Below, slides from a talk I gave at Stanford’s Symbolic System Forum in early Dec 2018.

I first met Sean at a coffee shop in Potrero Hill in 2014. Sean had just left Quid where he’d been CTO and cofounder. I’d just joined Lux. We spoke about the future of ML and AI, whether “deep learning was real” (in 2014, still an open question!), and what…

Almost everything these days has a circuit board inside. Tempo combines machine learning and robotics to crank them out faster and error-free. Whether you’re building cell phones, drones, security cameras, rockets or driverless cars, you’re gonna’ need a circuit board to make it run. Traditionally, you would send out your…

Lux’s investment in Blockstack’s Series A and Token Offering — I first heard of Bitcoin in 2013. While today’s macro political environment throws one huge story after another, in 2013 large black swan events were still … well, black swan; rare. One of these events had just occurred: Over levered banks in Cyprus banks had rapidly declared insolvency amidst a…

Complexity rears its head across startups and Fortune 100s alike. It’s unbiased in its applications, and often crippling in its outcomes. The consequences of the future are coming at us faster than we once imagined, and in more unpredictable ways. The increasing asymmetry of opportunities and threats are hidden in…

Recursion Pharma raises $60 million to scale its Artificial Intelligence and Automation Platform — (this piece initially published Oct 3, 2017 by Lux Capital) Recursion Pharma, a company we are lead Series A investors in, today is announcing an exciting and oversubscribed Series B of $60M coming from top investors in tech, biopharma, and around the world. In many ways it's a reflection of…

This piece was initially published on Oct 25, 2016 by Lux Capital Machine learning, AI, Conv Nets, Deep Learning, and Neural Nets … all rapidly maturing Artificial Intelligence technologies that have simultaneously become household jargon in the Valley. Tesla’s self driving car, Amazon Alexa, Google Search, Facebook tag recommendations, Microsoft…

Announcing our Series A partnership with Recursion Pharma This piece initially published on Oct 3, 2016 at Lux Capital A little over two years ago I first started writing and working on an ongoing thesis of how the emergence of big data sets, automation, connectivity, and machine learning is fundamentally…

Lux Leads $8M Series A Investment In Tempo Automation To Accelerate Electronics Development Cycles This piece initially published June 29, 2016 at Lux Capital Barriers to creation are falling. Creativity is, in essence, commoditizing. This sounds hyperbolic, but a quick look at Google’s recent work with DeepDream should quell most doubt. The computer generated, yet deeply human, art generated by Google’s autonomous artist doesn’t…