Visual Technologies are Critical to the Future Success of All Businesses
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LDV Capital is the only venture capital firm with a thesis of investing in people building visual technologies.
Do you know what Visual Technologies are?
The War Over AI Will Be Won with Visual Data – Where are the Startup Opportunities?
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If you missed the virtual event with Evan Nisselson – Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital – at NYU Entrepreneurial Institute last week, we’ve got you covered!
Follow the link below to watch this truly inspiring video session on current visual tech trends, covered from a venture capital investor’s perspective.
Accelerating Artificial Intelligence With Light
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At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Dr. Nicholas Harris – Founder & CEO of Lightmatter – gave a keynote speech on the next-generation computing platform they are building for AI and its value for autonomous vehicles in the next 5, 10, 20 years.
Nicholas holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his doctoral thesis was on programmable nanophotonics for quantum information processing and artificial intelligence.
Trends in Visual Technology Investing
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At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Jessi Hempel (Senior Editor at LinkedIn) spoke with Hadley Harris (Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures), Laura Smoliar (Founding Partner at Berkeley Catalyst Fund), and Zavain Dar (Partner at Lux Capital) about trends in visual technologies across all business sectors and society.
The main question for our panelists was: “Where are the next visual technology investment opportunities?”
Visual Technologies on the Frontline to Flatten the Curve
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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.
Read MoreTimnit Gebru on Algorithmic Bias & Data Mining Ethics
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LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed kicks off our Women Leading Visual Tech series with the interview with Timnit Gebru. Timnit holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is currently the technical co-lead of the ethical artificial intelligence team at Google.
Read MoreTelemedicine: The First Line of Help
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Jeff Nadler, the CIO of Teladoc Health – the nation’s leading telehealth company, shares some insights on fighting this global pandemic and other health problems that could be treated with the help of telemedicine.
Read MoreLearning and Living Entrepreneurship While Investing Early In Startups At LDV Capital
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We had the privilege of welcoming Jorge Colindres, an MBA candidate at Dartmouth onto our team as a Summer Analyst. He spent the summer with us evaluating deals, diving deep into visual tech for our 2019 LDV Insights report, and much more. Jorge shares his experience and shares a few of his takeaways from working with us.
Read MoreThank You for Making Our 6th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!
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Our sixth annual LDV Vision Summit was fantastic, a giant thank you to everyone who came and participated in making it another spectacular gathering. We are honored that you fly in from around the world each year to share insights, inspire, do deals, recruit, raise capital, and help each other succeed!
Read MoreSea Machines Analyzes Diverse Visual Data To Deliver Safe Autonomous Boats
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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.
Read MoreBuilding a Global Marketplace to Commoditize AI, Synthetic Data is Key
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Yashar Behzadi, CEO at Neuromation, spoke about how Neuromation aims to democratize artificial intelligence through the use of synthetic data and distributed computing to dramatically reduce the cost of development.
Read MoreHow are Brands Benefiting from AI & Computer Vision?
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At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Dave Gershgorn (Quartz) spoke with Ophir Tanz (GumGum), Erin Rech (Initiative), Jessica Criscione (Ogilvy & Mather), and Beth Rolfs (Publicis) about how brands can benefit from AI and computer vision.
Read MoreVisual Technologies is an Amazing Lens to Think Through the World
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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.
Read MoreComputer vision is an immensely fertile area for entrepreneurs and investors
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Evan Nisselson interviewed Matt Turck, a Partner of FirstMark Capital. He invests across a broad range of early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Prior to FirstMark, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the investment and incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Previously, Matt was the co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle.
Read MoreAny Humans Assessing Images Today will be Augmented in the Future
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Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Zavain Dar, Partner at Lux Capital, about his experience investing in visual tech. Zavain invests in companies that are using machine learning and AI to augment or replace physical-world functions including biology, language, manufacturing, and analysis. He looks for entrepreneurs that can use software and data to hone a philosophical position on where the world is, and how to direct it for the better.
Read MoreVisual Technologies are Progressing Rapidly as Computing Power Grows
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Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviews Laura Smoliar about her experience investing in visual tech. Laura is a Founding Partner at The Berkeley Catalyst Fund where she focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies in biopharma, agriculture, medical device, clean air, clean water, energy storage, and sensors.
Read MoreVisual Technologies Are the Eyes of the Intelligent Computer
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Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Rachel Lam, the co-founder and Managing Partner of Imagination Capital. Prior to launching Imagination Capital, Rachel founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003 and was head of the strategic investing arm of Time Warner Inc. for 14 years.
Read MoreFrom Publisher of Spy Magazine to Reimagining Business Insights as Entertainment
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In this article, Spy’s founding publisher Tom Phillips talks about how Section4 will take business intelligence to a whole new level. Read on to learn about his entrepreneurial journey, his tips for startup founders, why he’s excited for our LDV Vision Summit, and more.
Read More2019 LDV Vision Summit Visual Technology Trends
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At LDV Vision Summit, we highlight experts working on cutting edge technologies and trends across every sector of business and society. We do not repeat speakers and we are honored that many attendees join every year.
Read MoreThe Next Decade Will See Trillion Dollar Sectors Disrupted by Visual Technologies, According to Hadley Harris
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Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Hadley Harris, the Founding General Partner at Eniac, about his experience investing in visual tech. Hadley has done a little bit of everything on the path to co-founding Eniac, starting out as an engineer at Pegasystems, a product manager at Microsoft, and a strategist at Samsung. He ran a few aspects of the business across product and marketing at Vlingo prior to its sale to Nuance. He also served as CMO at Thumb until it was acquired.
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