Lux Capital — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($100K–$100.0M Checks)
Lux Capital is a Seed, Series A, Series B venture capital firm based in New York, United States investing in Deep Tech, Other, Climate / Energy. The firm typically writes $100K–$100.0M checks and has 9 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$100.0M
- Portfolio
- 9 companies on record
- Partners
- 26 listed
- AUM
- $7B
- Stage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Sectors
- Deep Tech, Other, Climate / Energy, Developer Tools, SaaS, Healthcare
- HQ
- New York, United States
Last verified: 2026-09-08
Seed, Series A, Series B
$100K – $100.0M
$7.0B
9+ companies
26 partners
Investment Thesis
Lux Capital invests in frontier science and deep‐tech founders, backing radical breakthroughs at the intersection of physical, life, and computational sciences, from very early (inception/seed) through growth, including high-conviction expansion bets.
How Lux Capital invests
Lux Capital is a vc firm based in New York, United States. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B stages, with a focus on Deep Tech, Other, Climate / Energy, Developer Tools, SaaS.
Lux Capital typically writes checks of $100K–$100.0M per investment, backed by approximately $7B in assets under management.
Investing since at least 2017, Lux Capital has backed 9 companies in our records, including Cognition, Databricks, Hugging Face. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2024.
Partners & Team
Adam Kalish
Partner
Steven Brody
Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (9)
2024
Cognition
2023
Databricks
2019
Hugging Face
Eikon Therapeutics
2018
Runway
2017
Anduril
Applied Intuition
Other
Physical Intelligence
A-Alpha Bio
- •Raising at Seed, Series A, Series B? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Deep Tech, Other, Climate / Energy — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $100.0M check.
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Thomas Reardon, Venture Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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