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 Hardware

Kinetic Automation

Series B in 2024
Kinetic specializes in modernizing automotive infrastructure to accommodate electric and autonomous vehicles. It employs hardware, robotics, software, and AI to deliver swift, accurate, and predictable maintenance services.

Nominal

Series A in 2024
Nominal develops a data infrastructure platform that empowers engineering teams across industries like aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrials to efficiently test and validate complex hardware systems. The platform offers multi-modal data ingestion, edge analytics, visualization, and automated validation capabilities.

Nominal

Seed Round in 2024
Nominal develops a data infrastructure platform that empowers engineering teams across industries like aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrials to efficiently test and validate complex hardware systems. The platform offers multi-modal data ingestion, edge analytics, visualization, and automated validation capabilities.

Kinetic Automation

Series A in 2023
Kinetic specializes in modernizing automotive infrastructure to accommodate electric and autonomous vehicles. It employs hardware, robotics, software, and AI to deliver swift, accurate, and predictable maintenance services.

Mythic

Venture Round in 2023
Founded in 2012, Mythic specializes in designing and manufacturing AI-driven silicon chips and inference processors. Its innovative technology brings desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks to compact, energy-efficient devices, enabling AI deployment across various industries such as consumer electronics, wearables, and autonomous systems.

Apex

Seed Round in 2022
Apex designs and manufactures small satellites tailored for various space missions. The company focuses on streamlining satellite production by integrating modular hardware and standardized software systems. Apex offers platforms that support Earth observation, communications, and scientific research applications. Its approach emphasizes scalable manufacturing processes to meet the growing demand for satellite deployment. Apex collaborates with clients to customize satellite configurations based on mission-specific requirements.

Bild

Seed Round in 2021
Bild is a collaboration platform and design management tool for the hardware industry. It centralizes visual assets and supports design reviews through cloud-based services, enabling hardware product teams and external partners to collaborate more efficiently. By improving collaboration and communication across engineering and manufacturing stakeholders, Bild helps reduce production risks and shorten product development cycles, contributing to faster delivery and fewer design mistakes.

Looking Glass Factory

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2015, Looking Glass Factory develops and manufactures holographic displays designed for 3D creators. Its flagship product, the Looking Glass, combines light field and volumetric display technologies to enable users to create, share, and interact with 3D content without needing VR or AR headsets.

Mythic

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2012, Mythic specializes in designing and manufacturing AI-driven silicon chips and inference processors. Its innovative technology brings desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks to compact, energy-efficient devices, enabling AI deployment across various industries such as consumer electronics, wearables, and autonomous systems.

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.

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.

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.

Mythic

Series B in 2018
Founded in 2012, Mythic specializes in designing and manufacturing AI-driven silicon chips and inference processors. Its innovative technology brings desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks to compact, energy-efficient devices, enabling AI deployment across various industries such as consumer electronics, wearables, and autonomous systems.

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.

Desktop Metal

Series D in 2017
Desktop Metal is a global developer and manufacturer of additive manufacturing technologies, materials, and software for industrial production. The company offers a range of metal 3D printing systems, including the Production System for high-volume manufacturing, the Shop System for machine shops, the Studio System for office environments, and the Fiber printer for desktop use. It supplies materials and software that support metal, polymer, sand, and ceramic applications, enabling on-demand, digital mass production with improved speed, cost efficiency, and part quality. Desktop Metal serves automotive, aerospace, healthcare, consumer products, heavy industry, machine design, and research and development customers and operates worldwide from headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Mythic

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2012, Mythic specializes in designing and manufacturing AI-driven silicon chips and inference processors. Its innovative technology brings desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks to compact, energy-efficient devices, enabling AI deployment across various industries such as consumer electronics, wearables, and autonomous systems.

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.

Looking Glass Factory

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2015, Looking Glass Factory develops and manufactures holographic displays designed for 3D creators. Its flagship product, the Looking Glass, combines light field and volumetric display technologies to enable users to create, share, and interact with 3D content without needing VR or AR headsets.

