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LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed: April 2023 Happy Hour Photos

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. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis.

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.

Earlier this year, we hosted our 9th Annual LDV Visual Summit. It was an incredibly successful virtual event with 28 speakers and over a thousand attendees from all around the world. While everyone likes the ease of tuning into an insightful talk from the comfort of their homes and offices, there is really no substitute for being in person. We were thrilled to see so many of you join us in our New York office to share stories, drinks and laughs.

(L-R) Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital, is speaking with Donald Buckley, Co-Head at Lullaboo Studios/Snorble. Donald previously served as Showtime’s Senior Vice President, Digital Media. He created and led the cross-disciplinary marketing organization that launched Showtime’s Streaming OTT service, designed its strategic positioning, and helped drive its subscriber growth beyond launch projections. Among the hundreds of Warner Bros. movies released during Buckley's tenure were the Oceans 11, The Matrix, Harry Potter, and The Dark Knight franchises.

(L-R) Andres Glusman, Co-Founder and CEO at DoWhatWorks, former Product/Growth leader at Meetup, and lean startup pioneer, is speaking with Ash Cleary, an analyst at LDV Capital.

(L-R) Nicole Castro Garro, Director of Operations at Convive Wines, is speaking with Elizabeth Lindsey, Executive Director of New York Angels, and Brian Derickson, an analyst at LDV Capital.

Sebastian Acevedo, Co-Founder & CEO of Memorable, a cutting-edge AI-powered technology to optimize visual content for a higher impact on branding and conversion.

(L-R) Oz Lubling, a product management expert with 15+ years of experience, is speaking with Alejandro Jaimes, Chief Scientist & SVP of Artificial Intelligence at Dataminr, and Emi Gal, Co-Founder and CEO at Ezra. Alejandro Jaimes spoke at our 2nd Annual LDV Vision Summit about Deep Reasoning for Video Content Understanding. Check out his article “The Future of Computer Vision at the LDV Vision Summit”!


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Dareen Salama, Co-Founder and CEO of Gryps, a platform that delivers enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) to the construction industry. Gryps leverages computer vision and machine learning and is an LDV Capital portfolio company.

(L-R) Murat Aktihanoglu, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Remarkable Ventures, is speaking with David Berkowitz, an Executive in Residence at Progress Partners and the Founder of the Serial Marketer consultancy firm.

Tsafrir Oranski, Vice President Of Business Development at Parametrix Insurance.

Kat Kolambet-Lopez, Director of Content & Marketing at LDV Capital.

(L-R) David Waxman, Managing Partner at TenOneTen Ventures, is speaking with Amanda Moskowitz, Founder & CEO at Stacklist, and Karen Moon, Investor & Advisor at Node Innovation Ventures.

Lori Mazor is the visionary architect and educator guiding organizations towards a future of creativity, collaboration, and growth with Generative AI and Metaverse technologies. Lori has been part of our LDV Community since 2012. She recently started publishing the video series developed using an LDV portfolio company Synthesia.

“Congratulations, Evan, for your 11-year anniversary. You have been a model in what it means to create a sustainable community and if there’s anyone I trust to be building good things in this arena, it’s you,” wrote Lori in her post. Read the full story on LinkedIn.

(L-R) Jonathan Zobel, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets, is speaking with Rob Spectre, a technologist, Founder of childsafe.ai and LDV Expert.

(L-R) Tsafrir Oranski, Vice President Of Business Development at Parametrix Insurance, is speaking with Carol DerSarkissian, MD, Medical Director at Ezra.

(L-R) Camilo Fosco, Co-Founder and CTO at Memorable, is speaking with David Waxman, Managing Partner at TenOneTen Ventures. We at LDV Capital led Memorable’s oversubscribed $2.75M pre-seed round. David and TenOneTen Ventures along with BDMI, AperiamVentures and strategic angels participated in this round of financing.

(L-R) Ash Cleary is speaking with Ryan Benmalek, Co-Founder and CEO at Daimon Labs – the latest addition to our LDV portfolio, a deep tech team behind the next generation of large language model chatbot with human-like empathy, and Ben MacShane, an investor at BAM Elevate - the private investment division of Balyasny Asset Management.

(L-R) Oz Lubling is speaking with Matt Ruby, a comedian, writer, & filmmaker, and Victoria Vaughan, Co-Founder InCryptoland. Matt was a speaker at our First Annual LDV Vision Summit – check out this flashback from 2014: “How to make a video go viral?”.

Luna also loved meeting everyone.


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