Lux

Lux Capital is a New York City- and Menlo Park-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Josh Wolfe, Peter Hébert, and Robert Paull, specializing in emerging science and deep technologies that turn science fiction into reality, with a focus on frontier areas like AI, biotechnology, aerospace, robotics, defense, synthetic biology, and advanced computing. With over $5 billion in assets under management, the firm invests stage-agnostically—from seed and incubation to growth stages—often sourcing ideas from academia and labs, and providing deep technical support through its team of scientists, engineers, and operators. Notable portfolio companies include defense tech leader Anduril, autonomous vehicle software unicorn Applied Intuition, Hugging Face (open-source AI platform), Runway (generative video AI), Eikon Therapeutics (drug discovery), and many others across hundreds of investments, with a track record of backing contrarian founders solving massive, hard problems.