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Luminous Ventures

VC
London, UK (US investments)Website

Luminous Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in London, UK (US investments) investing in Healthcare, Other, Consumer. The firm typically writes $250K–$5.0M checks and has 13 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $5.0M

AUM

$55M

Portfolio

13+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Luminous Ventures invests in cutting-edge science and health companies pushing the boundaries of modern medicine, including psychedelics and wellness.

How Luminous Ventures invests

Luminous Ventures is a vc firm based in London, UK (US investments). The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Healthcare, Other, Consumer, AI / ML, Security.

Luminous Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$5.0M per investment, backed by approximately $55M in assets under management.

Luminous Ventures has backed 13 companies in our records, including Small Pharma, Pinduoduo, Meituan.

Meet the Team

LW

Lomax Ward

Founding Partner

deep tech
science-driven startups
frontier technologies
IF

Isabel Fox

Founding Partner

deep tech
life sciences
healthcare
applied science

Industry Focus

Invests In

Healthcare
Other
Consumer
AI / ML
Security

Portfolio Companies (13)

Other

SM

Small Pharma

Psychedelic Therapy
PI

Pinduoduo

E-commerce

A Chinese e-commerce platform that connects farmers and consumers directly.

ME

Meituan

Service Platform

A Chinese service platform offering food delivery, hotel booking, and other services.

EL

Ellipsis Health

Health tech / AI / Digital Health·Series A·Fund I

AI-powered voice analysis and mental health diagnostics / emotional health tech

MO

Molecule.one

Drug discovery / Chemistry / AI·Seed Round·Fund I

AI-based software platform for synthesizing molecules and planning drug discovery chemistry

TR

Treos Bio

Biotechnology / Immunotherapy·Convertible Note Financing·Fund I

Developing computationally designed peptide cancer immunotherapies (precision & off-the-shelf)

LG

LGN

Likely AI / Health / Life Sciences·Seed Round·Fund I

(Listed twice in Crunchbase; little detail in sources)

UN

Universal Quantum

Quantum computing / Hardware / Deep Tech·Seed Round·Fund I

Spin-out from University of Sussex developing scalable trapped-ion quantum computers

OX

Oxford VR

VR & Mental Health / Health Tech·Series A·Fund I

Immersive virtual reality treatments for behavioral health / mental illness

OP

Optellum

Medical imaging / AI / Health Tech·Seed (follow-on)·Fund I

AI-based early lung cancer diagnosis & decision-support software

How to pitch Luminous Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Healthcare, Other, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $5.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Lomax Ward, Founding Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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