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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Computer Vision Will Disrupt Many Businesses Especially Manufacturing and Consumer Shopping

Computer Vision Will Disrupt Many Businesses Especially Manufacturing and Consumer Shopping

Howard Morgan, Partner & Co-Founder at First Round Capital, and Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, discussed future investment trends and early stage opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies.

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Entrupy Secured over $8M in Inventory for Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Others after Being a Finalist at the 2015 LDV Startup Competition

Entrupy Secured over $8M in Inventory for Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Others after Being a Finalist at the 2015 LDV Startup Competition

Entrupy’s goal is to enable trust in high-value goods transactions by providing on-demand authentication solutions to every business. They now support luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, and many more. Vidyuth Srinivasan, Co-founder and CEO of Entrupy, Inc gave us an update on Entrupy since their stellar performance at the Startup Competition:

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The Conscious Home is Achievable in the Next 15 Years: Your home will leverage visual sensors to be smart enough to understand what you want or need

The Conscious Home is Achievable in the Next 15 Years: Your home will leverage visual sensors to be smart enough to understand what you want or need

More and more visual sensors are being leveraged in the commercial and home markets. From energy and real-time data management in smart commercial buildings, to home video security and monitoring our babies when they sleep. How will they empower businesses and humanity?

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The Smalls raised capital and have grown 300% year over year since competing at the LDV Vision Summit

The Smalls raised capital and have grown 300% year over year since competing at the LDV Vision Summit

Kate Tancred, CEO & Co-Founder of The Smalls, finalized in the 2015 Startup Competition at the LDV Vision Summit. The Smalls is a content marketplace that connects the world’s filmmaking talent with the world’s brands and agencies.

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Bijan Sabet Invests in Founders Building Inspiring Products That He Would Want to Work For

Bijan Sabet Invests in Founders Building Inspiring Products That He Would Want to Work For

Bijan Sabet, General Partner & Co-Founder of Spark Capital, and Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital, discussed future investment trends and early stage opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies.

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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.

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You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

Every second of every day, people around the world are publishing research papers and launching new startups that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Researchers and professors want their work to be noticed in the midst of a flood of new work. Entrepreneurs want to build valuable businesses & get covered in top-tier media.

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Meet LDV Capital’s Expert In Residence, Computer Vision Leader Serge Belongie

Meet LDV Capital’s Expert In Residence, Computer Vision Leader Serge Belongie

We are honored to announce that computer vision and machine learning expert Serge Belongie has joined LDV Capital’s team as our first Expert in Residence [ER]. Serge is a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Cornell Tech and a technical leader in our field of visual technologies.

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Power To The People! You Made Our LDV Vision Summit A Success. Thank you!

Power To The People! You Made Our LDV Vision Summit A Success. Thank you!

YOU are why our annual LDV Vision Summit gathering is special and a success every year. Thank You! We are honored that you fly in from around the world each year to share insights, inspire, do deals, recruit, raise capital and help each other succeed!

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We're Taking Billions Of Photos A Day—Let's Use Them To Improve Our World!

We're Taking Billions Of Photos A Day—Let's Use Them To Improve Our World!

Pete Warden went from computer vision studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom to serial entrepreneur. After spending 3 years as co-founder and CTO, he sold Jetpac to Google. In this keynote, he shared insights about what he was working on at Google, stories about being an entrepreneur, and how analyzing images can improve the world.

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