Optimizes AI inference to reduce compute costs and response time
Lux Capital
Activity from announced rounds
Lux Capital invests in companies emerging from the life sciences, physical sciences and computational sciences, including biotechnology, robotics, aerospace, defence and AI infrastructure.
Its investment approach includes small Seeds, Experiments and Optionality investments that let it engage with technology before a conventional venture case is established. The firm also makes thesis-driven investments and backs founders working on technically difficult problems.
Lux’s Riskgaming programme uses researched scenarios to examine how technological developments interact with geopolitics and national security. That perspective is especially relevant for founders whose commercial opportunity depends on scientific progress, industrial adoption or government demand.
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- Rounds participated in
- 34
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 2 25 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 32 First participation on record · 2 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $7B 32 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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34 in all activityMultiply Labs builds robotics for manufacturing personalized medicines, helping drug makers produce individualized treatments with less manual work.
Varda builds spacecraft that manufacture materials in low Earth orbit and return them to Earth. Its capsules support microgravity pharmaceutical development and materials processing, followed by controlled reentry and post-flight analysis of returned payloads.
Enveda uses AI to discover biologically active molecules from nature and develop them into small-molecule medicines for inflammatory and metabolic diseases.
Commercial tools and engineering services that help game studios build, optimize and ship projects made with the Godot Engine.
Builds highly maneuverable orbital transfer vehicles and kick stages for in-space mobility and satellite logistics
EnduroSat designs and manufactures modular, software-defined satellites and components, and provides mission services for commercial and institutional operators.
A creator-marketing and social-listening platform that finds brand-related short-form video, manages creator campaigns and helps teams reuse user-generated content.
Builds AI agent harnesses for asset managers' proprietary research and data
Physical AI platform capturing real-world lab science into machine-readable data
Builds highly automated factories producing defense and aerospace systems
Operates autonomous sensing balloons and AI models for weather forecasting infrastructure
Agon develops virtual environments for defence companies and governments to train and evaluate autonomous AI systems.
AI compute platform for frontier AI teams to manage infrastructure across hyperscalers and neoclouds
Developing AI systems to discover and design new materials for clean energy and chipmaking
Provides AI platform for homebuilding design, estimating and construction
Develops autonomous subterranean defense platforms for military use
Provides industrial code management, backup, and recovery platform for OT teams and critical infrastructure
Develops magneto-inertial fusion power technology to generate electricity for commercial deployment
Provides on-demand composite parts manufacturing for aerospace, defense, and motorsports customers
Builds highly maneuverable orbital transfer vehicles and kick stages for in-space mobility and satellite logistics
American manufacturer of drone motors and robot actuators
Develops AI-designed CAR T therapies for solid tumors using spatial biology
Cognition develops Devin, an autonomous software-engineering system, and the Windsurf AI code editor.
Builds modular edge AI data centers for remote, industrial, and defense environments
Develops Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI) for semiconductor design
Crosby combines lawyers and AI systems to review and negotiate business contracts.
Cloaked provides privacy software for individuals.
AI-powered procurement platform for airlines and MROs
Offers software for hardware engineers to test designs