AI in Insurance: Partnering with ResiQuant to Turn Catastrophe Risk into Resilience with AI-Powered Property Intelligence Platform

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AI in Insurance: Partnering with ResiQuant to Turn Catastrophe Risk into Resilience with AI-Powered Property Intelligence Platform

We are very excited to partner with the fantastic deep tech team at ResiQuant that is developing a platform that utilizes agentic AI and computer vision to transform data into actionable, building-level insights. This empowers property owners and carriers to mitigate vulnerabilities, streamline workflows and enhance underwriting decisions.

We at LDV Capital led their $4M seed round with participation from Foothill Ventures, Pear VC, Alumni Ventures and angels.

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Partnering With Brilliant People, Delivering Distributions, Recruiting An Analyst & Hopefully Improving Our World

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Partnering With Brilliant People, Delivering Distributions, Recruiting An Analyst & Hopefully Improving Our World

We are thrilled to share that we have returned our LDV Capital I & II funds. We continue to have significant upside potential across each of our funds thanks to our brilliant entrepreneurs, experts, team and LP partners.

We continue investing out of our LDV Capital IV fund. 

LPs say we are highly differentiated, disciplined, have high-quality sourcing and successfully create value by investing in category leaders at the earliest stages.

We are excited to be recruiting an Analyst to join our team to help us identify, analyze and evaluate investment opportunities. You will be a major contributor to all aspects of our fund from sourcing, market research, due diligence and supporting our portfolio companies.

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Partnering with VitVio to Deliver Real-Time AI Visual Tracking In Hospital Operating Theatres to Increase Efficiencies

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Partnering with VitVio to Deliver Real-Time AI Visual Tracking In Hospital Operating Theatres to Increase Efficiencies

We are excited to partner and invest in the brilliant VitVio team. They are building an AI-driven computer vision platform designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of hospital operating theaters.

We at LDV Capital led their $2M pre-seed round with participation from Bek Ventures (ex-Earlybird), Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, and angel investors.

VitVio has also announced their pilot program with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH), one of the UK's three leading medical institutions in orthopedic care and “one of the best hospitals in the world.”

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AI in Neuroscience: Partnering with DANNCE.AI to Increase Drug Efficacy & Improve the Lives of People with Movement Disorders

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AI in Neuroscience: Partnering with DANNCE.AI to Increase Drug Efficacy & Improve the Lives of People with Movement Disorders

DANNCE.AI is bringing to market a novel phenotyping platform to digitize the clinical assessments used by clinicians and drug developers to quantify movement. We led their $2.6M pre-seed round along with co-investors Glasswing Ventures, The Leo Lion Company, Duke Capital Partners, and Merck Digital Sciences Studio.

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Visual Technologies Are Fueling the Transition To a Circular Economy

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Visual Technologies Are Fueling the Transition To a Circular Economy

LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson and Ash Cleary cover topics ranging from spectroscopy and nanomaterials to enhance food and agricultural production, to renewable energy forecasting and grid management, and predictive digital twins for the supply chain.

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Structuring a Sustainable Future: Visual Technology is Advancing the Discovery & Development of New Materials

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Structuring a Sustainable Future: Visual Technology is Advancing the Discovery & Development of New Materials

We believe that visual technologies will continue to be the crux of advancements in materials science, across nanomaterials and metamaterials, resulting in the transformation of various industrial, medical and consumer applications. Embedded AI will enable materials to reconfigure themselves autonomously in response to their environment. As sensing abilities and algorithms improve, the full potential of navigating the compositional and configurational possibilities of materials will catalyze widespread transformation for optics, biomarker diagnostics, robotics, 3D printing and more.

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LDV Capital Raised Fourth Fund To Continue Investing in People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies and Artificial Intelligence

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We are pleased to announce that we have raised our fourth LDV Capital fund with $31M. We will continue investing in the same unique thesis that has not changed since founding LDV Capital in 2012. The majority of data our brains analyze is visual so the majority of data that AI will analyze will be visual as well. Visual data and visual technologies are critical for the success of artificial intelligence horizontally across all sectors.

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Living Longer & Healthier: How Visual Tech will Advance Accelerations in Life Sciences & Biotech

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Living Longer & Healthier: How Visual Tech will Advance Accelerations in Life Sciences & Biotech

As the biotech industry relies heavily on data filtering, analysis and sharing, visual technologies will become critical for the detection and imaging of biological systems, paving the way for the future of life sciences tools enabling next-generation therapeutics, biomanufacturing & longevity.

