5 investors at Lux Capital, based in New York, NY with $7B under management.
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General Partner, Lux Capital
Adam Kalish is a General Partner at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm focused on deep technology investments. He specializes in identifying and supporting transformative companies across AI, biotech, aerospace and defense, space, and other cutting-edge sectors. Kalish has demonstrated a strong track record in backing innovative founders and businesses that push the boundaries of what's technologically possible. His investment portfolio includes notable companies such as Medra, Anchorage, Astranis, Ironclad, and Relativity Space, reflecting his expertise in recognizing high-impact opportunities across diverse deep-tech verticals. Through his work at Lux Capital, Kalish focuses on companies solving fundamental problems and creating paradigm shifts in their respective industries. His investment thesis centers on backing exceptional teams working on breakthrough technologies with significant market potential and societal impact.
Partner, Lux Capital
Brandon Reeves is a Partner at Lux Capital, where he works with early and growth-stage companies in sectors ranging from software and artificial intelligence to defense and manufacturing, searching for innovations in open source infrastructure, data and machine learning applications, and technology disrupting regulated industries. Since joining Lux in 2017 he has led the firm's investments in Chronosphere, Hugging Face, Benchling, Anchorage, Fiddler, Oasis Labs, Elektra Labs, Tecton, and Ahana, and helped lead its investments in Anduril and Applied Intuition; Lux also lists him as a partner on Together AI, Sakana AI, Ramp, Cognition, and Hadrian. Before Lux, Reeves was on the investment team at Capricorn Investment Group and worked at Texas Instruments as a field applications engineer supporting Tesla Motors. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Partner, Lux Capital
David Yang is a Partner at Lux Capital, a prominent venture capital firm focused on advancing frontier technologies. He specializes in investing across AI, biotech, aerospace and defense, space, and deeptech sectors. Yang has demonstrated a strong track record of identifying and supporting transformative companies at critical inflection points. His notable investments include Medra, a healthcare technology company; Anchorage, a digital asset security platform; Astranis, a provider of high-performance satellites; Ironclad, a contract intelligence platform; and Relativity Space, an aerospace manufacturing innovator. Through his work at Lux Capital, Yang focuses on backing entrepreneurs and companies pushing the boundaries of what's technically possible, with particular emphasis on ventures that address complex, capital-intensive challenges in deep technology sectors.
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner, Lux Capital
Peter co-founded Lux Capital during the dot-com crash to specifically back deep science and physical-world breakthroughs like nuclear waste remediation and advanced materials, deliberately avoiding software plays to focus on matter that matters. He personally conceived and built several portfolio companies from scratch around long-range theses, including Kurion in nuclear waste and Variant Bio in rare genetics, actively assembling the scientific teams and capital rather than simply backing existing founders.
Partner, Lux Capital
Shaq Vayda is a Partner at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm focused on breakthrough technologies across multiple sectors. At Lux Capital, Vayda concentrates his investment efforts on artificial intelligence, biotechnology, aerospace and defense, space exploration, and deeptech innovations. His investment portfolio demonstrates expertise in identifying transformative companies poised to reshape their respective industries. Notable investments include Medra, Anchorage, Astranis, Ironclad, and Relativity Space—companies spanning healthcare technology, blockchain infrastructure, satellite communications, contract intelligence, and space manufacturing. Vayda's investment thesis centers on backing ambitious founders developing cutting-edge solutions that address significant global challenges. His strategic focus on AI, biotech, and space technologies positions him at the intersection of the most transformative technological trends shaping the future economy.
Lux Capital's investment team consists of 5 professionals, headquartered in New York, NY and managing $7B in assets. The team brings diverse backgrounds and specialized expertise to evaluate and support portfolio companies.
Across the team, Lux Capital's investors cover expertise in AI, Biotech, Aerospace & Defense, Space, Deeptech. This breadth of sector knowledge enables the firm to evaluate opportunities across multiple verticals and provide specialized post-investment support to founders.
Lux Capital has 5 investors and partners on their team, based in New York, NY. Each team member brings specialized expertise across different sectors and investment stages.
Lux Capital's team consists of 5 investment professionals. View individual investor profiles above for detailed backgrounds, focus areas, and portfolio companies.
Lux Capital manages approximately $7B in assets under management with a team of 5 investment professionals, headquartered in New York, NY.
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