Image Recognition Will Empower Autonomous Decision Making

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Image Recognition Will Empower Autonomous Decision Making

Rudina Seseri is the Founder & Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures. With over 14 years of investing and transactional experience, she has led technology investments and acquisitions in startup companies in the fields of robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), SaaS marketing technologies, and digital media.

Rudina will be sharing her knowledge on trends and investment opportunities in visual technologies as a panelist and startup competition judge at the 2017 Annual LDV Vision Summit. We asked her some questions this week about her experience investing in visual tech and what she is looking forward to at the Vision Summit.

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The Perfect Storm For Computer Vision To Reform Life Sciences

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The Perfect Storm For Computer Vision To Reform Life Sciences

Judy Robinett is known for her titanium Rolodex. She was a judge at our 2017 LDV Vision Summit startup competition. Evan Nisselson caught up with her a week before our event about her experience investing in startups.

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Nicolas Pinto Predicted the Deep Learning Tsunami but Not the Velocity - Selling to Apple Was His Answer

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Nicolas Pinto Predicted the Deep Learning Tsunami but Not the Velocity - Selling to Apple Was His Answer

Nicolas Pinto is focused on mobile deep learning at Apple. At the 2016 LDV Vision Summit, he spoke about his journey as a neuroscientist and artificial intelligence researcher, turned entrepreneur who sold his company to Apple.

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Creating Compelling VR & AR Experiences at LIFE VR

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Creating Compelling VR & AR Experiences at LIFE VR

Mia Tramz is the Managing Editor of LIFE VR at Time. At the 4th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Mia gave a keynote on "Pioneering VR & AR for Media Companies." Evan had a chance to catch up with her about the virtual reality and augmented reality projects she is producing at LIFE VR and where she thinks virtual reality will go in the next 5-10 years.

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reCaptcha Fights Spam And Sparked The Burger vs. Sandwich Debate

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reCaptcha Fights Spam And Sparked The Burger vs. Sandwich Debate

Ying Liu is a Software Engineer at Google and was part of the team that created reCaptcha nine years ago. reCaptcha has changed a lot since then and there are some really exciting initiatives she is working on at Google that she told us about at the 3rd Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2016.

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“Killing Google With My Bare Hands” and Other Lessons Learned in Scaling with Jack Levin

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“Killing Google With My Bare Hands” and Other Lessons Learned in Scaling with Jack Levin

Jack Levin was an early employee at Google and later started ImageShack, and is most recently at Nventify. In his keynote at the 2016 Annual LDV Vision Summit, he spoke about his perspective going back to the early days of Google up to today. Tickets on sale now for the upcoming Annual LDV Vision Summit.

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Computer Vision Will Dramatically Affect The Travel Industry: People don't have to "go there" to "be there"

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Computer Vision Will Dramatically Affect The Travel Industry: People don't have to "go there" to "be there"

Brian Cohen is the Chairman of NY Angels, the founding partner of NY Venture Partners and the author of An Angel Insider Reveals How Entrepreneurs Can Raise Smart Money For Their Billion-Dollar Idea. At the 3rd Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2016, he was a judge for the Startup Competition. Evan had a chance to catch up with him in April about the extensive investment opportunities leveraging visual technologies.

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In 2003 They Called Evan Crazy - He Said Phones Would Replace Point & Shoot Cameras

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In 2003 They Called Evan Crazy - He Said Phones Would Replace Point & Shoot Cameras

Evan has been working in the visual tech industry for over 20 years. In 2003 he wrote that camera phones will be taking the place of point-and-shoot cameras and everyone thought he was crazy.

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An Image is Really Hundreds of Data Points That Tell Us Who We Are

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An Image is Really Hundreds of Data Points That Tell Us Who We Are

Anastasia Leng, CEO at Creative X, worked many years at Google and is a serial entrepreneur leveraging technology to better understand visual content. Inside every image lies hundreds of unique data points that provide priceless information about your audience and their revealed visual preferences. Find out how technology can unearth this data to help you make smarter creative decisions and improve your visual strategy.

