January 23, 2025

Partnering With Brilliant People, Delivering Distributions, Recruiting An Analyst & Hopefully Improving Our World

January 23, 2025/ Evan nisselson

We are thrilled to share that we have returned our LDV Capital I & II funds. We continue to have significant upside potential across each of our funds thanks to our brilliant entrepreneurs, experts, team and LP partners.

We continue investing out of our LDV Capital IV fund.

LPs say we are highly differentiated, disciplined, have high-quality sourcing and successfully create value by investing in category leaders at the earliest stages.

We are excited to be recruiting an Analyst to join our team to help us identify, analyze and evaluate investment opportunities. You will be a major contributor to all aspects of our fund from sourcing, market research, due diligence and supporting our portfolio companies.

January 23, 2024

LDV Capital Raised Fourth Fund To Continue Investing in People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies and Artificial Intelligence

January 23, 2024/ Evan nisselson

We are pleased to announce that we have raised our fourth LDV Capital fund with $31M. We will continue investing in the same unique thesis that has not changed since founding LDV Capital in 2012. The majority of data our brains analyze is visual so the majority of data that AI will analyze will be visual as well. Visual data and visual technologies are critical for the success of artificial intelligence horizontally across all sectors.

March 02, 2023

14 Past and Future LDV Vision Summit Speakers Share Their Views On What’s The Next Big Thing in Visual Tech

March 02, 2023/ Kat Lopez

In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech (hosted virtually on March 28), we interviewed some of our past & future speakers. Meet Luc Vincent of Meta, Steffen Tjerrild of Synthesia, Kristen Fortney of BioAge, Clément Farabet, Camilo Fosco of Memorable, Alexandra Boussommier of ImVitro, Michael Geer of Humanity, Henrik Haugbølle of Uizard, Mariano Battan of Mural, Alexandre Winter of Norbert Health, Andrew Rabinovich of Headroom, Karin Andrea Stephan of Earkick, Adam Paulisick of maad labs, and Rebecca Paoletti of CakeWorks.

March 18, 2022

Investing Trends in Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

March 18, 2022/ Kat Lopez

Curious about where the next visual technology investment opportunities are? Meet Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir, M12’s Samir Kumar, DCVC’s Kelly Chen, and Bloomberg’s Sarah McBride and see them discuss how Gen Z doesn’t see the camera as an app, they see it as a platform; how the next world war will not be fought by people, but by AI; and so much more!

March 10, 2022

Visual Data is Propelling a New Wave of Climate Tech

March 10, 2022/ Kat Lopez

For far too long, sustainability has been viewed by big companies as more of a marketing campaign or non-profit exercise than a direct financial impact on their bottom line. But the tides are, literally, changing and advances in visual data collection, computer vision and AI are at a point where climate tech companies can leverage it to build businesses that provide financial benefit to mitigating climate impact. See more details in Evan Nisselson’s article.

January 13, 2021

Computer Vision-Powered Solutions to Create Breakthrough User Experiences

January 13, 2021/ Kat Lopez

Evan Nisselson interviewed Samir Kumar, Managing Director of M12 – Microsoft's Venture Fund. Samir is leading investment activities in emerging tech areas including quantum computing and autonomous vehicles. Before joining M12, Samir worked in Qualcomm’s corporate R&D division, leading early-stage product validation, partnerships, acquisition, and strategy for embedded and on-device deep learning.

December 18, 2020

“Robotics Makes Us Superhuman,” Says Carol Reiley, the Mother of Robots

December 18, 2020/ Kat Lopez

The next guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech Series is Carol Reiley, a serial entrepreneur and a computer scientist with the nickname “Mother of Robots”. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Carol about current trends in robotics and AI. They touched on autonomous cars, healthcare, the food industry, and arts – all subject to being drastically transformed by advances in deep learning.

October 07, 2020

LiDAR Will Be Ubiquitous – Delivering 3D Vision To Robots, Factory Automation and Consumer Electronics

October 07, 2020/ Evan nisselson

LiDAR technology is a key solution but adoption of LiDAR has been limited by cost and size until our LDV portfolio company Voyant Photonics. At LDV Capital, we are thrilled to partner with the Voyant team toward their vision of enabling computers to see in 3D.

April 22, 2020

Accelerating Artificial Intelligence With Light

April 22, 2020/ Kat Lopez

At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Dr. Nicholas Harris – Founder & CEO of Lightmatter – gave a keynote speech on the next-generation computing platform they are building for AI and its value for autonomous vehicles in the next 5, 10, 20 years.
Nicholas holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his doctoral thesis was on programmable nanophotonics for quantum information processing and artificial intelligence.

January 08, 2018

Lyft & Arteris Discuss How Autonomous Vehicles, the Most Disruptive Innovation of a Generation, Will Impact Society

January 08, 2018/ Guest User

At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Josh Brustein of Bloomberg Businessweek asked Taggart Matthiesen of Lyft and Charles Janac from Arteris how autonomous vehicles – the most disruptive innovation of a generation – will impact society.

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