Lux Capital is a venture capital firm that makes long-term bets on contrarians and outsiders. We believe the next generation of industrialist titans will be scientists, technologists and inventors who are doing more than challenging the status quo—they're literally challenging the laws of physics. We have offices in New York City and Menlo Park.Over the past two decades, Lux has expanded from our New York City roots to Silicon Valley, and built an over $5 billion AUM firm of more than 30 full-time professionals, with a wide spectrum of technical backgrounds and the versatility to invest at any stage, from $100,000 to $100 million.We invest in seed- and early-stage ventures across multiple sectors, including: 3D printing; machine learning; artificial intelligence; flying robots; surgical robots; synthetic biology; genomics; satellites; space; drones; computational imaging and recognition; new materials; holograms; "fixers" for the future; the internet of things; connected hardware; the smart home and virtual reality.