From Publisher of Spy Magazine to Reimagining Business Insights as Entertainment

From Publisher of Spy Magazine to Reimagining Business Insights as Entertainment

In this article, Spy’s founding publisher Tom Phillips talks about how Section4 will take business intelligence to a whole new level. Read on to learn about his entrepreneurial journey, his tips for startup founders, why he’s excited for our LDV Vision Summit, and more.

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

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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At Facebook Camera, They Think About Delivering Value to AR Users

At Facebook Camera, They Think About Delivering Value to AR Users

Matt Uyttendaele is the Director of Core AI at Facebook Camera. At our 2018 LDV Vision Summit, Matt spoke about enabling persistent Augmented Reality experiences across the spectrum of mobile devices. He shared how, at Facebook Camera, they are solving this and giving creators the ability to author these experiences on their platform. He showcased specific examples and highlighted future challenges and opportunities for mobile augmented reality to succeed.

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Delivering AR Beyond Dancing Hotdogs

Delivering AR Beyond Dancing Hotdogs

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Joshua Brustein of Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with Serge Belongie (Cornell Tech), Ryan Measel (Fantasmo), Mandy Mandelstein (Luxloop), and Jeff McConathy (6D.ai) about how the digital and physical world will converge in order to deliver the future of augmented reality.

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Measuring Sleep with a Camera Makes Nanit a Powerful Tool for Research

Measuring Sleep with a Camera Makes Nanit a Powerful Tool for Research

At our 2018 LDV Vision Summit, Assaf Glazer shared how Nanit's unique computer vision technology and the product helps children and their parents sleep better. Merging advanced computer vision with proven sleep science technologies, Nanit provides in-depth data available for helping babies, and parents, sleep well in those crucial early months and years of a baby’s development.

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Partners at Glasswing, ENIAC, & OMERS Reveal Their Top Industries for Visual Tech

Partners at Glasswing, ENIAC, & OMERS Reveal Their Top Industries for Visual Tech

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Sarah Fay of Glasswing Ventures, Michael Yang of Comcast Ventures (now at OMERS), and Nihal Mehta of ENIAC spoke with Jessi Hempel of Wired (now LinkedIn) about the industries they think carry the most opportunity for visual technology.

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Rebecca Kaden of USV Discusses Trends in Visual Tech Investing

Rebecca Kaden of USV Discusses Trends in Visual Tech Investing

At 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.

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An Academic Budget Inspired Raquel Urtasun to Design Affordable Solutions for Self-Driving

An Academic Budget Inspired Raquel Urtasun to Design Affordable Solutions for Self-Driving

Raquel Urtasun is a recipient of the NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, and several more. She lectures at the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute and is the head of Uber ATG, Toronto. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how autonomous vehicles with human perception will make our cities smarter and better to live in.

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Facebook is building a visual cortex to better understand content and people

Facebook is building a visual cortex to better understand content and people

Manohar Paluri is the Manager of the Computer Vision Group at Facebook. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, he spoke about how the Applied Machine Learning organization at Facebook is working to understand the billions of media content uploaded every day to Facebook in order to improve people’s experiences on the platform and connect them to the right content.

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Hired at Facebook After Showcasing Research in Visual Technology at the LDV Vision Summit: An interview with Divyaa Ravichandran

Hired at Facebook After Showcasing Research in Visual Technology at the LDV Vision Summit: An interview with Divyaa Ravichandran

Divyaa Ravichandran was a finalist in the 2016 Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge (ECVC) at the LDV Vision Summit. Her project, “Love & Vision” used siamese neural networks to predict kinship between pairs of facial images. It was a major success with the judges and the audience.

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AutoX is Democratizing Autonomous Driving with a Camera-First Solution

AutoX is Democratizing Autonomous Driving with a Camera-First Solution

Leaving his role as founding director of Princeton's Computer Vision and Robotics Lab, Jianxiong Xiao (Professor X) founded AutoX. He spoke at our LDV Vision Summit 2017 about how he is working to lower the price of entry into the autonomous driving field with an innovative camera-first solution.

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Hearst, AlphaPrime, ENIAC and Samsung Next Talk Opportunities in Visual Tech Investing

Hearst, AlphaPrime, ENIAC and Samsung Next Talk Opportunities in Visual Tech Investing

At 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.

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JW Player, VH1 and Tout Discuss What's On TV Now

JW Player, VH1 and Tout Discuss What's On TV Now

At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Rebecca Paoletti of Cake Works spoke with Brian Rifkin of JW Player, Michael Downing of Tout, and Orlando Lima from Viacom/VH1 about how traditional TV broadcasters are becoming digital while digital platforms are investing in traditional television models and programming.

Listen to their thoughts on creating valuable branded content, applying machine learning, and much more.

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How Professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman Built Dreambit & Sold it to Facebook

How Professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman Built Dreambit & Sold it to Facebook

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is a professor at the University of Washington and a Research Scientist at Facebook. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how and why she evolved her research into a company called Dreambit which she then sold to Facebook.

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Lyft & Arteris Discuss How Autonomous Vehicles, the Most Disruptive Innovation of a Generation, Will Impact Society

Lyft & Arteris Discuss How Autonomous Vehicles, the Most Disruptive Innovation of a Generation, Will Impact Society

At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Josh Brustein of Bloomberg Businessweek asked Taggart Matthiesen of Lyft and Charles Janac from Arteris how autonomous vehicles – the most disruptive innovation of a generation – will impact society.

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