Merritt Jenkins Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

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Merritt Jenkins Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

Merritt Jenkins is at MIT Sloan School of Management. He has eight years of experience deploying robot hardware and vision systems in harsh environments including at Plenty (a Softbank-backed vertical farming company) and Pattern Ag (a VC-backed startup developing genetic analyses of the soil microbiome). He has an MSc in Robotics from CMU and a dual BA/BEng from Dartmouth. Merritt is looking forward to learning more about the investing process and the landscape of computer vision startups.

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Leah Oppenheimer Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

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Leah Oppenheimer Joins LDV Capital As a Summer Associate

Leah Oppenheimer will be attending Columbia Business School in the fall. She has held roles in marketing and operations at a corporate venture firm, boutique consultancies, and startups. She has a Masters in Philosophy from Cambridge University (UK) and a BA from the University of Connecticut. Leah is most excited about our newest LDV Insights report, investment pipeline, and portfolio company advisory work.

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Kat Lopez Joins LDV Capital As a Content & Marketing Lead

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Kat Lopez Joins LDV Capital As a Content & Marketing Lead

Kat Lopez is now leading Content & Marketing on the platform side of LDV, helping us scale our LDV initiatives for entrepreneurs such as our LDV Vision Summit, LDV Community, Women Leading Visual Tech series, LDV Insights and much more. Kat has a decade of experience leading marketing for startups, she’s been a copywriter, an in-house blogger, social media & email marketing manager, content strategist, and PR manager. She was a part of Looksery (acquired by Snapchat), JetSmarter (acquired by Vista Global), and Kwambio (a startup in 3D printing, 2x TechStars alum).

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Learning and Living Entrepreneurship While Investing Early In Startups At LDV Capital

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Learning and Living Entrepreneurship While Investing Early In Startups At LDV Capital

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.

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LDV Capital is Looking for Summer Analysts - Come Collaborate with Us!

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LDV Capital is Looking for Summer Analysts - Come Collaborate with Us!

LDV Capital is a thesis-driven early-stage venture fund investing in people building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data.

We are looking for two entrepreneurial-minded, visual tech-savvy individuals to join our team from May-August 2019.

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LDV Capital Raises $10M Second Seed Fund for Visual Technologies

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LDV Capital Raises $10M Second Seed Fund for Visual Technologies

We are very excited to announce the close of our second fund for investing in people building visual technology businesses at the pre-seed or seed stage. You can read more about it on the Wall Street Journal.

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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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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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Partnering With Matthew Zeiler And The Clarifai Team

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LDV Capital invested in Matt, Adam, and their Clarifai vision in the summer of 2014, alongside Qualcomm Ventures, Google Ventures, Nvidia, and respected angels. Since then, they have added more impressive computer vision experts to their team, continued with fast iteration of their technology, and customers are already leveraging their services.

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Partnering with Jan Erik Solem and the Mapillary Team

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LDV Capital is very pleased to be co-investors in Mapillary with Sequoia Capital, Wellington Partners, Playfair and several great angels.

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