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LDV Vision Summit
Andy Weissman, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures

Annual events since 2012 gather experts to discuss cutting edge visual tech & business trends.
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Helping each other succeed and having fun. 1300+ members with equal gender balance.
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Women In Visual Tech

Women Leading Visual Tech
Dr. Jane X. Wang: Meta-Learning

Showcasing leading women whose work in visual tech is reshaping business & society.
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Evan Nisselson
General Partner of LDV Capital

Exclusive analysis of how visual technology is impacting diverse business sectors.
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Portfolio Highlights

Clarifai

Clarifai is the fastest way to transform your unstructured image, video, text, and audio data into actionable insights.

Article: Delivering The Power Of Artificial Intelligence Into Everyone’s Hands
Vision Summit 2015: Matthew’s keynote
Initial Investment: Pre-Series A, 2014
Co-Investors: NEA, Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Google Ventures, Nvidia, Qualcomm Ventures.

Sea Machines

Sea Machines is building the future of ocean mobility with data-driven intelligence, autonomy, and connectivity.

Article: Diverse Visual Data To Deliver Safe Autonomous Boats
Vision Summit 2019: Fiona’s keynote
Initial Investment: Seed, 2017
Co-Investors: Accomplice, Huntington Ingalls, ENIAC, Toyota AI, Launch Capital, Geekdom Fund, Techstars, Angels.

Synthesia

Co-Founders: Victor Riparbelli, CEO; Steffen Tjerrild, COO; Lourdes Agapito; Matthias Niessner

Synthesia creates professional artificial intelligence powered videos from text in 50+ languages.

Article: Synthesia exponentially scales video production globally
Vision Summit 2019: Victor’s keynote
WLVT Interview: Lourdes Agapito
Initial Investment: LDV led Seed, 2019
Co-Investors: Kleiner Perkins, GV, FirstMark, MMC, Seedcamp, VAS, Mark Cuban, Angels.

Uizard

Co-founders: Tony Beltramelli, CEO; Henrik Haugbolle, CTO; Ioannis Sintos, CIO; Florian Van Schreven, COO.

Uizard is the design tool for non-designers. Design mockups, mobile apps, websites, wireframes in minutes.

Article: Non-designers Create Prototypes and Designs for Apps and Websites
Vision Summit 2018: Tony’s keynote
Initial Investment: Led pre-seed, 2018
Co-investors: Insight Partners, ByFounders, AV8 Ventures, Angels.

Earkick

Co-founders: Karin Andrea Stephan, COO & Herbert Bay, CEO.

Earkick is the first data-driven mental health tracker via multimodal analysis of bio signals.

Article: Partnering with Earkick Founders to Deliver the World’s First Real-Time Mental Health Tracker
Initial Investment: Led pre-seed, 2020
Co-investors: West Tech Ventures, Angels

Aquifer Motion

Co-founders: Chen Zhang, CEO & Matt Udvari, CTO.

Aquifer is a platform for teams and creators to make stunning animated videos and live-streams with their brand's IP in minutes.

Article: Making Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot
WLVT Interview: Chen Zhang
Initial Investment: Led seed, 2021
Co-investors: Boost VC, Geekdom Fund, Wedbush Ventures, Techstars, Angels.

Ezra

Co-founders: Emi Gal, CEO & Diego Cantor, CTO.

Ezra enables early cancer detection for everyone by using Artificial Intelligence and the most advanced medical imaging tech.

Articles: Cancer Detection with CV & AI…
Vision Summit 2019: Emi’s keynote
Initial Investment: Pre-series A, 2019
Co-investors: FirstMark, Accomplice, Founders Future, Credo, Seedcamp, Angles.

Gardin

Gardin is leveraging optical sensing, machine vision & analytics to enable food producers to increase nutrition & margins.

Article: ‘Optical phenotyping’…
Initial Investment: Led pre-seed, 2020
Co-investors: Molten Ventures, Seedcamp, MMC Ventures, Angels.

Gryps

Co-founders: Dareen Salama, CEO & Amir Tasbihi, CTO.

Gryps is increasing ROI across the construction sector via robotic process automation & imaging.

Article: Modernizing Construction…
Vision Summit 2021: Dareen’s keynote
Initial Investment: Led seed, 2021
Co-investors: Pear VC, HBS Graduate Syndicate, Angels.

Headroom

Co-founders: Julian Green, CEO & Andrew Rabinovich, CTO.

Headroom improves communication in meetings by augmenting your meeting intelligence.

Vision Summit 2015: Julian panel discussion and Andrew’s keynote.
Initial Investment: Seed
Co-investors: Gradient Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Morado Ventures, Angels.

CIONIC

Cionic is building a platform for human augmentation that powers people to transcend physical limitations.

Vision Summit 2019: Jeremiah’s keynote
Initial Investment: Seed
Co-investors: Epic Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Angels.

Voyant Photonics

Co-founders: Steve Miller, CTO & Chris Phare, CSO.

Voyant Photonics is revolutionizing machine perception complete FMCW LiDAR systems powered by silicon photonic chips.

Article: World’s 1st Silicon-Photonics…
Vision Summit 2019: Chris’s keynote
Initial Investment: Pre-series A, 2019
Co-investors: Up.Partners, Contour Ventures, NEU Venture Capital.

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