Lux Capital
New York deep tech VC with USD 7bn+ AUM; backed Cambridge Aerospace and CuspAI
- Venture capital
- Type
- Venture capital
- Based in
- Outside the UK
- Stages
- Seed, Series A, Series B+, Growth
- Sector focus
- Deeptech, AI & Data, Hardware & Robotics, Biotech & Life Sciences, Healthtech
- Fund size
- USD 1.5bn+ (Lux Ventures IX, Jan 2026); USD 7bn+ AUM
- Founded
- 2000
- Website
- luxcapital.com
Lux Capital is a New York venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Josh Wolfe, Peter Hébert and Robert Paull that invests in emerging science and technology companies. Its portfolio groups around securing life and the environment, raising productivity, and advancing scientific knowledge, with holdings including Anduril, Databricks, Ramp and Physical Intelligence. The firm invests from seed through growth rounds and closed its largest fund, Lux Ventures IX, at more than USD 1.5bn in January 2026 with a focus on new science and defence, taking assets under management past USD 7bn. In the UK it participated in the 2026 Series C of Cambridge Aerospace, valued at USD 3.4bn, and the 2026 Series B of materials-discovery company CuspAI.
Team
- Josh Wolfe, Partner and Co-Founder
- Peter Hébert, Partner and Co-Founder
- Robert Paull, Co-Founder and Venture Partner
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