Albert Wenger's Views On Investment Opportunities In Visual Technologies & Data Network Effects

Albert Wenger's Views On Investment Opportunities In Visual Technologies & Data Network Effects

Evan 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.

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Timnit Gebru Wins 2017 ECVC: Leveraging Computer Vision to Predict Race, Education and Income via Google Streetview Image

Timnit Gebru Wins 2017 ECVC: Leveraging Computer Vision to Predict Race, Education and Income via Google Streetview Image

Our annual LDV Vision Summit has two competitions:
1. Startup competition for promising visual technology companies with less than $2M in funding

2. Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge (ECVC) for computer vision and machine learning students, professors, experts, or enthusiasts working on a unique solution to empower businesses and humanity.

Congratulations to our 2017 LDV Vision Summit Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge Winner: Timnit Gebru.

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Computer Vision Delivers Contextual And Emotionally Relevant Brand Messages

Computer Vision Delivers Contextual And Emotionally Relevant Brand Messages

The power of object recognition and the transformative effect of deep learning to analyze scenes and parse content can have a lot of impact on advertising. At the 2016 Annual LDV Vision Summit, Ken Weiner, CTO at GumGum told us about the impact of image recognition and computer vision in online advertising.

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Image Recognition Will Empower Autonomous Decision Making

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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Nicolas Pinto Predicted the Deep Learning Tsunami but Not the Velocity - Selling to Apple Was His Answer

Nicolas Pinto Predicted the Deep Learning Tsunami but Not the Velocity - Selling to Apple Was His Answer

Nicolas Pinto is focused on mobile deep learning at Apple. At the 2016 LDV Vision Summit, he spoke about his journey as a neuroscientist and artificial intelligence researcher, turned entrepreneur who sold his company to Apple.

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Creating Compelling VR & AR Experiences at LIFE VR

Creating Compelling VR & AR Experiences at LIFE VR

Mia Tramz is the Managing Editor of LIFE VR at Time. At the 4th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Mia gave a keynote on "Pioneering VR & AR for Media Companies." Evan had a chance to catch up with her about the virtual reality and augmented reality projects she is producing at LIFE VR and where she thinks virtual reality will go in the next 5-10 years.

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reCaptcha Fights Spam And Sparked The Burger vs. Sandwich Debate

reCaptcha Fights Spam And Sparked The Burger vs. Sandwich Debate

Ying Liu is a Software Engineer at Google and was part of the team that created reCaptcha nine years ago. reCaptcha has changed a lot since then and there are some really exciting initiatives she is working on at Google that she told us about at the 3rd Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2016.

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“Killing Google With My Bare Hands” and Other Lessons Learned in Scaling with Jack Levin

“Killing Google With My Bare Hands” and Other Lessons Learned in Scaling with Jack Levin

Jack Levin was an early employee at Google and later started ImageShack, and is most recently at Nventify. In his keynote at the 2016 Annual LDV Vision Summit, he spoke about his perspective going back to the early days of Google up to today. Tickets on sale now for the upcoming Annual LDV Vision Summit.

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Computer Vision Will Dramatically Affect The Travel Industry: People don't have to "go there" to "be there"

Computer Vision Will Dramatically Affect The Travel Industry: People don't have to "go there" to "be there"

Brian Cohen is the Chairman of NY Angels, the founding partner of NY Venture Partners and the author of An Angel Insider Reveals How Entrepreneurs Can Raise Smart Money For Their Billion-Dollar Idea. At the 3rd Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2016, he was a judge for the Startup Competition. Evan had a chance to catch up with him in April about the extensive investment opportunities leveraging visual technologies.

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

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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Sturfree Launching Augmented Reality Gaming App with Investor They Met at LDV Vision Summit

Sturfree Launching Augmented Reality Gaming App with Investor They Met at LDV Vision Summit

Anil Cheriyadat, Founder and CEO of Sturfree was a finalist in the ECVC at the 2015 annual LDV Vision Summit. Sturfree technology use mobile cameras to recognize the real world around you then augment it for travel, gaming, entertainment etc. We caught up with Anil as Sturfree prepares to launch its Augmented Reality social application.

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Josh Elman Says Building a Company is Hypothesis Testing

Josh Elman Says Building a Company is Hypothesis Testing

This fireside chat with Josh Elman of Greylock Partners and Evan Nisselson of LDV Capital took place at the 2016 LDV Vision Summit. Josh and Evan discussed future investment trends and early stage opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies.

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Applications of Computer Vision & AI Will be Life Transformative

Applications of Computer Vision & AI Will be Life Transformative

This panel, “Trends in Visual Technology Investing” is from our 2016 LDV Vision Summit. Moderator: Jessi Hempel, Senior Writer at Wired. Featuring: Liza Benson, Partner at StarVest Partners, Howard Morgan, Partner & Co-founder of First Round Capital, Alex Iskold, Managing Director at TechStars.

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Are OTT and Live the Hottest Features of Video Streaming?

Are OTT and Live the Hottest Features of Video Streaming?

This transcript of the panel, “Is OTT the New Black” is from our 2016 LDV Vision Summit. Moderator: Rebecca Paoletti, CEO of Cakeworks featuring: Ed Laczynski, CEO of Zype; Patricia Hadden, SVP NBCUniversal; Steve Davis, VP & GM East of Ooyala.

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