LDV Capital Platform Delivers Network Effects & We Continue Investing In Deep Technical People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Tech & AI Since 2012

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Emi Gal, CEO & Founder, Ezra (acquired by Function Health). Function raised $298M Series B at a $2.5B post-money.  LDV invested in Ezra pre Series A.

We are honored to work with brilliant people every day!

Since founding in 2012, LDV Capital is a thesis-driven early-stage venture fund investing in people building businesses powered by visual technology and artificial intelligence. Our thesis = a majority of the data our brains analyze is visual. Therefore, the majority of the data artificial intelligence will analyze will also be visual across the light and electromagnetic spectrum.

People used to say that our thesis was cute, niche and science fiction. Now it is validated.

We invest horizontally across all sectors such as: agriculture, healthcare, nanotechnology, logistics, manufacturing, entertainment, mobility, construction, optics, sensors, life sciences and biotech, robotics, materials science, video, mapping, security and much more.

LDV Capital IV: We are investing out of our 4th fund which was announced in 2024.

LDV Capital I & II are returned. We continue to have significant upside potential across each of our funds thanks to our brilliant entrepreneurs, experts, team and LP partners.

LPs say we are highly differentiated, disciplined, have high-quality sourcing and successfully create value by investing in category leaders at the earliest stages.

Total investments 43, active 22, exits 11.

LDV funds are concentrated with 10-15 companies in each.

LDV sourcing: 87% of our investments originate from our LDV platform.

LDV financing graduation rate: 90% of our companies that pursued fundraising have successfully raised follow-on financing.

2025 Highlights:

  • Synthesia, the #1 video platform for business raised $180M Series D at a $2.1B post-money led by NEA. LDV led their Seed.

  • Ezra was acquired by Function Health. Ezra and Function have united to give you a more complete view inside your body. Function raised a $298M Series B at a $2.5B post-money.  LDV invested pre Series A in Ezra. LDV Capital’s expert Dr. Dan Sodickson recently joined Function Health as chief medical scientist and co-director of Function’s Medical Intelligence Lab.

  • Glass Imaging is delivering next generation image and video quality. They raised $20M Series A led by Insight Partners. LDV led their Seed.

  • VitVio is the future of AI powered operating rooms. They raised $8M Series Seed led by Bek Ventures (formerly Earlybird East). LDV led their Pre-Seed.

Recent investments:

Our most recent investments span materials science, neuroscience, physical AI, robotics, volumetric 3D video and other frontier technologies shaping the future:

  • Fieldstone Bio is a synthetic biology startup creating living microbial sensors for environmental monitoring from agriculture to mining and national security.

  • ResiQuant is an AI-powered property intelligence platform that helps insurance carriers assess and manage catastrophe risks using visual data and structural engineering expertise.

  • Arcturus delivers high-definition, interactive, 3D broadcast-quality volumetric video for sports.

  • Newco in the materials science sector.

  • Newco is delivering spatial intelligence for robotics across the physical AI sector. 

  • Reach out if you are building a startup leveraging visual technologies & AI.

Initial Co-Investors: Seedcamp, Bek Ventures, MMC, Pear, Techstars, TenOneTen, byFounders, HCVC, Pale Blue Dot, Trucks, etc.

Follow-on investors: Sequoia, USV, NEA, Insight Partners, GV, Firstmark, Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Menlo, Atomico, Lux, Primary, Adobe, Nvidia, etc.

Platform:
87% of our investments originate from our LDV platform which includes the following:

  • Vision Summit: 12th Annual Summit on March 11, 2026, with 1,400+ virtual attendees.

  • Insights Reports: In depth reports on HealthTech, Agriculture, Food, Logistics, etc.

  • Portfolio: Deep domain experts across a wide range of sectors.

  • Expert Network: Includes deep technical experts, entrepreneurs, and professors.

  • LPs: A third of our LPs are the “Imaging Mafia” who are experts in visual tech.

Here are some examples of how we found our brilliant founder partners:

  • Synthesia: We were introduced by a CTO whom we passed on investing in their company.

  • Glass Imaging: Introduction via LDV LP.

  • Sonus: Introduction via LDV Expert.

  • VitVio: Previous co-investor introduction.

  • Mapillary: Evan met Jan Erik when he was building his prior company, Polar Rose.

  • Uizard: Introduction via LDV portfolio CEO.

  • Gardin: LDV portfolio introduction at same time as LDV Insights report in Agriculture.

  • Genia: Evan met the CEO at a European networking event.

  • Ezra:  Evan met the CEO when he was building his prior company Brainient.

  • ResiQuant: Ash sourced from a deep tech accelerator.

  • Dannce AI: Ash sourced from Duke University.

  • Newco:  Second time investing in these entrepreneurs. 

Annual LDV Vision Summit:

2025 LDV Vision Summit Fireside chat between Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, and Victor Riparbelli, Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia. Synthesia is the worldwide market leader in enterprise AI video and our LDV portfolio company. They discussed Victor's entrepreneurial journey, Synthesia's rapid growth and the future potential of AI video.

Fireside chat between Sequoia’s Luciana Lixandru & Evan Nisselson at our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2025. They discussed Luciana’s early investments, including UiPath – a company that initially leveraged computer vision and spent nearly a decade finding product–market fit before achieving major success. They also explored trends and early-stage investment opportunities in businesses harnessing visual technologies and AI.

Every year, we bring together an impressive lineup of speakers – from tech giants to under-the-radar startups, esteemed research labs and leading venture capital firms.

