Weekly Firgun Newsletter – October 24 2025
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AI Adoption is starting with consumers first
Before AI transforms entire industries, it’s already transforming our everyday lives one GenAI-powered consumer app at a time. Historically, the biggest tech companies have often been in the consumer space, from giants like Apple, Amazon, and Google to recent giants…
AI Agents: The Evolution of RPA
AI agents are driving the next wave of automation by offering more adaptive, multi-step decision-making capabilities compared to traditional bots and rule-based automation systems.
Roundup of 2017 VC Predictions and Tech Industry Reports
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Niels Bohr Hope your 2017 is off to a great start. With more VCs blogging, it’s great to see the plethora of predictions being shared. Below is a selection of themes and…
Disrupt Winner Shaker Raises $15 Million Series A
It seems like yesterday that Israeli startup Shaker won Techcrunch disrupt, and today the company is announcing a $15 million round led by Menlo Ventures. Other investors include Innovation Endeavors (Dror Berman), Troy Carter and Rami Beracha from Pitango as well as CrunchFund who was already an investor in Shaker.