Lux Capital
VC Fund
New York, United States
Lux Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Lux Capital focuses on sectors such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, space, and energy, backing businesses that apply scientific research to commercial applications. It provides capital alongside strategic input on product development, company building, and long-term positioning. The firm works with technical founders and research-driven teams to translate complex innovations into scalable businesses. It evaluates opportunities based on the underlying science, potential for industry impact, and feasibility of execution over extended time horizons.
- Total investments:
- 706
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
- Fund size:
- $10M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lux Capital invests in
Stages Lux Capital invests in
Countries Lux Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$25M
- Series A
- $7M–$90M
- Series B
- $13M–$150M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 99 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 92 (13%)
- Health Care 68 (10%)
- Biotechnology 50 (7%)
- Information Technology 40 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 164 (23%)
- Seed 156 (22%)
- Series B 106 (15%)
- Series C 50 (7%)
- Series D 37 (5%)
Country
- United States 291 (41%)
- United Kingdom 6 (1%)
- Canada 4 (1%)
- Israel 2 (0%)
- Ireland 2 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Kalish
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alex Nguyen
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brandon Reeves
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 62 | Find email | |
Deena Shakir
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Ian Peikon
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine. | $750M / Series D / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Catalyst develops a platform that converts plain-English trading ideas into automated workflows that track real-time market data and execute financial trades within user-defined parameters. | $30M / Seed / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Multiply Labs manufactures personalized pharmaceutical capsules that are tailor-made to the unique needs of each patient. Multiply Labs’ product is enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with robotics technology. The company has built and operates a unique robotic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Multiply Labs is the firstcompany ever to bring to the market 3D printed capsules. | $75M / Series B / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California. | $311M / Series E / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| EnduroSat designs and engineers spacecraft for business applications and space exploration missions. The company focuses on swarm/constellation satellite applications. EnduroSat builds customized satellites and providing complete support service for full-cycle missions. | $205M / Series C / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $308M / Series D / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Covenant is a global defense technology company that builds long-range precision strike weapons for the United States and its allies. The company's flagship weapon system, Anthem, combines a heavy payload and long range at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy systems. | $250M / Series A / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks. | $2B / Series E / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Archive automates e-commerce digital marketing workflows with two products: (1) Archive App (AA) is a digital asset manager built for modern digital marketers. App automates the collection and metadata labeling of all your brand's social content (including ephemeral stories) and automates the workflow to convert and distribute this content asoptimized advertising creative across your favorite retention marketing and media platforms. (2) Archive Communities (AC) automates a brand's influencer seeding program to drive impressions and generate affiliates. | Seed / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Transfyr builds AI tools that help transfer scientific research into real-world applications and innovation. | $25M / Seed / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| See all 706 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lux Capital invest in?
Lux Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 706 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lux Capital invest in?
Lux Capital typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$25M at Seed, $7M–$90M at Series A and $13M–$150M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lux Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lux Capital took part in.
How do I contact Lux Capital?
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Who are the partners at Lux Capital?
The team at Lux Capital includes Adam Kalish (General Partner), Alex Nguyen (Principal) and Brandon Reeves (Partner), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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