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

Here at LDV Capital, we invest in people building businesses powered by visual technologies. We thrive on collaborating with deep tech teams leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis.

Our Vision events bring together the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers and investors to discuss the latest trends in visual tech and AI. Check out a few photographs from our most recent invite-only Happy Hour event hosted in New York City below and RSVP to join our 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit (virtual) on March 21, 2024. The first speakers announced: Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital and Esther Dyson of Wellville. We’ll have ~15 sessions covering healthcare & neurotech, life sciences & biotech, synthetic biology, nanotech, manufacturing, logistics & supply chain, digital twins, materials, agriculture & food, quantum computing and so much more!

**(L-R) Andrew Bloom, Chief Commercial Officer at Data Axle, is speaking with Jennifer Iannolo, Founder & CEO at Imperia Global, Rob Spectre, Founder of childsafe.ai and** **LDV Expert, and Kelly Hoey, the author of “Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships In A Hyper-Connected World**”.

In 2015, Kelly covered our LDV Community Dinners for the Inc. Magazine.
“It takes a community to get a new idea off the ground - but not just any community. Finding and being invited into a well-connected community is critical to increasing odds of your success.” Read more in her article “Knife, Fork, Investment: How Monthly Dinner Gatherings Feed An Entrepreneurial Network”.

(L-R) Artur Bardera Echeverría, Venture Partner at Abac Capital, is speaking with Benedict Evans, an independent analyst who has spent 20 years analyzing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital (Benedict was Partner at a16z from 2014 to 2019). You might be one of 175,000+ readers of his weekly newsletter.

Sapna Shah, Principal & Founder at Red Giraffe Advisors, is speaking with Elizabeth Lindsey, Executive Director at New York Angels. Red Giraffe makes pre-seed investments in startups in the future of retail and consumer, including retail tech, marketplaces, e-commerce and consumer. Select current investments include FINDMINE, Monica + Andy, Silk + Sonder, Stantt, Iterate.ai, Young King Hair Care, Realworld and The Renatural.

**(L-R) De-Ann Abraham, Programs Manager at the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute,** is speaking with **Kat Kolambet-Lopez, Director of Content & Marketing at LDV Capital.**

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