We are thrilled to invite you to our 12th Annual LDV Vision Summit on March 11, 2026! Our amazing confirmed speakers to date include: Dr. Jan Erik Solem who is a pioneer in computer vision, Dick Costolo is a Managing Partner of 01 Advisors after being CEO of Twitter, Julia Hawkins is a General Partner at LocalGlobe & Latitude, Professor Dame Molly Stevens is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford, John D. Halamka is president of the Mayo Clinic Platform and many more.

LDV Vision Summit speakers will explore topics from how invisible imaging and AI are transforming sectors like robotics, supply chain, nanotech, energy, healthcare and more.

Check out all 2026 speakers and RSVP here.

Managing team:
We have an amazing, small and agile managing team. We are looking to recruit a Marketing & Content Lead to own LDV’s marketing, content creation, press relations and implementation. This is a great opportunity for a strong writer and content creator to join our top-tier early-stage venture capital fund.

 

Blog Highlights:

Are you building a startup and looking for investors?

It is never too early to reach out via mutual connections or here if you are building a business that leverages visual technologies and artificial intelligence. 

We are thrilled for many more decades of partnering with brilliant people, solving huge problems, hopefully improving the world and making all of us a lot of money while we sleep!

Thank you to all of our portfolio companies, experts, investors and our fantastic LDV community!

Quotes from some of our portfolio founders:

Victor Riparbelli, CEO & Co-Founder of Synthesia: "Evan feels like a part of the team, much more so than any other investor I have worked with. He is always available for valuable sparring and his own entrepreneurial experience gives him a unique ability to not only understand the business challenges very well but also empathize with the personal journey.”

Tony Beltramelli, CEO & Co-Founder of Uizard acquired by Miro: “Evan has been a key asset to our business and is always ready to get his hands dirty by working closely with us whenever we need him. He doesn't just invest capital, he genuinely and deeply cares about the companies he invests in and is fully ready to help them grow.”

Jan Erik Solem, CEO & Co-Founder of Mapillary acquired by Meta: “I have known Evan for years before he invested and joined our board. As a board member, and before that as an advisor, Evan is always available, has good feedback on product and strategy, is well connected, and works hard for you when you need it. An entrepreneur himself, he knows what is important and what to focus on. A great guy to have on your team.” 

Emi Gal, CEO & Founder of Ezra acquired by Function Health: “I've known Evan for over 11 years and I've always been in awe of the incredible network he's created around him at LDV. Through that network, within weeks of becoming an Ezra investor, Evan helped us hire a sales person, find a chief medical advisor, and generate hundreds of leads. Combine that network with Evan's passion for helping founders and his focus on computer vision, and I think you have something incredibly special.” 

Dareen Salama, CEO & Co-Founder at Gryps: “Evan has the talent of transforming to be the most helpful investor across various stages of our business. He knows what we need and when we need it. I find his advice very helpful and timely. He has the perfect combination of seeing ahead into the future, advising us on the best course of action while also allowing space for us to grow and learn as first-time founders. Entrepreneurship is a lonely journey, but with the LDV team, we value their strong support and community.”

Thomas Knox, CEO & Co-Founder of VitVio: “LDV gives you a lot more than just being an investor. It's having a mentor that's always standing there right next to you, teaching you along the way. Sometimes it's a harsh reality, sometimes you have to learn things that are difficult to reflect on yourself. Evan has been a massive part of our growth of the last year for sure.”

Omar Issa, CEO & Co-Founder of Resiquant: “If you are thinking about partnering with LDV I say just do it. If you're a founder working in a deeply technical space or anything related to visual tech or have a PhD background like I do, or my co-founder does, absolutely do it because LDV is there to support deeply technical, passionate founders with a mission-driven approach. And they've had many successes.”

Sumanta Talukdar, CEO & Founder at Gardin: "Working with Evan has been absolutely brilliant. I think one of the most significant ways that he's modified the way I work is the focus on clarity and speed of communication. Which is exactly how he works. Everytime I need him, he gets back to me straight away, he asks me exactly what I need help with as clearly as possible, and he gives me great answers. Evan and LDV have been real partners to the company. On the investment side he is one of the most well respected investors for a good reason so he's been very helpful making connections for fundraising. On the commercial side, his network is brilliant. It’s not just a large network, but it’s also high quality people. This is my second startup so I have worked with a lot of investors before and I am happy to say that I think Evan is one of the best investors I have ever worked with."

Matthew Zeiler, CEO & Founder at Clarifai:  "LDV has been with us for a long time and they've played a lot of roles over the years. They invested in our seed round starting in 2014, and so I've known Evan for over a decade and he has been an advisor, a connector, a strategizer, so lots of different roles beyond just providing capital. I distinctly remember this moment where Evan & I were in a conference room brainstorming how to pitch the Series A and he had me repeat it over and over, practice the pitch, work on the slides for hours at a time when we were a small company and that was instrumental. That allowed us to crystalize the message and that led to a successful Series A and beyond."

Karin Andrea Stephan, Co-Founder & COO of Earkick, an AI-powered mental health platform with a multi-modal LLM companion: "Evan has partnered with us from the very first day we came up with the idea of our data-driven workplace mental health monitor. We started collaborating before our company was incorporated. He and the whole LDV team are always available for us whenever we need them. They help us prepare presentations, plan KPIs, connect us to top-tier investors, provide hands-on support when things get hard and challenge us in the best way possible. Their entrepreneurial approach, big vision, strong conviction, expert guidance and hands-on execution is the best mix an early-stage company could wish for to get to the next level."