LDV Capital News, Portfolio Highlights, Articles on AI & Visual Tech — LDV Capital
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In The News
Known as the only visual technology venture fund, we at LDV Capital have been investing in pre-inc, pre-seed and seed-stage teams building businesses powered by visual technology and artificial intelligence since 2012. In 2024, we announced our fourth fund.
Portfolio Companies
Co-investors that follow LDV’s early investments include Sequoia Capital, Accel, Union Square Ventures, Insight Partners, GV (Google Ventures), Atomico, FirstMark, Menlo Ventures and NEA among others. See a few select portfolio highlights below.
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Dick Costolo, Managing Partner, 01 Advisors
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Spotlight
Glass Imaging Is Delivering on its Promise to Transform Smartphone Photography
June 1, 2026 | PetaPixel
Exclusive: Arcturus raises $2.3M to reinvent sports replays
Dec 3, 2025 | Axios
The best inventions of 2025: Cionic Neural Sleeve 2, leg sleeves for walking
October 9, 2025 | Time
London-based Gardin Agritech raises €3.9M led by Dutch VC Navus Ventures May 9, 2025 | Silicon Canals
Exclusive: ResiQuant raises $4 million in LDV Capital-led funding round March 14, 2025 | The Insurer, Reuters
VitVio secures €1.8 million for AI-powered operating rooms in hospitals January 8, 2025 | EU-Startups
Glass Imaging’s incredible AI tech transforms smartphone image quality October 22, 2024 | PetaPixel
Gardin’s Optics-Powered AI Platform Increases Greenhouse ROI Across Customers February 11, 2026 | LDV
Cionic’s Neural Sleeve 2: A Bionic Mobility Aid That Changes Everything October 15, 2025 | Forbes
Glass Imaging raises $20M to use AI to improve digital image quality May 12, 2025 | VentureBeat
Function Health buys Ezra, launches full-body scan for a third of the price May 5, 2025 | CNBC
Ezra Is Bringing Bryan Johnson’s Longevity Secrets to the Public March 13, 2025 | The Profile
30 Under 30 Healthcare 2025: Advancing AI, Delivering Care, Creating New Therapies December 3, 2024 | Forbes
TIME100 AI 2024: Victor Riparbelli, CEO & Co-Founder at Synthesia September 5, 2024 | Time
Nvidia-Backed AI Startup Synthesia Raises $200M Funding at $4 Billion Valuation January 26, 2026 | WSJ
CEO Victor Riparbelli discusses Synthesia 3.0 on “Bloomberg Tech” October 1, 2025 | Bloomberg
Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic May 15, 2025 | VentureBeat
Adobe takes stake in Synthesia, startup behind AI clones for corporate videos April 15, 2025 | CNBC
UK artificial intelligence start-up Synthesia hits $2bn valuation January 15, 2025 | Financial Times
Harvard spinout that scans for neurophysical disease gets funding November 21, 2024 | Boston Business Journal
AI-powered cancer screening company Ezra comes to Seattle July 25, 2024 | Fox 13 Seattle
What makes Glass Imaging’s groundbreaking photo-enhancing tech different August 28, 2024 | PetaPixel
Gardin’s green thumb: enhancing yields with real-time insights July 30, 2024 | Newzchain
Synthesia lets you make multilingual video presentations using your phone or webcam June 24, 2024 | CNBC
This wearable leg ‘sleeve’ helps people with limited mobility walk easier July 23, 2024 | Fast Company
Exclusive: Teads partners with TVision and Adelaide April 29, 2024 | Axios
Exclusive: Sonus Microsystems pre-seeds $2.1M for new ultrasound tech February 26, 2024 | Axios
Medical experts on the rising trend of people getting full-body scans for cancer screening February 17, 2024 | NBC News
Cionic Neural Sleeve named best innovation as Dezeen Awards design winners revealed November 28, 2023 | Dezeen
CIONIC raises additional funding for Neural Sleeve October 19, 2023 | Medical Device Network
Norbert Health and Lumina Care announce strategic partnership July 15, 2024 | Slice of Healthcare
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary April 25, 2024 | MIT Technology Review
Rayus partners with Ezra to launch a nationwide whole-body MRI offering April 15, 2024 | Radiology Business
Google backs company making smartphones as good as ‘real’ cameras February 8, 2024 | PetaPixel
Gardin is using generative AI and synthetic data to drive plant growth — here's how December 19, 2023 | Insider
New neural network could majorly improve smartphone photography November 2, 2023 | PetaPixel
Improving water use efficiency in pepper cultivation April 30, 2024 | Horti Daily
CIONIC won gold in wearable and implantable medical devices at the Edison Awards April 23, 2024 | Edison Awards
LDV portfolio company Synthesia is featured on Forbes’ AI 50 list April 11, 2024 | Forbes
Meet the Bryan Johnson-approved AI full-body MRI startup that just raised $21M February 10, 2024 | Forbes
Synthesia launches LLM-powered assistant to turn any text file or link into AI video January 31, 2024 | VentureBeat
Synthesia CEO on unicorn status and AI regulation June 14, 2023 | Bloomberg
LDV Capital News
LDV Capital is featured on the list of 180 U.S. hard tech VCs backing climate September 15, 2025 | HackSummit
The 13 top VC firms dedicated to investing in AI that founders should know February 6, 2023 | Business Insider
Training real AI with fake data. Synthetic data keeps getting closer to reality October 12, 2019 | AXIOS
LDV Capital is featured on TIME’s list of America’s top venture capital firms for 2025 August 19, 2025 | TIME
LDV Capital grabs $21 million to invest in companies focused on visual technologies May 3, 2021 | Forbes
LDV has raised a $10 million fund to invest in startups developing visual technology February 1, 2018 | WSJ
LDV Capital gathers $31m to invest in businesses powered by visual tech & AI January 29, 2024 | Venture Capital Journal
Teaching robots to see — and understand. Machine vision is a crucial missing link October 26, 2019 | AXIOS
In less than five years, 45 billion cameras will be watching us August 9, 2017 | Fast Company
Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital on Visual Technologies & Satellite Selfies 2017 | The Seedcamp Podcast