What’s on our minds

Written by Alex Schwappach The grass is always greener. I’m an intern at Loup Ventures and I just got my first iPhone, an iPhone 8 Plus. It’s still early, but three weeks into my ownership I’m undecided about my next…

Visit to the toy department. We visited the robotics toy department in the form of a high school football field to test the Mobile Virtual Player (MVP) Drive, an $8,000 robotic tackling dummy that has been adopted this year by…

This note is the first in a series of four that detail Loup Ventures’ core values. These values drive how we operate, who we hire, and ultimately, what we look for in founders. We believe that vibrant culture driven by…

Despite being an important driver of innovation today, computer vision is little understood by those outside of the tech world. Here are a handful of facts that help put some context around what computer vision is and how far we’ve…

Yesterday, Apple released the much anticipated update to Apple Watch that enables music streaming over Apple Watches with LTE. We tested the impact of streaming music on Apple Watch’s battery and were surprised to find after 6 hours of music…

Written by guest author Carlos Castelan, Chief Strategy Officer at Conlego.  In The Future of Retail, Loup Ventures laid out a vision for the future of retail amidst the continuing consumer shift from offline retail shopping to online.  To combat…

Since the launch of iOS 11, we’ve been testing popular AR apps available on the App Store. We’ve had fun, and found some useful new tools, but it doesn’t seem like we’ve unlocked the true utility of AR – yet.

Every VC says they only invest in great founders, but the majority of venture-backed businesses still end in relative failure. Does that mean we as VCs are just bad judges of founders or do we not know what great founders…

Special thanks to Austin Bohlig for his work on this note.  We have updated comments regarding the upcoming iPhone launch following Finisar’s (FNSR) FQ1 earnings results, which we believe is one of Apple’s VCSEL array suppliers. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL) are…

Elon Musk continues to warn us of the potential dangers of AI, from debating the topic with Mark Zuckerberg to saying it’s more dangerous than North Korea. He’s called for regulating AI, just as we regulate other industries that can be dangerous to humans.…

Will AI and robotics revolutionize human labor or not?  More than half of all US jobs could be disrupted by automation in the next several decades; at least that’s our opinion. About half the people we talk to disagree. Those…

As a part of our continuing efforts to understand the ways and speed at which artificial intelligence enters our everyday lives, we reexamined two home assistants based on a study we performed in February.  The two most popular assistants, Google…