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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Deep Tech, No Code Tools Will Help Generate Better Content

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Deep Tech, No Code Tools Will Help Generate Better Content

As experts in visual tech, our team at LDV Capital produces an annual proprietary research report, where we deep dive into a sector where visual technology will revolutionize businesses. This year, LDV explored the future for content creation over the next five years.

In our recent LDV Insights report – “Content & the Metaverse are Powered by Visual Tech” – we found that by 2027 there will be at least 100 times more visual content in the world. Read more about the creator economy and visual tech tools that will automate various aspects of content creation in Abigail Hunter-Syed’s article.

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The Future of Online Shopping and Digital Fashion

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The Future of Online Shopping and Digital Fashion

50% 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.

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Where Are Visual Technologies Powering Gaming, and the Metaverse?

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Where Are Visual Technologies Powering Gaming, and the Metaverse?

We 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.

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Can Meta-Learning Unlock the Magic of AI?

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Can Meta-Learning Unlock the Magic of AI?

Honored 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.

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Investing In Gryps To Modernize the Construction Industry With Robotic Process Automation, Computer Vision & AI

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Investing In Gryps To Modernize the Construction Industry With Robotic Process Automation, Computer Vision & AI

As 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.

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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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You Made Our 7th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Success!

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You Made Our 7th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Success!

Our 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.

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Azeem Azhar on Visual Technologies that Help us Fight Climate Change

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Azeem Azhar on Visual Technologies that Help us Fight Climate Change

In 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.

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Visual Tech Has Become An Expected Part Of The Modern Tech Stack

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Visual Tech Has Become An Expected Part Of The Modern Tech Stack

In 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.

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Computer Vision-Powered Solutions to Create Breakthrough User Experiences

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Computer Vision-Powered Solutions to Create Breakthrough User Experiences

Evan 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.

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Visual Technologies Will Enable the Meat Industry to Be More Efficient

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Visual Technologies Will Enable the Meat Industry to Be More Efficient

In 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.

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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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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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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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