VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

However, the current hype around generative AI feels different. Naturally, a technology like generative AI has the potential to transform and impact many industries, if not all. Many intelligent individuals and consulting firms have written about various industries and their potential use cases for generative AI.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

I was interviewed by TheMarker (Hebrew only) on why Israeli startups haven’t been part of the mega funding rounds in AI. I thought it’s a good timing to elaborate on where I see opportunities for Israeli startups in this rapidly growing space. billion, a 73% YoY drop, according to a new report by Viola.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. Pre-seed round tends to be the first ‘institutional’ round of funding in a startup. A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

Readers of VC Cafe know how big of a fan I am of startup landscapes. The Israeli startups building the Metaverse (updated Jan 2023). I’m proud of the work done by my team at Remagine Ventures, to publish the updated map of the Israeli startups building the Metaverse. The Israeli Generative AI landscape.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2024

During these nearly two decades, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of being a front-row witness to Israel’s incredible startup scene. I’ve seen the explosion of new unicorns created, from cybersecurity pioneers to AI disruptors and billion dollar revenue gaming startups.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For the past 10 years, with interest rates near zero, VC investors plowed record amounts into tech startups and enjoyed a seemingly ‘easy’ investing environment. Prices went up from round to round, and startups were encouraged to grow, grow, grow, and not to worry about profitability.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The startup connects business teams in VR, merging game-like features with collaboration tools in one platform to help overcome some of the challenges of distributed teams and remote work. Remio (led by Jos van der Westhuizen ) marks our first VR investment ! Best wishes to you and your loved ones this holiday season. See you in 2023!

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

Their scale and resources enable them to innovate rapidly, making it challenging for startups to compete directly in this space. If startups do decide to compete on this ground floor, then they need to raise billions of dollars, most of which seems more like a Capex expense. The greater opportunity lies within the application layer.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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 ). Andrew Chen, “What’s next for marketplace startups?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

I searched for internships that would allow me to explore generative AI. The Israeli landscape was very appealing because of my personal connection to the land and Israel’s reputation as a breeding ground for startups. Kevin and Eze are incredibly knowledgeable in the AI, media, and entertainment space.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

An interesting new report by Dealroom and Flow Partners breaks down the massive investment that the “Magnificent Seven” (or M7 for short) are plowing into AI across verticals. It’s impossible to ignore the impact that Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Apple and Tesla/xAI have on AI.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

The first time I wrote about startup benchmarks was in 2019 and it became one of the most popular posts on VC Cafe. Key Metrics for B2B SaaS Startups: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) Definition: ARR is the yearly value of a company’s recurring revenue from subscription-based services.

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VC Cafe

MAY 10, 2024

In practice however, AI agents are unfortunately still not so reliable, and you’d be taking a big risk by using them blindly. Human-in-the-loop is the operative framework: Deploying generative AI solutions will require a human-in-the-loop approach, where humans and AI systems work in tandem, leveraging each other’s strengths.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2023

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. In the interim years, dozens of products and startups have launched or used GlueCon as one of the venues for their early premieres.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

In this podcast episode from the a16z Growth team, Fivetran’s VP of Strategy and Operations Travis Ferber and Alchemy’s Head of Sales Dan Burrill join a16z Growth’s Revenue Operations Partner Mark Regan to discuss the art of generating reliable usage-based revenue. How will generative AI change the way the pricing model is implemented?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The event was a get together for the Israeli ecosystem: startups, corporates, investors and academics in the gaming space. Israeli startups are mainly known for their prowess in cyber or semiconductors, but over the past few years, the country has also become a gaming powerhouse. Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

All the videos from the event , as well as our newly published landscape of the UK startups building the Metaverse can be found here. However, in reality the Metaverse is still in its early stages of development, and yet, we already can see positive examples of its impact. Into the Metaverse event in London. remain to be solved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The spend is way off whack, and businesses are spending less and less of marketing because even with generative ai, what you're seeing is you're seeing sameness in content people now people are generating content through generative ai. This will give you a list of potential partners. Who do they fund?

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Abrams discusses how “ Westworld ” explored “this question about what it is to be human… Yes, there are real things about creating robots and AI, but what you’re really telling is this entire story that plays out all of these very canonical human tendencies.”. Generating stories, generating conversation. JA: Agreed.

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