We thrive on collaborating with deep technical teams building businesses powered by visual technology and artificial intelligence.

Visual technologies typically leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data across the full tech stack. Visual data examples: images, videos, thermal, radar, lidar, x-rays, ultrasound, MRI, CT scan, 2D, 3D, 4D, 6D and more. This thesis might have been less substantiated in 2012, but 10 years later it is validated and will continue to be viable for many more decades.

Interesting sectors for us include (but are not limited to):

  • Satellite imaging

  • Photonics

  • Autonomous vehicles

  • Visual search & content analysis

  • Robotics

  • Agriculture & Food

  • Imaging-enabled commerce

  • Mapping

  • Healthcare & Medicine

  • Life Sciences

  • Neuroscience

  • Longevity

  • Biotech

  • Computational imaging

  • Materials Science

  • Media & Entertainment

  • Climate

  • Logistics & Manufacturing

  • Smart Home

  • Internet of Eyes

  • Wearables

  • Metaverse, Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality

  • Security

Founded: April 2012 by Evan Nisselson
Geography: North America, Europe & Israel
Stage: $500K-$1.2M at pre-seed or seed
Contact: The best way to reach out is via mutual friends, associates, or here >

 

Portfolio:



 

Clarifai

Overview: Clarifai provides a full-stack AI platform helping developers and teams quickly and collaboratively get vision, language and audio AI into production.
Location: New York, NY
Co-Investors: NEA, Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Google Ventures, Nvidia, Qualcomm Ventures, Jan Erik Solem, NYU, and angels


 

TVision Insights 

Overview: Audience insights leveraging cameras and computer vision to deliver individual viewing engagement.
Location: Cambridge, MA & New York, NY
Co-Investors: Accomplice, SIG Asia Investments, Golden Venture Partners, Jump Capital, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, and others


 

Ezra

Overview: Ezra’s mission is to enable early cancer detection for everyone by using Artificial Intelligence and the most advanced medical imaging technology available. Ezra’s full-body MRI protocol detects up to 13 cancers in women, 11 in men. It’s fast, accurate, and safe. 
Location: New York, NY & Toronto, Canada
Co-Investors: FirstMark, Accomplice, Founders Future, Credo, Seedcamp, IT-Farm Corp., Esther Dyson, Taavet Hinrikus (Co-founder Transferwise), Alexander Ljung (Founder Soundcloud), Daniel Dines (Founder UiPath), Jeff Raider and Dave Gilboa (co-founders of Harry’s and Warby Parker), Vlad Tenev (co-founder of Robinhood)


Voyant Photonics

Overview: Creating the next generation of chip-scale LiDAR.
Location: New York, NY
Co-Investors: Up.Partners, Contour Ventures, NEU Venture Capital


 

CIONIC

Overview: Super powering the human body. CIONIC is building a platform for human augmentation that powers people to transcend physical limitations.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: Epic Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, and angels


Norbert Health

Overview: Norbert Health’s contactless device and platform quickly detect, predict the health of people around you at work and at home.
Location: New York, NY & Paris, France
Co-Investors: Serena Capital, Hardware Club, Exor Seeds, Howard Morgan


Gardin

Overview: Empowering food producers to optimize the future of farming. Optical remote sensing technology, machine vision and analytics allow producers to measure plant physiology and proactively adjust parameters in order to optimize operations.
Location: London, UK
Co-Investors: Molten Ventures, Seedcamp, MMC Ventures and angels


Gryps

Overview: Gryps is connecting the construction data silos and will deliver smart analytics to facility owners to increase their ROI. Their software platform leverages robotic process automation (RPA), computer vision, and machine learning.
Location: New York, NY
Co-Investors: Primary VC, Pear VC, Harvard Business School Graduate Syndicate and angels


 

ROADIO

Overview: Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for e-bikes. A surround-view camera platform that can predict collisions and notify riders in order to prevent accidents.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: Trucks Venture Capital


 

Earkick

Overview: The AI-powered platform that measures and improves mental health in real-time.
Location: Zurich, Switzerland & California, US.
Co-Investors: West Tech Ventures, and angels


Aquifer

Overview: Studio-level animation platform without the studio.
Location: Austin, Texas
Co-Investors: Boost VC, Geekdom Fund, Wedbush Ventures, Techstars, and angels


Glass Imaging

Overview: Deep learning & advanced optics deliver DSLR image quality to smartphones and small devices.
Location: Bay Area, CA
Co-Investors: GV, Abstract, angels


 

Camio

Overview: Smart cloud-based video monitoring for your IP-connected cameras.
Location: San Mateo, CA
Co-Investors: Freestyle Capital, Greylock Partners, BoxGroup, Marissa Mayer, Brian McClendon, Mark Goldstein, Jan Erik Solem


Sonus Microsystems

Overview: Enabling the next generation of ultrasound imaging.
Location:
Vancouver, Canada
Co-Investors: Angels


 

Dannce AI

Overview: Leverage advanced computer vision solutions to increase drug efficacy and significantly improve the lives of people with movement disorders.
Location: Boston, MA
Co-Investors: Glasswing Ventures, Leo Lion Limited Company, Duke Capital Partners and Merck Digital Sciences Studio.


