We chatted with Dr. Elaine Wan about noninvasive 3D and 4D imaging of the heart, how AI can help us make sense of all the data that our wearables collect, the impact of COVID-19 on hearts and so much more!
Read MoreOur 8th annual LDV Vision Summit was the best summit to date! Thanks to the virtual setting, our community tuned in from all over the world and we discussed computer vision, computational imaging, machine learning and AI in healthcare, web3, climate, space, and so much more.
In these turbulent times, we are pleased to have a chance to connect with brilliant entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, executives, and creatives who are as passionate about visual tech as we are at LDV.
Meet Karin Andrea Stephan – a serial entrepreneur, community leader, and startup coach. She has deep domain expertise in tracking mental health and in 2021, Karin Andrea co-founded Earkick to build the world’s first data-driven mental health tracker via multimodal sentiment analysis of physiological biomarkers.
LDV’s Abigail Hunter-Syed chatted with Karin about the potential of an AI-powered tool that is able to track and treat mental health disorders in real-time.
Read MoreSmartphone camera tech had stalled in its abilities to emulate full-frame cameras. Now it’s time for you to meet Glass Imaging! We're excited to partner with founders Ziv Attar and Dr. Tom Bishop as well as their team as they improve smartphone camera capabilities through a mixture of unique optics, computational photography, and AI.
Read MoreCurious about where the next visual technology investment opportunities are? Meet Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir, M12’s Samir Kumar, DCVC’s Kelly Chen, and Bloomberg’s Sarah McBride and see them discuss how Gen Z doesn’t see the camera as an app, they see it as a platform; how the next world war will not be fought by people, but by AI; and so much more!
Read MoreIn the lead-up to our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Evan Nisselson had the privilege of chatting with Amy Kruse, General Partner of Prime Movers Lab. On March 23rd, she will take part in our panel discussion on investing trends in businesses powered by visual technologies.
Read MoreFor far too long, sustainability has been viewed by big companies as more of a marketing campaign or non-profit exercise than a direct financial impact on their bottom line. But the tides are, literally, changing and advances in visual data collection, computer vision and AI are at a point where climate tech companies can leverage it to build businesses that provide financial benefit to mitigating climate impact. See more details in Evan Nisselson’s article.
Read MoreIn the lead-up to our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Evan Nisselson had the privilege of chatting with Wendy Xiao Schadeck, Partner at Northzone. She will take part in our panel discussion on investing trends in businesses powered by visual technologies.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read More“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.
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!
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreOur 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.
Read MoreOur 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.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreAbby 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.
Read MoreAbby 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.
Read MoreThrilled 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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