Lux Capital
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We invest in emerging science and technology ventures that turn sci-fi into sci-fact. Press inquiries: [email protected].
New York City + Silicon Valley
Joined September 2009
1/ BIG NEWS: Introducing Lux Labs 🧪🔬. Brilliant scientists + proven ideas + freedom to build = turning sci-fi into sci-fact ✨. More 👇 on how we're creating & building companies from scratch . READ 📕 WATCH 📺
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Sharing special presentation from Lux co-founder @wolfejosh to founders/LPs at our recent 2018 Annual Meeting .
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BIG news today at Lux:.-We've raised $1 billion in fresh capital to invest in further shrinking the gap between sci-fi and sci-fact📈.-We're thrilled @deenashakir has joined us from @GVteam as an investing partner🚀. Details:
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Excited and proud to announce that Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has agreed to acquire @AurisHealth for up to $5.75B
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2/Today we accelerate the arrival of that science-based future with 2 new funds: Lux Ventures VII, a $675M early-stage venture fund, and Lux Total Opportunities, an $800M opportunity fund to support growth.
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We are pro-nuclear, pro-fusion, pro-wind, and pro any energy tech that can change the trajectory of our planet for the better. We can't solve the toughest problem of our generation (climate change) when we throw away available solutions.
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We're thrilled to announce the successful closing of Lux 8 - our single largest fund to date with $1.15B in LP commitments! We will invest & fully fund the most ambitious founders building hard science & deep tech cos. Read the blog here and 🧵below: .
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1/We've always supported extraordinary entrepreneurs, those rebel founders whose ambitions are transforming the world through straight-out-of-fiction science and tech.
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Indifference to injustice is indefensible. All of Lux stands with all who stand—bravely, defiantly, justly—against intolerance, ignorance, violence, racism and hate. We are one.
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It is great to see many peers publicly post policies against harassment + discrimination. Ours is 10 common sense words & Lux would not knowingly hire nor partner with someone needing a handbook or a policy to know: . *Behave, be kind, be inclusive, be respectful or be out*.
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(1/6) Construction is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, but its technology stack has been lacking. There have been huge advancements in computer vision, AI/ML and data processing, and yet, none of these advancements were showing up a few years ago 🧵.
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Excited to unveil Lux’s newest investment vehicle, a $300M special purpose acquisition company, which begins trading on the Nasdaq [LUXAU] this morning 🚀
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Today we're once again backing Hugging Face in its $100M Series C round. HF is democratizing machine learning and helping the ML community connect, collaborate, and define the future of this critical tech. Kenrick Cai at Forbes has the deep dive:
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1/ . Our “Securities” podcast had @JonHaidt come by the studio to join @joshwolfe and @dannycrichtion to discuss Jon’s most recent essay in The Atlantic, . "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid––it's not just a phase"
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BIG NEWS: Today, we're thrilled to announce the promotion of two Lux team members + the addition of our first-ever Chief Marketing Officer. 🎉CONGRATULATIONS🎉 to our newly minted CMO Scott Rubin, Partner @BrandonReeves08+ Principal @alxandernguyen!
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We're excited to back @SBF_FTX and the whole @FTX_Official team as they continue to build the future of crypto. Better trading infrastructure is critical to making crypto financial markets transparent and open to all participants large and small, and this is a major milestone.
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto exchange is looking to expand after raising another $400 million via @technology.
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1. Why Hadrian? Precision manufacturing is one of the most important ingredients to long term economic growth and human flourishing. Every additional degree of tolerance we tighten — at cost or cheaper — can open up a wide range of new applications that have never been possible.
