How to Turn Deep Technological Innovations into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

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How to Turn Deep Technological Innovations into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

On March 23 at our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV, will speak with Dr. Martín Varsavsky – an extremely successful serial entrepreneur, professor and investor who has founded 8 companies (3 with unicorn status) in the US and Europe in the last 30 years.

They will chat about his experiences turning technological innovations into billion-dollar companies that have a significant impact on humanity.

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

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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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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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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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The Cutting Edge Technologies Impacting Hollywood & the Media

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The Cutting Edge Technologies Impacting Hollywood & the Media

At 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.

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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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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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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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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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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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Accelerating Artificial Intelligence With Light

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Accelerating Artificial Intelligence With Light

At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Dr. Nicholas Harris – Founder & CEO of Lightmatter – gave a keynote speech on the next-generation computing platform they are building for AI and its value for autonomous vehicles in the next 5, 10, 20 years.
Nicholas holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his doctoral thesis was on programmable nanophotonics for quantum information processing and artificial intelligence.

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Trends in Visual Technology Investing

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Trends in Visual Technology Investing

At last year’s LDV Vision Summit, Jessi Hempel (Senior Editor at LinkedIn) spoke with Hadley Harris (Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures), Laura Smoliar (Founding Partner at Berkeley Catalyst Fund), and Zavain Dar (Partner at Lux Capital) about trends in visual technologies across all business sectors and society.
The main question for our panelists was: “Where are the next visual technology investment opportunities?”

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Thank You for Making Our 6th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

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Thank You for Making Our 6th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

Our sixth annual LDV Vision Summit was fantastic, a giant thank you to everyone who came and participated in making it another spectacular gathering. We are honored that you fly in from around the world each year to share insights, inspire, do deals, recruit, raise capital, and help each other succeed!

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How are Brands Benefiting from AI & Computer Vision?

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How are Brands Benefiting from AI & Computer Vision?

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Dave Gershgorn (Quartz) spoke with Ophir Tanz (GumGum), Erin Rech (Initiative), Jessica Criscione (Ogilvy & Mather), and Beth Rolfs (Publicis) about how brands can benefit from AI and computer vision.

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