Machine Perception Will Eat the World
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Peter Stern, CEO of Voyant Photonics, wrote about…basically, the future of everything. See what happens when chip-scale machine perception sensors become affordable enough.
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The Cutting Edge Technologies Impacting Hollywood & the Media
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At our 7th annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the pleasure to host a fireside chat between Abhijay Prakash, President of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, and Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital’s Founder and General Partner. They discussed entertainment, Hollywood, and new technologies.
Read MoreLDV Capital Raises $24M Third Fund To Continue Investing in Early-Stage Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies
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We are excited to announce the close of our third fund for investing in early-stage businesses powered by visual technologies.
Read MoreCan We Compare Robots to Animals and Build Diverse Relationships With Them?
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We welcome Dr. Kate Darling in our Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is a leading expert in Robot Ethics and a researcher at MIT's Media Lab. Abigail Hunter-Syed and Dr. Darling spoke about our tendency to assign human characteristics to the machines in our lives - anyone else ever apologizes to Roomba? How about cursed at Alexa? See how Dr. Darling thinks we should approach our relationships with robots.
Read MoreCan Meta-Learning Unlock the Magic of AI?
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Honored to have DeepMind’s senior research scientist Dr. Jane Wang in our monthly interview series. This interview was recorded live on March 18th at our very first Women Leading Visual Tech community event. Jane spoke with Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, about how and where meta-learning will generate opportunities for business and society.
Read MoreInvesting In Gryps To Modernize the Construction Industry With Robotic Process Automation, Computer Vision & AI
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As seen on VentureBeat: Gryps raised $1.5M led by us – LDV Capital – with participation from PearVC, the Harvard Business School Graduate Syndicate, and a group of angel investors experienced in building enterprise software. Among them are the Antevy brothers who are experts in building software for the construction industry as co-founders of e-Builder.
Read MoreSynthesia exponentially scales video production globally
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Our LDV portfolio company Synthesia launched its AI-driven video production platform in the midst of the pandemic, and now thousands of customers – from Fortune 500 companies to individual creators – generate video content from text. Check out my interview with Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, about new ways to create video content.
Read MoreThe Interesting Interplay Between Biological Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence
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Meet Dr. Mackenzie Mathis – a new guest in our monthly Women Leading Visual Tech series. She is a neuroscientist, a tenure-track professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, working within the Brain Mind Institute and Center for Neuroprosthetics. Dr. Mathis founded the Adaptive Motor Control Lab to investigate the neural basis of adaptive motor behaviors in mice to inform future translational research in neurological diseases.
LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Dr. Mackenzie Mathis about her work to beat neurodegenerative diseases like Lou Gehrig’s, the awesome computer vision tool she developed DeepLabCut, and so much more!
Read MoreWith Uizard’s AI, Non-designers Create Prototypes and Designs for Apps and Websites
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LDV Capital’s portfolio company Uizard built a web-based design tool for non-designers that lets anyone quickly and easily design and prototype digital products such as web and mobile apps. The company leverages visual technologies – computer vision and deep learning – to make their AI-design assistant a reality. For example, their technology can instantly convert hand-drawn wireframes into interactive designs. We had a chance to chat with Tony Beltramelli, Uizard’s Co-Founder and CEO, and ask him a couple of burning questions.
Read MoreYou Made Our 7th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Success!
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Our 7th annual LDV Vision Summit was a great success! We are so grateful, in these times, to be able to connect with all of you investors, entrepreneurs, technologists, executives, writers, and more who are as passionate about visual tech as we are. Thank you for coming together with us to examine the incredible opportunities for computer vision, machine learning, and AI to improve business and society.
Read MoreAzeem Azhar on Visual Technologies that Help us Fight Climate Change
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In the lead up to the Summit, Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, had a chance to chat with Azeem Azhar, a curator of “The Exponential View” - a must-read for all in the innovation world - and one of the leading thinkers on bridging the gap between technology and the humanities to provide a holistic understanding of our near future.