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Lux Capital is running a Bio x ML Hackathon with Lux fam cos @EvoscaleAI and @envedabio from Oct 10-20!. Build on top of latest foundation models like ESM3 (98B params, GPU access) & proprietary datasets to develop next-gen biology applications. Open globally:
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🚨 Major new funding from Lux: Today we led a $7M seed round for Vosbor, which is digitizing agricultural commodity trading and improving food security the world over. Here's why we invested: 🧵
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1. We’re delighted to announce that @graceisford is joining Lux Capital as a Principal based in our New York City office, where she will be investing at the nexus of web3, data infrastructure, and AI/ML. 🧵.
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Beyond thrilled to be co-leading @AppliedInt's $125M round with @a16z and @gcvp. We at Lux "are of the firm belief that in the future everything will use simulation of some sort.”- @bznotes
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1/ Amidst an eventful 2022 we're proud of the focus of our growing team – a group of people who possess rare intellect & innate curiosity to look where others aren’t & shine a light on the unknown. We’ve made new additions & deserved promotions to strengthen our Unum Lux-One Lux
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🚀We've had a MONUMENTAL third quarter here at Lux:. 📈5 of our companies going public.🛒1 acquisition. MUCH more. 👇🏼a PEAK inside👇🏼.
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There are still corners of the internet that are. POETIC.PLAYFUL.SMALL.WEIRD.and DEEPLY HUMAN. Here are 10 projects that embody the “Poetic Web”.
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At Lux, we believe that it takes unconventional investors to partner with iconoclastic founders. @deenashakir's path to venture is a good example of that unexpected mindset.
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1) Heart attacks and strokes are shockingly common, and today, Lux is funding a company that is working to prevent them: 🧵.
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1/ Excited to open up the ecosystem w/ some of the richest datasets & API’s for the Bio x ML Hackathon. Teamed up w/ @Polaris_HQ, @RecursionPharma, @EnvedaBio & @Ginkgo to offer picks & shovels for teams. If you’re an engineer interested in biology - more details below 👇. Join
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Lux co-founder @wolfejosh talks about why we're pouring millions into startups building a "sci-fi future" @FortuneMagazine
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Evolutionary Scale’s @alexrives at the #LuxAISummit: “Nature wasn't created to be comprehensible to the unaided human intellect. What we want to do [at Evolutionary Scale] is really build tools that can … make biology programmable from first principles.” “We started with
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🚨 Funding announcement: @CarbonHealth, a Lux fam co, received $100 million from CVS Health Ventures to accelerate its goal to advance its retail health experience via a simple, flexible and personal healthcare model. More about the funding 👇.
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The 1st episode of our 2nd season of Futura, our web series on SCI-FI meets SCI-FACT, is live!. Watch @WolfeJosh visit @Anduriltech founder @PalmerLuckey to discuss how the company is going to radically evolve defense capabilities: A thread below👇🏼 (1/4).
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1/ 🚨 Big News: Thomas Reardon is joining us as a Venture Partner! From helping build Internet Explorer at Microsoft to founding Lux fam co CTRL-Labs (acquired by Meta), he's been reshaping human-computer interaction. Read our full piece here:
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Introducing Riskgaming by Lux Capital 🚀🎲💡. A one of a kind game where players operate in immersive, high-stakes scenarios at the nexus of complex issues in science, tech and policy! . Join a future game by emailing: riskgaming@luxcapital.com. READ MORE:
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We're excited to bring on @DannyCrichton, former managing editor @techcrunch, as our head of editorial based in NYC.
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Amazing startups presenting today at the SXSW Pitch event today in Health, Wearables and Wellbeing, with judges @deenashakir, Stacy Feld, @MoniqueVilla, @lancearmstrong, @MSchlueterMoore. The future is bright for human health and progress!
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1/12: We believe that startups which start with privacy by default and build privacy into all parts of their product and business model have a strong probability to succeed in the decade ahead. 🧵
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How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵
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Biotech is going to have a huge year in 2021, and today we're hosting a private discussion on the trends that we are seeing emerging in 2022. Will post some highlights over the next hour.
