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Explore the "Internet of Eyes" (IoEyes) concept: a network of visual sensors and cameras that will give inanimate objects the ability to "see," exponentially impacting businesses and humanity through computer vision and AI. Written by Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital, this article was originally published on The Next Web on May 13, 2016, and is being reposted without changes.
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.
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.
In September 2021, Ash Cleary began his venture capital journey by joining Evan Nisselson and our LDV Capital team as an Analyst, investing out of Fund III as part of a two-year program. After successfully completing the program, Ash was promoted to Associate and now invests out of LDV Capital's fourth fund.
Check out his insights and reflections on the past three years—working with the team and collaborating with brilliant deep tech entrepreneurs worldwide, building businesses powered by visual technology and artificial intelligence.
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.”
Dr. David Rabuka is a serial biotech entrepreneur and investor based in Berkeley California. His expertise is concentrated on translating new technologies into clinical therapies. In 2024, Dr. Rabuka spoke about investment trends & opportunities in life sciences and biotech at our Annual General Meeting. Check out our shortened & lightly edited transcript.
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.
We believe that visual technologies will continue to be the crux of advancements in materials science, across nanomaterials and metamaterials, resulting in the transformation of various industrial, medical and consumer applications. Embedded AI will enable materials to reconfigure themselves autonomously in response to their environment. As sensing abilities and algorithms improve, the full potential of navigating the compositional and configurational possibilities of materials will catalyze widespread transformation for optics, biomarker diagnostics, robotics, 3D printing and more.
We welcome Dr. Kate Darling in our Women Leading Visual Tech interview series. She is a leading expert in Robot Ethics and a researcher at MIT's Media Lab. Abigail Hunter-Syed and Dr. Darling spoke about our tendency to assign human characteristics to the machines in our lives - anyone else ever apologizes to Roomba? How about cursed at Alexa? See how Dr. Darling thinks we should approach our relationships with robots.
Evan Nisselson interviewed Samir Kumar, Managing Director of M12 – Microsoft's Venture Fund. Samir is leading investment activities in emerging tech areas including quantum computing and autonomous vehicles. Before joining M12, Samir worked in Qualcomm’s corporate R&D division, leading early-stage product validation, partnerships, acquisition, and strategy for embedded and on-device deep learning.
Here’s a flashback from 2014 – a year when Facebook bought Oculus VR and Ellen Degeneres temporarily crashed Twitter with her selfie with a bunch of celebrities during the Oscars broadcast. Watch Evan Nisselson’s opening word at our very first LDV Vision Summit.
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.
Even if you missed our LDV Vision Summit in 2019 you can still watch Rebecca Paoletti, CEO & co-founder of CakeWorks, discussing this topic with Dan Garraway, the co-founder of WireWax, Tal Zubalsky, CPO & co-founder of Eko, and Beth-Ann Eason, the president of Innovid.
LDV Capital is the only venture capital firm with a thesis of investing in people building visual technologies.
Do you know what Visual Technologies are?
Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, asked Nabeel Hyatt, a former founder, CEO, and now General Partner at Spark Capital, some questions about his experience investing in visual tech.
At LDV Vision Summit, we highlight experts working on cutting edge technologies and trends across every sector of business and society. We do not repeat speakers and we are honored that many attendees join every year.
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.
Our 2017 Annual LDV Vision Summit was an absolutely amazing event, thanks to all of you brilliant people.
"My second time attending the LDV Vision Summit was even better than the first. A great mix of accomplished technical people and energetic young entrepreneurs." Dave Touretzky, Research Professor, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Anastasia Leng, CEO at Creative X, worked many years at Google and is a serial entrepreneur leveraging technology to better understand visual content. Inside every image lies hundreds of unique data points that provide priceless information about your audience and their revealed visual preferences. Find out how technology can unearth this data to help you make smarter creative decisions and improve your visual strategy.
Claudia Perlich is the Chief Scientist at Dstillery, where she watches closely over a multitude of machine-learning algorithms and data-processing tasks. This talk touched on experimentation as well as the observational method for causal inference.