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Bilal Zuberi

Technology, Venture Capital and Culture

Keeping a Lookout

Keeping a Lookout

When you’re headed out of town, you probably ask a neighbor or two to pick up your mail and keep an eye on your place while you’re gone…
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Bilal Zuberi
Apr 28
Changing How Metal Is Manufactured — Future of engineering, design and manufacturing

Changing How Metal Is Manufactured — Future of engineering, design and manufacturing

Big day today for our portfolio company DesktopMetal. They are revealing two metal 3D printing systems covering the full product lifecycle…
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Bilal Zuberi
Apr 25

DeepTech/FrontierTech is finding home among VCs

For decades traditional venture capital firms’ partnerships were built around three broad specialties:
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Bilal Zuberi
Apr 17
Projection AR to make every surface come alive! Our investment in Lightform.

Projection AR to make every surface come alive! Our investment in Lightform.

A few years back I saw an insanely magical art performance on youtube. It was a video done by the geniuses at Bot and Dolly, and their…
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Bilal Zuberi
Mar 27

Evolv: Company on a mission to keep people safe from terrorists

Unfortunately, mass casualty threats are the new reality in our world. Today, millions of people are vulnerable to attacks as private…
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Bilal Zuberi
Mar 14
AirMap grows — brings on Microsoft, Airbus, Qualcomm, Sony, Yuneec and Rakuten as partners

AirMap grows — brings on Microsoft, Airbus, Qualcomm, Sony, Yuneec and Rakuten as partners

In 2015 Lux Capital led the initial financing round at AirMap and I joined their Board of Directors. It has been an incredible experience…
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Bilal Zuberi
Feb 23

Hardware is hard: some lessons

There is a lot of chatter once again in blogosphere and twitter that hardware is hard. Every time a prominent hardware startup fails, this…
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Bilal Zuberi
Jan 12
Trump’s game — is actually pretty simple.

Trump’s game — is actually pretty simple.

1/ Trump has no intelligent long term game plan. He is in fact getting played by those around him, and he’s fine with it as long as he gets…
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Bilal Zuberi
Dec 28, 2016

Edge Computing: the end of cloud computing as we know it

Just watched a great overview of Edge Computing by Peter Levine of A16Z. He is absolutely right, this is the future of computing. And all…
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Bilal Zuberi
Dec 22, 2016

Your first 15 minutes in an investment pitch are really important. Use them wisely.

This is not a long post. But I needed to get this off my chest.
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Bilal Zuberi
Dec 15, 2016

DeepTech/FrontierTech investing — interesting dynamics at play

Some thoughts on evolving hardware/deeptech landscape.
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Bilal Zuberi
Dec 8, 2016
Nozomi Networks — our investment in real-time visibility and cyber security of industrial control…

Nozomi Networks — our investment in real-time visibility and cyber security of industrial control…

Reports concerning StuxNet first emerged in 2010 — it was a sophisticated and malicious computer worm had been deployed to destroy nuclear…
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Bilal Zuberi
Oct 24, 2016
Great companies are built by strong teams. Like at AirMap.

Great companies are built by strong teams. Like at AirMap.

Teams, teams, teams…VCs sing this mantra all the time. We want to invest in strong teams, and we want entrepreneurs we back to hire even…
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Bilal Zuberi
Oct 20, 2016

Our investment in Hangar — automating aerial data acquisition and analysis

We are strong believers in the drone ecosystem. Our investments include CyPhy Works, AirMap, Drone Racing League, and companies utilizing…
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Bilal Zuberi
Oct 20, 2016
Our investment in Happiest Baby — technology to benefit parents and babies.

Our investment in Happiest Baby — technology to benefit parents and babies.

My wife is a pediatrician with decades of experience working with newborn babies and first-time parents. She is a bit of a skeptic when it…
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Bilal Zuberi
Oct 18, 2016

Investing in technologies that may sound Sci-Fi today, but are our future.

Earlier this week, I was invited to join Carol Massar and Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Radio (name of show: The Bloomberg Advantage). My…
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Bilal Zuberi
Sep 29, 2016
Another major achievement from CyPhy Works — Drones that (literally) deliver!

Another major achievement from CyPhy Works — Drones that (literally) deliver!

At Lux we have been strong believers in the coming tsunami of drones, and have invested in multiple companies that reflect our conviction…
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Bilal Zuberi
Sep 23, 2016
Change is coming. Everything inside a car will be different!

Change is coming. Everything inside a car will be different!

Self-driving cars are all the rage. Google, Apple, Uber, Tesla, GM, Ford, BMW…everyone seems to be building one. Some are further along…
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Bilal Zuberi
Jun 23, 2016

Who will own my ‘driving’ time

I was in Menlo Park and had an event to attend in SF. I pulled out my phone, turned on the GPS (which I frequently turn off to save battery…
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Bilal Zuberi
May 19, 2016

Technology for the blind and visually impaired

I am on my way to Boston tonight to speak at a summit being organized by the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired…
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Bilal Zuberi
May 3, 2016
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