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As we approach our 10th Summit anniversary on March 21, 2024, we decided to go down memory lane and spotlight the exceptional fireside chat speakers LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson has had the privilege to witness and interview over the years. These leaders come from companies such as DeepMind, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures, Meta, Spark Capital, FirstMark, Universal Pictures, Greylock Partners, Snap, First Round Capital, OpenWater and more.
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.
Which business sectors will be the most disrupted by visual technologies and AI in the next 10 years? In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech – hosted virtually on March 28, investors from Seedcamp, Northzone, Insight Partners, DCVC, VAS Ventures, Air Street Capital, and we at LDV Capital share insights.
Which sectors over the next 10 years will have the most societal impact from research advancements leveraging visual technologies and artificial intelligence? In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech – hosted virtually on March 28, we addressed this and 4 other burning questions to 11 brilliant professors & researchers.
At our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the privilege of hosting a fireside chat between LDV's Evan Nisselson and Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen, an impressive serial entrepreneur recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. They discussed $100 laptops, 4 big problems of the VR industry, 250 lasers in our modern-day smartphone devices, next-generation portable neural diagnostic and therapeutic systems, and so much more!
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In the lead-up to our 8th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Evan Nisselson had the privilege of chatting with Amy Kruse, General Partner of Prime Movers Lab. On March 23rd, she will take part in our panel discussion on investing trends in businesses powered by visual technologies.
With their AI-powered animation platform, Aquifer gives content creators with no technical animation skills the power to produce cinematic-quality animated content in minutes.
At LDV, we are honored to lead their $2M Seed financing along with Boost VC, Geekdom Fund, Wedbush Ventures, Techstars and strategic angels.
Thrilled to introduce the new guest in our Women Leading Visual Tech series. Meet Chen Zhang, co-founder & CEO at Aquifer – an AI-powered platform for teams and creators to make stunning animated videos and livestreams with their brand's IP in minutes.
In the lead-up to our second live community event, “Radically Transforming Fashion”, Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, had an opportunity to chat with Neha Singh of Obsess.
In 2019, we had the pleasure of hosting a fireside chat between Thomas Reardon, a computational neuroscientist, co-founder and CEO of CTRL-labs, and Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital.
Four months later in September 2019, CTRL-Labs was acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 billion, reported VentureBeat. He and his team are now integrated into Facebook's AR/VR research group.
Our next guest in the Women Leading Visual Tech series is Gaile Gordon, a co-founder of TYZX, acquired by Intel.LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed spoke with Gaile about her career in deep tech.
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.
Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Rachel Lam, the co-founder and Managing Partner of Imagination Capital. Prior to launching Imagination Capital, Rachel founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003 and was head of the strategic investing arm of Time Warner Inc. for 14 years.
At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Sarah Fay of Glasswing Ventures, Michael Yang of Comcast Ventures (now at OMERS), and Nihal Mehta of ENIAC spoke with Jessi Hempel of Wired (now LinkedIn) about the industries they think carry the most opportunity for visual technology.
Alban Denoyel, CEO and Co-Founder of Sketchfab, spoke at the 3rd Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2016 about 3D content and 3D Ecosystems and their impact on virtual reality.
Mia Tramz is the Managing Editor of LIFE VR at Time. At the 4th Annual LDV Vision Summit, Mia gave a keynote on "Pioneering VR & AR for Media Companies." Evan had a chance to catch up with her about the virtual reality and augmented reality projects she is producing at LIFE VR and where she thinks virtual reality will go in the next 5-10 years.
Jack Levin was an early employee at Google and later started ImageShack, and is most recently at Nventify. In his keynote at the 2016 Annual LDV Vision Summit, he spoke about his perspective going back to the early days of Google up to today. Tickets on sale now for the upcoming Annual LDV Vision Summit.
Heather Raikes, is the Creative Director of 8ninths, and she spoke at our 2016 LDV Vision Summit about design patterns for evolving storytelling through virtual mixed reality technologies.
Congratulations to Alessio Dore and his team at Wirewax for winning our LDV Vision Summit - Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge for their Video Search solution.