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This is not a traditional funding announcement––this is an invitation. @VariantBio @wolfejosh🚀
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The future of product design is going to be driven by @lumafield, and we’re so excited to finally share what this ambitious company is doing in multi-spectrum computed tomography:
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🧵. Many of the most effective and profitable drugs in history are derived from natural products. Penicillin < Penicillium mold.Statins < Aspergillus terreus fungus.Aspirin < Willow bark.Morphine < Opium poppy.Artemisinin < Sweet wormwood.Ivermectin < Streptomyces avermitilis
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11/ @deenashakir promoted to GP. Deena has added tremendous value through connections across the Lux portfolio. She is making her mark on healthcare innovation by leading investments in companies like @AlifeIVF & @mavenclinic & through service to VC as board member of @nvca.
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Biotech R&D Startup Benchling Hits $4 Billion Valuation As The Company Starts Laying Groundwork For A. via @forbes
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Beyond excited to be leading @huggingface's $15M Series A as they continue to build an open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI 🚀
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.@graceisford joined us as our newest investor this week. First investment memo 24 hours later, shook hands on a first check the next day and the wire hit the bank two days later. She’s moving at web3 speeds – say hi to her at #ETHDenver2022.
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🚨 Exciting funding announcement to kick off 2024! . We have led the seed round of @SakanaAILabs - a world class generative AI research lab based in Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵with a focus on nature-inspired intelligence . More here:
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Founding member of @SpaceX, @lrocket is now Founder and CEO of @GoToImpulse (lux fam co) building economical last-mile space payload delivery services. More below from @beckpeterson from @theinformation about Impulse Space's first ever vehicle, the Mira.
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Lux’s @rquintini Always Asks Three Questions Before Investing in a Moonshot Project via @polina_marinova.
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1/. Is AI in biotech overhyped? . @velvetatom and the founders of @LatchBio dive into more measured takes on where AI is able to deliver value today and the infrastructure needed to keep up with the rapid rate of advancement 🧵.
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We were founded in 2000 in NYC, and our first AI investment was in 2013 in the big 🍎 . Today we're thrilled to announce our NYC AI Directory & NYC AI Map - 2 resources for the burgeoning AI talent ecosystem (created by our own @graceisford) . READ MORE:
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1. 20 years of Lux Capital history and investment learnings compressed into a 1 hour podcast between @peterjhebert and @VentureUnlocked's @Samirkaji. Some highlights in the 🧵
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3/With these new funds, we will test our own boundaries and challenge our sense of what’s possible. If you want to join us or have us join you, we’re at the ready.
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"The future of manufacturing is agile, highly distributed, automated, environmentally responsible–and now built with software.". Unveiling the Lux Manufacturing + Tech™ Index 🤝.
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Lux co-founder @wolfejosh on @CNN: Number one question you have to ask before investing is, "does it work?” via @jchatterleyCNN.
"Typical mantra in venture is about a third of your companies are total zeros. a third you make your money back and another third you end up with 10X or more." @wolfejosh explains why the number one question you have to ask before investing is, "does it work?"
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8/ @graceisford promoted to Partner. Grace first graced our presence earlier this year and got off to a fast start adding a jolt of positive tenacious energy and an immediate investment impact.
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🌿“Nature is the greatest source of products we know. but more than 95% of it is a COMPLETE chemical mystery.”. Lux is thrilled to lead a $51M round to help @ViswaColluru and team at @envedabio harness the natural world to create life-saving drugs 💊.
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Thrilled to be backing @krishnagade and @amitpaka in their mission to reduce the "black box" nature of AI models
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Another look at our new ETF, the First Trust Nasdaq Lux Digital Health Solutions ETF (NASDAQ: EKG), based on the Nasdaq Lux Health Tech Index. It's crossover, but the other direction from private to public, democratizing growth startups for all.
For years, public equities investors have moved into venture capital. That convergence is about to become a two-way street.
