LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed: July 2024 Happy Hour Photos

Here at LDV Capital, we invest in people building businesses powered by visual technologies since 2012. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis. Our LDV platform events bring together the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers and investors to discuss the latest trends in visual tech and AI.

Join our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit (free virtual event) on March 25, 2025, to be inspired by cutting-edge computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions that are improving the world we live in! First speakers announced:

• Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Sequoia Capital. She identified the trend in RPA ahead of the venture industry and led the Series A in UiPath. Luciana has also been a valuable business partner to Deliveroo, Miro, Tessian and many others.

• Jan Kautz, VP of Learning & Perception Research at NVIDIA. His team’s goal is to accelerate humanoid robotics development.

• Kristin Baker Spohn, General Partner at BAM Elevate. She is based in SF office and heads up healthcare investing.

Check out a few photographs from our most recent invite-only Happy Hour event hosted in New York City below.

(L-R) Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital, speaking with Alexandre Winter, Co-Founder and CEO at Norbert Health, an LDV portfolio company. Norbert Health developed the first all-in-one ambient AI health hub.

(L-R) Hilke Schellmann, the author of the investigative book "The Algorithm", an Emmy-Award-winning journalist, freelance reporter and journalism professor at NYU, and Matthew Diesner, Director of Sales at Gryps, an LDV portfolio company that developed the fully managed data platform for construction projects.

(L-R) 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, speaking with Dawn Barber, co-founder at NY Tech Meetup.

(L-R) Andraz Tori, Chief Product Officer at Outbrain, speaking with Evan.

(L-R) Kat Kolambet-Lopez, Director of Content & Marketing at LDV Capital, speaking with Claudia Perlich, Data Scientist at Two Sigma. Claudia has been a long-time member of our LDV Community. In 2015, at our Second Annual LDV Vision Summit, she spoke about evaluating the resonance of creative content with data science. Most recently, she has been featured in our list of 120+ brilliant women in AI & visual tech.

(L-R) Rob Spectre, also known as the Brooklyn Hacker, Founder and CEO of Childsafe.ai and LDV Expert, speaking with Evan. At our 4th Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2017, Rob shared wins and failures from a career as a leader building developer go-to-market strategies for Twilio and Boxee. He also spoke at our LDV Capital Annual General Meetings in 2023 & 2024.

(L-R) Max Blacker, Analyst at LDV Capital, speaking with Ahmad Gaber, Chief Commercial Officer at Norbert Health, and Ash Cleary, Associate at LDV Capital. Check out this article to learn more about Max and the areas he finds particularly interesting. Spoiler alert: it’s the intersection between sports and visual tech, as well as nutrition and visual tech.

(L-R) Adam Berenzweig, Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs and Co-Founder & Climate Impact Officer at Long Future Farms, the movement towards regenerative agroforestry in upstate New York, speaking with Emmanuel Dumont, Machine Learning Engineer at Meta. Emmanuel previously founded Shade, the startup developing a wearable UV sensor.

(L-R) Jennifer Strong, Host & Creator of the podcast SHIFT, speaking with Kat. Jennifer is widely known as the creator of “In Machines We Trust”, “The Extortion Economy”, “Curious Coincidence”, and “I Was There When” produced for the MIT Technology Review. In the podcast episode “In the AI of the Beholder”, she featured our 2017 LDV Insights report, “45 Billion Cameras by 2022 Fuel Business Opportunities”.

(L-R) Evan speaking with Luis Sanz, CEO at CARTO. CARTO's Location Intelligence platform allows organizations to store, enrich, analyze & visualize their data to make spatially-aware decisions.

(L-R) Nicolette Jones, Senior Manager, ForbesWomen at Forbes speaking with Medha Vedaprakash, Strategic Partnerships and GTM leader and angel investor.

(L-R) Kat speaking with Joshua Brustein, Technology Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek at Bloomberg News. At our Fourth Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2017, Josh moderated the panel discussion on autonomous vehicles.

(L-R) Ash is speaking with Dave Zohrob. Dave’s company Chartable was acquired by Spotify.

(L-R) Evan, Adam and Dave. Adam Berenzweig was previously part of CTRL-Labs. Facebook acquired this company for ~$1 billion. Adam and the team were building non-invasive neural interface technology with single-neuron resolution. Read more or watch Thomas Reardon’s keynote from our 2019 LDV Vision Summit. Prior to his work at CTRL-Labs, he was a part of the early team at LDV Company Clarifai.

(L-R) Max speaking with Isabel Draves, President at Strategic Internet Consulting, and Dawn.

(L-R) Brian Derickson, Business Development Executive at the Research Investment Office (RIO) at IBM, speaks with David L. Concannon, Partner at Goodwin. We are thrilled to note that this law firm has been a long-time partner of our LDV platform initiatives. Most recently, Brian was an analyst with us and remains a part of our LDV Community.

(L-R) Matthew, Dareen Salama, Co-Founder and CEO at Gryps, the robotic process automation (RPA) company focused on the construction industry, speaking with Adam.

The photographs are by Robert Wright.