Lux Capital

Summary

Lux Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the New York.

When the investment is from Lux Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Lux Capital works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Lux Capital, startups are often financed by General Catalyst, GV, Union Square Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Montage Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Kleiner Perkins, Bill Gates.

The current fund was established by Josh Wolfe, Peter Hebert, Rob Paull. Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Auris Health, Inc., Zoox, Desktop Metal. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Health Care.