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
- 12
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 1 7 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 10 First participation on record · 2 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $2.9B 11 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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12 in this selectionMultiply 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.
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
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