Co-founder and Managing Partner

Josh Wolfe

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About

Josh Wolfe

Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light.

Josh is a Director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and Varda, and helped lead the firm’s investments in Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, Authorea, Resilience and Hadrian. He is a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Kymeta, making cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications. Josh is a Westinghouse semi-finalist and published scientist. He previously worked in investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in capital markets at Merrill Lynch. In 2008 Josh co-founded and funded Kurion, a contrarian bet in the unlikely business of using advanced robotics and state-of-the-art engineering and chemistry to clean up nuclear waste. It was an unmet, inevitable need with no solution in sight. The company was among the first responders to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. In February 2016, Veolia acquired Kurion for nearly $400 million—34 times Lux’s total investment.

Josh is a columnist with Forbes and Editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. He has been invited to The White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, and a lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU. He is a term member at The Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of Coney Island Prep charter school, where he grew up in Brooklyn. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Economics and Finance.

Avoid boring people."
Avoid boring people."
—Jim Watson
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companies invested in

Strateos

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Aira.io

Advancing Human Health

Cambrios

Crystal IS

Echodyne

Securing Life + Environment

Kallyope

Advancing Human Health

Kurion

Securing Life + Environment

Kymeta

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Looking Glass

Enabling Human Creativity + Free Expression

Lux Research

Progressing Science + Knowledge

Nanosys

Engineering + Electronics

Shapeways

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Silicon Clocks

Engineering + Electronics

Siluria Technologies

Securing Life + Environment

CTRL-labs

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Variant Bio

Advancing Human Health

Anduril

Securing Life + Environment

Resilience

Securing Life + Environment

Varda

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Hadrian

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Eikon Therapeutics

Progressing Science + Knowledge

Cajal Neuroscience

Progressing Science + Knowledge

Runway

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency
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