Accelerating innovation in life science R&D — Biotech and biopharma have been on a path of rapidly accelerating innovation. Over the past decade, we have seen the advent of new types of gene therapies, the adaptation of CRISPR, and the rise of computational approaches to drug discovery. And yet with these new technologies comes increasingly complex challenges…

A data platform built by ex-Uber engineers to operationalize machine learning — Much of the past two decades of innovation and evolution in data infrastructure have been born out of the largest tech companies. Google and Yahoo were credited for the Hadoop platforms — Facebook built Cassandra and Presto to store and query data at large volumes — Kafka was created inside…

Fostering the largest open source community in Natural Language Processing — A seminal moment in machine learning took place on Sept 30, 2012 when a convolutional neural network called AlexNet achieved groundbreaking results in the ImageNet competition. This kicked off a race of rapidly improving computer vision models to the point where the technology outperformed humans in many tasks. These breakthroughs…

A pharmacy for digital and connected devices — Today we are announcing our investment in Elektra Labs — a healthcare-security company building a platform to review and dispense connected technologies remotely. More recently software has been finding its way into many aspects of the healthcare system, with examples such as EMR deployments from Epic, tracking biomarkers with wearables…

Ex-Uber engineers push forward the frontier of time series infrastructure — At Lux Capital we believe there are directional trends of technological progress. …