​Over 10 Years of Insights on Visual Technologies & AI From Leaders ​a​t DeepMind, Sequoia Capital, Meta, Union Square Ventures,​ Snap and More​

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​Over 10 Years of Insights on Visual Technologies & AI From Leaders ​a​t DeepMind, Sequoia Capital, Meta, Union Square Ventures,​ Snap and More​

As we approach our 10th Summit anniversary on March 21, 2024, we decided to go down memory lane and spotlight the exceptional fireside chat speakers LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson has had the privilege to witness and interview over the years. These leaders come from companies such as DeepMind, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures, Meta, Spark Capital, FirstMark, Universal Pictures, Greylock Partners, Snap, First Round Capital, OpenWater and more.

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

The smartphone has democratized photography. Improved camera quality is a feature that sells new smartphones. Ever since the inception of LDV Capital in 2012, Evan Nisselson was thrilled with the possibility to partner with people who would bring DSLR quality to small devices.

Earlier this year, we led the seed funding of Glass Imaging – a company on a mission to enable unrivaled professional image quality in smartphones. The team redesigns the optics that work with proprietary AI algorithms to correct the distortions & convert the sensor output to a standard image. You can now see the fantastic quality of pictures taken with the Glass Imaging prototype – it’s happening and soon this technology will fit into pocket-size devices!

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The FDA-Cleared Cionic Neural Sleeve Overcomes Disability in Real-Time

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The FDA-Cleared Cionic Neural Sleeve Overcomes Disability in Real-Time

Meet Jeremiah Robison, Founder and CEO of CIONIC – one of LDV Capital’s portfolio companies. He has a 25-year career spent at the intersection of computing and the human body. At CIONIC, he builds robotic suits to help people move. For Jeremiah, it’s a truly personal story: his daughter’s CP diagnosis fueled a mission to empower all those with mobility impairments to move with more freedom and control.

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Glass Imaging To Enable Smartphone Cameras To Replace Professional DSLR Cameras

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Glass Imaging To Enable Smartphone Cameras To Replace Professional DSLR Cameras

Smartphone camera tech had stalled in its abilities to emulate full-frame cameras. Now it’s time for you to meet Glass Imaging! We're excited to partner with founders Ziv Attar and Dr. Tom Bishop as well as their team as they improve smartphone camera capabilities through a mixture of unique optics, computational photography, and AI.

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Machine Perception Will Eat the World

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Machine Perception Will Eat the World

Peter Stern, CEO of Voyant Photonics, wrote about…basically, the future of everything. See what happens when chip-scale machine perception sensors become affordable enough.

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The Cutting Edge Technologies Impacting Hollywood & the Media

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The Cutting Edge Technologies Impacting Hollywood & the Media

At our 7th annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the pleasure to host a fireside chat between Abhijay Prakash, President of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, and Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital’s Founder and General Partner. They discussed entertainment, Hollywood, and new technologies.

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CIONIC is Overcoming Disability through Precision Bionics: Sensors, Soft Robotics, and Machine Learning

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CIONIC is Overcoming Disability through Precision Bionics: Sensors, Soft Robotics, and Machine Learning

CIONIC builds robotic suits or so called neural sleeves to help people move. This bionic clothing leverages visual tech, sensors, soft robotics, and machine learning to improve lives by helping those living with physical disabilities. Tune in to re/watch Jeremiah Robison’s keynote at our 6th annual LDV Vision Summit.

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Nicolas Pinto Predicted the Deep Learning Tsunami but Not the Velocity - Selling to Apple Was His Answer

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Nicolas Pinto Predicted the Deep Learning Tsunami but Not the Velocity - Selling to Apple Was His Answer

Nicolas Pinto is focused on mobile deep learning at Apple. At the 2016 LDV Vision Summit, he spoke about his journey as a neuroscientist and artificial intelligence researcher, turned entrepreneur who sold his company to Apple.

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You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

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You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

Every second of every day, people around the world are publishing research papers and launching new startups that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Researchers and professors want their work to be noticed in the midst of a flood of new work. Entrepreneurs want to build valuable businesses & get covered in top-tier media.

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The Power And Promise Of Emotion Aware Machines

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The Power And Promise Of Emotion Aware Machines

Learn how to empower content creators, brands and publishers to better monetize their content by analyzing the sentiment of faces in videos. In this keynote, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Co-Founder & Lead Scientist at Emotient, shared what is possible with technology today, and what will be possible tomorrow?

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Partnering with Jan Erik Solem and the Mapillary Team

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LDV Capital is very pleased to be co-investors in Mapillary with Sequoia Capital, Wellington Partners, Playfair and several great angels.

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