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Lux Capital
Venture capital firm · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026
Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York, USA, founded in 2000. The page below shows 60 Power Law outcomes from Lux Capital's portfolio — 51 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Biotech & Life Sciences · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · Israel · Japan. Lux Capital ranks #50 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 60 Lux Capital Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA56
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Israel1
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Japan1
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Ireland1
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Canada1
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AI17
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Biotech & Life Sciences11
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Cybersecurity8
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Transportation5
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Space5
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Fintech4
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Health Tech & Medtech4
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Robotics2
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Energy2
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Other2
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Series B+21
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Series A18
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Seed13
Lux Capital’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Lux Capital’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 11 companies where Lux Capital is a named shareholder, worth about $3.6B in estimated equity value.
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1
Applied Intuition
8.5%
$15.0B
$1.3B
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2
Hugging Face
14.5%
$4.5B
$652M
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3
Runway
9.5%
$5.3B
$504M
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4
Together
8%
$3.3B
$264M
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5
Sakana AI
7.5%
$2.6B
$198M
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6
Maven Clinic
10%
$1.7B
$170M
- 7 4% $3.2B $128M
- 8 1.2% $10.2B $122M
- 9 4% $2.9B $116M
- 10 2.5% $4.0B $100M
- 11 10% $1.0B $100M
5 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Lux Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Lux Capital also appears inside investor groups in Anduril, Benchling, Carbon Health, STORD, Tines, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Lux Capital’s biggest exits.
Lux Capital portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Lux Capital's 60 Power Law outcomes.
How does Lux Capital stack up?
Lux Capital in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
174 founders across the 60 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Lux Capital.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Lux Capital
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Lux Capital on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Lux Capital
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