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Perspectives on how data, AI & Machine Learning are transforming the business landscape

AI Maturity Begins Now: The Enterprise Imperative for 2025

The enterprise technology landscape witnessed unprecedented change in 2024, as AI adoption surged from 50% to 72% across organizations. But even more striking was the meteoric rise of Generative AI, which doubled its reach from 33% to 65% of enterprises in just twelve months. This shift marks the end of an introductory, experimental phase of AI and the beginning of widespread enterprise implementation and integration. At Team8, our work with cutting-edge AI companies and enterprise leaders has lent us unique insights into this transformation. Through our extensive network and deep technological expertise, we've identified several critical trends that will shape the future of enterprise AI – and the challenges organizations must overcome to stay competitive.
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Why We Invested in Sawmills: The Future of Intelligent Telemetry Management

The way enterprises collect, process, and leverage telemetry data is fundamentally broken. Engineering teams are drowning in an overwhelming flood of logs, metrics, and traces—yet much of it is redundant, irrelevant, or mismanaged. Organizations struggle with vendor lock-in, unpredictable costs, and inefficient data pipelines, making observability more of a burden than an enabler.

Rethinking Analytics for the AI Era: Why Incremental Improvements Aren’t Enough

Business leaders today are not just frustrated with the pace or quality of insights — they’re fundamentally disillusioned with the entire analytics process.  After having over 140 one-on-one conversations with data, analytics and business leaders, one thing is clear: the traditional approach to analytics is not just insufficient; it’s fundamentally unsystematic and inconsistent. It’s failing...

H1 2024 in Review: Data and AI Infrastructure Investments in Israel

In 2022, we first mapped out data and AI infrastructure investment trends in the Israeli ecosystem. Since that time, we’ve seen a notable shift from pure data infrastructure companies to a rising batch of AI infrastructure solutions. At the same time, existing data infrastructure and analytics companies have implemented AI into their products and shifted to serve the rapidly emerging AI market. We’ve seen Israeli data and AI infrastructure companies rise to the occasion, continuing to punch well above their weight.

Putting an End to CFOs’ Sleepless Nights: Why We Led Datricks $15M Series A

What made us so excited to invest in Datricks? It’s simple and it’s all about Financial Integrity. Their AI-powered platform detects risks, uncovers hidden anomalies, and stops potential issues before they escalate into costly problems. By leveraging process mining, Datricks connects to various systems and tracks every financial process in real time.

Navigating the AI Revolution: How to Make AI “Enterprise Ready”

As enterprises race to leverage AI for competitive advantage, the complexity and scope of associated risks continue to grow. Anticipating and preparing for these risks is crucial for any organization aiming to harness the full potential of AI technologies. To provide much-needed guidance in this transformation, we published “The Road to Enterprise-Ready AI”, a comprehensive...
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2024 Data Infrastructure Market Map: Navigating the Changing Data Infrastructure Landscape

Team8 is pleased to release our Data Infrastructure Market Map for 2024, our first annual update to the inaugural Data Map released in 2023. We are also excited to unveil our new AI Landscape Map, which we will introduce in more detail below. In this article, we’ll detail the major changes to the maps including categories that have consolidated or emerged to address problems in a new way.

Announcing Team8 Enterprise Fund III: Creating the Next Frontier of Cyber, AI, and Data Infrastructure

Raising the bar in enterprise tech. Today we are announcing that Team8 has closed its third Venture-Creation Enterprise Fund, with USD $110 million in committed capital. The Enterprise Fund III (VE III) will continue the practice that has helped Team8 become a global powerhouse in enterprise tech – partnering with world-class founders to tackle the...