Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

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Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

We at LDV Capital have been investing in AI for over 10 years to date, and have made 7 investments in teams building businesses leveraging Generative AI since 2018. We believe that this technology has significant commercial value as a utility that will empower SaaS businesses to disrupt legacy enterprises. Check out this article to learn more and see some examples of exponentially growing commercial applications in content creation, biotech and more.

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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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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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LDV Capital Raises $24M Third Fund To Continue Investing in Early-Stage Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

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LDV Capital Raises $24M Third Fund To Continue Investing in Early-Stage Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

We are excited to announce the close of our third fund for investing in early-stage businesses powered by visual technologies.

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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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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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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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Learning and Living Entrepreneurship While Investing Early In Startups At LDV Capital

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Learning and Living Entrepreneurship While Investing Early In Startups At LDV Capital

We had the privilege of welcoming Jorge Colindres, an MBA candidate at Dartmouth onto our team as a Summer Analyst. He spent the summer with us evaluating deals, diving deep into visual tech for our 2019 LDV Insights report, and much more. Jorge shares his experience and shares a few of his takeaways from working with us.

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45 Billion Cameras by 2022 Fuel Business Opportunities

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45 Billion Cameras by 2022 Fuel Business Opportunities

Exclusive research by us at LDV Capital is the first publicly shared, in-depth analysis which estimates how many cameras will be in the world in 2022. We believe it is a conservative forecast as additional sectors will be included in future research.

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