Lux Capital
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Venture capital |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founders | Peter Hébert Robert Paull Josh Wolfe |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Total assets | $2,400,000,000 |
| Website | luxcapital.com |
Lux Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Peter Hébert, Robert Paull, and Josh Wolfe[1] in 2000.[2] The firm, based in New York City with an office in Menlo Park, invests in emerging technologies in the physical and life sciences.[3][4]
History
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Lux Capital is a venture firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley which invests in counter-conventional, seed and early stage science and technology ventures. The firm manages $2.4 billion in assets across eight funds in 2019.[5] Lux founded strategic holdings in media, research and policy as proprietary sources of intelligence, access and influence. Lux has built around 20 companies from scratch.[5]
In April 2011, former McKinsey Senior Partner Richard N. Foster and former CIA Director James Woolsey joined Lux Capital as venture partners.[6]
In August 2012, former Pfizer head Jeff Kindler joined Lux Capital as a venture partner.[7]
In August 2019, Lux raised $1 billion in two funds.[8]
Portfolio companies
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- 3Scan[9]
- Aeva[10]
- AltspaceVR[11]
- Anchorage
- Anduril
- Applied Intuition
- Bright Machines[12]
- BrightSky Labs[13]
- Cambrios
- Clarifai[14]
- Chronosphere
- CloudMedx Inc
- Cerulean Pharma
- Crystal IS
- CyPhy Works
- Desktop Metal[15]
- Echodyne
- Everspin Technologies
- Experiment
- Fiddler Labs
- Genocea Biosciences
- Gridco
- Halo Neuroscience
- Hugging Face
- Kala Pharmaceuticals
- Kallyope[16]
- Kurion
- Kymeta[17]
- Kyruus
- Latch
- Lensbricks
- Luxtera[18]
- Matterport
- Moment
- Mythic[19]
- Nanosys
- Nervana Systems[20]
- Orbital Insight
- OpenSpace.ai
- Pager
- Pivotal Commware[21]
- Plethora
- Planet Labs
- Scaled Inference
- Siluria Technologies
- Sols
- Transphorm
- Visterra
- Vium
- Zoox
See also
References
- ^ Fickenscher, Lisa (2003). "2003 40 Under 40". Crain's New York Business. Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2003: 15–31. ISSN 8756-789X. OCLC 11620213. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.
- ^ Eden, Scott (2009). "Nano Wunderkinds". Dealmaker. December/January 2009: 35–37. ISSN 1937-304X. OCLC 132936538.
- ^ Kosoff, Maya (2 April 2015). "Venture firm Lux just got $350 million more to invests in robots, the future, and science". Business Insider. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ^ de la Merced, Michael (2 April 2015). "Lux Capital Raises $350 Million Fund to Back Science Start-Ups". New York Times. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ^ a b "About Lux Capital". Lux Website. 1 Aug 2019.
- ^ "James Woolsey and Richard Foster Join Lux Capital as Venture Partners". Business Wire. 26 April 2011.
- ^ "Kindler, Former Pfizer Chief, Joins Lux Capital". Dealbook. 8 August 2012.
- ^ Marinova, Polina (August 1, 2019). "Exclusive: Lux Capital Raises More Than $1 Billion Across Two New Funds to Invest in Companies Building a Sci-Fi Future". www.fortune.com.
- ^ "3Scan Raises $6.67 Million from Lux Capital, Dolby Ventures for New Technologies to Transform Pathology | FierceBiotech". www.fiercebiotech.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Series A - Aeva - 2018-10-01". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "VR Chat Room AltspaceVR Raises $10.3M To Sell Virtual Events – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Venture Monitor 4Q 2018" (PDF). Silicon Valley Bank. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ^ "BrightSky Labs Will Make It Easy To Share Videos From Your GoPro – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Clarifai". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ Kolodny, Lora (2018-03-19). "Ford, Future Fund invest $65 million in Desktop Metal 3-D printers". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ^ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kallyope-inc-announces-66m-series-b-financing-to-advance-programs-targeting-the-gut-brain-axis-300602429.html
- ^ "Kymeta - Investors". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "Luxtera Investors". crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ^ "Mythic Investors". crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "Research Companies by Monitoring Buy Signals | Crunchbase Pro". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "Pivotal Commware raises millions more in investment for beamforming antennas". GeekWire. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
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