At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Jessi Hempel (Senior Editor at LinkedIn) spoke with Hadley Harris (Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures), Laura Smoliar (Founding Partner at Berkeley Catalyst Fund), and Zavain Dar (Partner at Lux Capital) about trends in visual technologies across all business sectors and society.
The main question for our panelists was: “Where are the next visual technology investment opportunities?”
Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, asked Nabeel Hyatt, a former founder, CEO, and now General Partner at Spark Capital, some questions about his experience investing in visual tech.
Read MoreEvan Nisselson interviewed Matt Turck, a Partner of FirstMark Capital. He invests across a broad range of early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Prior to FirstMark, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the investment and incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Previously, Matt was the co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle.
Read MoreEvan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Zavain Dar, Partner at Lux Capital, about his experience investing in visual tech. Zavain invests in companies that are using machine learning and AI to augment or replace physical-world functions including biology, language, manufacturing, and analysis. He looks for entrepreneurs that can use software and data to hone a philosophical position on where the world is, and how to direct it for the better.
Read MoreEvan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviews Laura Smoliar about her experience investing in visual tech. Laura is a Founding Partner at The Berkeley Catalyst Fund where she focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies in biopharma, agriculture, medical device, clean air, clean water, energy storage, and sensors.
Read MoreEvan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Rachel Lam, the co-founder and Managing Partner of Imagination Capital. Prior to launching Imagination Capital, Rachel founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003 and was head of the strategic investing arm of Time Warner Inc. for 14 years.
Read MoreEvan 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.
Read MoreAt the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures and Evan Nisselson of LDV Capital discussed the greatest challenges they have seen their portfolio companies endure and how strategic team building is critical to success at the earliest stages of company building.
Read MoreAt the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Erin Griffith of Fortune spoke with Vic Singh of ENIAC Ventures, Claudia Iannazzo from AlphaPrime Ventures, Scott English of Hearst Ventures, and Emily Becher from Samsung Next Start about trends and opportunities in visual technology investing.
Read MoreJessi Hempel of Backchannel sat down with Rudina Seseri of Glasswing Ventures and Rohit Makharia of GM Ventures to discuss trends and investment opportunities in visual technologies at the LDV Vision Summit 2017.
Read MoreEvan Nisselson had the opportunity to sit down with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures to discuss future investment trends and early-stage opportunities at the LDV Vision Summit 2017.
Read MoreExclusive research by us at LDV Capital is the first publicly shared, in-depth analysis which estimates how many cameras will be in the world in 2022. We believe it is a conservative forecast as additional sectors will be included in future research.
Read MoreJudy Robinett is known for her titanium Rolodex. She was a judge at our 2017 LDV Vision Summit startup competition. Evan Nisselson caught up with her a week before our event about her experience investing in startups.
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