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Known as the only visual technology venture fund, we at LDV Capital have been investing in pre-inc, pre-seed and seed-stage teams building businesses powered by visual technology and artificial intelligence since 2012. In 2024, we announced our fourth fund.
Portfolio Companies
Co-investors that follow LDV’s early investments include Sequoia Capital, Accel, Union Square Ventures, Insight Partners, GV (Google Ventures), Atomico, FirstMark, Menlo Ventures and NEA among others. See a few select portfolio highlights below.
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Spotlight
CEO Victor Riparbelli discusses Synthesia 3.0 on “Bloomberg Tech”
October 1, 2025 | Bloomberg
Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever
September 4, 2025 | MIT Technology Review
London-based Gardin Agritech raises €3.9M led by Dutch VC Navus Ventures
May 9, 2025 | Silicon Canals
Exclusive: ResiQuant raises $4 million in LDV Capital-led funding round
March 14, 2025 | The Insurer, Reuters
Synthesia, startup making uncanny AI avatars, raises at $2.1 billion valuation
January 15, 2025 | Bloomberg
This gen-Z-led startup just raised $2.6 million to diagnose Parkinson’s using AI
November 21, 2024 | INC.
Clarifai’s new reasoning engine makes AI models faster and less expensive
September 25, 2025 | TechCrunch
We tried AI therapy | Earkick was featured by Oprah Daily
July 22, 2025 | Oprah Daily
Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic
May 15, 2025 | VentureBeat
Ezra Is Bringing Bryan Johnson’s Longevity Secrets to the Public
March 13, 2025 | The Profile
VitVio secures €1.8 million for AI-powered operating rooms in hospitals
January 8, 2025 | EU-Startups
Harvard spinout that scans for neurophysical disease gets funding
Nov 21, 2024 | Boston Business Journal
CIONIC aims to revolutionize treatment for cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis
September 23, 2025 | SF Business Times
AI avatars are serving some of the world’s biggest companies
June 26, 2025 | Fortune
Glass Imaging raises $20M to use AI to improve digital image quality
May 12, 2025 | VentureBeat
Adobe takes stake in Synthesia, startup behind AI clones for corporate videos
April 15, 2025 | CNBC
UK artificial intelligence start-up Synthesia hits $2bn valuation
January 15, 2025 | Financial Times
30 Under 30 Healthcare 2025: Advancing AI, Delivering Care, Creating New Therapies
December 3, 2024 | Forbes
Glass Imaging’s incredible AI tech transforms smartphone image quality
October 22, 2024 | PetaPixel
TIME100 AI 2024: Victor Riparbelli, CEO & Co-Founder at Synthesia
September 5, 2024 | Time
AI-powered cancer screening company Ezra comes to Seattle
July 25, 2024 | Fox 13 Seattle
What makes Glass Imaging’s groundbreaking photo-enhancing tech different
August 28, 2024 | PetaPixel
More people are turning to mental health AI chatbots. What could go wrong?
July 15, 2024 | National Geographic
This wearable leg ‘sleeve’ helps people with limited mobility walk easier
July 23, 2024 | Fast Company
Exclusive: Teads partners with TVision and Adelaide
April 29, 2024 | Axios
CIONIC won gold in wearable and implantable medical devices at the Edison Awards
April 23, 2024 | Edison Awards
Chatbots as mental health companions. Earkick’s panda is inviting you to chat
April 3, 2024 | Fox 10 News
Exclusive: Sonus Microsystems pre-seeds $2.1M for new ultrasound tech
February 26, 2024 | Axios
Google backs company making smartphones as good as ‘real’ cameras
February 8, 2024 | PetaPixel
About Ezra: Will a full-body MRI scan help you or hurt you?
