Partnering With ImVitro To Increase Successful IVF Fertility Pregnancies by Leveraging Computer Vision & AI

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Partnering With ImVitro To Increase Successful IVF Fertility Pregnancies by Leveraging Computer Vision & AI

We at LDV Capital are thrilled to partner with Dr. Alexandra Boussommier and the brilliant team at ImVitro, a company behind the B2B SaaS platform Embryoly that applies computer vision and artificial intelligence to the IVF fertility imaging process. They are focused on increasing successful pregnancies, quality control and transparency along the entire IVF workflow for patients and improving clinics' productivity.

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LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed: November 2022 Happy Hour Photos

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LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed: November 2022 Happy Hour Photos

We host our LDV Community Dinners & Happy Hours to bring together our tight-knit LDV community – the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers and investors – to discuss cutting-edge visual tech. Check out a few photographs from our fourth and final 2022 “Happy Hour” event hosted in New York City.

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LDV Capital - 10 Years Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

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LDV Capital - 10 Years Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

We could not have accomplished this exciting milestone without our inspiring portfolio founders, experts, community members, co-investors and LDV LPs. Thank you!

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How to Turn Deep Tech Innovations Into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

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How to Turn Deep Tech Innovations Into Unicorn Businesses that Improve Humanity

At our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the privilege of hosting a fireside chat between LDV's Evan Nisselson and Dr. Martin 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.

Check out the video recording or read our shortened and lightly edited transcript.

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Unilever and L’Oréal Brands Leverage the AI-powered Platform Memorable to Maximize the Memorability, Saliency and Conversion Potential of Their Ads

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Unilever and L’Oréal Brands Leverage the AI-powered Platform Memorable to Maximize the Memorability, Saliency and Conversion Potential of Their Ads

We are thrilled to partner and invest in the deep tech team at Memorable. They are building cutting-edge technology to optimize ads for a higher impact on branding and conversion. Memorable's AI models are based on cognitive science to maximize the memorability, saliency, and conversion potential of both videos and images.

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

The smartphone has democratized photography. Improved camera quality is a feature that sells new smartphones. Ever since the inception of LDV Capital in 2012, Evan Nisselson was thrilled with the possibility to partner with people who would bring DSLR quality to small devices.

Earlier this year, we led the seed funding of Glass Imaging – a company on a mission to enable unrivaled professional image quality in smartphones. The team redesigns the optics that work with proprietary AI algorithms to correct the distortions & convert the sensor output to a standard image. You can now see the fantastic quality of pictures taken with the Glass Imaging prototype – it’s happening and soon this technology will fit into pocket-size devices!

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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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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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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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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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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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The Interesting Interplay Between Biological Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence

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The Interesting Interplay Between Biological Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence

Meet 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!

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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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Interview with Dr. Sujatha Ramanujan, Managing Director of Luminate – an Accelerator for Startups with Optics, Photonics and Imaging Enabled Technologies

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Interview with Dr. Sujatha Ramanujan, Managing Director of Luminate – an Accelerator for Startups with Optics, Photonics and Imaging Enabled Technologies

The 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.

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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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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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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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Esther Dyson on Investing in Insurance, Mapping, Mental Health, and Telehealth

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Esther Dyson on Investing in Insurance, Mapping, Mental Health, and Telehealth

This month, in our Women Leading Visual Tech series we are honored to showcase Esther Dyson – an investor, journalist, author, businesswoman, commentator, and philanthropist. Currently, she is a full-time executive founder of Wellville, a ten-year project (ending in 2024) to show the long-term value, in both equity and resilience, of investing in health for all.

LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Esther about investing in visual technology companies, genetics, AI-powered MRI-based cancer screenings, and much more!

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