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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Flashback – 2014 LDV Vision Summit Showcases How Visual Technologies Will Change Our World

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Flashback – 2014 LDV Vision Summit Showcases How Visual Technologies Will Change Our World

Here’s a flashback from 2014 – a year when Facebook bought Oculus VR and Ellen Degeneres temporarily crashed Twitter with her selfie with a bunch of celebrities during the Oscars broadcast. Watch Evan Nisselson’s opening word at our very first LDV Vision Summit.

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Visual Technologies Are Critical to Discovering New Food Proteins and Hopefully A More Sustainable Future

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Visual Technologies Are Critical to Discovering New Food Proteins and Hopefully A More Sustainable Future

We recently released our 2020 LDV Insights Report, “Visual Technologies Driving Innovation in 15 Food & Agriculture Sectors”. One of its chapters is dedicated to food processing.

Among many other topics, LDV Capital’s associate Meryl Breidbart was researching all things protein. Why proteins?

Proteins are the building blocks of almost everything in life. Technically speaking, proteins are macromolecules consisting of one or more long chains of amino acids. And while proteins make up much more than just the food we eat—such as antibodies, insulin, and growth hormone, to name a few—our food system is on the brink of a crisis with our growing population and demand for more sustainable sources of food.

Read about the cutting-edge visual tech that helps in discovering and creating new proteins in her latest article on our blog and don’t forget to get your free copy of our latest report.

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Dr. Kavita Bala on Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry

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Dr. Kavita Bala on Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry

Please meet Kavita Bala – the next guest in our monthly Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is one of our most distinguished scholars, the dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Her work on scalable rendering, Lightcuts, is the algorithm in Autodesk’s cloud renderer. Dr. Bala co-founded GrokStyle, a company that won our 2016 LDV Vision Summit Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Competition. In 2019, her company was acquired by Facebook and now the future of shopping on Facebook is based on GrokStyle's tech. Read this interview to learn about Dr. Bala’s career path, current projects and her vision of the future of visual technologies.

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Farm to Fridge: Food and Agriculture are Ripe with Visual Technology Opportunities

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Farm to Fridge: Food and Agriculture are Ripe with Visual Technology Opportunities

As experts in visual technologies, we at LDV Capital produce an annual proprietary LDV Insights report, where we deep dive into a sector where visual technology will revolutionize businesses. Previously, we covered healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and more. This year, we researched the future of food and agriculture.

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CIONIC is Overcoming Disability through Precision Bionics: Sensors, Soft Robotics, and Machine Learning

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CIONIC is Overcoming Disability through Precision Bionics: Sensors, Soft Robotics, and Machine Learning

CIONIC builds robotic suits or so called neural sleeves to help people move. This bionic clothing leverages visual tech, sensors, soft robotics, and machine learning to improve lives by helping those living with physical disabilities. Tune in to re/watch Jeremiah Robison’s keynote at our 6th annual LDV Vision Summit.

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Esther Dyson on Investing in Insurance, Mapping, Mental Health, and Telehealth

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Esther Dyson on Investing in Insurance, Mapping, Mental Health, and Telehealth

This month, in our Women Leading Visual Tech series we are honored to showcase Esther Dyson – an investor, journalist, author, businesswoman, commentator, and philanthropist. Currently, she is a full-time executive founder of Wellville, a ten-year project (ending in 2024) to show the long-term value, in both equity and resilience, of investing in health for all.

LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Esther about investing in visual technology companies, genetics, AI-powered MRI-based cancer screenings, and much more!

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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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Reimagining the Relationship Between Humans & Machines with Neural Interface Technology

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Reimagining the Relationship Between Humans & Machines with Neural Interface Technology

In 2019, we had the pleasure of hosting a fireside chat between Thomas Reardon, a computational neuroscientist, co-founder and CEO of CTRL-labs, and Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital.

Four months later in September 2019, CTRL-Labs was acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 billion, reported VentureBeat. He and his team are now integrated into Facebook's AR/VR research group.

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“AI is like a toddler in terms of the sophistication of understanding human emotions,” Says Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO at Affectiva

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“AI is like a toddler in terms of the sophistication of understanding human emotions,” Says Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO at Affectiva

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO at Affectiva, the company building Emotion AI – AI that reads human emotions by leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and data science. This technology has numerous applications, from mental health to automotive. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Rana about her recently published memoir ‘Girl Decoded’ and so much more.

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Ezra Delivers Full-body MRI Cancer Screening that Saves Lives

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Ezra Delivers Full-body MRI Cancer Screening that Saves Lives

Emi Gal, co-founder & CEO of Ezra, our portfolio company, showcases the tech his company is utilizing to detect prostate cancer and how he believes computer vision will revolutionize MRI-based cancer screening.

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Computer vision and machine learning power medical diagnostics

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Computer vision and machine learning power medical diagnostics

Experts from Harvard Medical School, Facebook AI Research, Pearl, and LDV Capital discuss trends of computer vision and machine learning impact on medical diagnostics to revolutionize precision medicine.

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Lourdes Agapito On Synthetic Media and Its Way To Transform The Film Industry, Online Shopping, and More

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Lourdes Agapito On Synthetic Media and Its Way To Transform The Film Industry, Online Shopping, and More

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Lourdes Agapito. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Lourdes about her research, her journey through computer vision, and her experience of being a co-founder of such a fantastic growing company as Synthesia.

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“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

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“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Gaile Gordon, a co-founder of TYZX, acquired by Intel. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Gaile about her career in deep tech.

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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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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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The Future of Storytelling with Interactive Video

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The Future of Storytelling with Interactive Video

Even if you missed our LDV Vision Summit in 2019 you can still watch Rebecca Paoletti, CEO & co-founder of CakeWorks, discussing this topic with Dan Garraway, the co-founder of WireWax, Tal Zubalsky, CPO & co-founder of Eko, and Beth-Ann Eason, the president of Innovid.

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Michal Lipson on Silicon Photonics and Its Ability to Enable AI in Our Life

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Michal Lipson on Silicon Photonics and Its Ability to Enable AI in Our Life

Our second interview in Women Leading Visual Tech series is with Dr. Michal Lipson.
Michal is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and a member of the National Academy of Science. Her research work is focused on nanophotonics.

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