Lux Capital
Deep-tech-focused venture capital firm that named Zachary Iscol as a new Venture Partner.
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“Lux Capital... disclosed plans to raise up to $300 million for Lux Compute Leaders, a new investment vehicle...”
Source→“Modal, an SF-based AI infrastructure layer, raised $750m in Series D funding at a $15.75b post-money valuation, per Axios Pro. Accel led, joined by Kleiner Perkins and insiders Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures.”
“Multiply Labs ($75M Series B, 'physical AI technology' for pharmaceutical manufacturing)”
“Multiply Labs: raised a $75 million Series B round led by NantWorks, with AstraZeneca Ventures... Lux Capital, and Founders Fund also digging in.”
Source→“Multiply Labs, an SF-based physical AI startup for medicine manufacturing, raised $75m in Series B funding. NantWorks led, joined by AstraZeneca Ventures... Lux Capital, and Founders Fund.”
“Varda Space Industries raised $251M in Series D funding, led by Lux Capital and Natural Capital.”
Source→“raised $251m in a Series D. Lux Capital and Natural Capital led, joined by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures...”
“Certainly Hugging Face investors, led by Lux Capital...were celebrating. Investors are sharing ~$7.3bn of profits on <$400m invested. A cool ~20x blended.”
“Transfyr — Raised a $25M seed round led by General Catalyst with Lux Capital participating”
Source→“Raising $1.5B at $8B valuation from Lux Capital, Human Capital, and Valor Equity Partners”
Source→“Cambridge Aerospace's $300M Series C at a $3.4B valuation — backed by Lux Capital, Accel, and DFJ Growth”
“Erebor, a stablecoin banking startup co-founded by Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise around $1.5b in new funding, per the FT. Backers would include Lux Capital, Human Capital, Valor Equity Partners, a16z, and SV Angel.”
“Agon... Raises $23M Seed from Lux Capital.”
“cusp.ai "uses AI to discover and design new physical materials for clean energy and chipmaking" — raised $450M Series B at $2.6B valuation from Kleiner Perkins, NEA, Lux Capital.”
Source→“Glow raised $100M with Sequoia, Index, Lux, Greenoaks, Redpoint”
“Genius AI, which develops an AI operations platform for service businesses, secured a $44 million Series D led by Lux Capital at a $1.15 billion valuation.”
Source→“SkyPilot Helps companies orchestrate AI compute across multiple cloud and GPU providers, raised $20M seed led by Lux Capital.”
Source→“AI compute platform developer SkyPilot received a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital.”
Source→“CuspAI...raised a $450 million Series B round at a $2.6 billion post-money valuation. The deal was led by Kleiner Perkins.”
Source→“Rare sovereign AI infrastructure play backed by General Catalyst and Lux Capital out of the UK”
Source→“$95M Series C with a blue-chip syndicate including Insight Partners, Lux Capital, Wellington Management”
Source→“Sovereign artificial intelligence platform for the Middle East... raised $30 million from Lux Capital.”
“1001, a developer of sovereign AI for critical infrastructure, raised $30m in Series A funding. Lux Capital led.”
Source→“"Twenty develops AI-enabled cyber capabilities for the US military and intelligence community" — raised $100M from Accel Partners at a $1B valuation. Traysar, "a defense tech firm creating subterra maneuver space for strike capabilities," raised $25M seed from Lux Capital.”
Source→“Traysar, "a defense tech firm creating subterra maneuver space for strike capabilities," raised $25M seed from Lux Capital.”
Source→“XDOF: Robot training data company; $70M raise from Thrive Capital, a16z, Lux Capital and others”
“Traysar raised $25 million for underground navigation and tunneling systems to enable military strike access to buried targets; Lux Capital participating.”
Source→“AI model developer Flourish secured a $500 million round from investors including Jeff Bezos, GV and Lux Capital at a $2.5 billion valuation.”
Source→“Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D... Co-led the $500M Series D as a returning investor... Co-led the $500M Series D as a new investor... Participating investors in the Series D round”
Source→“'Stabiliser' funds like Sequoia (19.6 to 50.6/year) and Lightspeed (11.6 to 32.1/year) operate at 2 to 3x their SaaS-era baselines. Even the most disciplined funds (Bessemer, Index, Lux) show durable upward shifts.”
Source→“OurSky raised $90M with Lux Capital leading and a broad co-lead group including Upfront Ventures and RTX Ventures, underscoring how mainstream space software has become beyond pure aerospace investors.”
Source→“Observable Space raised $90 million for laser communications infrastructure in orbit.”
Source→“Observable Space, a startup developing optical telescopes for satellite navigation and communication, raised a $90 million round led by Lux Capital.”
Source→“Raised over $1 billion in a round led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC at a $26 billion valuation.”
Source→“Cognition, an SF-based AI coding company, raised $1b at a $26b valuation.”
“Raised $1+ billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation co-led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst”
Source→“Stord...raised a $250 million Series F at a $3 billion valuation.”
Source→“Joshua Wolfe (referenced as 'Joshua from Lux') — Co-founder of Lux Capital. Referenced for his 'chips on shoulders makes chips in pockets' aphorism.”
Source→“A new 'energy-efficient' AI startup from Meta vet Thomas Reardon, is raising capital at a $2.5B valuation... with $500M in initial commitments from Lux Capital and GV.”
“Flourish, 'a new energy-efficient AI startup from Meta vet Thomas Reardon, is raising capital at a $2.5B valuation... with $500M in initial commitments.'”
“Builds drones and counter-drone systems for military use, raised a $34 million round from investors including Joe Lonsdale and Lux Capital.”
Source→“Builds drones and counter-drone systems for military use, raised a $34 million round from investors including Joe Lonsdale and Lux Capital.”
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