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Our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit was our most attended event to date, bringing together deep tech entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, researchers, and investors for engaging discussions on cutting-edge visual tech and AI innovations. We were thrilled to welcome speakers from Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, IBM, Kleiner Perkins, Phare Bio, IVP, Mitra Chem, BAM Corner Point, Duke University, Fortune, Argonne National Laboratory, Princeton University, The Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Fieldstone Bio. Three of our LDV Capital portfolio companies also presented: Synthesia, DANNCE AI and ResiQuant.

As we approach the 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we thought it fitting to pose a few burning questions to Serge Belongie, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and LDV Capital Expert in Residence. We delved into his experiences as a prominent figure in AI and sought his insights on the present landscape of visual technologies. Additionally, we explored his thoughts on the prospects available to researchers aiming to bring their work to market and impact humanity at large.

Our Vision events bring together the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers, and investors to discuss the latest trends in visual tech and AI. Check out a few photographs from our most recent invite-only Happy Hour event hosted in New York City.

As the biotech industry relies heavily on data filtering, analysis, and sharing, visual technologies will become critical for the detection and imaging of biological systems, paving the way for the future of life sciences tools enabling next-generation therapeutics, biomanufacturing & longevity.

Synthesia, the market leader in AI video generation, announced their exciting $90 million Series C financing. The round is led by Philippe Botteri at Accel along with NVIDIA and existing investors. The company now officially hits unicorn status, and we are extremely proud of the brilliant co-founders, Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, Dr. Lourdes Agapito, and Dr. Matthias Niessner, and the entire Synthesia team!

In April 2019, we led their Seed financing round when they were pre-product and pre-revenue. We met with four brilliant co-founders and were impressed with their big vision: to empower everyone to make video content without cameras, microphones, or studios.

This milestone reinforces our belief in the transformative power of visual technologies and AI and their pivotal role in shaping the future. At LDV Capital, we are honored to have played a very small part in their incredible journey which continues to evolve every day.

In this fireside chat with LDV Capital General Partner Evan Nisselson, Clement Farabet, VP of Research at DeepMind, shared his views on the positives, negatives, and lessons learned from building artificial intelligence projects while at university, to founding a startup that successfully exited, and at large Fortune 100 corporations.

We host our LDV Community Dinners & Happy Hours to bring together our tight-knit LDV community – the world’s brightest technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers, and investors – to discuss cutting-edge visual tech. Check out a few photographs from our fourth and final 2022 “Happy Hour” event hosted in New York City.

Our 8th annual LDV Vision Summit was the best summit to date! Thanks to the virtual setting, our community tuned in from all over the world and we discussed computer vision, computational imaging, machine learning, and AI in healthcare, web3, climate, space, and so much more.

In these turbulent times, we are pleased to have a chance to connect with brilliant entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, executives, and creatives who are as passionate about visual tech as we are at LDV.

More and more visual sensors are being leveraged in the commercial and home markets. From energy and real-time data management in smart commercial buildings to home video security and monitoring our babies when they sleep. How will they empower businesses and humanity?

YOU are why our annual LDV Vision Summit gathering is special and a success every year. Thank You! We are honored that you fly in from around the world each year to share insights, inspire, do deals, recruit, raise capital and help each other succeed!