3 Years Investing at LDV Capital: Insights from Sourcing, Evaluating & Partnering with Early-Stage Deep Tech Founders

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3 Years Investing at LDV Capital: Insights from Sourcing, Evaluating & Partnering with Early-Stage Deep Tech Founders

In September 2021, Ash Cleary began his venture capital journey by joining Evan Nisselson and our LDV Capital team as an Analyst, investing out of Fund III as part of a two-year program. After successfully completing the program, Ash was promoted to Associate and now invests out of LDV Capital's fourth fund.

Check out his insights and reflections on the past three years—working with the team and collaborating with brilliant deep tech entrepreneurs worldwide, building businesses powered by visual technology and artificial intelligence.

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Partnering with VitVio to Deliver Real-Time AI Visual Tracking In Hospital Operating Theatres to Increase Efficiencies

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Partnering with VitVio to Deliver Real-Time AI Visual Tracking In Hospital Operating Theatres to Increase Efficiencies

We are excited to partner and invest in the brilliant VitVio team. They are building an AI-driven computer vision platform designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of hospital operating theaters.

We at LDV Capital led their $2M pre-seed round with participation from Bek Ventures (ex-Earlybird), Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, and angel investors.

VitVio has also announced their pilot program with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH), one of the UK's three leading medical institutions in orthopedic care and “one of the best hospitals in the world.”

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AI in Neuroscience: Partnering with DANNCE.AI to Increase Drug Efficacy & Improve the Lives of People with Movement Disorders

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AI in Neuroscience: Partnering with DANNCE.AI to Increase Drug Efficacy & Improve the Lives of People with Movement Disorders

We at LDV Capital are thrilled to partner with the brilliant deep tech team at DANNCE.AI to leverage advanced computer vision solutions to increase drug efficacy and significantly improve the lives of people with movement disorders. We thrive on investing in people building innovative solutions that enhance people’s lives and provide substantial value.

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Drug Discoverer Shares Opportunities in Therapeutics & AI

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Drug Discoverer Shares Opportunities in Therapeutics & AI

Dr. David Rabuka is a serial biotech entrepreneur and investor based in Berkeley California. His expertise is concentrated on translating new technologies into clinical therapies. In 2024, Dr. Rabuka spoke about investment trends & opportunities in ​​life sciences and biotech at our Annual General Meeting. Check out our shortened & lightly edited transcript.

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Visual Technologies Are Fueling the Transition To a Circular Economy

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Visual Technologies Are Fueling the Transition To a Circular Economy

LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson and Ash Cleary cover topics ranging from spectroscopy and nanomaterials to enhance food and agricultural production, to renewable energy forecasting and grid management, and predictive digital twins for the supply chain.

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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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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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Computer Vision-Powered Solutions to Create Breakthrough User Experiences

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Computer Vision-Powered Solutions to Create Breakthrough User Experiences

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.

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Flashback – 2014 LDV Vision Summit Showcases How Visual Technologies Will Change Our World

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Flashback – 2014 LDV Vision Summit Showcases How Visual Technologies Will Change Our World

Here’s a flashback from 2014 – a year when Facebook bought Oculus VR and Ellen Degeneres temporarily crashed Twitter with her selfie with a bunch of celebrities during the Oscars broadcast. Watch Evan Nisselson’s opening word at our very first LDV Vision Summit.

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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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The Future of Storytelling with Interactive Video

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The Future of Storytelling with Interactive Video

Even if you missed our LDV Vision Summit in 2019 you can still watch Rebecca Paoletti, CEO & co-founder of CakeWorks, discussing this topic with Dan Garraway, the co-founder of WireWax, Tal Zubalsky, CPO & co-founder of Eko, and Beth-Ann Eason, the president of Innovid.

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Visual Technologies is an Amazing Lens to Think Through the World

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Visual Technologies is an Amazing Lens to Think Through the World

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.

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2019 LDV Vision Summit Visual Technology Trends

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2019 LDV Vision Summit Visual Technology Trends

At LDV Vision Summit, we highlight experts working on cutting edge technologies and trends across every sector of business and society. We do not repeat speakers and we are honored that many attendees join every year.

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45 Billion Cameras by 2022 Fuel Business Opportunities

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45 Billion Cameras by 2022 Fuel Business Opportunities

Exclusive 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.

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Thank You for Making Our 4th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Success!

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Thank You for Making Our 4th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Success!

Our 2017 Annual LDV Vision Summit was an absolutely amazing event, thanks to all of you brilliant people.

"My second time attending the LDV Vision Summit was even better than the first. A great mix of accomplished technical people and energetic young entrepreneurs." Dave Touretzky, Research Professor, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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An Image is Really Hundreds of Data Points That Tell Us Who We Are

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An Image is Really Hundreds of Data Points That Tell Us Who We Are

Anastasia Leng, CEO at Creative X, worked many years at Google and is a serial entrepreneur leveraging technology to better understand visual content. Inside every image lies hundreds of unique data points that provide priceless information about your audience and their revealed visual preferences. Find out how technology can unearth this data to help you make smarter creative decisions and improve your visual strategy.

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How Can Data Science Evaluate Why Some Advertising Creative Content Resonates More Than Others?

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How Can Data Science Evaluate Why Some Advertising Creative Content Resonates More Than Others?

Claudia Perlich is the Chief Scientist at Dstillery, where she watches closely over a multitude of machine-learning algorithms and data-processing tasks. This talk touched on experimentation as well as the observational method for causal inference.

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