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Shahin Farshchi, PhD

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Shahin Farshchi, PhD
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About

Shahin Farshchi, PhD

Inspired by Knight Rider and Star Trek, Shahin grew up with a passion to endow superpowers to humanity through feats of engineering. He learned BASIC on an IBM PC XT clone he built at his aunt’s computer store and used to dial into Bulletin Board Systems when he was in the 4th grade. He learned about engines by taking apart an Alfa Romeo at his Uncle’s repair shop a few years later. He aspired to design microchips, software, and systems that could someday amount to the fictional K.I.T.T., and build warp drives that could propel humanity to far corners of the galaxy.

Shahin has had the privilege of partnering with amazing founding teams for over two decades. After working for several software startups, he built his first startup in 2004 building upon his PhD research designing chips, systems, and software to capture and interpret brain signals. He later had the pleasure of meeting Lux’s founding team, who invited him to partner with them in 2006, where he has cofounded and led Lux’s investments into companies that have gone on to become publicly traded (e.g., NYSE:AEVA and NYSE:PL), and acquired by the likes of Intel (Nervana), Amazon (Zoox), Silicon Laboratories (Silicon Clocks), and Lattice Semiconductor (SiBeam).

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Things are only impossible until they’re not.
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Has been a loyal subscriber to Car and Driver since the age of 10
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Was terrified by small bumps caused by turbulence, so he became a private pilot
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companies invested in

Flex Logix

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Molecular Imprints

Engineering + Electronics

Nervana Systems

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Planet

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Scaled Inference

SiBEAM

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Silicon Clocks

Engineering + Electronics

Siluria Technologies

Securing Life + Environment

Survios

Enabling Human Creativity + Free Expression

Zoox

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Mythic

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Aeva

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Covariant

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Arraiy

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Astranis

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Relativity Space

Securing Life + Environment

Formic

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

MosaicML

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Epsilon3

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Varda

Increasing Productivity + Efficiency

Impulse Space

Securing Life + Environment

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Increasing Productivity + Efficiency
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Shahin continues to actively seek amazing founding teams aiming to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
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Other examples include Relativity Space, automating rocket construction; Covariant, a leader in logistics automation; Formic, making automating as easy as hiring workers; Epsilon3, offering software for managing complex mission operations; MosaicML, slashing the cost of training large AI models; Astranis, launching a constellation of communications satellites; and Impulse, taking payloads from low-earth orbit to higher orbits, the Moon, Mars, and beyond to propel humanity into the final frontier.

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