January 12, 2024 | The New Yorker
Cionic Neural Sleeve named best innovation as Dezeen Awards design winners revealed
November 28, 2023 | Dezeen
CIONIC raises additional funding for Neural Sleeve
October 19, 2023 | Medical Device Network
Norbert Health and Lumina Care announce strategic partnership
July 15, 2024 | Slice of Healthcare
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
April 25, 2024 | MIT Technology Review
Rayus partners with Ezra to launch a nationwide whole-body MRI offering
April 15, 2024 | Radiology Business
Ready or not, AI chatbots are here to help with Gen Z’s mental health struggles
March 23, 2024 | The Associated Press
Medical experts on the rising trend of people getting full-body scans for cancer screening
February 17, 2024 | NBC News
Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations
February 8, 2024 | TechCrunch
Gardin is using generative AI and synthetic data to drive plant growth — here's how
December 19, 2023 | Insider
New neural network could majorly improve smartphone photography
November 2, 2023 | PetaPixel
Can AI chatbots ever replace human therapists?
October 4, 2023 | Time
Improving water use efficiency in pepper cultivation
April 30, 2024 | Horti Daily
Watch it and weep (or smile): Synthesia’s AI video avatars now feature emotions
April 25, 2024 | TechCrunch
LDV portfolio company Synthesia is featured on Forbes’ AI 50 list
April 11, 2024 | Forbes
About Earkick: Can AI therapists do better than the real thing?
March 2, 2024 | The Guardian
Meet the Bryan Johnson-approved AI full-body MRI startup that just raised $21M
February 10, 2024 | Forbes
Synthesia launches LLM-powered assistant to turn any text file or link into AI video
January 31, 2024 | VentureBeat
4 AI therapy options reviewed: do they work? How does AI therapy work?
December 6, 2023 | Forbes
The best inventions of 2023: Cionic neural sleeve
October 24, 2023 | Time
Synthesia CEO on unicorn status and AI regulation
June 14, 2023 | Bloomberg
LDV Capital News
LDV Capital is featured on the list of 180 U.S. hard tech VCs backing climate
September 15, 2025 | HackSummit
The 13 top VC firms dedicated to investing in AI that founders should know
February 6, 2023 | Business Insider
Training real AI with fake data. Synthetic data keeps getting closer to reality
October 12, 2019 | AXIOS
LDV Capital is featured on TIME’s list of America’s top venture capital firms for 2025
August 19, 2025 | TIME
LDV has raised a $10 million fund to invest in startups developing visual technology
February 1, 2018 | WSJ
LDV Capital gathers $31m to invest in businesses powered by visual tech & AI
January 29, 2024 | Venture Capital Journal
Teaching robots to see — and understand. Machine vision is a crucial missing link
October 26, 2019 | AXIOS
In less than five years, 45 billion cameras will be watching us
August 9, 2017 | Fast Company
Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital on Visual Technologies & Satellite Selfies
2017 | The Seedcamp Podcast
Knife, Fork, Investment: How Monthly Dinner Gatherings Feed An Entrepreneurial Network
September 23, 2015 | INC
“Investor Evan Nisselson, founder of LDV Capital, understands how important it is for entrepreneurs to connect into the right networks of investors, advisors and peers in the emerging technology eco-system.” Kelly Hoey
Select articles
The market for synthetic data is bigger than you think
May 10, 2022 | TechCrunch
“In Machines We Trust” featured our 2017 LDV Insights report
April 1, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Deep learning with synthetic data will democratize the tech industry
May 11, 2018 | TechCrunch
How visual data is propelling a new wave of climate tech
March 6, 2022 | VentureBeat
Healthcare by 2028 will be doctor-directed, patient-owned and powered by visual tech
February 5, 2019 | TechCrunch
Deep tech, no-code tools will help future artists make better visual content
November 15, 2021 | VentureBeat
The war over artificial intelligence will be won with visual data
May 17, 2017 | TechCrunch
Visual technologies on the frontline to flatten the curve
April 14, 2020 | Thrive Global
It’s coming! The Internet of Eyes will allow objects to see
May 13, 2016 | The Next Web