The AI Agent Wars and What Founders and Investors Need to Know
A founder and investor guide to the AI agent wars. Which platforms are winning, what the major labs are building, and what it means for startups building with agents in 2026.
Eze Vidra
Eze Vidra is the founder of VC Cafe and the co-founder and managing partner of Remagine Ventures, a pre-seed fund investing in ambitious founders at the intersection of AI, technology, entertainment, gaming, and commerce with a spotlight on Israel.
He is a former General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) in Europe, former head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding head of Campus London, Google's first startup hub. Eze writes on Israeli tech, venture capital, artificial intelligence, and founder strategy.
He is also the founder of Techbikers, a nonprofit that brings together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read.
The Bar Has Moved: What Pre-Seed Actually Means in 2026
Pre-seed in 2026 looks different. The bar has moved on traction, team, and product. What do investors actually expect before writing a check at the earliest stage of a startup?
Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – March 20 2026
It’s #Firgun time! The original version of this newsletter was published on LinkedIn. Subscribe to get the next edition in your inbox for free. In case you’re new here, the word “Firgun” (pronounced ‘feer-goon’) is an informal modern Hebrew term and…
Remagine Ventures Ranked Among Israel’s Most Active VCs in 2025
The latest IVC Data-LeumiTech Investors Report is out, and I’m proud to share that Remagine Ventures has been recognised as one of the Most Active VCs in Israel in 2025, appearing on two key rankings: the overall most active VC…
The Global Race for AI Sovereignty: Where Does Israel Stand?
The recent clash between the Pentagon and Anthropic over the use of its models for military purposes sent shockwaves through the tech and defense worlds. If a private company can dictate operational terms to a superpower based on its internal…
The Web’s Next Customer Isn’t Human
Will AI Agents will far surpass humans in internet activity by the end of this year?
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – March 13 2026
Amid everything happening, the Israeli tech ecosystem had arguably its most capital-intensive week in history. That deserves to be named and celebrated. Let's get into it.
In 2026 Gaming companies must deal with AI supercycle and VC winter to find new moats
It is GDC 2026 week in San Francisco, but I skipped the conference this week. I was supposed to be in Israel, but alas the war disrupted my plans. But even without listening to the keynotes from the large studios,…
The Researcher’s New Job Is Writing the Spec
Last week, Andrej Karpathy, the former head of AI at Tesla, published something that stopped me mid-scroll. His new open-source project, autoresearch, gives a coding agent a single GPU and a 630-line Python training file, then steps aside. The agent…
Weekly Firgun Newsletter – March 6 2026
It’s #Firgun time! The original edition of this newsletter was published on Linkedin. Subscribe to get the next edition in your inbox. In case you’re new here, the word “Firgun” (pronounced ‘feer-goon’) is an informal modern Hebrew term and concept in…