Read MoreInterview with Dr. Sujatha Ramanujan, Managing Director of Luminate – an Accelerator for Startups with Optics, Photonics and Imaging Enabled Technologies
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The next guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech series is Dr. Sujatha Ramanujan, a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with 25 years of experience in medical devices and consumer electronics. She currently serves as the Managing Director of Luminate – the world’s largest accelerator for startups with optics, photonics, and imaging enabled applications. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Sujatha about managing a crisis, fear of boredom, and a mission to revitalize the Rochester area.
Read MoreVisual Tech Has Become An Expected Part Of The Modern Tech Stack
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In the lead up to the Summit, Abigail Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Hayley Barna, Partner at First Round Capital, about her experience investing in visual tech. Before joining First Round, she co-founded and scaled Birchbox, the leading beauty and grooming retailer seed-funded by First Round in 2010.
Read MoreComputer Vision-Powered Solutions to Create Breakthrough User Experiences
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Evan Nisselson interviewed Samir Kumar, Managing Director of M12 – Microsoft's Venture Fund. Samir is leading investment activities in emerging tech areas including quantum computing and autonomous vehicles. Before joining M12, Samir worked in Qualcomm’s corporate R&D division, leading early-stage product validation, partnerships, acquisition, and strategy for embedded and on-device deep learning.
Read MoreVisual Technologies Will Enable the Meat Industry to Be More Efficient
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In our latest LDV Insights Report, we examined the opportunities for visual technologies across animal agriculture and found that there is a tremendous opportunity. From meat processing to feed efficiency, animal quality of life and dairy, there are exciting new applications for computer vision and machine learning. Merritt Jenkins, Summer Associate at LDV in 2020, presents some of our findings.
Read More“Robotics Makes Us Superhuman,” Says Carol Reiley, the Mother of Robots
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The next guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech Series is Carol Reiley, a serial entrepreneur and a computer scientist with the nickname “Mother of Robots”. LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Carol about current trends in robotics and AI. They touched on autonomous cars, healthcare, the food industry, and arts – all subject to being drastically transformed by advances in deep learning.
Read MoreFlashback to Silicon Valley in the mid-’90s: The People Of @Home Network
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In the mid-’90s, LDV Capital’s founder Evan Nisselson was a part of @Home Network. It was the first company to provide high-speed cable Internet services in the US. In 1996, Evan joined the company as a Photo Editor. At that time, there were only four photo editors paid to edit images for publishing on the Internet. Later, they built the first online broadband photography community called “Making Pictures” with a $3M joint venture with Intel in 1997.
In addition to his work responsibilities, Evan made behind the scenes pictures of all of the great people building the company.
Read MoreFlashback – 2014 LDV Vision Summit Showcases How Visual Technologies Will Change Our World
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Here’s a flashback from 2014 – a year when Facebook bought Oculus VR and Ellen Degeneres temporarily crashed Twitter with her selfie with a bunch of celebrities during the Oscars broadcast. Watch Evan Nisselson’s opening word at our very first LDV Vision Summit.
Read MoreVisual Technologies Are Critical to Discovering New Food Proteins and Hopefully A More Sustainable Future
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We recently released our 2020 LDV Insights Report, “Visual Technologies Driving Innovation in 15 Food & Agriculture Sectors”. One of its chapters is dedicated to food processing.
Among many other topics, LDV Capital’s associate Meryl Breidbart was researching all things protein. Why proteins?
Proteins are the building blocks of almost everything in life. Technically speaking, proteins are macromolecules consisting of one or more long chains of amino acids. And while proteins make up much more than just the food we eat—such as antibodies, insulin, and growth hormone, to name a few—our food system is on the brink of a crisis with our growing population and demand for more sustainable sources of food.
Read about the cutting-edge visual tech that helps in discovering and creating new proteins in her latest article on our blog and don’t forget to get your free copy of our latest report.
Dr. Kavita Bala on Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry
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Please meet Kavita Bala – the next guest in our monthly Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is one of our most distinguished scholars, the dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Her work on scalable rendering, Lightcuts, is the algorithm in Autodesk’s cloud renderer. Dr. Bala co-founded GrokStyle, a company that won our 2016 LDV Vision Summit Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Competition. In 2019, her company was acquired by Facebook and now the future of shopping on Facebook is based on GrokStyle's tech. Read this interview to learn about Dr. Bala’s career path, current projects and her vision of the future of visual technologies.
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