Insights from Ty Ahmad-Taylor’s 32 years working at NYTimes, @Home Network, Samsung, Meta, and Snap

Insights from Ty Ahmad-Taylor’s 32 years working at NYTimes, @Home Network, Samsung, Meta, and Snap

Meet Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP of Monetization at Snap. Ty’s background: 32 years in information design, 26 years in consumer-facing software and product development leadership, and 25 years in interactive television services development. He has worked at four startups (one went public, and the other three were acquired), and at large social, media, and consumer electronic companies.

In the fireside chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, he shared his views on three things that every CEO should do, inclusive teams, systems thinking, and an exclusion filter that could make our experience of using social media so much better! Evan and Ty also touched on ideas ripe for AI automation, machine learning algorithms that make TikTok successful, and the mixed reality environment that’s coming soon.

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Lessons from Commercializing AI Research, Starting Deep Tech Businesses & Building AI Products At Fortune 100 Companies

Lessons from Commercializing AI Research, Starting Deep Tech Businesses & Building AI Products At Fortune 100 Companies

In this fireside chat with LDV Capital General Partner Evan Nisselson, Clement Farabet, VP of Research at DeepMind, shared his views on the positives, negatives, and lessons learned from building artificial intelligence projects while at university, to founding a startup that successfully exited and at large Fortune 100 corporations.

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Why 7 Top-Tier Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Visual Technology-Powered AI Businesses

Why 7 Top-Tier Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Visual Technology-Powered AI Businesses

Which business sectors will be the most disrupted by visual technologies and AI in the next 10 years? In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech – hosted virtually on March 28, investors from Seedcamp, Northzone, Insight Partners, DCVC, VAS Ventures, Air Street Capital, and we at LDV Capital share insights.

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LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed: February 2023 Happy Hour Photos

LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed: February 2023 Happy Hour Photos

Check out photographs from our most recent LDV Happy Hour event! We hosted 75 fantastic technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers and investors across the New York tech ecosystem (with one of our guests flying in from Boston)!

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

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

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

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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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

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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LDV Community Meets Again in Person to Help Each Other Succeed: September NYC Edition

LDV Community Meets Again in Person to Help Each Other Succeed: September NYC Edition

We host our LDV Community Dinners & Happy Hours to bring together our community. At these events, you can meet the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs and deep tech technologists, researchers and investors to discuss what's happening today, and what, most importantly, will happen tomorrow.

After two years of virtual meetings, we are thrilled to start hosting invite-only LDV Community events in person again! Check out a few photographs from our latest “Happy Hour” in NYC.

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How to Make Moonshots into Moon Landings & Other Tales in Deep Tech Entrepreneurism

How to Make Moonshots into Moon Landings & Other Tales in Deep Tech Entrepreneurism

At our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the privilege of hosting a fireside chat between LDV's Evan Nisselson and Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen, an impressive serial entrepreneur recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. They discussed $100 laptops, 4 big problems of the VR industry, 250 lasers in our modern-day smartphone devices, next-generation portable neural diagnostic and therapeutic systems, and so much more!

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

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LDV Community is Finally Back in Person and Helping Each Other Succeed in NYC!

LDV Community is Finally Back in Person and Helping Each Other Succeed in NYC!

In the past two years, we hosted a range of virtual events but nothing can replace being in person at our LDV Community gatherings of deep tech entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, researchers and investors! We are thrilled to share a few photographs from our latest invite-only “Happy Hour” event in NYC.

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Thank You for Making Our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

Thank You for Making Our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

Our 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.

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

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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