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Meet Dr. Daniel Sodickson – Chief of Innovation in Radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an Expert at LDV Capital. In his book, “The Future of Seeing: How Imaging Is Changing Our World”, he traces humanity’s long quest to illuminate the invisible – from the first biological eyes that evolved in Earth’s ancient oceans to the telescopes, microscopes and MRI machines that map worlds beyond the reach of natural vision. Blending history, science and imagination, he reveals how imaging has reshaped medicine, altered economies and reframed our understanding of privacy and identity. Now, on the brink of an AI-driven revolution, Dr. Sodickson invites us to consider a future in which technology emulates not just our sight, but our very minds – changing how we see the world, each other and ourselves. Dan’s vision aligns with our fund’s thesis dating back to 2012.
Earlier in May, we shared photographs and stories from this year’s invite-only LDV Capital Annual General Meeting (AGM) – a special event where our LPs connect in person with our team, portfolio companies and experts. Our Associate, Ash Cleary, presented a keynote to our LPs on visual technologies that will unlock beyond what we can see as humans. We’re now excited to share a few of the trends Ash showcased in his presentation with our wider LDV community.
LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson and Ash Cleary cover topics ranging from spectroscopy and nanomaterials to enhance food and agricultural production, to renewable energy forecasting and grid management, and predictive digital twins for the supply chain.
Automation is revolutionizing legacy industries from healthcare and precision medicine to manufacturing and construction, to agriculture and sustainability. The adoption of visual technology innovations will continue to remain the crux of automation for the next decade and beyond.
The smartphone has democratized photography. Improved camera quality is a feature that sells new smartphones. Ever since the inception of LDV Capital in 2012, Evan Nisselson was thrilled with the possibility to partner with people who would bring DSLR quality to small devices.
Earlier this year, we led the seed funding of Glass Imaging – a company on a mission to enable unrivaled professional image quality in smartphones. The team redesigns the optics that work with proprietary AI algorithms to correct the distortions & convert the sensor output to a standard image. You can now see the fantastic quality of pictures taken with the Glass Imaging prototype – it’s happening and soon this technology will fit into pocket-size devices!
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.
LDV Capital is the only venture capital firm with a thesis of investing in people building visual technologies.
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If you missed the virtual event with Evan Nisselson – Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital – at NYU Entrepreneurial Institute last week, we’ve got you covered!
Follow the link below to watch this truly inspiring video session on current visual tech trends, covered from a venture capital investor’s perspective.
Evan has been working in the visual tech industry for over 20 years. In 2003 he wrote that camera phones will be taking the place of point-and-shoot cameras and everyone thought he was crazy.
This article is an excerpt from the LDV Vision Book released in 2015 (it's still relevant!). Evan Nisselson explains how visual tech revolutionized humanity and businesses.