LDV Vision Summit 2015: Startup Competition in New York — LDV Capital
Vision Summit 2015: Competitions
At least 9 companies who presented or competed at the last Summit have since raised Venture Capital Funding.
Many others have joined startups or formed companies with people they met at the Summit.
There are three phases to our competitions.
1. Open call for competitors.
2. Finalists receive pitch coaching by experts.
3. A selection of finalists are invited to compete on stage in front the audience and judges.
Deadline: April 9, 2015 23:59 EDT
Startup Competition
Are you one of the most promising imaging or video companies with less than $1.5M in funding? Compete for limited presentation slots in front of ~500 attendees including media/brand/tech execs, startups, and investors.
About 20 sub-finalists will receive coaching from Evan Nisselson along with other experts. Finalists will be invited to present on stage at the LDV Vision Summit in front of the audience and judges.
Prize: Winner receives $5K Amazon AWS Credits
Judges:
- Andrew Weissman - Union Square Ventures, Partner
- Andrew Cleland - Comcast Ventures, Managing Director
- Fran Hauser - Rothenberg Ventures, Partner
- Charlie Kemper - Entrepreneurs Roundtable, Co-Founder
- Jessi Hempel - Wired, Senior Writer
- Pankaj Jain - 500 Startups, Venture Partner
- David Beisel - NextView Partners, Partner
- Alicia Syrett - Pantegrion Capital, CEO
- Jack Herrick - wikiHow, Founder
- Jason Ostheimer - Advancit Capital, Partner
- Gillian Munson - XO Group, CFO
- Julian Green - Google, Group PM Mobile Vision
- Sharon Goldstein - XSeed Capital, EIR
- David Teten - ff Venture Capital, Partner
- Hans-Peter Brøndmo - Serial Entrepreneur
- Evan Nisselson - LDV Capital, Partner
Deadline: April 9, 2015 23:59 EDT
Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenges
Face off against your fellow Computer Vision and Machine Learning enthusiasts for a chance to present your solutions to hundreds of top industry VCs, media executives, and companies recruiting.
This is a two-month challenge and you can select from a list of different challenges.
About 20 sub-finalists will receive coaching from Evan Nisselson along with other experts. Finalists will be invited to have the opportunity to present on stage at the LDV Summit in front of the audience and judges.
Challenge Duration: 60 days
Prize: Winner receives $5K Amazon AWS Credits
Judges:
- Peter Welinder - Dropbox, Engineer
- Patrick Eggen - Qualcomm Ventures
- Pete Warden - Google, Engineer
- Geoff Judge - iNovia Capital, Partner
- Serge Belongie - Professor, Computer Vision
- Jan Erik Solem - Mapillary, CEO
- Moshe Bercovich - Shutterfly, GM
- Kristen Grauman - U. Texas at Austin, Assoc. Professor
- Mor Naaman - Cornell Tech, Seen.co, Co-Founder
- Andrea Frome - Google Brain, Computer Vision
- Ramesh Raskar - MIT Media Lab, Assoc. Professor
- Silvio Savarese - Stanford U., Assist. Professor
- Avi Muchnick - Adobe, Director of Products
- Ira Kemelmacher - U. of Washington, Assist. Professor
- Samson Timoner - Scalable Display Tech., CTO
- Sean Ammirati - Birchmere Ventures, Partner
- Evan Nisselson - LDV Capital, Partner
Deadline: April 9, 2015 23:59 EDT
“It was a pleasure judging at the summit, really innovative companies.”
— Erik Nordlander, Google Ventures
“You do not disappoint. It was truly an honor to participate in the startup competition and to receive the mentoring. I’m sure this will be just a first of a long run of annual LDV Summits.”
— Barbara Tien, Ponga, Co-Founder & CEO
“I found a great job at Clarifai from meeting the Founder at the last Vision Summit - very happy!”
— Genevieve Patterson, Computer Vision PhD Candidate Dartmouth
“Very happy I competed in the LDV Vision Summit Computer Vision Challenges. I am actually collaborating with one contact from the Summit on a Shoe Recognition App. I am speaking with another person from the Summit to collaborate on new business leveraging image processing!”
— Ankit Sharma, Computer Vision Graduate, U. Florida