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Reinvent, don’t Retrofit: A Map for Founders Who Want to Create Radical Step Change
Talks about Science, Technology and Self Driving Cars
SF
Shahin Farshchi
General Partner at Lux Capital. Brain
SF
Shahin Farshchi
General Partner at Lux Capital. Brain
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Shahin Farshchi is a General Partner at Lux Capital, with a Ph.D. from UCLA and a background in microelectronic circuit design. He has invested in a variety of successful companies such as Impulse Space, Mythic, and Survios, demonstrating expertise in startup evaluation and technology leadership in sectors like space, robotics, and AI.
Work Experience
General Partner
2006 - Current
Investing in teams accelerating the future with feats of engineering: Planet (NYSE:PL), Nervana (aq NASDAQ:INTC), ZOOX (aq NASDAQ:AMZN), Aeva (NYSE:AEVA), Relativity Space, Covariant, Formic, MosaicML, Impulse Space, Column, and more.
Lux Capital is an investment firm that invests in counter-conventional, seed-stage science and technology ventures.
Investor and Board Observer
2022
Impulse Space develops orbital maneuvering vehicles for last-mile cargo delivery.
Raised $225,000,000.00 from Tamarack Global, Trousdale Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, Island Green, DCVC, First Principles, Elysium Venture Capital, 137 Ventures, Founders Fund and Airbus Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Epsilon3 is the OS for spacecraft and complex operations.
Raised $18,825,000.00 from Moore Strategic Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, Y Combinator and Lux Capital.
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2021
Column is a public benefit corporation building technology to help media, governments and legal services work together to notify the public.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Paul Bascobert, Nick Sinai, Henry Ward, Govtech Fund, Amity Ventures, Lux Capital, Marty Baron, Claire Hughes Johnson, Craig Forman and David Chavern.
Board Member
2020
Board Member
2016
Board Member
2015
Survios is a game development firm that specializes in creating games for consoles, virtual reality platforms, and personal computers.
Raised $71,522,078.00 from Leonis Capital and Eastward Capital Partners.
Board Member
2015
Mythic develops analog matrix processors and key cards based on analog compute-in-memory.
Raised $164,650,000.00 from DCVC, Atreides Management, Hermann Hauser Investment, Catapult Ventures and Lux Capital.
Investor
2017
Covariant is an AI Robotics company developing a universal AI that enables robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them.
Raised $222,000,000.00 from CPP Investments, Radical Ventures, AIX Ventures, Northgate Capital, Gates Frontier Fund, Index Ventures, Amplify Partners, CPP Investments, Amplify Partners and Radical Ventures.