# LDV Blog

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is a professor at the University of Washington and a Research Scientist at Facebook. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how and why she evolved her research into a company called Dreambit which she then sold to Facebook.

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