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Congratulations to Synthesia On Their $90M Series C Led by Accel at a $1B Valuation

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Congratulations to Synthesia On Their $90M Series C Led by Accel at a $1B Valuation

Synthesia, the market leader in AI video generation, announced their exciting $90 million Series C financing. The round is led by Philippe Botteri at Accel along with NVIDIA and existing investors. The company now officially hits unicorn status, and we are extremely proud of the brilliant co-founders, Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, Dr. Lourdes Agapito and Dr. Matthias Niessner, and the entire Synthesia team!

In April 2019, we led their Seed financing round when they were pre-product and pre-revenue. We met with 4 brilliant co-founders and were impressed with their big vision: to empower everyone to make video content without cameras, microphones, or studios. 

This milestone reinforces our belief in the transformative power of visual technologies and AI and their pivotal role in shaping the future. At LDV Capital, we are honored to have played a very small part in their incredible journey which continues to evolve every day.

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Visual Data is the Crux of AI & Automation for the Future of All Industries

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Visual Data is the Crux of AI & Automation for the Future of All Industries

Automation is revolutionizing legacy industries from healthcare and precision medicine to manufacturing and construction, to agriculture and sustainability. The adoption of visual technology innovations will continue to remain the crux of automation for the next decade and beyond.

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Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

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Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

We at LDV Capital have been investing in AI for over 10 years to date, and have made 7 investments in teams building businesses leveraging Generative AI since 2018. We believe that this technology has significant commercial value as a utility that will empower SaaS businesses to disrupt legacy enterprises. Check out this article to learn more and see some examples of exponentially growing commercial applications in content creation, biotech and more.

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LDV Capital - 10 Years Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

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LDV Capital - 10 Years Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

We could not have accomplished this exciting milestone without our inspiring portfolio founders, experts, community members, co-investors and LDV LPs. Thank you!

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Flashback to Silicon Valley in the mid-’90s: The People Of @Home Network

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Flashback to Silicon Valley in the mid-’90s: The People Of @Home Network

In the mid-’90s, LDV Capital’s founder Evan Nisselson was a part of @Home Network. It was the first company to provide high-speed cable Internet services in the US. In 1996, Evan joined the company as a Photo Editor. At that time, there were only four photo editors paid to edit images for publishing on the Internet. Later, they built the first online broadband photography community called “Making Pictures” with a $3M joint venture with Intel in 1997.

In addition to his work responsibilities, Evan made behind the scenes pictures of all of the great people building the company.

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LiDAR Will Be Ubiquitous – Delivering 3D Vision To Robots, Factory Automation and Consumer Electronics

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LiDAR Will Be Ubiquitous – Delivering 3D Vision To Robots, Factory Automation and Consumer Electronics

LiDAR technology is a key solution but adoption of LiDAR has been limited by cost and size until our LDV portfolio company Voyant Photonics. At LDV Capital, we are thrilled to partner with the Voyant team toward their vision of enabling computers to see in 3D.

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After 7 Years of Success, Mapillary Joins Facebook to Continue Their Vision

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After 7 Years of Success, Mapillary Joins Facebook to Continue Their Vision

At LDV, we were honored to be Mapillary’s very first investor. Evan Nisselson shares Mapillary’s successes at navigating the roller coaster that is early-stage business building and a couple of his lessons learned from their +7 years of regular talks.

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Visual Technologies on the Frontline to Flatten the Curve

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Visual Technologies on the Frontline to Flatten the Curve

Evan Nisselson wrote an article about visual technologies that will help flatten the curve of COVID 19. See what’s currently happening in thermal and fluorescent imaging, telemedicine, 3D printing, and other industries.

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Meet LDV Capital’s Expert In Residence, Computer Vision Leader Serge Belongie

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Meet LDV Capital’s Expert In Residence, Computer Vision Leader Serge Belongie

We are honored to announce that computer vision and machine learning expert Serge Belongie has joined LDV Capital’s team as our first Expert in Residence [ER]. Serge is a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Cornell Tech and a technical leader in our field of visual technologies.

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How do you know if your audience is laughing, talking or sleeping?

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How do you know if your audience is laughing, talking or sleeping?

The mission of TVision Insights is to fix the broken parts of television advertising. LDV Capital is excited to invest in the TVision team alongside Accomplice, Jump Capital, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, and other investors.

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Clarifai raises $30M Series B - Delivering The Power Of Artificial Intelligence Into Everyone’s Hands

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Clarifai raises $30M Series B - Delivering The Power Of Artificial Intelligence Into Everyone’s Hands

We are proud to share the news that our portfolio company Clarifai has raised a $30M Series B financing led by Matt Murphy at Menlo Partners.

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Who Created That Image? Solving the online content identity problem leveraging the blockchain.

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Who Created That Image? Solving the online content identity problem leveraging the blockchain.

LDV Capital is excited to invest in the Mediachain Labs team and this ambitious goal along with Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, RRE Ventures, and other investors.

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