# Lux Capital

> Lux Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 618 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 618
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Feb 2007
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/lux-capital
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Lux_Capital
- Website: http://www.luxcapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lux-Capital/46498335580

Lux Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$30M |
| Series A | $7.4M–$96M |
| Series B | $14M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 80 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 65 | 11% |
| Health Care | 57 | 9% |
| Biotechnology | 45 | 7% |
| Information Technology | 37 | 6% |

222 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 140 | 23% |
| Seed | 115 | 19% |
| Series B | 90 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 37 | 6% |
| Series C | 35 | 6% |

18 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 254 | 41% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 1% |
| Canada | 3 | 0% |
| Israel | 2 | 0% |
| Ireland | 2 | 0% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Kalish | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-kalish |
| Alex Nguyen | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-nguyen-d81a |
| Brandon Reeves | Partner | 56 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-reeves |
| Deena Shakir | General Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deena-shakir |
| Ian Peikon | Venture Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-peikon |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cambridge Aerospace | Cambridge Aerospace is a defence tech startup that provides defense engineering and manufacturing services. | $300M | Series C | Aug 10, 2026 |  |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $1.4B | Series D | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $1.4B | Series D | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| WindBorne Systems | WindBorne develops, manufactures, and operates a network of long-duration smart weather balloons. The company collects atmospheric data for weather forecasting, climate research, and environmental monitoring. The company uses high-altitude balloons equipped with sensors to gather data from various layers of the atmosphere. These balloons cancapture precise and comprehensive atmospheric measurements. By providing high-resolution atmospheric data, WindBorne Systems contributes to more accurate weather predictions, which can help mitigate the impacts of severe weather events. | $37M | Series B | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Agon | Agon wants to help customers prepare for current military scenarios, such as allowing counter-drone systems to practice reactions to virtual drone swarms. | $23M | Seed | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Glow | Glow is an AI-powered endpoint security company.Glow’s AI agents create a single source of truth across devices, people, and software, understand risk in the context of your policies, and - within the guardrails you set - autonomously prevent problems before they become incidents. | $100M | Series B | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| SkyPilot | SkyPilot is an open-source framework for running AI and batch workloads on any infra. | $20M | Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| GlossGenius | GlossGenius is a company that creates automated personal assistant software for appointment management. The software from the company accepts bookings and payments, monitors clients and tracks their history, organizes personal calendars, and reports analytics, allowing beauty professionals and freelancers to manage and develop their companiesthrough client interaction and marketing automation. | $44M | Series D | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Genius AI | Genius AI is a company that creates automated personal assistant software for appointment management. The software from the company accepts bookings and payments, monitors clients and tracks their history, organizes personal calendars, and reports analytics, allowing beauty professionals and freelancers to manage and develop their companies throughclient interaction and marketing automation. | $44M | Series D | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| SONATA | SONATA conducts extensive biological testing, such as whole-genome sequencing, and compiles the findings with the information that is currently accessible, each member's medical history, wearable data, and day-to-day activities. | $7M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |

10 of 618 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 102 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 81 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 62 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 56 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 47 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 41 deals together

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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 618 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lux Capital's check size?

Lux Capital typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$30M at Seed, $7.4M–$96M at Series A and $14M–$150M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lux Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Lux Capital?

Public channels for Lux Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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