LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed: September 2023 Happy Hour Photos

Here at LDV Capital, we invest in people building businesses powered by visual technologies. We thrive on collaborating with deep tech teams leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis.

Since starting LDV Capital in 2012, we've been actively cultivating our thriving tech community through a range of events, including Annual Vision Summits, Happy Hour gatherings, monthly dinners, and more. Our LDV community now boasts over 2000 members, and we're excited to offer a sneak peek into our exclusive events with a selection of featured photographs below.

(L-R) Oren Michels, an entrepreneur, investor, board member, and advisor to technology startups in the US and Europe, and Luc Vincent, CPTO at Hayden AI and Expert in Residence with us at LDV Capital. Luc took part in the panel discussion “Visually Mapping The World Can Improve Our Daily Activities” at our 2nd Annual LDV Vision Summit and most recently, he shared his views on the next big thing in visual tech.

(L-R) Emmanuel Dumont, the founder of Shade, a startup developing a wearable UV sensor, and Ryan Measel, co-founder of Fantasmo, an LDV company that was acquired by TIER Mobility to bring the company’s cutting-edge camera positioning tech in-house.

(L-R) Billie Whitehouse, CEO at Wearable X, is speaking with Raveena Ramnauth, Operations Manager at LDV Capital.

(L-R) Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital, and Mark Schneider, Chairman at New York Angels.

Yuchen Fama, VP of Product at Clarifai, an LDV portfolio company. We invested in Clarifai in 2014 when the team consisted of just two people. They have since developed the foremost computer vision AI platform for handling image, text, video, and audio data.

(L-R) Brandon Corts, Director of Membership at New Lab and Kat Kolambet-Lopez, Director of Content & Marketing at LDV Capital

(L-R) Jonathan Zobel, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets, is speaking with Rick Smolan, CEO of Against All Odds Productions and former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer best known as the co-creator of the Day in the Life book series, and Deborah Berebichez, Founder & CEO at Solve For You, the leader in AI & quantum computing, TV host and chief data scientist.

Rick has been part of our LDV Community for over a decade. At our inaugural LDV Vision Summit, back in 2014, he gave a keynote speech, titled “The Future of Visual Communications.”

(L-R) Kat is speaking with Avi Muchnick, Founder and CEO at BurnerPage, and Ash Cleary, Analyst at LDV Capital.
BurnerPage is an LDV company that develops a platform that utilizes
Generative AI to automate and optimize content at unprecedented scales, driving page performance to a peak.

Jason Goodman, CMO at LDV portfolio company Ezra, the company transforming early cancer screening using full-body MRI scans and AI. Jason is a 'right-hand advisor' to CEOs at Cleo.AI, Naama, Plumguide, and Koos.io. Jason co-founded and led from start to exit Eastnine, Albion, and Tribal DDB.


Ezra’s full-body MRI scan only takes one hour and it screens for cancer in up to 13 organs. For attendees of our Happy Hour event and for you reading this post, we are happy to share the promo code that grants $150 OFF your scan: LDV150. Book your scan in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, or Las Vegas.


Beth Xie, Associate Director at Endless Frontier Labs.

The photographs are by Robert Wright.