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🚀 Since 2012, we have been showcasing brilliant women whose work in #VisualTech and #AI is reshaping business and society. We are thrilled to showcase 120+ women behind many of the technological innovations that we experience today: Lourdes Agapito, Zeynep Akata, Anima Anandkumar, Raquel Urtasun, Kavita Bala, Marian Bartlett, Regina Barzilay, Tamara Berg, Angjoo Kanazawa, Naila Murray, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Octavia Camps, Duygu Ceylan, Rita Cucchiara, Dima Damen, Kristin Dana, Kate Darling, Tali Dekel, Ilke Demir, Deborah Estrin, Sanja Fidler, Chelsea Finn, Kristen Fortney, Carolina Galleguillos, Timnit Gebru, Molly Gibson, Michal Lipson, Georgia Gkioxari, Gaile Gordon, Deirdre Hanford, Kim Hazelwood, Judy Hoffman, Mary Lou Jepsen, Amba Kak, Fei-Fei Li, Devi Parikh, Anastasia Yendiki, Rosalind Picard, Joelle Pineau, Serena Yeung and many more! Click the link below to discover experts in machine vision, pattern recognition, and generative models, as well as leaders in #quantum hardware, #nanophotonics, and #semiconductors, which form the foundation for all visual tech and AI progress. Their contributions are extremely valuable to our ecosystem and the world! We want to thank our team, LDV Experts and our Community for nominating their colleagues, friends and peers. There are many more brilliant women – technologists, researchers, entrepreneurs – and we will keep updating this article as we meet more of them.

The #Impact category of the Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards "honors designs, no matter how big or small, that have a major impact." We are on a mission to empower the millions of people with mobility differences to live more freely and independently, and to transform the landscape of #assistivetechnology as we know it. Every day we are blown away by the stories of progress and meaningful outcomes the CIONIC community experiences with the #NeuralSleeve. We've seen that this impact comes in all shapes and sizes - whether it's rising to a challenge at work, returning to a beloved trail that was inaccessible for years, surpassing a mobility milestone, or dancing with a child on their wedding day - it is these moments that are so meaningful for our team and that propel our mission forward. We are in great company - congratulations to the finalists and honorees in this category who are doing so much to transform the world for the better: Amprius Technologies, Inc. Voltpost Multistudio Catapult Design Kohler Co. Riverside Health Consumer Brands Association World Resources Institute Bezos Earth Fund Fox Fold McCann Worldgroup Full write-up from Aimee Rawlins on Fast Company covering all the Impact honorees at the link in the comments! And thanks to our incredible partners on this journey - BlueRun Ventures Caffeinated Capital Enable Ventures EPIC Ventures JobsOhio L Catterton LDV Capital fuseproject #digitaltherapeutic #healthcare #bionicclothing #neurotech #FCDesignAwards #wearabletech #neuromodulation #accessibledesign

Excited to share a few photos that capture moments from our recent invite-only "Happy Hour" event in New York: https://lnkd.in/e7zR5e3q This gathering brought together brilliant technology innovators, serial entrepreneurs, deep tech researchers and investors: Alexandre Winter, Hilke Schellmann, Matthew Diesner, dawn barber, Michael Moretti, Andraz Tori, Claudia Perlich, Dareen Salama, Ahmad Gaber, Adam Berenzweig, Jennifer Strong, Luis S., Medha Vedaprakash, Emmanuel Dumont, Joshua Brustein, Nicolette Jones, Dave Zohrob, Brian Derickson, Isabel Draves, David L. Concannon, and many more! The photographs are by Robert Wright.

How could smoking appear to increase fitness level? How would patients with a low sperm concentration have higher fertilization rates? Statistics are a powerful tool, but can be extremely misleading if not properly handled. Simpson’s paradox is perfect example of how data can trick us into drawing the wrong conclusions, even when we think we’re being careful. Whether you are an #embryologist, a #statistician, or simply intrigued by mathematical puzzles, this paradox is bound to catch your attention. Thank you to Nina Gidel-Dissler, our Head of Data Science at ImVitro, for this great post!

We are honored to have a fantastic LDV team and community of experts that help us filter, review and advise our portfolio teams that are building incredibly valuable businesses. We are thrilled to announce the addition of brilliant domain experts: Dr. Lourdes Agapito, Matt Uyttendaele, Dr. Anastasia Yendiki and Dr. Fernando De La Torre! Their expertise spans many verticals we are interested in, including #SyntheticData, #MaterialScience, #MedicalImaging, #VisualTech, #AI and much more. Dr. Lourdes Agapito is a Professor of 3D Vision at the Department of Computer Science at University College London, where she heads the 3D Vision research lab. She co-founded Synthesia, the leading #AI video generation platform, one of our LDV portfolio companies. Matt Uyttendaele, Director in Meta's AI for Math & Science group. His group applies #MachineLearning to material discovery for several applications: clean hydrogen, sorbents for direct air capture and next-generation displays. Dr. Anastasia Yendiki, an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital. Anastasia received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award. In 2022, she received the $23.5M grant to continue mapping the human connectome. Dr. Fernando De La Torre is a Research Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the Director of the Human Sensing Laboratory. He develops machine learning algorithms for modeling human behavior using sensors with applications in medical diagnostics and AR/VR. In 2014, Fernando founded FacioMetrics LLC, a company that specializes in face image analysis technologies. In 20216, it was acquired by Facebook/Meta. Fernando spent four years at Facebook/Meta, where he led the efforts in mobile augmented reality. His team developed the technology for face tracking, background removal, hair coloring, hand tracking/detection and more. Fernando also spent two years in Facebook Reality Labs working on the areas of digital humans for virtual reality and contributed to the core algorithm behind face tracking in Meta Quest Pro.

