addresses for business names that I don’t use. Thanks to Jessica L.

Naming 87

Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 87

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year, in addition to unveiling the Euroscape, our list of top 100 Cloud companies started in Europe and Israel; and our Champions League, the high-growth unicorns from the region; we’ll also unveil the Accel Euroscape Public Index, the index of the European and Israeli-born public cloud companies, and its performance.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service 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 top three regions for SaaS companies are the UK, France and Israel, with around 20 logos each in our top 100.

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Vertical 48

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Want to get an introduction to the founders? VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Want to get an introduction to the founders? VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

I found a hidden gem in Israel. The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Want to get an introduction to the founders? VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

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.

Artificial Inteligence 44

Artificial Inteligence Vertical Intellectual Property Algorithm 44

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

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.

Silicon Valley 105

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator 105

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox.

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84