3 Years Investing at LDV Capital: Insights from Sourcing, Evaluating & Partnering with Early-Stage Deep Tech Founders

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3 Years Investing at LDV Capital: Insights from Sourcing, Evaluating & Partnering with Early-Stage Deep Tech Founders

In September 2021, Ash Cleary began his venture capital journey by joining Evan Nisselson and our LDV Capital team as an Analyst, investing out of Fund III as part of a two-year program. After successfully completing the program, Ash was promoted to Associate and now invests out of LDV Capital's fourth fund.

Check out his insights and reflections on the past three years—working with the team and collaborating with brilliant deep tech entrepreneurs worldwide, building businesses powered by visual technology and artificial intelligence.

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Visual Technologies Are Fueling the Transition To a Circular Economy

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Visual Technologies Are Fueling the Transition To a Circular Economy

LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson and Ash Cleary cover topics ranging from spectroscopy and nanomaterials to enhance food and agricultural production, to renewable energy forecasting and grid management, and predictive digital twins for the supply chain.

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Roelof Botha of Sequoia Says 'To Be Successful in This Business, You Have to Be Contrarian and Right'

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Roelof Botha of Sequoia Says 'To Be Successful in This Business, You Have to Be Contrarian and Right'

Join our 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit on March 21 and witness the fireside chat between LDV Capital’s Evan Nisselson and Roelof Botha, Managing Partner and Steward of Sequoia Capital. Roelof has spent over 20 years building companies in Silicon Valley. He began within the walls of nascent PayPal and led the company through both its IPO in early 2002 and the subsequent acquisition by eBay. Roelof joined Sequoia in 2003 to help founders build enduring businesses. In 2017, he assumed leadership of Sequoia Capital's US/Europe business and became a Steward of the Sequoia Partnership. Roelof is a Director of 23andMe, Block, Ethos, Inside.com, Landis, mmhmm, MongoDB, Natera, Pendulum Therapeutics, and Unity Technologies, and recently led Sequoia's investment in Meeno. Previously, he was a Director of companies that include YouTube, Tumblr, Xoom, Eventbrite, and Evernote. He also led Sequoia's investment in Instagram.

Roelof and Evan will discuss trends and early-stage investment opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies and AI.

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

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

Since starting LDV Capital in 2012, we've been actively cultivating our thriving tech community through a range of events, including Annual Vision Summits, Happy Hour gatherings, monthly dinners, and more. Our LDV community now boasts over 2000 members, and we're excited to offer a sneak peek into our exclusive events with a selection of featured photographs.

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LDV Community Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed For 11 Years

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LDV Community Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed For 11 Years

Thrilled to present a selection of photos capturing moments from our recent invite-only "Happy Hour" event, held in New York City. This event brought together outstanding technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers, and investors from within the vibrant New York tech ecosystem.

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Tackling the Climate Crisis by Detecting, Verifying & Classifying Wildfires in Real-Time With the Help of AI

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Tackling the Climate Crisis by Detecting, Verifying & Classifying Wildfires in Real-Time With the Help of AI

The climate crisis is resulting in an increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and society needs new tools to be able to cope and adapt. Sonia Kastner is the CEO & founder of Pano AI, the leader in wildfire early detection and intelligence. Pano combines advanced hardware, AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real-time. 

At our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Sonia shared how visual technologies are at the crux of disaster mitigation solutions to help tackle the climate crisis.

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Since 2012 - Timeline of Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

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Since 2012 - Timeline of Investing In People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI

Last year, we celebrated 10 years of investing in people building businesses powered by visual tech & AI, but it’s just the beginning! Visual technology innovations will continue to be the crux of automation for decades and beyond. Computer vision, machine learning and AI will be the key enablers for innovation in healthcare, precision medicine, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, sustainability, and many more industries.

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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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We Are Honored to Partner with Avi Muchnick and the BurnerPage team to Boost Web Page Performance With Generative AI

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We Are Honored to Partner with Avi Muchnick and the BurnerPage team to Boost Web Page Performance With Generative AI

We are honored to announce our partnership with BurnerPage – a SaaS AI-powered platform that autonomously delivers better Return on Investment (ROI) as it creates and improves web pages and provides continuous optimization. LDV Capital led their $2M pre-seed round along with co-investors Jenny Lefcourt, Partner at Freestyle and strategic angels.

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Thank You for Being a Vital Part of Our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit!

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Thank You for Being a Vital Part of Our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit!

At our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we welcomed top technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs to discuss cutting-edge computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions to improve the world we live in.

About a thousand people tuned in from all around the world to listen to expert speakers from DeepMind, Mural, Snap, BioAge, Synthesia, Salesforce, Harvard Medical School, Insight Partners, Useful Sensors, Conviction, Niels Bohr Institute, Air Street Capital, Uizard, Pano, Humanity, Northeastern University, Seedcamp, Forbes, and more.

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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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Partnering with Daimon Labs to Build the Next Generation of Large Language Model Chatbot with Human-Like Empathy

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Partnering with Daimon Labs to Build the Next Generation of Large Language Model Chatbot with Human-Like Empathy

We are excited to partner and invest in the exceptional Daimon Labs team – deep tech founders building generative AI and large language models with human-like empathy. Their technological approach has resulted in being able to train state-of-the-art neural models on over a trillion data points to deliver AI that has memory and the ability to tailor conversations.

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14 Past and Future LDV Vision Summit Speakers Share Their Views On What’s The Next Big Thing in Visual Tech

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14 Past and Future LDV Vision Summit Speakers Share Their Views On What’s The Next Big Thing in Visual Tech

In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech (hosted virtually on March 28), we interviewed some of our past & future speakers. Meet Luc Vincent of Meta, Steffen Tjerrild of Synthesia, Kristen Fortney of BioAge, Clément Farabet, Camilo Fosco of Memorable, Alexandra Boussommier of ImVitro, Michael Geer of Humanity, Henrik Haugbølle of Uizard, Mariano Battan of Mural, Alexandre Winter of Norbert Health, Andrew Rabinovich of Headroom, Karin Andrea Stephan of Earkick, Adam Paulisick of maad labs, and Rebecca Paoletti of CakeWorks.

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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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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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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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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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