 

Newco

Overview: AI-powered platform to make operating rooms safer and more efficient.
Location: London, UK


Exits:


 

Uizard

Overview: AI-powered tool for designing wireframes, mockups, and prototypes in minutes.
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark  
Co-Investors: Insight Partners, ByFounders, av8 Ventures, The Nordic Web Ventures, 7percent Ventures, New York Venture Partners, Peter Stern (co-founder of Datek), Tiny VC Acquired by: Miro


 

Memorable

Overview: High-accuracy AI to improve branding and performance of every advertisement. Test & optimize your visual assets in seconds with deep learning and cognitive science models built with millions of human reactions.
Location: Boston, MA
Co-Investors: TenOneTen, Bertelsmann, AperiamVentures, Michael Kassan and Brian O’Kelley
Acquired by: Reddit


 
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Unsplash

Overview: Beautiful photography for all.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Co-Investors: Accomplice,  Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, Boldstart, and Naval Ravikant
Acquired by: Getty Images


 
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Mapillary 

Overview: Mapillary is a street-level imagery platform, powered by collaboration and computer vision.
Location: Malmo, Sweden & Los Angeles, CA
Co-Investors: Sequoia Capital, BMWi, Samsung Catalyst,  Atomico, NavInfo, Wellington Partners, Playfair Capital, Ooga Labs, Scott Kurnit, Taavet Hinrikus, Naval Ravikant, and other angels
Acquired by: Facebook


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Geniachip

Overview: Genia's mission is to make genetic information universally available. Genia's integrated circuits built on standard CMOS process technology enable massively parallel single-molecule DNA sequencing.  
Location: San Francisco, CA
Acquired by: Roche for $350M 


 
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UPSKILL

Overview: Enterprise software platform for Smart Glasses. (Formerly APX-Labs). 
Location: Washington, D.C. & San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: NEA, Boeing, GE Ventures, Cisco, Salesforce Ventures, Work-Bench, and angels
Acquired by: TeamViewer


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Mediachain Labs

Overview: Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it leveraging the blockchain. 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Co-Investors: Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, RRE Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and other angels.
Acquired by: Spotify


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Farmeron

Overview: Farmeron brings farm records online and boosts farming results with actionable metrics and suggestions.  
Location: Croatia & San Francisco, CA 
Co-Investors: SoftTech Ventures, NextView Ventures, US Virtus, Seedcamp, 500 Startups, and angels.
Acquired by: US Virtus Nutrition


ShopPad

Overview: ShopPad helps online retailers build e-commerce solutions and develops the most popular Shopify apps.
Location: Oakland, CA
Co-Investors: Allen Morgan, Oren Michels, Scott Rafer, and more angels


 

Fantasmo

Overview: CPS provides hyper-accurate positioning that is an order improvement over GPS. Unlike GPS it works well in cities and indoor, and it does not require any infrastructure such as satellites, beacons, or radios. All you need is an inexpensive camera and a data connection.
Location: Los Angeles, CA & Munich, Germany
Co-Investors: Unlock Venture Partners, TenOneTen Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Imagination Capital, and angels
Acquired by: Tier Mobility


 

Headroom

Overview: Helping people have better meetings, using AI. Their mission is to improve communication in meetings through greater awareness of each other.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: Gradient Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Morado Ventures, Serge Belongie, Anthony Goldbloom
Acquired by: Upwork


Previous Investments:


 
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Sea Machines

Overview: Autonomous & Remote Command Technology for Marine industries.
Location: Boston, MA
Co-Investors: Accomplice, Huntington Ingalls, ENIAC, Toyota AI, LaunchCapital, Geekdom Fund, and Techstars


BurnerPage

Overview: A SaaS AI-powered platform that autonomously delivers better Return on Investment (ROI) as it creates and improves web pages and provides continuous conversion rate optimization.
Location: New York, NY
Co-Investors: Freestyle and angels


 

ImVitro

Overview: A SaaS platform that applies computer vision and AI to the IVF fertility imaging process to minimize the number of failed transfers, increase quality control and transparency along the entire IVF workflow for patients, as well as reduce costs and save clinicians’ time.
Location: Paris, France
Co-Investors: MMC Ventures, Tiny VC, Fly Ventures, and Compound VC


 

Daimon

Overview: AI-powered digital beings with empathy who can act as companions can build long-lasting relationships with members. A new type of large language model that provides human-like empathy and companionship.
Location: New York, NY
Co-Investors: Data Community Fund, Myelin VC and angels


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Carbon Robotics

Overview: The next wave of intelligent automation. An affordable robotic arm with a development platform that makes working with robots iPhone-easy.
Co-Investors: Freestyle Capital, Techstars, Mesh Ventures, and others


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Lookmark

Overview: Lookmark solves the problem of What To Read by sharing what you and your friends are reading, automatically. It’s like Last.fm for news.
Co-Investors: Naval Ravikant, 500 Startups, Garry Tan, James Hong, and others


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Narrative

Overview: The Narrative Clip is a wearable, automatic camera that lets you enjoy the moments that matter while still documenting them in pictures. Narrative’s image recognition algorithm analyzes the photos and serves the users with their most meaningful moments in a mobile app and web based photo stream.
Co-Investors: Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Passion Capital, Creandum, Peter Read