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Making crypto secure, reliable and easy to use is one of the most important milestones for the industry. We couldn't be more thrilled with the feats that the @Anchorage team is accomplishing for institutions – and now with more capital, even more to come:
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1. 🚨Big funding announcement today: We've been heavily interested in the "Bio x ML" theme, because there's a huge opportunity to take the growing power of data/AI and combine it with the search for better therapeutics. That led to today's announcement:🧵.
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Excited to be continued backers in @VardaSpace's journey to build the world's first space factory 🚀.
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We're back w/new episodes of our web series Futura!. Here's a SNEAK PEEK at the episode featuring a convo w/@wolfejosh + @PalmerLuckey, founder of @Anduriltech, a tech company developing some of the most cutting-edge technology in the defense sector:.
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OpenSpace raises $14M for AI platform that visually tracks construction projects
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10/ @breeves08 promoted to GP. Brandon first started at Lux as an intern, and then joined the team full-time & has rapidly ascended. Since then, he has led investments in some of our fastest growing AI&data infrastructure companies like @huggingface & @chronosphereio.
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Lux leads $10M Series A in Caper to bring seamless checkout to the grocery store.
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1) A great weekend analysis from Barron's Tae Kim into how we see the market today and what lessons we can draw from the dot-com crash to survive the challenges ahead 🧵
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Launched by MIT grads, a small startup gets $20M to back a robotics revolution in cell therapy manufacturing -
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When building tech companies, the difference between success and failure is often the incredible power of a great narrative. Our own @zacktrak reflects on 10+ yrs of experience in VC, sharing 3 essential storytelling tips for successful startups 👇
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9/ @bznotes promoted to GP. Bilal has been an integral part of building out our west coast presence and leading our investments in @DesktopMetal & @EvolvTechnology, as well as @AppliedInt & @openspaceai.
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.@wolfejosh on @cnbc with @LesliePicker: “Picker: What are you telling your portfolio companies to do in light of this? Wolfe: Three words: husband your cash.” Watch the full interview here:
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We’re thrilled to lead @AlifeIVF's $9.5M seed round to build AI tools that help IVF physicians maximize a patient’s chances of success while lowering costs and barriers to access. @deenashakir @mira404 @iaventures @sheeltyle .
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More than 100 AI-equipped @saildrone have been deployed to monitor ocean and weather data, count fish populations and map the ocean floor
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Our @wolfejosh has coined the term 'wet powder' as it relates to VC capital deployment in current market conditions. More on why below from @abracarioca of @TechCrunch.
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Avail Medsystems launches from stealth to enable remote access to hospitals + surgery centers; raises $25M Series A from Lux, Coatue, Sonder + @Playground_VC
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Ever want a holographic display for yourself? The Looking Glass is available now - for the next 24 hours, get one for 33% off here:
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Incredibly excited to be backing brain-machine interface company @CTRLlabsCo!
9/ Here's to investing in people, inventing the future.
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1. 🚨Big funding alert today from Lux: Data is the, ahem, lifeblood of biological research, and yet, it remains one of the most fragmented markets for quality software and tooling. That's why we invested in LatchBio's seed round and are doubling down in its Series A 🧵.
We just raised a $28 million Series A from Coatue and @Lux_Capital to build the AWS x GitHub for biocomputing. 1/N🔻.
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This weekend, @wolfejosh writes a column on "The rise of defense tech is bringing Silicon Valley back to its roots" for the @TechCrunch Global Affairs Project.
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This was a cause before it was a company. Beyond humbled to be a part of the @AurisHealth team
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Monarch is a new platform from surgical robot pioneer Frederic Moll
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Huge congrats to Lux portcos @huggingface.@RecursionPharma @fiddlerlabs @CovariantAI.@openspaceai & @TectonAI for being named to CB Insights Most Promising AI Companies list
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Lux co-leads $56M Series B @StrateosLab financing to accelerate automated discovery in life sciences
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