Josh Wolfe

Co-founder and Managing Partner
Helps lead firm. Invests in defense, biotech, and co-founds companies.

About Josh

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 Aera Therapeutics, Cajal Neuroscience, Eikon Therapeutics, Impulse Labs, Kallyope, Osmo, Variant Bio, and helped lead the firm’s investments in Anduril, Echodyne, Planet, Hadrian, Osmo and Resilience. 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.

Avoid boring people. –Jim Watson

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, a Trustee at the Santa Fe Institute, 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.

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“The future is already here... it's just not evenly distributed yet.” — William Gibson
Outside of work
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Selected Investments

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Aera Therapeutics
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Anduril
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Cajal Neuroscience
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Eikon Therapeutics
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Hadrian
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Kallyope
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Kurion
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Osmo
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other team members

Peter Hébert
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Investing
Deena Shakir
General Partner
Investing
Shahin Farshchi, PhD
General Partner
Investing
Brandon Reeves
General Partner
Investing
Bilal Zuberi
General Partner
Investing
Grace Isford
Partner
Investing
Shaq Vayda
Principal
Investing
Lan Jiang
Associate
Investing
Tess van Stekelenburg
Partner, Science
Investing
Adam Kalish
General Partner
Development and Operations
Steven Brody
Chief Operating Officer
Development and Operations
Scott Rubin
Chief Marketing Officer
Development and Operations
Segolene Scarborough
Chief Financial Officer
Development and Operations
Sean Traynor
General Counsel
Development and Operations
Alex Nguyen
Partner
Development and Operations
Samuel Arbesman, PhD
Scientist in Residence
Development and Operations
Danny Crichton
Head of Editorial
Development and Operations
Tracie Rotter
Platform Partner
Development and Operations
Saunaz Moradi
Director of Communications
Development and Operations
Chris Gates
Producer
Development and Operations
Andrew Wilson
Associate General Counsel
Development and Operations
Brad Gritsch
Accounting Manager
Development and Operations
Stevie Lee
Assistant Controller
Development and Operations
Samantha Cho
Controller
Development and Operations
Kim Tran
Fund Accountant
Bibi Masara
Office Manager
Development and Operations
Debbie Elsen
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Dana Riley
Executive Assistant & Office Manager
Development and Operations
Jasmine Rainey
Executive Assistant and Marketing Coordinator
Development and Operations
Lindsay Morris
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Cristina Morris
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Bree Morgan
Executive Assistant
Development and Operations
Kim Tran
Tess van Stekelenburg
Andrew Wilson
Jasmine Rainey
Tracie Rotter
Stevie Lee
Steven Brody
Shaq Vayda
Shahin Farshchi, PhD
Segolene Scarborough
Sean Traynor
Scott Rubin
Saunaz Moradi
Samuel Arbesman, PhD
Samantha Cho
Peter Hébert
Lindsay Morris
Lan Jiang
Josh Wolfe
Grace Isford
Deena Shakir
Debbie Elsen
Danny Crichton
Dana Riley
Cristina Morris
Chris Gates
Bree Morgan
Brandon Reeves
Brad Gritsch
Bilal Zuberi
Bibi Masara
Alex Nguyen
Adam Kalish