LDV Capital
LDV Capital Portfolio: 2018 May: Uizard - Uizard raises funds for its AI that turns design mockups into source code 2018 April: Mapillary raises $15 million to boost its digital mapping for self-driving vehicles 2018 March: Upskill - Augmented reality firm Upskill adds new high-profile investors in latest funding round 2018 January: Clarifai - Cloud AI Startups Steel Themselves as Tech Giants Arrive, Tomio Geron, WSJ (paywall) 2017 October: Upskill - Upskill Skylight update aimed at bringing augmented reality to mainstream, by Ron Miller, Techcrunch 2017 September: Sea Machines, Robo-Boats Are Setting Sail in Boston, by Joshua Brustein in Bloomberg 2017 September: Clarifai, Battling Giants by Aaron Tilley in Forbes 2017 September: Sea Machines, Self-Driving Boats: The Next Tech Transportation Race by AP in NYTimes 2017 July: Clarifai, Clarifai launches SDK for training AI on your iPhone, by Khari Johnson in Venture Beat 2017 June: Mapillary, The battle for territory in digital cartography by The Economist 2017 May: The Web's Premier Free Photo Library Opens Up Its Vaults by Wired 2017 May: Mapillary opens up 25k street-level images to train automotive AI systems by TechCrunch 2017 April: Upskill (formerly APX Labs) closed another round of financing with major support from HorizonX, GE Ventures, NEA and more. 2017 February: New York Times coverage of TVision Insights - "For Marketers, TV Sets Are an Invaluable Pair of Eyes." 2016 December: Seedcamp podcast with Evan “On investing in Visual Technologies, satellite selfies & learning from past mistakes.” 2016 December: Clarifai selected as “One of 15 interesting startups to watch in 2017” by VentureBeat 2016 November: Mapillary “Build a 3-D Virtual World with This Crowdsourced Map of the Real World” by MIT Technology Review 2016 November: Evan joined a panel on "Does VR work IRL" at the Soho House YouTube Creative Tech Summit 2016 October: Internet of Eyes: A Sight to Behold & 11 Other Lessons from Investor Evan Nisselson 2016 October: 3 Key Ways a VC Thinks About a Data-Oriented Startup 2016 October: Clarifai raises $30M led by Menlo Partners to give developers visual search and puts artificial intelligence in everyone's hands 2016 October: Mediachain introduces Attribution Engine 2016 October: APX-Labs - VMWare Partners With APX Labs to Support Workplace Wearables 2016 October: TVision Insights - How do you know if your audience is laughing, talking or sleeping 2016 October: TVision Insights raises $6.8M to take on Nielsen with thermal eye and emotion tracking tech 2016 September: Mapillary - Mapping startups hope they can chart a new course to success 2016 June: Mediachain raises $1.5M from USV, A16Z, LDV to connect media to its creator & info about it leveraging the blockchain. 2016 February: Mapillary raises $8M to take on Google’s Street View with crowdsourced photos 2015 November: APX Labs Grabs $13 Million For Enterprise Smart Glasses Platform 2015 November: Build a 3-D Virtual World with This Crowdsourced Map of the Real World [Mapillary] 2015 September: A Crowdsourced Photo Company Is Filling In The Blanks On The World Map [Mapillary] 2015 June: Salesforce just invested in a startup that can make gadgets like the Apple Watch useful at work [APX] 2015 April: Clarifai raises $10M Series A led by Union Square Ventures to Bring Visual Deep Learning to Everyone [Clarifai] 2015 April: Crew turns 2 and we're raising $8M [Crew] 2015 March: 10M Geotagged connected photos [Mapillary] 2015 February: Why Building Something Useful For Others Is The Best Marketing There is. [Crew] 2015 January: APX and Sony Partner For Business Smart Glasses Solutions 2015 January: Deep learning Startup Clarifai Goes Beyond Image Recognition Now Offers 2015 January: Narrative Clip 2 coming in 2015 2015 January: Sequoia Invests In