Luminous Ventures
Luminous Ventures is a London-based VC fund investing in Deep Tech with a focus on the application of artificial intelligence (AI), VR, AR, edge computing, robotics, quantum technologies and synthetic biology to healthcare, life science, nutrition, food and agriculture at Seed and Series A in Europe and North America
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Luminous shares boards and has co-invested alongside leading investors such as Khosla Ventures, Draper Esprit, Iconiq, Founders Fund, Hoxton Ventures, Speedinvest, Inovia, Horizons Ventures, Sofinnova, CTI Life Sciences, OSI and IQ Capital.
Luminous has invested in 2025 companies, with many emerging from top university ecosystems such as Oxford, Imperial and University College London. Companies include Synthace, developing a revolutionary new operating system for laboratories; Hadean, building a new high-performance operating system for the cloud; Optellum, developing an AI-based diagnostic for lung cancer; Vital Biosciences, designing a new generation of tools to empower individuals in monitoring their health and managing disease; Ellipsis Health, a new AI-based diagnostic for mental health; Universal Quantum, building a universal quantum computer, Phenomic AI, leveraging deep learning and co-culture cell models to discover new cancer drugs; Climax Foods, using data science to transform plants into foods that we love. Luminous Ventures spun out of White Cloud Capital in 2018.
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