Thank You for Making Our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Great Success!

In this fireside chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, Martín Varsavsky spoke about his experiences turning technological innovations into billion-dollar companies that can have a significant impact on humanity and build significant value.

Our 8th annual LDV Vision Summit was the best summit to date! Thanks to the virtual setting, our community tuned in from all over the world and we discussed computer vision, computational imaging, machine learning and AI in healthcare, web3, climate, space, and so much more.

In these turbulent times, we are pleased to have a chance to connect with brilliant entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, executives, and creatives who are as passionate about visual tech as we are at LDV.

Whether you joined us for a session or 4 hours – together, we examined incredible opportunities for cutting-edge tech to improve business and society. Check out this playlist on our new & shiny LDV YouTube channel and re/watch select keynotes, fireside chats, and panel discussions.

We received some really amazing feedback from our community, so we have gathered images and quotes about our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit below.

A special thank you goes to all of our speakers, partners and all of you attendees as our summit would not exist without your collaboration!

Panel: Cutting Edge Visual Tech is Driving the Next Frontier in Space For a multitude of reasons, the next age of space exploration is underway. Panelists: Tej Bhatia, Chief Revenue Officer at Axiom Space; Stefanie Milam, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA, James Webb Space Telescope; Kurt Eberly, Direct of Space Launches at Northrop Grumman and moderated by Peter Stern, LDV Venture Partner & CEO Voyant Photonics.

LDV gave me an opportunity to share more about myself as an entrepreneur and investor which I hope will inspire others to think less within the constraints of their present venture and more across decades of their lives! Hard to believe that this was the 8th LDV Vision Summit! LDV’s thesis of investing in people building businesses powered by visual tech and this event have a unique vision that enables computers to see our world.
- Martin Varsavsky, Chairman at Prelude Fertility & Gameto; CEO at Overture & Goggo Network

It was a lot of fun to take part in the Vision Summit! Our panel felt like a real “meeting of minds” between academics, government, venture-backed startups and big tech to discuss the exciting future of visual tech in space!
- Stefanie Milam, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA, James Webb Space Telescope

The LDV Vision Summit was a thoughtful and engaging event. With so many lessons to be learned when building and scaling an early-stage, deep tech company, it is invaluable to have successful entrepreneurs and investors gather and share their first-hand knowledge and experiences. I look forward to next year’s summit!
- Julia Moore, Managing Partner at Breakout Ventures

As a tech journalist, I was honored to moderate a panel of diverse venture capitalists at the 8th LDV Vision Summit. It was interesting to hear where they think investment dollars will flow in the coming years across sectors leveraging visual technologies. I highly recommend attending LDV events if you are interested in, working on and/or investing in moonshot business opportunities powered by visual technologies that will hopefully build value and improve our world.
- Christine Hall, Reporter at TechCrunch

I am honored to be a part of the visual tech community’s most exciting event of the year! LDV Capital’s team did an amazing job providing a platform for visual tech founders to reveal their groundbreaking technologies and hopefully improve the world we live in! I was highly impressed by the variety of topics that were covered at this summit – LDV truly brought the brightest leaders together in one (virtual) space!
- Herbert Bay, Co-Founder & CEO at Earkick

In his keynote speech, Avi Muchnick, Founder & CEO at BurnerPage, discussed how he is building a future where everyone sees web pages uniquely personalized to them.

Intel’s Ilke Demir shared her perspective on the future of content creation as we step into the metaverse.

Super excited about how advancements in deep learning & AI are unlocking possibilities that were not possible years ago. It’s hard to believe that this year it's been the 8th annual summit! LDV is definitely the most important venture firm and annual Summit for showcasing how visual technologies are impacting our world!! Thanks to the virtual setting, attendees tuned in from all over the world! - Diego Saez Gil, Co-Founder & CEO at Pachama

LDV Vision Summit is at the forefront of visual tech. Its multidisciplinary focus illuminates the ways that visual tech will impact our lives in the next 10 years & beyond. If you are operating at the intersection of deep tech & life sciences, you cannot afford to miss this event! - Amy Kruse, General Partner at Prime Movers Lab

Global warming is, quite literally, a hot topic and my keynote speech was all about climate tech and specifically AI models to mitigate the effects of extreme weather events. Big congrats to the LDV team for hosting an inspiring and educational event for entrepreneurs, investors and technologists in the visual tech space!
- Anima Anandkumar, Director of ML research at NVIDIA and Bren Professor at Caltech

Kudos to the LDV Capital team for hosting a brilliant virtual LDV Vision Summit! It’s a great event for companies disrupting the status quo and people who are excited about all things visual tech. It’s a unique opportunity to be briefed on what’s cutting edge now and what will be trending in the near and not so near future!
- Adrian Fenty, Managing General Partner at MaC Venture Capital

Panel: Investing trends in businesses powered by visual technologies moderated by Christine Hall, Reporter at TechCrunch.
Panelists: Adrian Fenty, Managing General Partner at MAC Venture Capital; Wendy Xiao Schadeck, Partner at Northzone and Amy Kruse, General Partner at Prime Movers Lab.

The Vision Summit was a great experience – incredibly accomplished speakers showcasing cutting-edge tech and examining the boundary between traditional gov-space and blurring the lines to the future of commercial space. Whether it's discussing the "killer-app" for space or the next-gen sensing technologies, I'm certain the best deep tech business opportunities for the next 10 years are covered here first. Thank you LDV for pulling together a great panel session!
- Kurt Eberly, Direct of Space Launches at Northrop Grumman

Congratulations on 8 years of the LDV Vision Summit! It becomes more and more valuable for entrepreneurs and investors every year. I was honored to speak at this year’s summit and to have supported past summits. Most importantly, I am honored to be part of the treasured LDV community!
- Tej Bhatia, Chief Revenue Officer at Axiom Space

The 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit was a fantastic event. Super well organized with an excellent variety of speakers!
- Ziv Attar, Co-Founder & CEO at Glass Imaging

Fireside chat between LDV's Evan Nisselson and Mary Lou Jepsen, an impressive serial entrepreneur recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world.

In this fireside chat with LDV’s Abby Hunter-Syed, Julia Moore, Managing Partner at Breakout Ventures, discussed her career investing in, analyzing and operating science-driven companies.

LDV Capital invests 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 first annual LDV Vision Summit in 2014 has become known to top technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs as the premier global gathering in visual tech.

Watch/rewatch sessions you find most interesting from our 2022 LDV Vision Summit and other events.

Thank you for being a part of this Summit!