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Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner of LDV Capital, explores technological advancements that are transforming bathrooms into triage centers for monitoring health, extending health spans and proactively saving lives.
We’re thrilled to announce that our portfolio company Ezra is joining Function Health – the first personalized health platform offering access to over 160 advanced lab tests and one of the fastest-growing startups in the healthcare space. Ezra perfectly aligns with Function’s mission to empower 8 billion people to live 100 healthy years.
We are excited to partner and invest in the brilliant VitVio team. They are building an AI-driven computer vision platform designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of hospital operating theaters.
We at LDV Capital led their $2M pre-seed round with participation from Bek Ventures (ex-Earlybird), Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, and angel investors.
VitVio has also announced their pilot program with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH), one of the UK's three leading medical institutions in orthopedic care and “one of the best hospitals in the world.”
Who wants to live healthier and longer lives? Recent advancements in visual technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will increase human longevity. Solutions ranging from analyzing health records, blood results, physiological test scores, body scans, biotechnologies, and even genetic tests will be a game-changer in longevity healthcare. Whether you are looking to “optimize your performance” – be that physical or cognitive performance – or interested to learn about longevity medicine able to push the limits of the human lifespan – this panel from our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit covers that and more!
Meet Jeremiah Robison, Founder and CEO of CIONIC – one of LDV Capital’s portfolio companies. He has a 25-year career spent at the intersection of computing and the human body. At CIONIC, he builds robotic suits to help people move. For Jeremiah, it’s a truly personal story: his daughter’s CP diagnosis fueled a mission to empower all those with mobility impairments to move with more freedom and control.
We at LDV Capital are excited to partner and invest in the brilliant Earkick team in helping proactively prevent mental health problems with the first real-time data-driven mental health tracker. Their deep tech artificial intelligence platform will analyze health markers, vital signs, voice and sentiment analysis to detect early signs of anxiety, depression and other mental health problems. We see a tremendous value in tracking mental health in real-time and believe that Earkick will improve the quality of life for billions of people.
Emi Gal, co-founder & CEO of Ezra, our portfolio company, showcases the tech his company is utilizing to detect prostate cancer and how he believes computer vision will revolutionize MRI-based cancer screening.
Evan Nisselson wrote an article about visual technologies that will help flatten the curve of COVID 19. See what’s currently happening in thermal and fluorescent imaging, telemedicine, 3D printing, and other industries.
Jeff Nadler, the CIO of Teladoc Health – the nation’s leading telehealth company, shares some insights on fighting this global pandemic and other health problems that could be treated with the help of telemedicine.
In this article, Emi Gal talks about how Ezra is changing the game for cancer detection through visual technology. Read on to learn about his scientific research-driven approach, the long-term possibilities for Ezra.
Matthew 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.