We thrive on collaborating with deep technical teams building businesses powered by visual technology.

Investing in people building visual technologies that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data across the full tech stack. Visual data examples: images, videos, thermal, radar, lidar, x-ray’s, ultrasound, MRI, CT scan, 2D, 3D, 4D, 6D and more.

Interesting sectors for us include (but are not limited to):

  • Robotics

  • Photonics

  • Autonomous vehicles

  • Visual search & content analysis

  • Satellite imaging

  • Healthcare

  • Imaging enabled commerce

  • Computational imaging

  • Video

  • Mapping

  • Logistics & Manufacturing

  • Smart home

  • Wearables

  • Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality

  • Security

Founded: April 2012
Geography: North American, Europe & Israe.
Stage: $500K-$1.2M at pre-incorporation, pre-seed or seed. Lead, co-lead, or join syndicates.
Contact: The best way to reach out is via mutual friends, associates, or here >.

 

Portfolio:

 

Clarifai

Overview: Clarifai is an artificial intelligence company that excels in visual recognition, solving real-world problems for businesses and developers alike. Their image recognition systems held the top 5 spots for classifying objects in images at ImageNet 2013. 
Location: New York, NY
First Investment: Convertible note pre-Series A, 2014
Co-Investors:  NEA, Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Google Ventures, Nvidia, Qualcomm Ventures, Jan Erik Solem, NYU, and angels.

Article: Delivering The Power Of Artificial Intelligence Into Everyone’s Hands
Vision Summit 2015: Matthew’s keynote

 

TVision Insights 

Overview: Audience insights leveraging cameras and computer vision to deliver individual viewing engagement.
Location: Cambridge, MA & New York, NY
Co-Investors:  Accomplice, SIG Asia Investments, Golden Venture Partners, Jump Capital, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, and others

Camio

Overview: Smart cloud-based video monitoring for your IP-connected cameras.
Location: San Mateo, CA
Co-Investors: Freestyle Capital, Greylock Partners, BoxGroup, Marissa Mayer, Brian McClendon, Mark Goldstein, Jan Erik Solem

 

Sea Machines

Overview: Autonomous & Remote Command Technology for Marine industries.
Location: Boston, MA
First Investment: Seed, 2017
Co-Investors:   Accomplice, Huntington Ingalls, ENIAC, Toyota AI, LaunchCapital, Geekdom Fund, and Techstars

Article: Visual Data To Delivers Safety
Vision Summit 2019: Fiona Hua keynote

 

Uizard

Overview: AI turns user interface wireframes into code.
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark  
First Investment: Led pre-seed, 2018
Co-Investors: Insight Partners, ByFounders, av8 Ventures, The Nordic Web Ventures, 7percent Ventures, New York Venture Partners, Peter Stern (co-founder of Datek), TinyVC

Article: Non-designers Create Prototypes and Designs for Apps and Websites
Vision Summit 2018: Tony’s keynote

 
 

Ezra

Overview: Ezra’s mission is to enable early cancer detection for everyone by using Artificial Intelligence and the most advanced medical imaging technology available. Ezra’s full-body MRI protocol detects up to 13 cancers in women, 11 in men. It’s fast, accurate, and safe. 
Location: New York, NY & Toronto, Canada
Co-Investors: FirstMark, Accomplice, Founders Future, Credo, Seedcamp, IT-Farm Corp., Esther Dyson, Taavet Hinrikus (Co-founder Transferwise), Alexander Ljung (Founder Soundcloud), Daniel Dines (Founder UiPath), Jeff Raider and Dave Gilboa (co-founders of Harry’s and Warby Parker), Vlad Tenev (co-founder of Robinhood).

Articles: Cancer Detection with CV & AI
Vision Summit 2019: Emi’s keynote
Insights Report 2018: Nine Sectors Where Visual Tech Will Improve Healthcare by 2028

Voyant Photonics

Overview: Creating the next generation of chip-scale LiDAR.
Location: New York, NY
Co-Investors: Up.Partners, Contour Ventures, NEU Venture Capital

Article: The World’s First Silicon-Photonics Chip-scale FMCW LiDAR system
Vision Summit 2019: Chris’s keynote
Insights Report 2017: 45B Cameras by 2022 Fuel Business Opportunities

 

Headroom

Overview: Helping people have better meetings, using A.I. Their mission is to improve communication in meetings through greater awareness of each other.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: Gradient Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Morado Ventures, Serge Belongie, Anthony Goldbloom.

Vision Summit 2015: Julian panel discussion and Andrew’s keynote.

ShopPad

Overview: ShopPad helps online retailers build e-commerce solutions and develops the most popular Shopify apps.
Location: Oakland, CA
Co-Investors: Allen Morgan, Oren Michels, Scott Rafer, and more angels

 

Fantasmo

Overview: Fantasmo’s CPS provides hyper-accurate positioning that is an order improvement over GPS. Unlike GPS it works well in cities and indoor, and it does not require any infrastructure such as satellites, beacons, or radios. All you need is an inexpensive camera and a data connection.
Location: Los Angeles, CA & Munich, Germany
Co-Investors: Unlock Venture Partners, TenOneTen Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Imagination Capital, and angels

 

CIONIC

Overview: Super powering the human body. Cionic is building a platform for human augmentation that powers people to transcend physical limitations.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: Epic Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, and angels.

