Josh Wolfe

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Josh Wolfe is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Lux Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in emerging technologies. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Wolfe was raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, by a single mother who worked as a public school teacher. [4] Wolfe graduated from the Dyson School at Cornell University in 1999 with a BS in finance. [5] He is Jewish, and had his bar mitzvah in Jerusalem. [6]

Career

Wolfe co-founded Lux Capital in 2000 with Peter Hébert and Robert Paull. [7]

In January 2205, following the launch of Chinese large language model DeepSeek, Wolfe called for increased investment in American artificial intelligence. [8]

In 2025, following the Second Trump Administration's cuts to research funding, Wolfe announced Lux Capital would invest a minimum of $100 million in biotech and artificial intelligence. [9]

On September 29, 2025, Wolfe met with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu along with other technology investors to discuss the use of artificial intelligence to boost Israel's military and economy. [10]

References

  1. ↑ Gormley, Brian (2025-05-22). "Lux Capital Digs Deeper Into Academia for Technological Gems". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  2. ↑ Garfinkle, Allie. "Lux's Josh Wolfe on launching Lux Labs and making science fiction reality". Fortune. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  3. ↑ Russell, Emily. "Lux Capital's Josh Wolfe on How the Venture-Capital Firm Is Turning Sci-Fi Into 'Sci-Fact'". barrons. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  4. ↑ "Written Testimony Before the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party U.S. House of Representatives - Hearing on Commanding Heights: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in the Critical and Emerging Technologies of the 21st Century - Josh Wolfe Co-Founder and Managing Partner Lux Capital" (PDF).
  5. ↑ Copman, Linda (2022-10-25). "Josh Wolfe '99 invests in human ambition". Alumni, parents, and friends | Cornell University. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  6. ↑ ""Despite disgusting descriptions of the IDF, the world still wants Israeli tech": Lux's Josh Wolfe on global demand for defense innovation". ctech. 2025-05-26. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  7. ↑ "Josh Wolfe on AI and the breaking of silicon valley's social contract" .
  8. ↑ "Venter Vapitalist Wolfe calls for more investment to combat deepseek threat" .
  9. ↑ Primack, Dan (2025-06-05). "Amid Trump cuts to Harvard, Columbia, and more, VC could fill funding gap". Axios. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  10. ↑ "Netanyahu discusses AI in private meeting with tech investors" .
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