Raquel Urtasun is a recipient of the NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, and several more. She lectures at the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute and is the head of Uber ATG, Toronto. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how autonomous vehicles with human perception will make our cities smarter and better to live in.
Read MoreManohar Paluri is the Manager of the Computer Vision Group at Facebook. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, he spoke about how the Applied Machine Learning organization at Facebook is working to understand the billions of media content uploaded every day to Facebook in order to improve people’s experiences on the platform and connect them to the right content.
Read MoreWe have been organizing the premier annual visual technology summit since 2014 called the LDV Vision Summit with the main focus of showcasing brilliant people like YOU!
Read MoreDivyaa Ravichandran was a finalist in the 2016 Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge (ECVC) at the LDV Vision Summit. Her project, “Love & Vision” used siamese neural networks to predict kinship between pairs of facial images. It was a major success with the judges and the audience.
Read MoreLeaving his role as founding director of Princeton's Computer Vision and Robotics Lab, Jianxiong Xiao (Professor X) founded AutoX. He spoke at our LDV Vision Summit 2017 about how he is working to lower the price of entry into the autonomous driving field with an innovative camera-first solution.
Read MoreAt the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Evan Nisselson had the privilege to sit down with Josh Kopelman, the self-described "accidental VC" and Partner at First Round Capital, to discuss investment trends and what Josh looks for in a founder at the seed-stage level.
Read MoreAt the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Erin Griffith of Fortune spoke with Vic Singh of ENIAC Ventures, Claudia Iannazzo from AlphaPrime Ventures, Scott English of Hearst Ventures, and Emily Becher from Samsung Next Start about trends and opportunities in visual technology investing.
Read MoreWe are very excited to announce the close of our second fund for investing in people building visual technology businesses at the pre-seed or seed stage. You can read more about it on the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreMatthew Rosen is a Harvard Professor, he and his colleagues at the MGH/A.A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston are working on applications of advanced biomedical imaging technologies. At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, he spoke about how he is hacking a new kind of MRI scanner that’s fast, small, and cheap.
Read MoreAt the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Rebecca Paoletti of Cake Works spoke with Brian Rifkin of JW Player, Michael Downing of Tout, and Orlando Lima from Viacom/VH1 about how traditional TV broadcasters are becoming digital while digital platforms are investing in traditional television models and programming.
Listen to their thoughts on creating valuable branded content, applying machine learning, and much more.
Read MoreIra Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is a professor at the University of Washington and a Research Scientist at Facebook. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how and why she evolved her research into a company called Dreambit which she then sold to Facebook.
Read MoreAt the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Josh Brustein of Bloomberg Businessweek asked Taggart Matthiesen of Lyft and Charles Janac from Arteris how autonomous vehicles – the most disruptive innovation of a generation – will impact society.
Read MoreJessi Hempel of Backchannel sat down with Rudina Seseri of Glasswing Ventures and Rohit Makharia of GM Ventures to discuss trends and investment opportunities in visual technologies at the LDV Vision Summit 2017.
Read MoreEvan Nisselson had the opportunity to sit down with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures to discuss future investment trends and early-stage opportunities at the LDV Vision Summit 2017.
Read MoreExclusive research by us at LDV Capital is the first publicly shared, in-depth analysis which estimates how many cameras will be in the world in 2022. We believe it is a conservative forecast as additional sectors will be included in future research.
Read MoreOur annual LDV Vision Summit has two competitions:
1. Startup competition for promising visual technology companies with less than $2M in funding
2. Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge (ECVC) for computer vision and machine learning students, professors, experts, or enthusiasts working on a unique solution to empower businesses and humanity.
Congratulations to our 2017 LDV Vision Summit Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge Winner: Timnit Gebru.
Our 2017 Annual LDV Vision Summit was an absolutely amazing event, thanks to all of you brilliant people.
"My second time attending the LDV Vision Summit was even better than the first. A great mix of accomplished technical people and energetic young entrepreneurs." Dave Touretzky, Research Professor, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Read MoreThe power of object recognition and the transformative effect of deep learning to analyze scenes and parse content can have a lot of impact on advertising. At the 2016 Annual LDV Vision Summit, Ken Weiner, CTO at GumGum told us about the impact of image recognition and computer vision in online advertising.
Read MoreAlban Denoyel, CEO and Co-Founder of Sketchfab, spoke at the 3rd Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2016 about 3D content and 3D Ecosystems and their impact on virtual reality.
Read MoreRudina 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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