Visual Tech Advancements in Life Sciences & Biotech Paving the Way for Longer and Healthier Lives

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Visual Tech Advancements in Life Sciences & Biotech Paving the Way for Longer and Healthier Lives

As the biotech industry heavily relies on data filtering, analysis, and sharing, visual technologies play a critical role in detecting and imaging biological systems. This paves the way for the future of life sciences tools, enabling next-generation therapeutics, biomanufacturing, and longevity. At our 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit earlier this year, a panel of experts delved into these topics and explored various critical aspects shaping the future of biotechnology. Check out their insights.

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Structuring a Sustainable Future: Visual Technology is Advancing the Discovery & Development of New Materials

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Structuring a Sustainable Future: Visual Technology is Advancing the Discovery & Development of New Materials

We believe that visual technologies will continue to be the crux of advancements in materials science, across nanomaterials and metamaterials, resulting in the transformation of various industrial, medical and consumer applications. Embedded AI will enable materials to reconfigure themselves autonomously in response to their environment. As sensing abilities and algorithms improve, the full potential of navigating the compositional and configurational possibilities of materials will catalyze widespread transformation for optics, biomarker diagnostics, robotics, 3D printing and more.

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Why 7 Top-Tier Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Visual Technology-Powered AI Businesses

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Why 7 Top-Tier Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Visual Technology-Powered AI Businesses

Which business sectors will be the most disrupted by visual technologies and AI in the next 10 years? In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech – hosted virtually on March 28, investors from Seedcamp, Northzone, Insight Partners, DCVC, VAS Ventures, Air Street Capital, and we at LDV Capital share insights.

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Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

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Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

We at LDV Capital have been investing in AI for over 10 years to date, and have made 7 investments in teams building businesses leveraging Generative AI since 2018. We believe that this technology has significant commercial value as a utility that will empower SaaS businesses to disrupt legacy enterprises. Check out this article to learn more and see some examples of exponentially growing commercial applications in content creation, biotech and more.

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Investing Trends in Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

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Investing Trends in Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

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!

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Voyant Photonics Raises $15.4M and Delivers Its Developer Kits with The World’s First Silicon-Photonics Chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system

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Voyant Photonics Raises $15.4M and Delivers Its Developer Kits with The World’s First Silicon-Photonics Chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system

Our portfolio company Voyant Photonics raised $15.4M in Series A funding to bring developer kits with the world's first silicon-photonics chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system to their customers. Their tiny sensors can analyze any environment, in any lighting from bright sunlight to pitch darkness with millimeter precision, are immune to interference, that sense position, motion, and even the materials objects are made of and are affordable for any application.

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Can We Compare Robots to Animals and Build Diverse Relationships With Them?

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Can We Compare Robots to Animals and Build Diverse Relationships With Them?

We welcome Dr. Kate Darling in our Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is a leading expert in Robot Ethics and a researcher at MIT's Media Lab. Abigail Hunter-Syed and Dr. Darling spoke about our tendency to assign human characteristics to the machines in our lives - anyone else ever apologizes to Roomba? How about cursed at Alexa? See how Dr. Darling thinks we should approach our relationships with robots.

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Visual Technologies Will Enable the Meat Industry to Be More Efficient

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Visual Technologies Will Enable the Meat Industry to Be More Efficient

In our latest LDV Insights Report, we examined the opportunities for visual technologies across animal agriculture and found that there is a tremendous opportunity. From meat processing to feed efficiency, animal quality of life and dairy, there are exciting new applications for computer vision and machine learning. Merritt Jenkins, Summer Associate at LDV in 2020, presents some of our findings.

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Dr. Kavita Bala on Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry

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Dr. Kavita Bala on Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry

Please meet Kavita Bala – the next guest in our monthly Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is one of our most distinguished scholars, the dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Her work on scalable rendering, Lightcuts, is the algorithm in Autodesk’s cloud renderer. Dr. Bala co-founded GrokStyle, a company that won our 2016 LDV Vision Summit Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Competition. In 2019, her company was acquired by Facebook and now the future of shopping on Facebook is based on GrokStyle's tech. Read this interview to learn about Dr. Bala’s career path, current projects and her vision of the future of visual technologies.

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Farm to Fridge: Food and Agriculture are Ripe with Visual Technology Opportunities

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Farm to Fridge: Food and Agriculture are Ripe with Visual Technology Opportunities

As experts in visual technologies, we at LDV Capital produce an annual proprietary LDV Insights report, where we deep dive into a sector where visual technology will revolutionize businesses. Previously, we covered healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and more. This year, we researched the future of food and agriculture.

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“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

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“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Gaile Gordon, a co-founder of TYZX, acquired by Intel. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Gaile about her career in deep tech.

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Merritt Jenkins Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

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Merritt Jenkins Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

Merritt Jenkins is at MIT Sloan School of Management. He has eight years of experience deploying robot hardware and vision systems in harsh environments including at Plenty (a Softbank-backed vertical farming company) and Pattern Ag (a VC-backed startup developing genetic analyses of the soil microbiome). He has an MSc in Robotics from CMU and a dual BA/BEng from Dartmouth. Merritt is looking forward to learning more about the investing process and the landscape of computer vision startups.

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The Next Decade Will See Trillion Dollar Sectors Disrupted by Visual Technologies, According to Hadley Harris

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The Next Decade Will See Trillion Dollar Sectors Disrupted by Visual Technologies, According to Hadley Harris

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Hadley Harris, the Founding General Partner at Eniac, about his experience investing in visual tech. Hadley has done a little bit of everything on the path to co-founding Eniac, starting out as an engineer at Pegasystems, a product manager at Microsoft, and a strategist at Samsung. He ran a few aspects of the business across product and marketing at Vlingo prior to its sale to Nuance. He also served as CMO at Thumb until it was acquired.

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"Current Artificial Neural Networks Are Suboptimal," Says DeepMind Scientist

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"Current Artificial Neural Networks Are Suboptimal," Says DeepMind Scientist

Viorica Patraucean is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. At our Vision Summit 2018, she enlightened us with her recent work on massively parallel video nets and how it’s especially relevant for real-world low-latency/low-power applications.

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Image Recognition Will Empower Autonomous Decision Making

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Image Recognition Will Empower Autonomous Decision Making

Rudina Seseri is the Founder & Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures. With over 14 years of investing and transactional experience, she has led technology investments and acquisitions in startup companies in the fields of robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), SaaS marketing technologies, and digital media.

Rudina will be sharing her knowledge on trends and investment opportunities in visual technologies as a panelist and startup competition judge at the 2017 Annual LDV Vision Summit. We asked her some questions this week about her experience investing in visual tech and what she is looking forward to at the Vision Summit.

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