Learning and Living Entrepreneurship While Investing Early In Startups At LDV Capital

Learning and Living Entrepreneurship While Investing Early In Startups At LDV Capital

We had the privilege of welcoming Jorge Colindres, an MBA candidate at Dartmouth onto our team as a Summer Analyst. He spent the summer with us evaluating deals, diving deep into visual tech for our 2019 LDV Insights report, and much more. Jorge shares his experience and shares a few of his takeaways from working with us.

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Thank You for Making Our 6th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

Thank You for Making Our 6th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

Our sixth annual LDV Vision Summit was fantastic, a giant thank you to everyone who came and participated in making it another spectacular gathering. 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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How are Brands Benefiting from AI & Computer Vision?

How are Brands Benefiting from AI & Computer Vision?

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Dave Gershgorn (Quartz) spoke with Ophir Tanz (GumGum), Erin Rech (Initiative), Jessica Criscione (Ogilvy & Mather), and Beth Rolfs (Publicis) about how brands can benefit from AI and computer vision.

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Computer vision is an immensely fertile area for entrepreneurs and investors

Computer vision is an immensely fertile area for entrepreneurs and investors

Evan Nisselson interviewed Matt Turck, a Partner of FirstMark Capital. He invests across a broad range of early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Prior to FirstMark, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the investment and incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Previously, Matt was the co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle.

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Any Humans Assessing Images Today will be Augmented in the Future

Any Humans Assessing Images Today will be Augmented in the Future

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Zavain Dar, Partner at Lux Capital, about his experience investing in visual tech. Zavain invests in companies that are using machine learning and AI to augment or replace physical-world functions including biology, language, manufacturing, and analysis. He looks for entrepreneurs that can use software and data to hone a philosophical position on where the world is, and how to direct it for the better.

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Visual Technologies are Progressing Rapidly as Computing Power Grows

Visual Technologies are Progressing Rapidly as Computing Power Grows

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviews Laura Smoliar about her experience investing in visual tech. Laura is a Founding Partner at The Berkeley Catalyst Fund where she focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies in biopharma, agriculture, medical device, clean air, clean water, energy storage, and sensors.

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Visual Technologies Are the Eyes of the Intelligent Computer

Visual Technologies Are the Eyes of the Intelligent Computer

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Rachel Lam, the co-founder and Managing Partner of Imagination Capital. Prior to launching Imagination Capital, Rachel founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003 and was head of the strategic investing arm of Time Warner Inc. for 14 years.

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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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