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

September 15, 2022/ Kat Lopez

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.

January 12, 2022

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

January 12, 2022/ Kat Lopez

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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