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The ever growing Israeli Generative AI landscape April 2023

VC Cafe

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019. The talent pool for AI startups in Israel is deep.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Billion in VC funding.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Blockdaemon on their seed round led by Comcast Ventures and Wallaroo Labs on its seed led by RRE Ventures.

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boldstart 2021 recap & what’s ?? in enterprise 2022

BeyondVC

And our portfolio continued to grow: Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing , , , , , , Continued investments in developer first, SaaS, and crypto infrastructure companies. Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. Securing open source dependencies like our portfolio co Snyk , managing service to service authentication and policy, encrypting traffic and more become hot areas in 2018.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. Cyber Security.