Thomas Friedman of The New York Times defines today’s era as “The Age of Acceleration, Amplification and Democratization.” Artificial intelligence-powered automation is revolutionizing all industries, solving seemingly impossible problems at incredible speeds and efficiencies. When LDV Capital was founded in 2012 by General Partner Evan Nisselson, the AI revolution was in its infancy. Evan developed the thesis that the majority of data that human brains analyze is visual, therefore visual data is critical to AI’s advancement. Visual data is any data across the light and electromagnetic spectru ..read more

Interview with Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP of Monetization at Snap Ty Ahmad-Taylor is VP of Monetization at Snap. He also sits on GoPro’s board of directors. He had been VP of product marketing at Meta since 2017, leading an 800-person organization across product/engineering and sales, which is similar to his previous role at Snap. Before that, he ran George Lucas-founded audio & video firm THX as CEO.  Ty’s background: 32 years in information design, 26 years in consumer-facing software and product development leadership, and 25 years in interactive television services development. He has w ..read more

Businesses do their best to attract target audiences and make shopping or ordering services on their websites as easy and enjoyable as possible. Websites help businesses build brand recognition and streamline lead generation and conversion. However, billions of dollars are inefficiently spent on driving traffic to non-converting web pages. To date, there is no “one size fits all” solution for companies in terms of creating web pages that convert visitors to customers, that’s why teams have to run hundreds of experiments with website content – copy, images, style and layout – to increase conver ..read more

Interview with Clément Farabet, VP of Research at DeepMind Clément Farabet received his Ph.D. from University Paris-Est while a visiting researcher at NYU. He was co-founder & CTO of Madbits. The Madbits team built visual intelligence technology that automatically understands, organizes and extracts relevant information from raw media. Understanding the content of an image, whether or not there are tags associated with that image, is a complex challenge. They developed their technology based on deep learning, an approach to statistical machine learning that involves stacking simple project ..read more

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. In the next 10 years - which business sectors will be disrupted the most by visual technologies, and why? Reshma Sohoni, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Seedcamp: Healthcare - given the increased awareness around personal health and ..read more

In 2018, Daimon Labs’ founder and CEO, Dr. Ryan Benmalek, was the winner of LDV Capital’s Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge. A brilliant Ph.D. student studying Computer Science at Cornell University’s Computer Vision Lab under Serge Belongie, one of LDV’s experts in residence, at the time, he presented the “Neural Painter” – a novel method to design & prototype anything you can imagine by simply describing it long before the overheated trend of Generative AI.  Ryan Benmalek presents “Neural Painter, a method to design & prototype things by describing them” during the Entr ..read more

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 10 brilliant professors & researchers. Which sector over the next 10 years do you believe will have the most societal impact from research advancements leveraging visual technologies and artificial intelligence? Dr. Lydia Chilton, an Assistant Professor of ..read more

In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech – hosted virtually on March 28, we decided to interview some of our past & future speakers. Meet Luc Vincent of Meta, Steffen Tjerrild of Synthesia, Kristen Fortney of BioAge, Clément Farabet, Camilo Fosco of Memorable, Alexandra Boussommier of ImVitro, Michael Geer of Humanity, Henrik Haugbølle of Uizard, Mariano Battan of Mural, Alexandre Winter of Norbert Health, Andrew Rabinovich of Headroom, Karin Andrea Stephan of Earkick, Adam Paulisick of maad labs, and Rebecca Paoletti of CakeWorks. Cl ..read more

Here at LDV Capital, we continue celebrating over a decade of investing in people building businesses powered by visual technologies and artificial intelligence. When we were starting, friends and strangers told Evan Nisselson, Founder & General Partner, that our thesis-driven venture fund was “cute, niche and science fiction” but now we do not hear that anymore. Our thesis is that the majority of data that human brains analyze is visual, therefore visual data is critical to the success of artificial intelligence across all businesses. This thesis might have been less substantiated in 2012 ..read more

Technical advancements work their way through the well-worn ups and downs of the hype cycle, and AI is no exception. Around a decade ago, we experienced the emergence of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), then Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and numerous advances in between. Now we are deep into another hype cycle of Generative AI and we are excited to see the arrival of new advances in this area. DOWNLOAD OUR 2021 LDV INSIGHTS REPORT The current cycle has gone beyond our technology echo chamber because the masses can now easily evolve photos and avatars into fantastical versi ..read more