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Lux Capital

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Industry
  
Venture capital

Founded
  
2000

Total assets
  
1.1 billion USD

Website
  
luxcapital.com

Type of business
  
Private

Headquarters
  
New York City, Menlo Park

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Founders
  
Robert Paull, Peter Hébert, Josh Wolfe

Profiles

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Lux Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Peter Hébert, Robert Paull, and Josh Wolfe in 2000 . The firm, based in New York City with an office in Menlo Park, invests in emerging technologies in the physical and life sciences.

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About

Lux Capital is a venture firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley investing in counter-conventional, seed and early stage science and technology ventures. The firm manages $1.1 billion in assets across five funds. Lux founded strategic holdings in media, research and policy as proprietary sources of intelligence, access and influence – ensuring that portfolio companies are better connected, have deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competition.The Lux Capital team has built more than 20 companies from scratch.

In April 2011, former McKinsey Senior Partner Richard N. Foster and former CIA Director James Woolsey joined Lux Capital as venture partners. In August 2012, former Pfizer Chairman and CEO Jeff Kindler joined Lux Capital as a venture partner.

Portfolio companies

  • 3Scan
  • AltspaceVR
  • BrightSky Labs
  • Cambrios
  • CloudMedx Inc
  • Cerulean Pharma [NASDAQ:CERU]
  • Crystal IS
  • CyPhy Works
  • Echodyne
  • Everspin Technologies
  • Experiment
  • Genocea Biosciences [NASDAQ:GNCA]
  • Gridco
  • Halo Neuroscience
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals
  • Kurion
  • Kymeta
  • Kyruus
  • Lensbricks
  • Luxtera
  • Matterport
  • Moment
  • Nanosys
  • Orbital Insight
  • Pager
  • Plethora
  • Planet Labs
  • Nanosys
  • Nervana Systems
  • Scaled Inference
  • Siluria Technologies
  • Sols
  • Transphorm
  • Visterra
  • Vium
  • References

    Lux Capital Wikipedia