Gardin Enables Producers to Grow More Nutritional Food While Lowering Production Costs

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Gardin Enables Producers to Grow More Nutritional Food While Lowering Production Costs

“If the purpose of food is to provide us with nutrition, then shouldn't that be what we're measuring?”.

Sumanta Talukdar, founder and CEO of Gardin, gave a keynote speech at our 7th LDV Vision Summit. Tune in to watch the video or read the transcript and learn how the company leverages a combination of multispectral sensing, data fusion, computer vision, and machine learning to improve food production.

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The Magic of Engineering and Computer Science With Dr. Karen Panetta

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The Magic of Engineering and Computer Science With Dr. Karen Panetta

The next guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech interview series is Dr. Karen Panetta – an electrical and computer engineer, inventor and Dean of Graduate Education for the School of Engineering at Tufts University. Abigail Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, chatted with Karen about teaching computers to see like humans, the role of diversity of perspectives, social impact projects, the role of AI in biological image processing and so much more!

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Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen on Delivering Moonshots into Moon Landings

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Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen on Delivering Moonshots into Moon Landings

On March 23 at our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV, will speak with Dr. Jepsen, the founder and CEO of OpenWater – a startup working on novel imaging systems that leverage lasers as well as optoelectronic & holographic systems to see deep into the body and brain with the detail of a high-resolution 3D camera. They will discuss how to make moonshots into moon landings & other stories in deep tech entrepreneurship.

In the lead-up to the Summit, Evan had the privilege of asking Dr. Jepsen a few questions.

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3 Business Sectors Where Visual Tech Helps Us Move Toward The Net-Zero Economy

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3 Business Sectors Where Visual Tech Helps Us Move Toward The Net-Zero Economy

In his keynote at our 7th LDV Vision Summit, Azeem Azhar, the creator of Exponential View and Venture Partner at Kindred Capital, demonstrated the power of visual technologies and how they can help us transition towards net-zero and decarbonization of our economy.

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Rick Heitzmann's Futurist Perspectives on Businesses Powered by Computer Vision

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Rick Heitzmann's Futurist Perspectives on Businesses Powered by Computer Vision

At our 7th annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the pleasure to host a fireside chat between Rick Heitzmann, Founder & Partner at FirstMark Capital, and Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital’s Founder and General Partner. They discussed early-stage investing, megatrends, proactive healthcare, actionable data, and the future of AI-powered decision-making.

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Voyant Photonics Raises $15.4M and Delivers Its Developer Kits with The World’s First Silicon-Photonics Chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system

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Voyant Photonics Raises $15.4M and Delivers Its Developer Kits with The World’s First Silicon-Photonics Chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system

Our portfolio company Voyant Photonics raised $15.4M in Series A funding to bring developer kits with the world's first silicon-photonics chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system to their customers. Their tiny sensors can analyze any environment, in any lighting from bright sunlight to pitch darkness with millimeter precision, are immune to interference, that sense position, motion, and even the materials objects are made of and are affordable for any application.

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Women Leading Visual Tech: Radically Transforming Fashion

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Women Leading Visual Tech: Radically Transforming Fashion

Our second Women Leading Visual Tech community event was all about fashion. In case you missed it, this is your chance to watch the keynote presentations by Caley Taylor of CLO Virtual Fashion, Madeleine Gong of Wearable X, and Neha Singh of Obsess.

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LDV Capital Leads Aquifer’s $2M Seed To Make Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot

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LDV Capital Leads Aquifer’s $2M Seed To Make Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot

With their AI-powered animation platform, Aquifer gives content creators with no technical animation skills the power to produce cinematic-quality animated content in minutes.

At LDV, we are honored to lead their $2M Seed financing along with Boost VC, Geekdom Fund, Wedbush Ventures, Techstars and strategic angels.

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Digital Fashion Gives Creators a New Form of Identity and Self-Expression in a Virtual World

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Digital Fashion Gives Creators a New Form of Identity and Self-Expression in a Virtual World

Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Caley Taylor, 3D Design Team Lead at CLO Virtual Fashion. They spoke about digital garments, 3D mockups and virtual fitting – all of which are revolutionizing the fashion industry today. Join us on December 8, and see where it’s all headed and whether we’ll all care for our virtual closets no less than for the physical ones.

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Wearable Technology Delivers Smart Clothing

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Wearable Technology Delivers Smart Clothing

Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Madeleine Gong of Wearable X. They spoke about the intersection of wearable technology and fashion. They briefly touched on mushroom leather and the introduction of skincare into textiles – join us virtually on December 8 to learn more.

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The Future of Effortlessly Cinematic AI-powered Video Storytelling with Aquifer

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The Future of Effortlessly Cinematic AI-powered Video Storytelling with Aquifer

Thrilled to introduce the new guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech series. Meet Chen Zhang, co-founder & CEO at Aquifer – an AI-powered platform for teams and creators to make stunning animated videos and livestreams with their brand's IP in minutes.

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Partnering with Roadio (Formerly Streetlogic) to Make eBikes Safer with the Help of Computer Vision and AI

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Partnering with Roadio (Formerly Streetlogic) to Make eBikes Safer with the Help of Computer Vision and AI

Here at LDV Capital, we are thrilled to partner with Streetlogic – a deep technical team that builds a computer vision-based eBike collision warning system or in other words, ADAS for electric bikes.

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Interactive 3D Virtual Stores and More Fashion Tech

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Interactive 3D Virtual Stores and More Fashion Tech

In the lead-up to our second live community event, “Radically Transforming Fashion”, Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, had an opportunity to chat with Neha Singh of Obsess.

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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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Biggest Trends in Visual Tech Investing or Why it’s an Amazing Time to Build

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Biggest Trends in Visual Tech Investing or Why it’s an Amazing Time to Build

Hayley Barna, Partner at First Round Capital, and Abigail Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, discussed Hayley’s experience as an entrepreneur – she co-founded Birchbox, a company known as an indisputable OG of the beauty subscription box phenomenon, and her insights on trends and investment opportunities in visual technologies.

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Ash & Brian Join LDV Capital For Our Two-Year Analyst Program

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Ash & Brian Join LDV Capital For Our Two-Year Analyst Program

We are thrilled to announce the addition of Brian Derickson and Ash Cleary to our LDV Capital team as Analysts. They will help us evaluate investment opportunities, support our portfolio companies as well as research and write our Insights reports.

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In 2004 They Called Evan Crazy Again - He Said More Than 100 Billion Digital Images Would Be Captured Worldwide in 2005

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In 2004 They Called Evan Crazy Again - He Said More Than 100 Billion Digital Images Would Be Captured Worldwide in 2005

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.

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Can AI Generate Visual Content for Social Media?

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Can AI Generate Visual Content for Social Media?

Can 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.

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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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