Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital’s Founder and General Partner, was a professional photographer, photo editor and photo agent in the early 1990s. He wrote this article in 2004. At that time, most people never thought online photo-sharing would ever be popular.
Read MoreCan AI create visual metaphors for creative ads? Can it understand the contextual meaning behind them? Is it the future of content creation?
We are honored to have Dr. Lydia Chilton, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, in our Women Leading Visual Tech series. Lydia leads the research about the creative design process from a computational standpoint. She builds AI tools that enhance people’s productivity.
Read More50% of clothing items purchased online are returned, in part, due to poor size or fit. Nour Karessli, Senior Data Scientist at Zalando, is utilizing state-of-the-art computer vision and AI to improve online shopping. She leverages the visual cues present in fashion images for a better understanding of the complex problem of size and fit.
Tune in to see Nour and Abigail Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, discussing the future of online shopping and digital fashion in this episode of our Women Leading Visual Tech series.
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Azeem Khan joins our team as a Venture Fellow this Summer. His interest and hands-on experience with gaming, NFTs, the metaverse, and by extension, blockchain technology, will add insights into our evaluation process of new investment opportunities across these sectors.
Read MorePeter Stern, CEO of Voyant Photonics, wrote about…basically, the future of everything. See what happens when chip-scale machine perception sensors become affordable enough.
Read MoreAt our 7th annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the pleasure to host a fireside chat between Abhijay Prakash, President of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, and Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital’s Founder and General Partner. They discussed entertainment, Hollywood, and new technologies.
Read MoreWe are excited to announce the close of our third fund for investing in early-stage businesses powered by visual technologies.
Read MoreWe welcome Dr. Kate Darling in our Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is a leading expert in Robot Ethics and a researcher at MIT's Media Lab. Abigail Hunter-Syed and Dr. Darling spoke about our tendency to assign human characteristics to the machines in our lives - anyone else ever apologizes to Roomba? How about cursed at Alexa? See how Dr. Darling thinks we should approach our relationships with robots.
Read MoreHonored to have DeepMind’s senior research scientist Dr. Jane Wang in our monthly interview series. This interview was recorded live on March 18th at our very first Women Leading Visual Tech community event. Jane spoke with Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, about how and where meta-learning will generate opportunities for business and society.
Read MoreAs seen on VentureBeat: Gryps raised $1.5M led by us – LDV Capital – with participation from PearVC, the Harvard Business School Graduate Syndicate, and a group of angel investors experienced in building enterprise software. Among them are the Antevy brothers who are experts in building software for the construction industry as co-founders of e-Builder.
Read MoreOur 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.
Read MoreMeet Dr. Mackenzie Mathis – a new guest in our monthly Women Leading Visual Tech series. She is a neuroscientist, a tenure-track professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, working within the Brain Mind Institute and Center for Neuroprosthetics. Dr. Mathis founded the Adaptive Motor Control Lab to investigate the neural basis of adaptive motor behaviors in mice to inform future translational research in neurological diseases.
LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Dr. Mackenzie Mathis about her work to beat neurodegenerative diseases like Lou Gehrig’s, the awesome computer vision tool she developed DeepLabCut, and so much more!
Read MoreLDV 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.
Read MoreOur 7th annual LDV Vision Summit was a great success! We are so grateful, in these times, to be able to connect with all of you investors, entrepreneurs, technologists, executives, writers, and more who are as passionate about visual tech as we are. Thank you for coming together with us to examine the incredible opportunities for computer vision, machine learning, and AI to improve business and society.
Read MoreIn the lead up to the Summit, Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, had a chance to chat with Azeem Azhar, a curator of “The Exponential View” - a must-read for all in the innovation world - and one of the leading thinkers on bridging the gap between technology and the humanities to provide a holistic understanding of our near future.
Read MoreThe next guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech series is Dr. Sujatha Ramanujan, a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with 25 years of experience in medical devices and consumer electronics. She currently serves as the Managing Director of Luminate – the world’s largest accelerator for startups with optics, photonics, and imaging enabled applications. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Sujatha about managing a crisis, fear of boredom, and a mission to revitalize the Rochester area.
Read MoreIn the lead up to the Summit, Abigail Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Hayley Barna, Partner at First Round Capital, about her experience investing in visual tech. Before joining First Round, she co-founded and scaled Birchbox, the leading beauty and grooming retailer seed-funded by First Round in 2010.
Read MoreEvan Nisselson interviewed Samir Kumar, Managing Director of M12 – Microsoft's Venture Fund. Samir is leading investment activities in emerging tech areas including quantum computing and autonomous vehicles. Before joining M12, Samir worked in Qualcomm’s corporate R&D division, leading early-stage product validation, partnerships, acquisition, and strategy for embedded and on-device deep learning.
Read MoreIn our latest LDV Insights Report, we examined the opportunities for visual technologies across animal agriculture and found that there is a tremendous opportunity. From meat processing to feed efficiency, animal quality of life and dairy, there are exciting new applications for computer vision and machine learning. Merritt Jenkins, Summer Associate at LDV in 2020, presents some of our findings.
Read MoreThe next guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech Series is Carol Reiley, a serial entrepreneur and a computer scientist with the nickname “Mother of Robots”. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Carol about current trends in robotics and AI. They touched on autonomous cars, healthcare, the food industry, and arts – all subject to being drastically transformed by advances in deep learning.
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