​Over 10 Years of Insights on Visual Technologies & AI From Leaders ​a​t DeepMind, Sequoia Capital, Meta, Union Square Ventures,​ Snap and More​

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​Over 10 Years of Insights on Visual Technologies & AI From Leaders ​a​t DeepMind, Sequoia Capital, Meta, Union Square Ventures,​ Snap and More​

As we approach our 10th Summit anniversary on March 21, 2024, we decided to go down memory lane and spotlight the exceptional fireside chat speakers LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson has had the privilege to witness and interview over the years. These leaders come from companies such as DeepMind, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures, Meta, Spark Capital, FirstMark, Universal Pictures, Greylock Partners, Snap, First Round Capital, OpenWater and more.

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“The Difference Is – Now The Whole World Is Paying Attention To AI,” Says Prof. Serge Belongie

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“The Difference Is – Now The Whole World Is Paying Attention To AI,” Says Prof. Serge Belongie

As we approach the 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we thought it fitting to pose a few burning questions to Serge Belongie, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence and LDV Capital Expert in Residence. We delved into his experiences as a prominent figure in AI and sought his insights on the present landscape of visual technologies. Additionally, we explored his thoughts on the prospects available to researchers aiming to bring their work to market and impact humanity at large.

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

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

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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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Why These 11 Brilliant Professors & Researchers Are Focusing on AI

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Why These 11 Brilliant Professors & Researchers Are Focusing on AI

Which sectors over the next 10 years will have the most societal impact from research advancements leveraging visual technologies and artificial intelligence? In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech – hosted virtually on March 28, we addressed this and 4 other burning questions to 11 brilliant professors & researchers.

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Visual Tech is Critical to the Future of Life Sciences

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Visual Tech is Critical to the Future of Life Sciences

In 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.

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LDV Capital Leads Aquifer’s $2M Seed To Make Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot

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LDV Capital Leads Aquifer’s $2M Seed To Make Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot

With 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.

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The Future of Effortlessly Cinematic AI-powered Video Storytelling with Aquifer

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The Future of Effortlessly Cinematic AI-powered Video Storytelling with Aquifer

Thrilled 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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Interactive 3D Virtual Stores and More Fashion Tech

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Interactive 3D Virtual Stores and More Fashion Tech

In the lead-up to our second live community event, “Radically Transforming Fashion”, Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, had an opportunity to chat with Neha Singh of Obsess.

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Machine Perception Will Eat the World

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Machine Perception Will Eat the World

Peter Stern, CEO of Voyant Photonics, wrote about…basically, the future of everything. See what happens when chip-scale machine perception sensors become affordable enough.

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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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“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

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“No Perfect Time to Start a Company” Says Gaile Gordon on Transitioning From Researcher to Successful Entrepreneur

Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Gaile Gordon, a co-founder of TYZX, acquired by Intel. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Gaile about her career in deep tech.

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Kat Lopez Joins LDV Capital As a Content & Marketing Lead

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Kat Lopez Joins LDV Capital As a Content & Marketing Lead

Kat Lopez is now leading Content & Marketing on the platform side of LDV, helping us scale our LDV initiatives for entrepreneurs such as our LDV Vision Summit, LDV Community, Women Leading Visual Tech series, LDV Insights and much more. Kat has a decade of experience leading marketing for startups, she’s been a copywriter, an in-house blogger, social media & email marketing manager, content strategist, and PR manager. She was a part of Looksery (acquired by Snapchat), JetSmarter (acquired by Vista Global), and Kwambio (a startup in 3D printing, 2x TechStars alum).

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Visual Technologies is an Amazing Lens to Think Through the World

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Visual Technologies is an Amazing Lens to Think Through the World

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, asked Nabeel Hyatt, a former founder, CEO, and now General Partner at Spark Capital, some questions about his experience investing in visual tech.

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Visual Technologies Are the Eyes of the Intelligent Computer

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Visual Technologies Are the Eyes of the Intelligent Computer

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Rachel Lam, the co-founder and Managing Partner of Imagination Capital. Prior to launching Imagination Capital, Rachel founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003 and was head of the strategic investing arm of Time Warner Inc. for 14 years.

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At Facebook Camera, They Think About Delivering Value to AR Users

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At Facebook Camera, They Think About Delivering Value to AR Users

Matt Uyttendaele is the Director of Core AI at Facebook Camera. At our 2018 LDV Vision Summit, Matt spoke about enabling persistent Augmented Reality experiences across the spectrum of mobile devices. He shared how, at Facebook Camera, they are solving this and giving creators the ability to author these experiences on their platform. He showcased specific examples and highlighted future challenges and opportunities for mobile augmented reality to succeed.

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Delivering AR Beyond Dancing Hotdogs

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Delivering AR Beyond Dancing Hotdogs

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Joshua Brustein of Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with Serge Belongie (Cornell Tech), Ryan Measel (Fantasmo), Mandy Mandelstein (Luxloop), and Jeff McConathy (6D.ai) about how the digital and physical world will converge in order to deliver the future of augmented reality.

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Creating Compelling VR & AR Experiences at LIFE VR

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Creating Compelling VR & AR Experiences at LIFE VR

Mia Tramz is the Managing Editor of LIFE VR at Time. At the 4th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Mia gave a keynote on "Pioneering VR & AR for Media Companies." Evan had a chance to catch up with her about the virtual reality and augmented reality projects she is producing at LIFE VR and where she thinks virtual reality will go in the next 5-10 years.

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Enterprises Are Leveraging Smart Glasses To Be More Efficient

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Enterprises Are Leveraging Smart Glasses To Be More Efficient

Learn about advances in optics and different ways to present content and context in future smart glasses from Jay Kim, CTO at APX Labs/Upskill. Explore the future of augmented reality.

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LDV Vision Summit 2015: Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge Winner

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Congratulations to Alessio Dore and his team at Wirewax for winning our LDV Vision Summit - Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge for their Video Search solution.

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