Desktop Metal

Series C in 2017
Desktop Metal is a global developer and manufacturer of additive manufacturing technologies, materials, and software for industrial production. The company offers a range of metal 3D printing systems, including the Production System for high-volume manufacturing, the Shop System for machine shops, the Studio System for office environments, and the Fiber printer for desktop use. It supplies materials and software that support metal, polymer, sand, and ceramic applications, enabling on-demand, digital mass production with improved speed, cost efficiency, and part quality. Desktop Metal serves automotive, aerospace, healthcare, consumer products, heavy industry, machine design, and research and development customers and operates worldwide from headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Mythic

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2012, Mythic specializes in designing and manufacturing AI-driven silicon chips and inference processors. Its innovative technology brings desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks to compact, energy-efficient devices, enabling AI deployment across various industries such as consumer electronics, wearables, and autonomous systems.

Desktop Metal

Series B in 2016
Desktop Metal is a global developer and manufacturer of additive manufacturing technologies, materials, and software for industrial production. The company offers a range of metal 3D printing systems, including the Production System for high-volume manufacturing, the Shop System for machine shops, the Studio System for office environments, and the Fiber printer for desktop use. It supplies materials and software that support metal, polymer, sand, and ceramic applications, enabling on-demand, digital mass production with improved speed, cost efficiency, and part quality. Desktop Metal serves automotive, aerospace, healthcare, consumer products, heavy industry, machine design, and research and development customers and operates worldwide from headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Rigetti Computing

Series A in 2016
Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs, manufactures, and deploys quantum integrated circuits in low-temperature environments. It develops control systems for quantum logic operations and software to integrate its systems into existing cloud infrastructure. The company focuses on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning, offering the world's first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing.

Looking Glass Factory

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2015, Looking Glass Factory develops and manufactures holographic displays designed for 3D creators. Its flagship product, the Looking Glass, combines light field and volumetric display technologies to enable users to create, share, and interact with 3D content without needing VR or AR headsets.

Desktop Metal

Series A in 2015
Desktop Metal is a global developer and manufacturer of additive manufacturing technologies, materials, and software for industrial production. The company offers a range of metal 3D printing systems, including the Production System for high-volume manufacturing, the Shop System for machine shops, the Studio System for office environments, and the Fiber printer for desktop use. It supplies materials and software that support metal, polymer, sand, and ceramic applications, enabling on-demand, digital mass production with improved speed, cost efficiency, and part quality. Desktop Metal serves automotive, aerospace, healthcare, consumer products, heavy industry, machine design, and research and development customers and operates worldwide from headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Luxtera

Venture Round in 2014
Founded in 2001, Luxtera specializes in silicon photonics technology for high-speed optical communications. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, the company designs and builds front panel and embedded optical modules, including faceplate pluggable optical transceivers and embedded optical transceivers. Luxtera's patented technology integrates optics directly with silicon electronics on a CMOS chip, enabling direct 'fiber to the chip' connectivity. As of December 2018, Luxtera operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems.

Luxtera

Venture Round in 2012
Founded in 2001, Luxtera specializes in silicon photonics technology for high-speed optical communications. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, the company designs and builds front panel and embedded optical modules, including faceplate pluggable optical transceivers and embedded optical transceivers. Luxtera's patented technology integrates optics directly with silicon electronics on a CMOS chip, enabling direct 'fiber to the chip' connectivity. As of December 2018, Luxtera operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems.

Cambrios Technologies

Series D in 2009
Cambrios Technologies Corporation is a manufacturer of innovative electronic materials specializing in silver nanowire-based electrodes. Founded in 2002 and originally named Semzyme, Inc., the company rebranded in August 2004. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in Japan and Taiwan, Cambrios develops products such as ClearOhm, which are transparent conductive coatings that can be applied to various substrates for multiple applications. These include touch screens, liquid crystal displays, e-paper, OLED devices, and lighting, as well as thin film photovoltaics like organic photovoltaics and printed organic solar cells. Cambrios's technology enables simplified manufacturing processes and enhances the performance of next-generation consumer devices.

Cambrios Technologies

Series B in 2005
Cambrios Technologies Corporation is a manufacturer of innovative electronic materials specializing in silver nanowire-based electrodes. Founded in 2002 and originally named Semzyme, Inc., the company rebranded in August 2004. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in Japan and Taiwan, Cambrios develops products such as ClearOhm, which are transparent conductive coatings that can be applied to various substrates for multiple applications. These include touch screens, liquid crystal displays, e-paper, OLED devices, and lighting, as well as thin film photovoltaics like organic photovoltaics and printed organic solar cells. Cambrios's technology enables simplified manufacturing processes and enhances the performance of next-generation consumer devices.
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