Lux Capital

Lux Capital, established in 2000, is a New York-based venture capital firm managing over $4 billion in assets. It invests in early-stage and growth companies at the intersection of technology and sciences, focusing on sectors such as biochemistry, material science, electronics, infrastructure, and aerospace. Lux actively supports entrepreneurs, having helped build over 20 companies from scratch, and employs a strategy that enhances portfolio companies' connectivity, insights, and industry leadership.

Peter Hebert

Managing Partner

Lan Jiang

Investor

Alex Nguyen

Partner

Segolene Scarborough

CFO

Tess Van Stekelenburg

Partner

Shaquille Vayda

Principal

Shaq Vayda

Principal

David Yang

Principal

Past deals in Design

Tldraw

Series A in 2025
Tldraw is a startup founded in 2021 by Steve Ruiz, offering a collaborative drawing application accessible without any login requirement. The platform provides an infinite canvas where users can draw lines or objects, add text, and insert media such as images, videos, or GIFs. Tldraw's software is designed to facilitate software development by offering a virtual whiteboard with hand-drawn style diagrams. It also provides developer tools for integrating its canvas into other platforms. The service is available free of charge.

Tldraw

Seed Round in 2023
Tldraw is a startup founded in 2021 by Steve Ruiz, offering a collaborative drawing application accessible without any login requirement. The platform provides an infinite canvas where users can draw lines or objects, add text, and insert media such as images, videos, or GIFs. Tldraw's software is designed to facilitate software development by offering a virtual whiteboard with hand-drawn style diagrams. It also provides developer tools for integrating its canvas into other platforms. The service is available free of charge.

Runway

Series C in 2022
Runway is an applied AI research company established in 2024, specializing in developing innovative tools that integrate artificial intelligence into creative processes. The company offers a video editing platform designed for professionals in art, entertainment, and design. Its technology leverages original image and video creation methods, allowing users to manipulate and edit content intuitively using text inputs. This approach simplifies the video creation process for artists, designers, and filmmakers, enabling them to express their creativity more effectively. Runway's mission is to enhance human creativity through advanced AI capabilities, facilitating seamless interactions between technology and artistic expression.

Tldraw

Seed Round in 2022
Tldraw is a startup founded in 2021 by Steve Ruiz, offering a collaborative drawing application accessible without any login requirement. The platform provides an infinite canvas where users can draw lines or objects, add text, and insert media such as images, videos, or GIFs. Tldraw's software is designed to facilitate software development by offering a virtual whiteboard with hand-drawn style diagrams. It also provides developer tools for integrating its canvas into other platforms. The service is available free of charge.

Bild

Seed Round in 2021
Bild is a technology company that provides a collaborative platform for visual assets within the hardware industry. Its primary service is a design management tool tailored for hardware companies, facilitating efficient review of designs across teams and external partners via a centralized cloud-based solution. This enables clients to minimize design errors, enhance team collaboration, and improve communication with manufacturers, ultimately accelerating product delivery while mitigating production risks.

Runway

Series A in 2020
Runway is an applied AI research company established in 2024, specializing in developing innovative tools that integrate artificial intelligence into creative processes. The company offers a video editing platform designed for professionals in art, entertainment, and design. Its technology leverages original image and video creation methods, allowing users to manipulate and edit content intuitively using text inputs. This approach simplifies the video creation process for artists, designers, and filmmakers, enabling them to express their creativity more effectively. Runway's mission is to enhance human creativity through advanced AI capabilities, facilitating seamless interactions between technology and artistic expression.

Lightform

Series A in 2019
Lightform, Inc. is a computer vision and hardware company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing technology for projected augmented reality, offering sound-reactive projectors, projector kits, and creator products that transform spaces through projection mapping. Lightform's innovative hardware tools and desktop application enable users to create animated content for various scenes, control projectors wirelessly from laptops or phones, and seamlessly integrate real objects with projected light. The company also provides 3D scanning options that allow for the scanning of complex scenes, automatically fine-tuning alignment and enhancing the projection mapping workflow with AI-generated effects and filters.

Runway

Seed Round in 2018
Runway is an applied AI research company established in 2024, specializing in developing innovative tools that integrate artificial intelligence into creative processes. The company offers a video editing platform designed for professionals in art, entertainment, and design. Its technology leverages original image and video creation methods, allowing users to manipulate and edit content intuitively using text inputs. This approach simplifies the video creation process for artists, designers, and filmmakers, enabling them to express their creativity more effectively. Runway's mission is to enhance human creativity through advanced AI capabilities, facilitating seamless interactions between technology and artistic expression.

Lightform

Seed Round in 2017
Lightform, Inc. is a computer vision and hardware company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing technology for projected augmented reality, offering sound-reactive projectors, projector kits, and creator products that transform spaces through projection mapping. Lightform's innovative hardware tools and desktop application enable users to create animated content for various scenes, control projectors wirelessly from laptops or phones, and seamlessly integrate real objects with projected light. The company also provides 3D scanning options that allow for the scanning of complex scenes, automatically fine-tuning alignment and enhancing the projection mapping workflow with AI-generated effects and filters.

Lightform

Seed Round in 2017
Lightform, Inc. is a computer vision and hardware company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing technology for projected augmented reality, offering sound-reactive projectors, projector kits, and creator products that transform spaces through projection mapping. Lightform's innovative hardware tools and desktop application enable users to create animated content for various scenes, control projectors wirelessly from laptops or phones, and seamlessly integrate real objects with projected light. The company also provides 3D scanning options that allow for the scanning of complex scenes, automatically fine-tuning alignment and enhancing the projection mapping workflow with AI-generated effects and filters.
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