Partnering with Sonus Microsystems to Deliver the Next-Gen Ultrasound For Remote Diagnostic Imaging

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Partnering with Sonus Microsystems to Deliver the Next-Gen Ultrasound For Remote Diagnostic Imaging

We are thrilled to partner and invest in the brilliant Sonus Microsystems team developing and commercializing a novel and proprietary ultrasound technology that utilizes polymer MEMS sensors to send and receive ultrasonic waves. They are ushering in a new era of ultrasound by commercializing high-performance, custom-designed linear and matrix array transducers for emerging applications in ultrasound imaging.

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We Are Honored to Partner with Avi Muchnick and the BurnerPage team to Boost Web Page Performance With Generative AI

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We Are Honored to Partner with Avi Muchnick and the BurnerPage team to Boost Web Page Performance With Generative AI

We are honored to announce our partnership with BurnerPage – a SaaS AI-powered platform that autonomously delivers better Return on Investment (ROI) as it creates and improves web pages and provides continuous optimization. LDV Capital led their $2M pre-seed round along with co-investors Jenny Lefcourt, Partner at Freestyle and strategic angels.

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Partnering With ImVitro To Increase Successful IVF Fertility Pregnancies by Leveraging Computer Vision & AI

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Partnering With ImVitro To Increase Successful IVF Fertility Pregnancies by Leveraging Computer Vision & AI

We at LDV Capital are thrilled to partner with Dr. Alexandra Boussommier and the brilliant team at ImVitro, a company behind the B2B SaaS platform Embryoly that applies computer vision and artificial intelligence to the IVF fertility imaging process. They are focused on increasing successful pregnancies, quality control and transparency along the entire IVF workflow for patients and improving clinics' productivity.

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Unilever and L’Oréal Brands Leverage the AI-powered Platform Memorable to Maximize the Memorability, Saliency and Conversion Potential of Their Ads

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Unilever and L’Oréal Brands Leverage the AI-powered Platform Memorable to Maximize the Memorability, Saliency and Conversion Potential of Their Ads

We are thrilled to partner and invest in the deep tech team at Memorable. They are building cutting-edge technology to optimize ads for a higher impact on branding and conversion. Memorable's AI models are based on cognitive science to maximize the memorability, saliency, and conversion potential of both videos and images.

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Glass Imaging To Enable Smartphone Cameras To Replace Professional DSLR Cameras

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Glass Imaging To Enable Smartphone Cameras To Replace Professional DSLR Cameras

Smartphone camera tech had stalled in its abilities to emulate full-frame cameras. Now it’s time for you to meet Glass Imaging! We're excited to partner with founders Ziv Attar and Dr. Tom Bishop as well as their team as they improve smartphone camera capabilities through a mixture of unique optics, computational photography, and AI.

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Voyant Photonics Raises $15.4M and Delivers Its Developer Kits with The World’s First Silicon-Photonics Chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system

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Voyant Photonics Raises $15.4M and Delivers Its Developer Kits with The World’s First Silicon-Photonics Chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system

Our portfolio company Voyant Photonics raised $15.4M in Series A funding to bring developer kits with the world's first silicon-photonics chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system to their customers. Their tiny sensors can analyze any environment, in any lighting from bright sunlight to pitch darkness with millimeter precision, are immune to interference, that sense position, motion, and even the materials objects are made of and are affordable for any application.

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LDV Capital Leads Aquifer’s $2M Seed To Make Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot

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LDV Capital Leads Aquifer’s $2M Seed To Make Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot

With their AI-powered animation platform, Aquifer gives content creators with no technical animation skills the power to produce cinematic-quality animated content in minutes.

At LDV, we are honored to lead their $2M Seed financing along with Boost VC, Geekdom Fund, Wedbush Ventures, Techstars and strategic angels.

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Partnering with Roadio (Formerly Streetlogic) to Make eBikes Safer with the Help of Computer Vision and AI

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Partnering with Roadio (Formerly Streetlogic) to Make eBikes Safer with the Help of Computer Vision and AI

Here at LDV Capital, we are thrilled to partner with Streetlogic – a deep technical team that builds a computer vision-based eBike collision warning system or in other words, ADAS for electric bikes.

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Partnering with Earkick Founders to Deliver the World’s First Real-Time Mental Health Tracker

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Partnering with Earkick Founders to Deliver the World’s First Real-Time Mental Health Tracker

We at LDV Capital are excited to partner and invest in the brilliant Earkick team in helping proactively prevent mental health problems with the first real-time data-driven mental health tracker. Their deep tech artificial intelligence platform will analyze health markers, vital signs, voice and sentiment analysis to detect early signs of anxiety, depression and other mental health problems. We see a tremendous value in tracking mental health in real-time and believe that Earkick will improve the quality of life for billions of people.

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Synthesia exponentially scales video production globally

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Synthesia exponentially scales video production globally

Our LDV portfolio company Synthesia launched its AI-driven video production platform in the midst of the pandemic, and now thousands of customers – from Fortune 500 companies to individual creators – generate video content from text. Check out my interview with Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, about new ways to create video content.

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With Uizard’s AI, Non-designers Create Prototypes and Designs for Apps and Websites

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With Uizard’s AI, Non-designers Create Prototypes and Designs for Apps and Websites

LDV Capital’s portfolio company Uizard built a web-based design tool for non-designers that lets anyone quickly and easily design and prototype digital products such as web and mobile apps. The company leverages visual technologies – computer vision and deep learning – to make their AI-design assistant a reality. For example, their technology can instantly convert hand-drawn wireframes into interactive designs. We had a chance to chat with Tony Beltramelli, Uizard’s Co-Founder and CEO, and ask him a couple of burning questions.

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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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Sea Machines Analyzes Diverse Visual Data To Deliver Safe Autonomous Boats

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Sea Machines Analyzes Diverse Visual Data To Deliver Safe Autonomous Boats

Fiona Hua talks about leading the perception team at Boston-based Sea Machines, one of our portfolio companies. Read on to learn about her journey from biometrics to autonomous vessels, how Sea Machines differentiates itself in the market, and more.

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Visual Technologies is an Amazing Lens to Think Through the World

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Visual Technologies is an Amazing Lens to Think Through the World

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, asked Nabeel Hyatt, a former founder, CEO, and now General Partner at Spark Capital, some questions about his experience investing in visual tech.

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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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