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Sturfree Launching Augmented Reality Gaming App with Investor They Met at LDV Vision Summit

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Sturfree Launching Augmented Reality Gaming App with Investor They Met at LDV Vision Summit

Anil Cheriyadat, Founder and CEO of Sturfree was a finalist in the ECVC at the 2015 annual LDV Vision Summit. Sturfree technology use mobile cameras to recognize the real world around you then augment it for travel, gaming, entertainment etc. We caught up with Anil as Sturfree prepares to launch its Augmented Reality social application.

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Josh Elman Says Building a Company is Hypothesis Testing

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Josh Elman Says Building a Company is Hypothesis Testing

This fireside chat with Josh Elman of Greylock Partners and Evan Nisselson of LDV Capital took place at the 2016 LDV Vision Summit. Josh and Evan discussed future investment trends and early stage opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies.

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Applications of Computer Vision & AI Will be Life Transformative

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Applications of Computer Vision & AI Will be Life Transformative

This panel, “Trends in Visual Technology Investing” is from our 2016 LDV Vision Summit. Moderator: Jessi Hempel, Senior Writer at Wired. Featuring: Liza Benson, Partner at StarVest Partners, Howard Morgan, Partner & Co-founder of First Round Capital, Alex Iskold, Managing Director at TechStars.

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Carbon Robotics is Growing an Unstoppable Team to Create Innovative Products After Win at LDV Vision Summit Startup Competition

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Carbon Robotics is Growing an Unstoppable Team to Create Innovative Products After Win at LDV Vision Summit Startup Competition

We at LDV Capital spoke to Rosanna Myers, CEO & Co-founder of Carbon Robotics, about her experience of winning the LDV Startup Competition at our 2016 LDV Vision Summit.

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Computers Still Have a Long Way to Go on Visual Reasoning According to Larry Zitnick of Facebook

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Computers Still Have a Long Way to Go on Visual Reasoning According to Larry Zitnick of Facebook

This is transcript of the keynote by Larry Zitnick, AI Research Lead at Facebook, “A Visual Stepping Stone to Artificial Intelligence” from our 2016 LDV Vision Summit.

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Are OTT and Live the Hottest Features of Video Streaming?

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Are OTT and Live the Hottest Features of Video Streaming?

This transcript of the panel, “Is OTT the New Black” is from our 2016 LDV Vision Summit. Moderator: Rebecca Paoletti, CEO of Cakeworks featuring: Ed Laczynski, CEO of Zype; Patricia Hadden, SVP NBCUniversal; Steve Davis, VP & GM East of Ooyala.

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Computer Vision Will Disrupt Many Businesses Especially Manufacturing and Consumer Shopping

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Computer Vision Will Disrupt Many Businesses Especially Manufacturing and Consumer Shopping

Howard Morgan, Partner & Co-Founder at First Round Capital, and Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, discussed future investment trends and early stage opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies.

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Entrupy Secured over $8M in Inventory for Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Others after Being a Finalist at the 2015 LDV Startup Competition

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Entrupy Secured over $8M in Inventory for Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Others after Being a Finalist at the 2015 LDV Startup Competition

Entrupy’s goal is to enable trust in high-value goods transactions by providing on-demand authentication solutions to every business. They now support luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, and many more. Vidyuth Srinivasan, Co-founder and CEO of Entrupy, Inc gave us an update on Entrupy since their stellar performance at the Startup Competition:

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The Conscious Home is Achievable in the Next 15 Years: Your home will leverage visual sensors to be smart enough to understand what you want or need

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The Conscious Home is Achievable in the Next 15 Years: Your home will leverage visual sensors to be smart enough to understand what you want or need

More and more visual sensors are being leveraged in the commercial and home markets. From energy and real-time data management in smart commercial buildings, to home video security and monitoring our babies when they sleep. How will they empower businesses and humanity?

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The Smalls raised capital and have grown 300% year over year since competing at the LDV Vision Summit

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The Smalls raised capital and have grown 300% year over year since competing at the LDV Vision Summit

Kate Tancred, CEO & Co-Founder of The Smalls, finalized in the 2015 Startup Competition at the LDV Vision Summit. The Smalls is a content marketplace that connects the world’s filmmaking talent with the world’s brands and agencies.

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