We are honored to have a fantastic LDV team and community of experts that help us filter, review and advise our portfolio teams that are building valuable businesses powered by visual technologies and #AI. We are thrilled to announce the addition of Max Blacker to our LDV team! He is particularly intrigued by the intersection between #sports and visual tech, as well as #nutrition and visual tech. According to Max, “The potential for technology to revolutionize how we approach #fitness, #training, and health management is immense. For instance, using visual tech to analyze athletic performance or track nutritional intake can lead to more personalized and effective health strategies. Additionally, I look forward to seeing how visual tech will change the way we consume live sporting events, making them more immersive and interactive.” If you are building businesses powered by visual tech in one of the domains of sports, food & ag, or #healthcare, then please email Max!

Congratulations to Tony Beltramelli, Henrik Haugbølle, Ioannis Sintos, Florian van Schreven and the entire Uizard team on joining Miro, the leader in visual collaboration, transforming the ways distributed and hybrid teams work together. In March 2018, we led Uizard's pre-seed financing when they were pre-product and pre-revenue. This was before the term #GenerativeAI even existed!  We have been honored to partner with the Uizard team and co-investors byFounders, AV8 Ventures, New York Venture Partners (NYVP), Insight Partners and many brilliant angels. At LDV Capital, we invest in people building businesses powered by visual technologies leveraging #AI, #MachineLearning and #ComputerVision. Uizard by Miro Labs started as a machine learning project called pix2code, and we saw huge potential in the founders, and in empowering those with little design and technical experience to contribute to the design process, enabling companies to ship better products faster. Uizard demonstrated to the tech world that AI-driven design and development was no longer science fiction. Over the past few years, they have demonstrated amazing growth and continued innovation with Autodesigner, an AI design feature enabling anyone to generate multi-screen mockups by typing project ideas in plain English, and Autodesigner 2.0,  their most advanced design AI engine yet. Uizard is used by more than 3 million professionals worldwide, including teams at Fortune 500 companies. With Miro, this brilliant team will continue to elevate the design experience and accelerate ideation and prototyping!

Our Annual General Meetings are invite-only exclusive gatherings that bring together our investors, experts, special guests and portfolio companies. We are thrilled to share a few photographs from our most recent Annual General Meeting hosted in New York City to give you a glimpse into what it is like to be a part of our LDV Capital Inner Circle. Check out these 7 images from the 70+ we published on our blog: https://lnkd.in/eD3A92ps It was a pleasure to host entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, and special guests such as Deborah Estrin, David R., Matt Uyttendaele, Carol DerSarkissian, MD, Esther Dyson, Samson Timoner, Dave Zohrob, William O'Farrell, Maria Gotsch, Paul Nemirovsky, Vivek Sharma, Eric Berry, Trace Cohen, Tejpaul Bhatia, Matt Ruby, Chen Zhang, Jim Albrecht, Adam Devine, Donald Buckley, Karin Andrea Stephan, Frank Rimalovski, David Berkowitz, Andres Glusman, Emily B., Tsafrir Oranski, Medha Vedaprakash, Mitchell Goss, Jeremiah Robison, Ziv Attar, Emi Gal, Dareen Salama, Robert Levitan, Seung Bak, Rebecca Paoletti and many more! Our Annual General Meeting was an absolute delight, filled with insightful discussions and meaningful connections. We extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended and made the event a success!

I’m excited to be attending #CVPR 2024 in Seattle, the premier computer vision conference in the world during the week of June 17th! Since 2012, we at LDV Capital have been the only venture fund with the thesis of investing in people building businesses powered by visual technology & artificial intelligence. We partner with deep tech teams at the earliest stage leveraging computer vision, machine learning or AI to analyze visual data. A few sectors that we are focusing on are the intersection of visual tech with materials science, life sciences and sustainability, among others. If you are either thinking of building or have already started building a company leveraging visual technology and will be in Seattle for CVPR, message me on LinkedIn to connect. #cvpr2024 #computervision #visualtechnology #founders #startups #fundraising

✨I'm humbled to be on this list alongside big names, some of whom have been my mentors in the past, and many exceptional colleagues whose work is always a great source of inspiration! ✨