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Arcturus has created a volumetric video platform that captures and broadcasts sports action in full 3D. They redefine how we connect with our favorite sports moments by delivering compelling new camera angles for 2D broadcasters and new 3D sports experiences never possible before on mobile or immersive devices. Their SaaS platform delivers the capture, processing, production and distribution of this content. We are thrilled to partner with Steve Sullivan, Devin Horsman, Ewan Johnson, Fraser McArthur and the entire Arcturus team as they deliver the future of live 3D broadcast quality sports coverage.
We led their $2.3M seed round with participation from Myelin VC, Vanderbilt University and angel investors including Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.
We at LDV Capital have been investing in AI for over 10 years to date, and have made 7 investments in teams building businesses leveraging Generative AI since 2018. We believe that this technology has significant commercial value as a utility that will empower SaaS businesses to disrupt legacy enterprises. Check out this article to learn more and see some examples of exponentially growing commercial applications in content creation, biotech and more.
We are thrilled to partner and invest in the deep tech team at Memorable. They are building cutting-edge technology to optimize ads for a higher impact on branding and conversion. Memorable's AI models are based on cognitive science to maximize the memorability, saliency, and conversion potential of both videos and images.
As experts in visual tech, our team at LDV Capital produces an annual proprietary research report, where we deep dive into a sector where visual technology will revolutionize businesses. This year, LDV explored the future for content creation over the next five years.
In our recent LDV Insights report – "Content & the Metaverse are Powered by Visual Tech" – we found that by 2027 there will be at least 100 times more visual content in the world. Read more about the creator economy and visual tech tools that will automate various aspects of content creation in Abigail Hunter-Syed’s article.
We are thrilled to announce the addition of Brian Derickson and Ash Cleary to our LDV Capital team as Analysts. They will help us evaluate investment opportunities, support our portfolio companies as well as research and write our Insights reports.
We are excited to announce the close of our third fund for investing in early-stage businesses powered by visual technologies.
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.
As experts in visual technologies, we at LDV Capital produce an annual proprietary LDV Insights report, where we deep dive into a sector where visual technology will revolutionize businesses. Previously, we covered healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and more. This year, we researched the future of food and agriculture.
Kat Lopez is now leading Content & Marketing on the platform side of LDV, helping us scale our LDV initiatives for entrepreneurs such as our LDV Vision Summit, LDV Community, Women Leading Visual Tech series, LDV Insights and much more. Kat has a decade of experience leading marketing for startups, she’s been a copywriter, an in-house blogger, social media & email marketing manager, content strategist, and PR manager. She was a part of Looksery (acquired by Snapchat), JetSmarter (acquired by Vista Global), and Kwambio (a startup in 3D printing, 2x TechStars alum).
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We had the privilege of welcoming Jorge Colindres, an MBA candidate at Dartmouth onto our team as a Summer Analyst. He spent the summer with us evaluating deals, diving deep into visual tech for our 2019 LDV Insights report, and much more. Jorge shares his experience and shares a few of his takeaways from working with us.
Exclusive research by us at LDV Capital is the first publicly shared, in-depth analysis which estimates how many cameras will be in the world in 2022. We believe it is a conservative forecast as additional sectors will be included in future research.