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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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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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Into the Light
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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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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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(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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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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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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🚨 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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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/ 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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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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🚀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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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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Unveiling the Lux Health + Tech Index™👇🏼
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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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🚨 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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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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We're excited to bring on
@DannyCrichton
, former managing editor
@techcrunch
, as our head of editorial based in NYC.
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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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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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Biotech R&D Startup Benchling Hits $4 Billion Valuation As The Company Starts Laying Groundwork For A... via
@forbes
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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Thrilled to be backing
@krishnagade
and
@amitpaka
in their mission to reduce the "black box" nature of AI models
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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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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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🌿“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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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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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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.
@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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Launched by MIT grads, a small startup gets $20M to back a robotics revolution in cell therapy manufacturing -
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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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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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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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@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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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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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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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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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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"Simulation is the FUTURE of physical world innovation." -
@bznotes
Why we co-led
@AppliedInt
's latest $125M round alongside
@a16z
and
@gcvp
👇
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Monarch is a new platform from surgical robot pioneer Frederic Moll
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Lux co-leads $56M Series B
@StrateosLab
financing to accelerate automated discovery in life sciences
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1. Beyond the official news of
@graceisford
joining us as an investor, it's the fun facts that we enjoy the most 🧵
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Thrilled to welcome Retired 4-star General Tony "T2" Thomas to Lux
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Are we at the most important moment in history? In our quarterly note below, we opine on current state of the markets + the long-term outlook for venture capital 👇
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Read my latest: ““Securities” by Lux Capital: Defense Fordism”
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The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting
@saildrone
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"We’re working to build a new internet, and the end goal is everyone you know is on it every single day”
@blockstack
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Silicon Valley tech start-up
@anduriltech
raises $200 million to create a software-driven Defense Dept. contractor
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Our
@wolfejosh
was profiled by
@margauxmaccoll
of
@theinformation
about Lux's path investing in defense tech. Read the full piece here:
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Solar is one of the most important transitions to the next-generation of the world economy. We're excited to back
@chhopper
,
@solarsamrise
and the whole
@aurorasolarinc
team as they make it easier than ever to install solar everywhere, cheaply
Aurora Solar, which provides software services for the solar industry, says it reached a $4 billion valuation after closing a funding round co-led by Coatue Management and Energize Ventures
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