LDV Capital - 10 Years Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

LDV Capital - 10 Years Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

We could not have accomplished this exciting milestone without our inspiring portfolio founders, experts, community members, co-investors and LDV LPs. Thank you!

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How to Turn Deep Tech Innovations Into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

How to Turn Deep Tech Innovations Into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

At our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the privilege of hosting a fireside chat between LDV's Evan Nisselson and Dr. Martin Varsavsky, an extremely successful serial entrepreneur, professor and investor who has founded 8 companies (3 with unicorn status) in the US and Europe in the last 30 years.

Check out the video recording or read our shortened and lightly edited transcript.

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

The smartphone has democratized photography. Improved camera quality is a feature that sells new smartphones. Ever since the inception of LDV Capital in 2012, Evan Nisselson was thrilled with the possibility to partner with people who would bring DSLR quality to small devices.

Earlier this year, we led the seed funding of Glass Imaging – a company on a mission to enable unrivaled professional image quality in smartphones. The team redesigns the optics that work with proprietary AI algorithms to correct the distortions & convert the sensor output to a standard image. You can now see the fantastic quality of pictures taken with the Glass Imaging prototype – it’s happening and soon this technology will fit into pocket-size devices!

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LDV Community Meets Again in Person to Help Each Other Succeed: September NYC Edition

LDV Community Meets Again in Person to Help Each Other Succeed: September NYC Edition

We host our LDV Community Dinners & Happy Hours to bring together our community. At these events, you can meet the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs and deep tech technologists, researchers and investors to discuss what's happening today, and what, most importantly, will happen tomorrow.

After two years of virtual meetings, we are thrilled to start hosting invite-only LDV Community events in person again! Check out a few photographs from our latest “Happy Hour” in NYC.

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How to Make Moonshots into Moon Landings & Other Tales in Deep Tech Entrepreneurism

How to Make Moonshots into Moon Landings & Other Tales in Deep Tech Entrepreneurism

At our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the privilege of hosting a fireside chat between LDV's Evan Nisselson and Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen, an impressive serial entrepreneur recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. They discussed $100 laptops, 4 big problems of the VR industry, 250 lasers in our modern-day smartphone devices, next-generation portable neural diagnostic and therapeutic systems, and so much more!

Check out the video recording or read our shortened and lightly edited transcript.

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LDV Community is Finally Back in Person and Helping Each Other Succeed in NYC!

LDV Community is Finally Back in Person and Helping Each Other Succeed in NYC!

In the past two years, we hosted a range of virtual events but nothing can replace being in person at our LDV Community gatherings of deep tech entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, researchers and investors! We are thrilled to share a few photographs from our latest invite-only “Happy Hour” event in NYC.

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Supercharging Creativity With Open AI’s Chat GPT-3, Codex, DALL-E and DALL-E 2

Supercharging Creativity With Open AI’s Chat GPT-3, Codex, DALL-E and DALL-E 2

AI lowers the barriers to creating high-quality content. Now anybody can be a good copywriter, author, poet, coder, or artist. Tune in to watch Peter Welinder’s keynote on OpenAI’s models and see how GPT-3, Codex, DALL-E and DALL-E 2 can supercharge creativity in your organization.

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The FDA-Cleared Cionic Neural Sleeve Overcomes Disability in Real-Time

The FDA-Cleared Cionic Neural Sleeve Overcomes Disability in Real-Time

Meet Jeremiah Robison, Founder and CEO of CIONIC – one of LDV Capital’s portfolio companies. He has a 25-year career spent at the intersection of computing and the human body. At CIONIC, he builds robotic suits to help people move. For Jeremiah, it’s a truly personal story: his daughter’s CP diagnosis fueled a mission to empower all those with mobility impairments to move with more freedom and control.

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Thank You for Making Our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

Thank You for Making Our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

Our 8th annual LDV Vision Summit was the best summit to date! Thanks to the virtual setting, our community tuned in from all over the world and we discussed computer vision, computational imaging, machine learning and AI in healthcare, web3, climate, space, and so much more.

In these turbulent times, we are pleased to have a chance to connect with brilliant entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, executives, and creatives who are as passionate about visual tech as we are at LDV.

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Can AI Detect and Identify Changes in Our Well-Being? Meet Karin Andrea Stephan of Earkick

Can AI Detect and Identify Changes in Our Well-Being? Meet Karin Andrea Stephan of Earkick

Meet Karin Andrea Stephan – a serial entrepreneur, community leader, and startup coach. She has deep domain expertise in tracking mental health and in 2021, Karin Andrea co-founded Earkick to build the world’s first data-driven mental health tracker via multimodal sentiment analysis of physiological biomarkers.

LDV’s Abigail Hunter-Syed chatted with Karin about the potential of an AI-powered tool that is able to track and treat mental health disorders in real-time.

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Investing Trends in Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

Investing Trends in Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

Curious about where the next visual technology investment opportunities are? Meet Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir, M12’s Samir Kumar, DCVC’s Kelly Chen, and Bloomberg’s Sarah McBride and see them discuss how Gen Z doesn’t see the camera as an app, they see it as a platform; how the next world war will not be fought by people, but by AI; and so much more!

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Visual Data is Propelling a New Wave of Climate Tech

Visual Data is Propelling a New Wave of Climate Tech

For far too long, sustainability has been viewed by big companies as more of a marketing campaign or non-profit exercise than a direct financial impact on their bottom line. But the tides are, literally, changing and advances in visual data collection, computer vision and AI are at a point where climate tech companies can leverage it to build businesses that provide financial benefit to mitigating climate impact. See more details in Evan Nisselson’s article.

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How to Turn Deep Technological Innovations into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

How to Turn Deep Technological Innovations into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

On March 23 at our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV, will speak with Dr. Martín Varsavsky – an extremely successful serial entrepreneur, professor and investor who has founded 8 companies (3 with unicorn status) in the US and Europe in the last 30 years.

They will chat about his experiences turning technological innovations into billion-dollar companies that have a significant impact on humanity.

In the lead-up to the Summit, Evan had the privilege of asking Dr. Varsavsky a few questions.

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The Magic of Engineering and Computer Science With Dr. Karen Panetta

The Magic of Engineering and Computer Science With Dr. Karen Panetta

The next guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech interview series is Dr. Karen Panetta – an electrical and computer engineer, inventor and Dean of Graduate Education for the School of Engineering at Tufts University. Abigail Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, chatted with Karen about teaching computers to see like humans, the role of diversity of perspectives, social impact projects, the role of AI in biological image processing and so much more!

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