Josh Wolfe
Investor at Luxtera
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner & Managing Director
1999 - Current
Lux Capital Management is a research-driven investment firm focused on founding, seed and early stage investments in the physical and life sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high growth sectors. Our investment team has built over 20 companies from scratc
Board Member, Founder
2003
Board Member
2015
Kallyope uses the science of gut-brain biology to create medicines that transform human health.
Raised $487,200,000.00 from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Member of the Board of Trustees
2015
Board Member
2014
3Scan offers automated microscopy services and supporting software for the 3D analysis of cells, tissues, and organs.
Raised $21,063,012.00 from OS Fund, Comet Labs, DCVC, Breakout Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures and Lux Capital.
Investor
2013
Developer of solutions for rapid 3D scanning of spaces and objects.
Matterport digitizes spaces into accurate, immersive 3D digital twins with its all-in-one platform.
Raised $409,000,000.00 from Untitled Investments, Dragoneer Investment Group, Lux Capital, BlackRock, Fidelity, Miller Value Partners and Senator Investment Group.
Investor
2013
Term Member
2013
Council on Foreign Relations operates as a non-partisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher.
Raised $2,312,565.00 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Board Member, Founding Investor
2012
Kymeta’s mTennaTM products simplify satellite connections needed for instant broadband service anywhere in the world, including mobile applications such as planes, trains, boats, and automobiles. Co-Investors: Bill Gates, Liberty Global, Intellectual Ventures
Kymeta is a developer of hybrid satellite-cellular networks used to satisfy the demand for global ubiquitous mobile connectivity.
Raised $436,776,847.00 from Trinity Capital.
Board Director
2012
Shapeways offers 3D technology solutions to enable the automation, innovation, and digitization of product development.
Raised $182,500,000.00 from XN, Inkef, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Miller Value Partners, Desktop Metal and Lux Capital.
Investor
2009
Luxtera developed a nanophotonics technology platform enabling a new breed of opto-electronic devices made with low cost CMOS process. They are delivering economic optical connectivity everywhere, from network level to intra-system level, and soon chip-to-chip.
Luxtera uses silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in silicon CMOS process of production.
Raised $130,655,806.00 from Lux Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Lux Capital, August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.