Mapillary To Crowd-Map The World Faster Than Street View 2014 September: Narrative raises $8M led by Khosla 2014 July: Wired, The AI Startup Google Should Probably Snatch Up Fast 2014 July: Roche acquires Geniachip for $350M 2014 May: Farmeron Raises Another $2.65M To Disrupt Dairy 2014 April: APX-Labs Raises $10M with NEA to Bring Wearable Tech to Work 2014 February: LDV invests in Camiocam "Turn Any Camera Into A Smart Monitoring device" 2013 December: LDV Capital invests in Ooomf [Now called Crew] Speaking Events and Press: 2018: February: LDV Capital Raises $10M Second Seed Fund for Visual Technologies 2018: February: LDV Capital Raises Seed Fund for Visual Tech [WSJ paywall]2017 October: Future Labs AI Summit, NYU University, NYC 2017: October: Decoded Fashion Summit, NYC 2017: October: DataEngConf, Columbia University, NYC 2017 October: Summit AI. Amsterdam, Netherlands 2017 June: DigitalK Keynote. Sofia, Bulgaria 2014 December: The Next Web - Speaker, NYC 2014 April: TNW One Passion presentation: Decisendipity [Video] 2014 April: Co - Master of Ceremonies at the Next Web Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014 January: Speaker at Kotra Global Startup & Career Vision. Seoul, Korea 2013 December: LeWeb Startup Competition Judge. Paris, France 2013 December: Master Ceremonies Startup Competition Techcrunch Moscow, Russia. 2013 December: Startup AddVenture Keynote. European Startups Raising Capital in US - Why, When, Where, How. Kiev, Ukraine 2013 December: Techpeaks Demo Day Fireside Chat with Jon Bradford, MD Techstars. Trento, Italy 2013 December: Techpeaks People Accelerator Demo Day. Trento, Italy 2013 October: Techcocktail Celebrate, Judge. Vegas, US 2013 October: MC Startup Competition. Kyiv, Ukraine 2013 October: The Next Web Conference. NYC, US 2013 August: Pirate Summit Speaker. Cologne, Germany 2013 July: MC of the BizSpark Summit. Berlin, Germany 2013 April: MC TNW Conference Startup Rally. Amsterdam 2012 November: Speaker at Silicon Valley comes to Lisbon, Portugal 2012 November: Capital on Stage - Reverse Investor Pitch. NYC, US. 2012 October: Opening the IDCEE International Conference as Co-Master of Ceremonies. Kiev, Ukraine. 2012 October: IDCEE Master of Ceremonies Interview. Kiev, Ukraine 2012 Sept.: Mentor and Speaker at Mind The Bridge Boot Camp. Trento, Italy. 2012 Sept: Techcrunch Rome, Italy. Interviewing Riccardo Zacconi, CEO King.com 2012 Sept.: MC at European Pirate Startup Conference. Cologne, Germany 2012 Sept.: MC Seedcamp Investor Day. London, England 2012 July: Keynote Intro Video for Int'l Startup Festival. Montreal, Canada 2012 July: MC for Int'l Startup Festival. Montreal, Canada 2012 July: Moderated panel at Seedcamp NYC on Community Management 2012 June: Moderated panel Seedcamp Zagreb, Croatia "Raising $ vs growing organically." 2012 May: Speaking at Founder's Institute. Santiago, Chile 2012 April: Co-Hosting Start-up Competition at The Next Web Conference, Amsterdam. 2011: SXSW TechCocktail Interview "Delivering Happiness" 2011 September: MC for Seedcamp Investor Day [cameo min. 1:59] 2008 November: Digital Railroad shuts down operations. 2007 November: Nisselson transitions to DRR Chairman of the Board 2007 April: Digital Railroad Marketplace launches 2007 February: Digital Railroad secures $10M to accelerate product dev. & expand int'l 2005 June: Digital Railroad Raises $5.2 Million From Morgenthaler and Venrock 2005 Feb: Digital Railroad launches Photo Feeds at Demo Conf. 2003: Founded Digital Railroad and announced in 2004 2004: Will more than 100 billion digital images be captured worldwide in 2005? 2003: Why will wireless camera phones revolutionize the photography industry? 1999: Lyra Research - "Nisselson is a retro-futuristic type." 1998: Conceived 1st Broadband Photo Portal @Home Network, Intel invested $3M
