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Josh Wolfe

Investor at Luxtera

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Josh Wolfe is the Founder and Managing Director of Lux Capital, a venture capital firm in New York City. He has a successful track record of investing in innovative startups like Kallyope and Kurion, and serves on the boards of companies like 3Scan and Kymeta Corporation. Wolfe's career highlights include co-founding Kurion, Inc., and investing in companies such as Aera Therapeutics and Osmo. His current role at Lux Capital involves leading investments in cutting-edge technologies and providing strategic guidance to portfolio companies.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2015 - Current

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.

  • Co-Founder, Chairman

    2008

    Kurion's breakthrough high-tech nuclear waste management platform serving commercial and defense markets, is delivering on the promise of clean, safe, secure nuclear.

Veolia Nuclear Solutions specializes in the development of nuclear waste vitrification systems.

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