Esther Dyson on Investing in Insurance, Mapping, Mental Health, and Telehealth

Esther Dyson on Investing in Insurance, Mapping, Mental Health, and Telehealth

This month, in our Women Leading Visual Tech series we are honored to showcase Esther Dyson – an investor, journalist, author, businesswoman, commentator, and philanthropist. Currently, she is a full-time executive founder of Wellville, a ten-year project (ending in 2024) to show the long-term value, in both equity and resilience, of investing in health for all.

LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Esther about investing in visual technology companies, genetics, AI-powered MRI-based cancer screenings, and much more!

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Reimagining the Relationship Between Humans & Machines with Neural Interface Technology

Reimagining the Relationship Between Humans & Machines with Neural Interface Technology

In 2019, we had the pleasure of hosting a fireside chat between Thomas Reardon, a computational neuroscientist, co-founder and CEO of CTRL-labs, and Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital.

Four months later in September 2019, CTRL-Labs was acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 billion, reported VentureBeat. He and his team are now integrated into Facebook's AR/VR research group.

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“AI is like a toddler in terms of the sophistication of understanding human emotions,” Says Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO at Affectiva

“AI is like a toddler in terms of the sophistication of understanding human emotions,” Says Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO at Affectiva

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO at Affectiva, the company building Emotion AI – AI that reads human emotions by leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and data science. This technology has numerous applications, from mental health to automotive. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Rana about her recently published memoir ‘Girl Decoded’ and so much more.

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Lourdes Agapito On Synthetic Media and Its Way To Transform The Film Industry, Online Shopping, and More

Lourdes Agapito On Synthetic Media and Its Way To Transform The Film Industry, Online Shopping, and More

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Lourdes Agapito. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Lourdes about her research, her journey through computer vision, and her experience of being a co-founder of such a fantastic growing company as Synthesia.

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“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Gaile Gordon, a co-founder of TYZX, acquired by Intel. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Gaile about her career in deep tech.

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After 7 Years of Success, Mapillary Joins Facebook to Continue Their Vision

After 7 Years of Success, Mapillary Joins Facebook to Continue Their Vision

At LDV, we were honored to be Mapillary’s very first investor. Evan Nisselson shares Mapillary’s successes at navigating the roller coaster that is early-stage business building and a couple of his lessons learned from their +7 years of regular talks.

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Merritt Jenkins Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

Merritt Jenkins Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

Merritt Jenkins is at MIT Sloan School of Management. He has eight years of experience deploying robot hardware and vision systems in harsh environments including at Plenty (a Softbank-backed vertical farming company) and Pattern Ag (a VC-backed startup developing genetic analyses of the soil microbiome). He has an MSc in Robotics from CMU and a dual BA/BEng from Dartmouth. Merritt is looking forward to learning more about the investing process and the landscape of computer vision startups.

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Leah Oppenheimer Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

Leah Oppenheimer Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

Leah Oppenheimer will be attending Columbia Business School in the fall. She has held roles in marketing and operations at a corporate venture firm, boutique consultancies, and startups. She has a Masters in Philosophy from Cambridge University (UK) and a BA from the University of Connecticut. Leah is most excited about our newest LDV Insights report, investment pipeline, and portfolio company advisory work.

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Kat Lopez Joins LDV Capital As a Content & Marketing Lead

Kat Lopez Joins LDV Capital As a Content & Marketing Lead

Kat Lopez is now leading Content & Marketing on the platform side of LDV, helping us scale our LDV initiatives for entrepreneurs such as our LDV Vision Summit, LDV Community, Women Leading Visual Tech series, LDV Insights and much more. Kat has a decade of experience leading marketing for startups, she’s been a copywriter, an in-house blogger, social media & email marketing manager, content strategist, and PR manager. She was a part of Looksery (acquired by Snapchat), JetSmarter (acquired by Vista Global), and Kwambio (a startup in 3D printing, 2x TechStars alum).

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The Future of Storytelling with Interactive Video

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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Michal Lipson on Silicon Photonics and Its Ability to Enable AI in Our Life

Michal Lipson on Silicon Photonics and Its Ability to Enable AI in Our Life

Our second interview in Women Leading Visual Tech series is with Dr. Michal Lipson.
Michal is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and a member of the National Academy of Science. Her research work is focused on nanophotonics.

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The War Over AI Will Be Won with Visual Data – Where are the Startup Opportunities?

The War Over AI Will Be Won with Visual Data – Where are the Startup Opportunities?

If you missed the virtual event with Evan Nisselson – Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital – at NYU Entrepreneurial Institute last week, we’ve got you covered!
Follow the link below to watch this truly inspiring video session on current visual tech trends, covered from a venture capital investor’s perspective.

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Accelerating Artificial Intelligence With Light

Accelerating Artificial Intelligence With Light

At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Dr. Nicholas Harris – Founder & CEO of Lightmatter – gave a keynote speech on the next-generation computing platform they are building for AI and its value for autonomous vehicles in the next 5, 10, 20 years.
Nicholas holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his doctoral thesis was on programmable nanophotonics for quantum information processing and artificial intelligence.

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Trends in Visual Technology Investing

Trends in Visual Technology Investing

At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Jessi Hempel (Senior Editor at LinkedIn) spoke with Hadley Harris (Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures), Laura Smoliar (Founding Partner at Berkeley Catalyst Fund), and Zavain Dar (Partner at Lux Capital) about trends in visual technologies across all business sectors and society.
The main question for our panelists was: “Where are the next visual technology investment opportunities?”

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