Lux Capital

Founded in 2000, Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York and Silicon Valley. It manages over $5 billion in assets, focusing on seed to growth investments at the intersection of technology and sciences. Lux actively supports entrepreneurs building successful businesses in high-growth sectors such as biochemistry, material science, electronics, infrastructure, aerospace, genomics, synthetic biology, and robotics.

Shahin Farshchi

General Partner

Peter Hebert

Managing Partner

Lan Jiang

Associate

Alex Nguyen

Partner

Ian Peikon

Venture Partner

Brandon Reeves

General Partner

Segolene Scarborough

CFO

Zack Schildhorn

Venture Partner

Deena Shakir

General Partner

Shaquille Vayda

Principal

Shaq Vayda

Principal

Josh Wolfe

Managing Partner

David Yang

Investor

Bilal Zuberi

General Partner

Tess Van Stekelenburg

Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

tldraw

Series A in 2025
Founded in 2021, tldraw is a software company specializing in collaborative canvas solutions. Its flagship product, tldraw.com, offers an infinite canvas for whiteboarding and diagramming without requiring user login. The company also develops AI-integrated apps like Make Real and Teach.

Lanai

Seed Round in 2025
Lanai provides an AI-driven empowerment platform to help enterprises discover, protect, and accelerate human-AI collaboration. It offers a suite of tools designed to enhance developer productivity, focusing on improving the workflow for software teams. Its platform provides features that enable better project management, task coordination, and real-time collaboration.

tldraw

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2021, tldraw is a software company specializing in collaborative canvas solutions. Its flagship product, tldraw.com, offers an infinite canvas for whiteboarding and diagramming without requiring user login. The company also develops AI-integrated apps like Make Real and Teach.

Factory

Seed Round in 2023
Factory is a technology company that develops an AI-based platform for software engineering. Its platform reviews code, addresses bugs, answers questions, and handles routine tasks such as code review, debugging, and refactoring, allowing engineers to delegate tasks and focus on complex problems.

Modal Labs

Series A in 2023
Modal Labs develops machine learning software that enables users to run code in the cloud. Its platform allows for the execution of machine learning models, parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It automates the launch of custom containers and runs scripts faster than on local machines, allowing data science teams to focus on their models without managing infrastructure.

Reflex

Seed Round in 2023
Reflex is a developer of an open-source, full-stack Python framework designed to simplify the process of building and deploying web applications. The platform combines the accessibility of low-code frameworks with the flexibility and performance of traditional web development, catering to data scientists and software engineers. This allows users to create high-quality web applications efficiently, without the need for extensive knowledge in web development. Reflex aims to enhance productivity by enabling rapid project design and deployment.

tldraw

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, tldraw is a software company specializing in collaborative canvas solutions. Its flagship product, tldraw.com, offers an infinite canvas for whiteboarding and diagramming without requiring user login. The company also develops AI-integrated apps like Make Real and Teach.

W4 Games

Seed Round in 2022
W4 Games is a game development company that supports the open-source Godot ecosystem by supplying commercial goods and services to businesses. It also operates a game development studio and offers an open-source cloud platform with commercial products, including enterprise support plans, designed to broaden market access and give the video game industry greater control over the technology powering its games.

Buf Technologies

Series B in 2021
Buf Technologies develops tools to simplify the lifecycle of Protocol Buffers APIs. Its product suite includes a linter that enforces API design best practices, a breaking-change detector that checks compatibility at the source or wire level, and a configurable file builder that generates images. The company helps teams create, lint, and distribute consistent APIs, protect against incompatible schema changes during evolution, and manage protocols across an organization so development remains focused on core work. Based in Buffalo, New York, Buf supports teams in standardizing API design and ensuring cross-team compatibility throughout the API lifecycle.

Buf Technologies

Series A in 2021
Buf Technologies develops tools to simplify the lifecycle of Protocol Buffers APIs. Its product suite includes a linter that enforces API design best practices, a breaking-change detector that checks compatibility at the source or wire level, and a configurable file builder that generates images. The company helps teams create, lint, and distribute consistent APIs, protect against incompatible schema changes during evolution, and manage protocols across an organization so development remains focused on core work. Based in Buffalo, New York, Buf supports teams in standardizing API design and ensuring cross-team compatibility throughout the API lifecycle.

CTRL-Labs

Venture Round in 2019
CTRL-Labs develops neural interface technologies that enable humans to interact with machines using natural movements and thoughts. Their flagship product, CTRL-kit, is a wireless, non-invasive electromyography device that translates neural signals into control for applications in XR, robotics, productivity, and clinical research.

Strangeworks

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Strangeworks develops software for quantum computing. It provides developer tools and a systems management platform, making quantum computing accessible to users and organizations.

CTRL-Labs

Series B in 2018
CTRL-Labs develops neural interface technologies that enable humans to interact with machines using natural movements and thoughts. Their flagship product, CTRL-kit, is a wireless, non-invasive electromyography device that translates neural signals into control for applications in XR, robotics, productivity, and clinical research.

OneName

Venture Round in 2017
Onename is a registrar (like GoDaddy) for the .id namespace on the Blockstack network.

Sourcegraph

Seed Round in 2015
Sourcegraph, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a universal code search tool designed to enhance developer productivity and facilitate code change management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sourcegraph provides a platform that allows developers to explore and understand code across various repositories and programming languages with contextual intelligence. This capability enables efficient code navigation, exploration, and management of large-scale changes, helping developers to quickly find and fix issues without the frustration of sifting through extensive codebases. Serving a diverse clientele that includes startups, enterprises, and engineering teams, Sourcegraph aims to streamline the coding process, improve code reviews, and simplify onboarding for new hires, ultimately allowing developers to focus on problem-solving rather than code discovery.

Aptible

Seed Round in 2014
Aptible Inc. is a technology company that provides a security management platform designed to automate HIPAA compliance for web and mobile developers, primarily serving digital health companies. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Aptible offers two main products: Aptible Enclave, a Docker-based platform that facilitates secure deployment into private AWS environments, and Aptible Gridiron, which assists cloud-based software engineering teams with security management. The company's platform as a service (PaaS) enables startups and scaling businesses to efficiently provision, manage, and scale their infrastructure, allowing developers to concentrate on product development rather than underlying complexities. Aptible's solutions incorporate essential enterprise requirements such as security, compliance, and reliability from the outset, ensuring that developers can build and grow their applications with ease.
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