Vision Summit 2019: Jeremiah’s keynote

Norbert Health

Overview: Norbert Health’s contactless device and platform quickly detect, predict the health of people around you at work and at home.
Location: New York, NY & Paris, France
Co-Investors: Serena Capital, Hardware Club, Exor Seeds, Howard Morgan

Gardin

Overview: Empowering food producers to optimize the future of farming. Optical remote sensing technology, machine vision and analytics allow producers to measure plant physiology and proactively adjust parameters in order to optimize operations.
Location: London, UK
Co-Investors: Molten Ventures, Seedcamp, MMC Ventures and angels.

Article: ‘Optical phenotyping’ tech to improve food production

Gryps

Overview: Gryps is connecting the construction data silos and will deliver smart analytics to facility owners to increase their ROI. Their software platform leverages robotic process automation (RPA), computer vision, and machine learning.
Location: New York, NY
Co-Investors: Pear VC, Harvard Business School Graduate Syndicate and angels.

Article: Gryps To Modernize the Construction Industry With Robotic Process Automation, Computer Vision & AI
Vision Summit 2021: Dareen’s keynote

Streetlogic

Overview: Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for e-bikes. A surround-view camera platform that can predict collisions and notify riders in order to prevent accidents.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: Trucks Venture Capital

Earkick

Overview: First data-driven mental health tracker via multimodal analysis of bio signals.
Location: Zurich, Switzerland & California, US.
First Investment: Led pre-seed, 2020
Co-Investors: West Tech Ventures, Angels.


Article: Partnering with Earkick Founders to Deliver the World’s First Real-Time Mental Health Tracker

 

Aquifer

Overview: Studio-level animation platform without the studio.
Location: Austin, Texas
First Investment: Led seed, 2021
Co-Investors: Boost VC, Geekdom Fund, Wedbush Ventures, Techstars and Angels.

Article: LDV Leads Aquifer’s $2M Seed To Make Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot
WLVT Interview: Chen Zhang

Newco

Overview: Deep learning & advanced optics deliver DSLR image quality for small devices.
Location: Bay Area, CA

 

Newco

Overview: Dynamic user conversion platform powered by machine learning.
Location: New York, NY

Acquired:

 

Unsplash

Overview: Beautiful photography for all.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Co-Investors: Accomplice,  Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, Boldstart, and Naval Ravikant
Acquired by: Getty Images

 

Mapillary 

Overview: Mapillary is a street-level imagery platform, powered by collaboration and computer vision.
Location: Malmo, Sweden & Los Angeles, CA
Co-Investors: Sequoia Capital, BMWi, Samsung Catalyst,  Atomico, NavInfo, Wellington Partners, Playfair Capital, Ooga Labs, Scott Kurnit, Taavet Hinrikus, Naval Ravikant, and other angels
Acquired by:  Facebook

Geniachip

Overview: Genia's mission is to make genetic information universally available. Genia's integrated circuits built on standard CMOS process technology enable massively parallel single-molecule DNA sequencing.  
Location: San Francisco, CA
Acquired by: Roche for $350M 

 

UPSKILL

Overview: Enterprise software platform for Smart Glasses. (Formerly APX-Labs). 
Location: Washington, D.C. & San Francisco, CA
Co-Investors: NEA, Boeing, GE Ventures, Cisco, Salesforce Ventures, Work-Bench, and angels
Acquired by: TeamViewer

Mediachain Labs

Overview: Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it leveraging the blockchain. 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Co-Investors: Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, RRE Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and other angels.
Acquired by:  Spotify

Farmeron

Overview: Farmeron brings farm records online and boosts farming results with actionable metrics and suggestions.  
Location: Croatia & San Francisco, CA 
Co-Investors: SoftTech Ventures, NextView Ventures, US Virtus, Seedcamp, 500 Startups, and angels.
Acquired by: US Virtus Nutrition

Closed:

Carbon Robotics

Overview: The next wave of intelligent automation. An affordable robotic arm with a development platform that makes working with robots iPhone-easy.
Co-Investors: Freestyle Capital, Techstars, Mesh Ventures, and others

Lookmark

Overview: Lookmark solves the problem of What To Read by sharing what you and your friends are reading, automatically. It’s like Last.fm for news.
Co-Investors: Naval Ravikant, 500 Startups, Garry Tan, James Hong, and others

Narrative

Overview: The Narrative Clip is a wearable, automatic camera that lets you enjoy the moments that matter while still documenting them in pictures. Narrative’s image recognition algorithm analyzes the photos and serves the users with their most meaningful moments in a mobile app and web based photo stream.
Co-Investors: Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Passion Capital, Creandum, Peter Read