LDV Community Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed For 11 Years
Here at LDV Capital, we invest in people building businesses powered by visual technologies. We thrive on collaborating with deep tech teams leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data. This thesis might have been less substantiated in 2012, but 10 years later it is validated and will continue to be viable for many more decades.
We host our annual LDV Vision Summit, LDV Community Dinners & Happy Hours to bring together the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, researchers and investors to discuss the latest trends in visual tech.
We are thrilled to share a few photographs from our latest invite-only “Happy Hour” event, hosted recently in New York City.
(L-R) Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital, Owen Davis, Partner at Contour Venture Partners and co-investor with us in Voyant Photonics, Murat Aktihanoglu, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Remarkable Ventures, Esther Dyson, and Kelly Hoey, the author of “Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships In A Hyper-Connected World”.
In 2015, Kelly covered our LDV Community Dinners for the Inc. Magazine.
“Investor Evan Nisselson, the 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 ecosystem. As a serial entrepreneur who has built four visual technology businesses, Evan has over the course of his 20+ year career in technology, attended countless meetups, conferences, and networking events plus scheduled more coffee dates than you can imagine, all with the aim of making the right connections to advance his ventures. He's been successful both with his ventures and perhaps more importantly, his networking, building an enviable global community of influencers.” Read more in her article, titled “Knife, Fork, Investment: How Monthly Dinner Gatherings Feed An Entrepreneurial Network”.
That same year, Kelly also featured Evan in her article, “Build Your Dream Network Updates (№1)”.
(L-R) Shy Shoham, Co-Director at Tech4Health Institute, Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology, and Professor at the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, is speaking with Milos Fulton Peluffo, VP of Business Operations at Gameto. Gameto is one of the companies founded by Dr. Martin Varsavsky. At our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Martin spoke with Evan about his experiences turning technological innovations into billion-dollar companies that can have a significant impact on humanity and build significant value.
Peaky Yuter, Senior Product Manager at Ezra, an LDV portfolio company that offers full-body MRI scans designed to find cancer earlier, making it easier to beat. Their scans are for healthy, asymptomatic individuals looking to be proactive about their health.
Avi Muchnick, Founder & CEO at BurnerPage, an LDV portfolio company that builds a SaaS artificial intelligence-powered platform to autonomously deliver better Return on Investment by creating and improving web pages and providing continuous optimization.
(L-R) David Berkowitz, an Executive in Residence at Progress Partners and the Founder of the Serial Marketer consultancy firm, is greeting Megan Cunningham, Founder & CEO of Magnet Media.
(L-R) Tanya Dua, Technology Editor at LinkedIn covering AI, Kat Kolambet-Lopez, Director of Content & Marketing at LDV Capital, and Raveena Ramnauth, Operations Manager at LDV Capital. In her second week at work, Raveena was delighted to engage with numerous members of our LDV Community face-to-face.
(L-R) James George, Co-Founder & CEO at Scatter, is speaking with Emi Gal, Co-Founder and CEO at Ezra, and Sabina Gal, Founder & CEO at The kahla.
(L-R) Eric Rachlin, co-founder & CTO at Count Technologies, Formerly co-founder & CTO of Body Labs (the company was acquired by Amazon), is speaking with David Levy, Startup Business Development Specialist at AWS.
Ezra is on a mission to detect cancer early for everyone in the world. The company has recently announced that they have received 510(k) FDA clearance for the Ezra Flash AI, enabling the team to roll out the world’s first 30-minute full-body MRI. The new AI reduces noise and improves the quality of MRI images, enabling Ezra to create a scanning protocol with twice the speed and same image quality.
For attendees of our Happy Hour event and for you reading this post, we are happy to share the promo code that grants $150 OFF your Ezra scan: LDV150. Book your scan in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, or Las Vegas.
(L-R) Anthony Farnos, President & CIO at Mid-Atlantic Strategies, is speaking with Michael Moretti, who, after retiring from Silicon Valley Bank, is now an active member of Westchester Angels and serves as a mentor at Element 46 Accelerator.
(L-R) Ryan Benmalek, Co-Founder and CEO at Daimon Labs, an LDV portfolio company that develops generative AI and large language models with human-like empathy, Brian Derickson, an LDV Analyst, and Rafael Rocha, Partner at Batvia.
(L-R) Ash Cleary, an analyst at LDV Capital, is speaking with Shy Shoham.
(L-R) Andy Parsons, Sr. Director of Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe, Co-Organizer of The New York CTO Club, LDV Expert and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, is speaking with Evan. Back in 2015, we were privileged to have Andy as a speaker at our Annual LDV Vision Summit. In 2021, Andy provided valuable insights on visual content authentication, automated content moderation, and more for our research on the future of content and the Metaverse.
(L-R) Rafael Rocha is speaking with Sam Klatt, CIO at 10 East.
(L-R) Julio Pekarovic, CFO at Hint Inc, is speaking with Rafael Rocha and Ryan Benmalek.
David L. Concannon, Partner at Goodwin. We are thrilled to note that this law firm is a long-time partner of our LDV platform initiatives.
(L-R) James George, Co-Founder & CEO at Scatter and LDV’s Kat, Ash and Evan. James contributed his insights and expertise as one of the experts who participated in the research that formed the foundation of our Insights report "Content & the Metaverse are Powered by Visual Tech".
(L-R) Carol DerSarkissian, MD, Medical Director at Ezra, is speaking with Megan Cunningham and Lori Mazor, Founder & CEO at Synthetivity.
The photographs are by Robert Wright.