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LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Thesis-driven venture fund since 2012: Investing in people building deep tech businesses powered by visual technologies.

We partner and invest in deep technical teams who are building businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data.

LDV Platform

Vision Events

LDV Vision Summit

Andy Weissman, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures

Annual events since 2012 gather experts to discuss cutting edge visual tech & business trends.

Community

LDV Community Dinner

Natalie Diggins, Founder, Advisor & Investor

Helping each other succeed and having fun. 1300+ members with equal gender balance.

Women In Visual Tech

Women Leading Visual Tech

Dr. Jane X. Wang: Meta-Learning

Showcasing leading women whose work in visual tech is reshaping business & society.

Insight Reports

Evan Nisselson

General Partner of LDV Capital

Exclusive analysis of how visual technology is impacting diverse business sectors.

Portfolio Highlights

Clarifai

Matthew Zeiler, CEO & Founder

Clarifai is the fastest way to transform your unstructured image, video, text, and audio data into actionable insights.

Article: Delivering The Power Of Artificial Intelligence Into Everyone’s Hands

Vision Summit 2015: Matthew’s keynote

Initial Investment: Pre-Series A, 2014

Co-Investors: NEA, Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Google Ventures, Nvidia, Qualcomm Ventures.

Sea Machines

Michael Johnson, CEO & Founder

Sea Machines is building the future of ocean mobility with data-driven intelligence, autonomy, and connectivity.

Article: Diverse Visual Data To Deliver Safe Autonomous Boats

Vision Summit 2019: Fiona’s keynote

Initial Investment: Seed, 2017

Co-Investors: Accomplice, Huntington Ingalls, ENIAC, Toyota AI, Launch Capital, Geekdom Fund, Techstars, Angels.

Synthesia

Co-Founders: Victor Riparbelli, CEO; Steffen Tjerrild, COO; Lourdes Agapito; Matthias Niessner

Synthesia creates professional artificial intelligence powered videos from text in 50+ languages.

Article: Synthesia exponentially scales video production globally

Vision Summit 2019: Victor’s keynote

WLVT Interview: Lourdes Agapito

Initial Investment: LDV led Seed, 2019

Co-Investors: Kleiner Perkins, GV, FirstMark, MMC, Seedcamp, VAS, Mark Cuban, Angels.

Uizard

Co-founders: Tony Beltramelli, CEO; Henrik Haugbolle, CTO; Ioannis Sintos, CIO; Florian Van Schreven, COO.

Uizard is the design tool for non-designers. Design mockups, mobile apps, websites, wireframes in minutes.

Article: Non-designers Create Prototypes and Designs for Apps and Websites

Vision Summit 2018: Tony’s keynote

Initial Investment: Led pre-seed, 2018

Co-investors: Insight Partners, ByFounders, AV8 Ventures, Angels.

Earkick

Co-founders: Karin Andrea Stephan, COO & Herbert Bay, CEO.

Earkick is the first data-driven mental health tracker via multimodal analysis of bio signals.

Article: Partnering with Earkick Founders to Deliver the World’s First Real-Time Mental Health Tracker

Initial Investment: Led pre-seed, 2020

Co-investors: West Tech Ventures, Angels.

Aquifer Motion

Co-founders: Chen Zhang, CEO & Matt Udvari, CTO.

Aquifer is a platform for teams and creators to make stunning animated videos and live-streams with their brand's IP in minutes.

Article: Making Animation as Easy as Point-and-Shoot

WLVT Interview: Chen Zhang

Initial Investment: Led seed, 2021

Co-investors: Boost VC, Geekdom Fund, Wedbush Ventures, Techstars, Angels.

Ezra

Co-founders: Emi Gal, CEO & Diego Cantor, CTO.

Ezra enables early cancer detection for everyone by using Artificial Intelligence and the most advanced medical imaging tech.

Articles: Cancer Detection with CV & AI

Vision Summit 2019: Emi’s keynote

Initial Investment: Pre-series A, 2019

Co-investors: FirstMark, Accomplice, Founders Future, Credo, Seedcamp, Angels.

Gardin

Sumanta Talukdar, CEO

Gardin is leveraging optical sensing, machine vision & analytics to enable food producers to increase nutrition & margins.

Article: ‘Optical phenotyping’

Initial Investment: Led pre-seed, 2020

Co-investors: Molten Ventures, Seedcamp, MMC Ventures, Angels.

Gryps

Co-founders: Dareen Salama, CEO & Amir Tasbihi, CTO.

Gryps is increasing ROI across the construction sector via robotic process automation & imaging.

Article: Modernizing Construction

Vision Summit 2021: Dareen’s keynote

Initial Investment: Led seed, 2021

Co-investors: Pear VC, HBS Graduate Syndicate, Angels.

Headroom

Co-founders: Julian Green, CEO & Andrew Rabinovich, CTO.

Headroom improves communication in meetings by augmenting your meeting intelligence.

CIONIC

Jeremiah Robison, CEO & Founder.

Cionic is building a platform for human augmentation that powers people to transcend physical limitations.

Voyant Photonics

Co-founders: Steve Miller, CTO & Chris Phare, CSO.

Voyant Photonics is revolutionizing machine perception complete FMCW LiDAR systems powered by silicon photonic chips.

Article: World’s 1st Silicon-Photonics

Vision Summit 2019: Chris’s keynote

Initial Investment: Pre-series A, 2019

Co-investors: Up.Partners, Contour Ventures, NEU Venture Capital.