​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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Tackling the Climate Crisis by Detecting, Verifying & Classifying Wildfires in Real-Time With the Help of AI

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Tackling the Climate Crisis by Detecting, Verifying & Classifying Wildfires in Real-Time With the Help of AI

The climate crisis is resulting in an increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and society needs new tools to be able to cope and adapt. Sonia Kastner is the CEO & founder of Pano AI, the leader in wildfire early detection and intelligence. Pano combines advanced hardware, AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real-time. 

At our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Sonia shared how visual technologies are at the crux of disaster mitigation solutions to help tackle the climate crisis.

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Insights from Ty Ahmad-Taylor’s 32 years working at NYTimes, @Home Network, Samsung, Meta, and Snap

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Insights from Ty Ahmad-Taylor’s 32 years working at NYTimes, @Home Network, Samsung, Meta, and Snap

Meet Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP of Monetization at Snap. Ty’s background: 32 years in information design, 26 years in consumer-facing software and product development leadership, and 25 years in interactive television services development. He has worked at four startups (one went public, and the other three were acquired), and at large social, media, and consumer electronic companies.

In the fireside chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, he shared his views on three things that every CEO should do, inclusive teams, systems thinking, and an exclusion filter that could make our experience of using social media so much better! Evan and Ty also touched on ideas ripe for AI automation, machine learning algorithms that make TikTok successful, and the mixed reality environment that’s coming soon.

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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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Visual Tech is Critical to the Future of Life Sciences

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Visual Tech is Critical to the Future of Life Sciences

In the lead-up to our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Evan Nisselson had the privilege of chatting with Amy Kruse, General Partner of Prime Movers Lab. On March 23rd, she will take part in our panel discussion on investing trends in businesses powered by visual technologies.

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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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Trends in Visual Technology Investing

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Trends in Visual Technology Investing

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?”

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In 2003 They Called Evan Crazy - He Said Phones Would Replace Point & Shoot Cameras

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In 2003 They Called Evan Crazy - He Said Phones Would Replace Point & Shoot Cameras

Evan has been working in the visual tech industry for over 20 years. In 2003 he wrote that camera phones will be taking the place of point-and-shoot cameras and everyone thought he was crazy.

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