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Lux Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026

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52 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #50 · Global · 52 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 72% 5y
50
Decacorns → 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 283% 5y
29

Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York, USA, founded in 2000. The page below shows 52 Power Law outcomes from Lux Capital's portfolio — 50 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 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 · Australia · Ireland. Lux Capital ranks #50 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 52 Lux Capital Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA48
  2. Australia1
  3. Ireland1
  4. France1
  5. Japan1
By sectorCount
  1. AI12
  2. Biotech & Life Sciences9
  3. Cybersecurity6
  4. Space6
  5. Transportation5
  6. Health Tech & Medtech5
  7. Fintech4
  8. Other2
  9. Marketing1
  10. Energy1
  11. Edtech1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+21
  2. Series A17
  3. Seed13
01 · Portfolio market map

Lux Capital's 52 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
52 of 52 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Lux Capital's founders come from — and where they study.

174 founders across the 52 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.

LocationCount
United States81
France13
India9
Nigeria6
China6
Ireland5
Japan4
Chile4
Sweden4
Pakistan4
+17 more →
UniversityCount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology19
Stanford University12
University of Cambridge5
MIT Sloan School of Management4
University of Michigan4
University of Lisbon Higher Technical Institute - Tecnico Lisboa3
Imperial College London3
New York University3
University of Wisconsin-Madison3
Cornell University3
+62 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google15
Apple8
Microsoft8
Palantir5
eBay3
Stripe3
SpaceX | xAI3
Uber3
Rent the Runway3
DocuSign2
+80 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Lux Capital.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
04 · Compare with peers

How does Lux Capital stack up?

Lux Capital in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X 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

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Lux Capital — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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