Partnering with Fieldstone Bio: Harnessing Living Sensors with Synthetic Biology & Hyperspectral Imaging to Revolutionize Chemical & Environmental Monitoring

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Partnering with Fieldstone Bio: Harnessing Living Sensors with Synthetic Biology & Hyperspectral Imaging to Revolutionize Chemical & Environmental Monitoring

We are thrilled to partner with Fieldstone Bio because their microbial sensors can identify targets in the environment at massive scales. Existing methods rely on bulky, expensive equipment and lab processing that takes significant time. Fieldstone Bio's breakthrough enables faster remote sensing using off-the-shelf hyperspectral cameras.

We at LDV Capital participated in their $5M seed round led by Ubiquity Ventures and with participation from E14 Fund.

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Visual Data is Propelling a New Wave of Climate Tech

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Visual Data is Propelling a New Wave of Climate Tech

For far too long, sustainability has been viewed by big companies as more of a marketing campaign or non-profit exercise than a direct financial impact on their bottom line. But the tides are, literally, changing and advances in visual data collection, computer vision and AI are at a point where climate tech companies can leverage it to build businesses that provide financial benefit to mitigating climate impact. See more details in Evan Nisselson’s article.

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Gardin Enables Producers to Grow More Nutritional Food While Lowering Production Costs

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Gardin Enables Producers to Grow More Nutritional Food While Lowering Production Costs

“If the purpose of food is to provide us with nutrition, then shouldn't that be what we're measuring?”.

Sumanta Talukdar, founder and CEO of Gardin, gave a keynote speech at our 7th LDV Vision Summit. Tune in to watch the video or read the transcript and learn how the company leverages a combination of multispectral sensing, data fusion, computer vision, and machine learning to improve food production.

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