VC Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2023

Since then, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of generative AI startups worldwide, as well as in Israel. Most operate in the application layer, and use APIs to power new automations and consumer experiences across various verticals and functions in the company: coding, copywriting, advertising and marketing, design, etc.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Although we took part in a number of significant M&A deal negotiations that were not carried out due to price gaps, we believe that there are more mature companies in Israel than ever. ” In addition, another hypothesis is that acquisitions slowed down due to new verticals being launched in the space of AR, VR, Robotics.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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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.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2020

According to recent analysis by Cardumen Ventures, there are 1,042 active AI companies in Israel as of June 2020, with over 150 new AI startups created in 2019. Israel’s growing deep tech landscape includes over 150 Semiconductors; Quantum Computing; Sensors; Space 2.0; Wellness is a category that mixes several verticals within.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Aggregator 179

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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. Overall, Israeli startups raised $7.3 But I’m generally optimistic.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2020

The event will highlight startups and technologies in the media, entertainment, gaming and esports domains, with a spotlight on Israel. The event will be streamed via Zoom and Facebook live on June 23th, 16:00-20:00 Israel time (UTC+3). Join us (free). The speaker line up includes various industry leaders (Snap Inc.,

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Media Vertical Portfolio 120

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.

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Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2016

Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post, I collected the top startup landscape visualizations for Israel, covering VR/AR, Fintech, IOT, DevOps and Cybersecurity. Virtual and Augmented Reality.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

The Israel Innovation Road Trip , is an effort to raise both funding and awareness. event, following 14 similar ones in Israel, Turkey and Europe. Israel Innovation Road Trip company list. You hear about them when they raise money, and then the news comes far and apart. This is the firm’s first U.S.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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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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.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Do@ – vertical search inside applications, on your tablet. Israel's dollar volume of deals is up almost 100% compared to the previous quarter. Israel's dollar volume of deals is up almost 100% compared to the previous quarter. Number of deals: The number of VC investments in Israel for Q2 2011 remained flat.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc. It is a global world – I plan to make sure I’m tapped into Europe, Israel and increasingly Asia to know what trends I can look for here in California. Tencent market cap on public market is $21 billion, Facebook’s is a theoretical $3-15bn (slide 52).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

eCommerce is the smallest vertical in the US tech venture investments, with only $39 million invested in Q3, in eight companies. A notable deal in the software vertical includes Israel-Massachusetts-based uTest ( CEO interview on VC Cafe ), who landed $13 million from Scale Venture Partners and others.

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Venture Capital Vertical Massachusetts eCommerce 79

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. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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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. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

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. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

That spark nearly five years ago led to an investment thesis here at Flybridge, where we have looked to invest behind Big Data applications and uses across a number of vertical industries. Most recently, we announced a new investment in a big data company out of Israel called tracx.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. 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. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. That mind-expanding career led me to work for global companies after I left the service – a multinational corporation headquartered in Munich, Germany and a startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 84

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.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in July, I wrote an essay in Geektime on “ The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail “ Little did I know how quickly that would prove true! However, Israel and the United Arab Emirates recently announced that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. If I’m missing any, please contact me.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

When Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center wanted to improve their sites mobile experience, BlueTrain Mobile made an example of how one page of their website would have looked if they had adopted responsive design, and how the page would have looked in a dedicated mobile site. Faster load times.

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Mobile Conversion Design Dividend 115

VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. We are likely see more specialisation i.e. text for doctors/lawyers, design for commerce/gaming etc.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

A s every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. The company is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. For previous editions, click here. Oracle Corp.,

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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

JUNE 22, 2010

T he Commercial Office at the Embassy of Israel in London and the Israel Export Institute have organized a New Media delegation , taking place on the first week of July. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

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Media Social Network Flash 145

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

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. We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. Israel's largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, deputy CEO at Libox.

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Media Management API HTML 84

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Israel, a hub for Impact Tech? Israel has the highest number of startups per capita in the world, making it a potential global leader for positive impact via technology excellence. During one of GITA’s latest webinars , researcher Montanes showed how FinTech, Healthcare and ClimateTech are currently the main impact tech sectors.

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Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. What got you interested and how have you been studying the system? Bill Gurley : Great. Our firm has been fortunate enough to be an investor in numerous “marketplaces”. Every single thing.”

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Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43