Pear VC: Perspectives in AI Series, Fireside Chat with Nikhila Ravi

​Our guest, ​Nikhila Ravi is a brilliant Research Engineer and Manager at Meta, Facebook AI Research, with a focus on computer vision and 3D understanding. She recently co-led the groundbreaking launch of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), a promptable segmentation system with zero-shot generalization. We will talk with her about the applications of SAM, what breakthroughs enable it to work so well and how she envisions the future of computer vision and multi-modal AI.

​ABOUT PEAR VC

​​​​​​Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. Pear has backed iconic companies such as Doordash, Guardant, Gusto, Branch, Vanta, Aurora Solar, Nobell Foods and more at the earliest stages. We're company builders, having founded 12 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.