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Investor profile
Luminous Ventures
Venture Capital · Founded 2018 · London, United Kingdom
13 portfolio companies
Venture Capital · $1.1B invested · 14 investments · Investor rank #2,717 · Last investment 4/2026
Portfolio companies
13
↑ 18% 5y
Decacorns
0
Thoroughbreds
0
01 · Portfolio analysis
Where Luminous Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 13 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
By countryCount
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UK16
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USA7
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Canada2
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China2
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Singapore1
By sectorCount
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Health17
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Enterprise Software3
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Food3
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Media3
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Robotics3
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Wellness Beauty2
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Education1
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Energy1
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Gaming1
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Marketing1
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Semiconductors1
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Space1
By stage enteredCount
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Seed6
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Series A5
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Series B+2
By growth stageCount
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Breakout Stage15
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Early Growth10
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Late Growth3
02 · Portfolio market map
Inside Luminous Ventures’ portfolio.
The 28 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 13 tracked.
ShShengshu Technology
$2.0B
EaEarendil Labs
$3.0B
HuHuma
$320M
ElEllipsis Health
$180M
SySynthace
$172M
MaMahana Therapeutics
$244M
ViVital Bio
$192M
HaHadean
$150M
OpOptellum
$56M
KeKernal Biologics
$100M
HoHoxton Farms
$88M
TrTreos Bio
$56M
ClClimax Foods
$26M
PhPhenomic AI
$36M
OxOxford VR
$50M
UnUniversal Quantum
$19M
MaMagdrive
$42M
SpSparrho
$12M
BiBioBeats
$13M
HoHone Bio
$19M
FlFlox
$12M
LGLGN Innovations
$7.4M
FaFathom Computing
$8.0M
BiBiomage
$3.4M
TeTemporall
$4.4M
AsAstroscreen
$4.0M
FaFace Soft
AcActive Global Specialised Caregivers
03 · Portfolio founders
Where Luminous Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.
42 founders across the 28 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
LocationCount
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United Kingdom20
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United States12
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Canada4
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China3
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Bahrain1
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Singapore1
UniversityCount
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University of Oxford5
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University of Cambridge4
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University College London3
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Harvard University2
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MIT Sloan School of Management2
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University of Edinburgh2
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Amirkabir University of Technology1
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki1
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Cambridge Judge Business School1
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Carnegie Mellon University1
Previous companyCount
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Harvard Medical School3
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
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Alphabet | Google2
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Apple2
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Entrepreneurs First2
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MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab2
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University of Cambridge2
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University of Oxford2
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American College of Physicians1
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App Health1
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