Luminous Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in London that partners with founders pushing the boundaries of science and technology to solve the world’s greatest challenges.
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B
Portfolio 27
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 18.03.2021 | CytoSeek | cytoseek.uk | $6.48M | United Kin... |
| 18.03.2021 | Treos | treosbio.com | $22M | - |
| 11.02.2021 | HOXTON FAR... | hoxtonfarms.com | $25.96M | United Kin... |
| 19.01.2021 | Kernal Bio... | kernalbio.com | $25M | United Sta... |
| 08.12.2020 | Mahana The... | mahanatx.com | $61M | United Sta... |
| 07.12.2020 | Magdrive | magdrivespace.com | $1.9M | United Kin... |
| 14.11.2020 | Biomage | biomage.net | - | United Kin... |
| 14.11.2020 | Fathom | fathomcomputing.com | - | United Sta... |
| 30.09.2020 | FLOX | flox.ai | $1M | Sweden |
| 30.09.2020 | Phenomic A... | phenomic.ai | $6.08M | Canada, On... |
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News 41
| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.12.2020 | Mahana Therapeutics – Our Investment | Mahana Therapeutics (https://www.mahanatx.com/), a Luminous Ventures portfolio company, has recently announced that the FDA has granted marketing authorization for its first product, Parallel™, a prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) int... |
| 25.09.2020 | Join our next Venture Office Hour | Luminous Ventures is holding a joint Venture Office Hour with Illumina Accelerator on 7 October 5pm. We’d like to use it as an opportunity to support entrepreneurs and the European healthcare start-ups – businesses creating much-needed solu... |
| 02.09.2020 | Digital mental health: Resolving the engagement paradox | At Luminous, mental health is a big theme for us and we have made three investments in the area in recent years — BioBeats, Oxford VR and Ellipsis Health. However, one persistent question is the ability of apps to alleviate anxiety or depre... |
| - | Clean meats & plant-based proteins: the food of the future? | More and more people are waking up to the idea that, in order to preserve a future for our children, our eating habits need to change. According to a recent report by Oxfam, by the middle of this century, the earth’s population will have i... |
| - | Disrupting the veterinary and pet industries | This month, we were inspired by our own office dog, Heidi, and have been investigating ways that technology is disrupting the veterinary and pet industries. The EU is home to 66 million pet dogs, while the US is home to another 70 million.... |
| - | Isabel Fox interviewed on Bloomberg Radio | Luminous Venture’s General Partner and Co-Founder, Isabel Fox was interviewed by Matt Miller on Bloomberg Radio (Daybreak Europe). Isabel spoke enthusiastically about the prospects and opportunities for UK and European investment despite B... |
| - | It’s never been a better time to be backing UK Deep-Tech | Despite the uncertainty of Brexit, one thing is certain: It has never been a better time to be backing UK deep-tech. According to the latest 2019 Technology Innovation Hubs report from KPMG, the UK now sits at No 3 in the global ranking of... |
| - | Ethics in AI | Google announced the dissolution of its AI Ethics advisory panel on April 4, barely more than a week after it announced its introduction on March 26. read more>> The panel was going to be tasked with providing perspective on some of G... |
| - | Luminous Ventures appoints Ryan Ward to Advisory Board | LONDON-based venture capital firm, Luminous Ventures has strengthened its advisory board further with the appointment of expert sales strategist, Ryan Ward. Ryan has over 25 years’ experience and a proven track record of helping US compani... |
| - | Portfolio Spotlight: | Congratulations to our portfolio client, Synthace after being announced as a partner to Microsoft for their new biotechnology research system, together with Oxford BioMedica and researchers at Princeton University. Microsoft hopes that the... |
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Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.06.2026 | Could replacement technology become longevity medicine’s next frontier? | Around 1000 BC, Tabaket-en-Mut, the daughter of an ancient Egyptian priest, likely never imagined that the wooden prosthesis she wore after losing her big toe would become a piece of medical history some 3,000 years later. Archaeologists be... |
| 25.05.2026 | Chinese Robotics Startup Tianji Bags USD147.4 Million From GL Ventures, Meituan | (Yicai) May 25 -- Chinese robotics startup Tianji Intelligent System has raised CNY1 billion (USD147.4 million) in Series B and B+ financing co-led by Hillhouse Capital-backed GL Ventures and Chinese local services giant Meituan, lifting it... |
| 18.05.2026 | Chinese Exoskeleton Startup Hypershell Bags USD50 Million in New Round Led by Ant, Meituan | (Yicai) May 18 -- Hypershell, a Chinese manufacturer of wearable robotic external skeletons that support human movement, has secured USD50 million in its latest funding round, led by Chinese fintech giant Ant Group and Meituan Dragonball, t... |
| 23.03.2021 | London-based edge AI firm LGN raises $2 million | Edge AI firm LGN has raised $2 million in funding in order to help clients beat their competitors to the punch when it comes to better and more resilient AT models. Investors include Trucks Venture Capital, Luminous Ventures, and Jaguar Lan... |
| 17.02.2021 | What does it take to scale a deeptech company? | Diffblue, a deeptech company that saves developers time by automating the writing of code, span out of Oxford University in 2016. It raised the largest AI Series A funding in Europe with Goldman Sachs a year later. “The first thing you loo... |
| 22.12.2020 | Meet the 35 healthcare startups VCs say will take off in 2021 | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Healthcare startups that had a breakout year in 2020 are poised to have an even better 2021, investors told Business Insider. Startups, esp... |
| 07.08.2019 | Can a radical new event disrupt how VCs raise funds, unlocking cash for Europe? | For many years there’s been an accepted way to raise capital as a venture capital fund. Essentially, GPs (general partners, who set up and run venture capital firms) go “cap in hand” to LPs (limited partners, who invest into their VC firms)... |
| 17.07.2019 | Hot, hot, hot at cofinitive! | Hot, hot, hot at cofinitive! 17-07-2019 After a busy Spring, things have just carried on being hot, hot, hot at cofinitive this summer. The agency writes: Having taken on a new project with returning client, LSCC, we got stuck right in with... |
| 15.07.2019 | Optellum scores £1 million in funding from Luminous Ventures to tackle lung cancer diagnosis with AI | Oxford-based Optellum, which offers AI software for early lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, has just raised £1 million from Luminous Ventures, as part of a seed follow-on round of £3.25 million. Optellum’s software is said to be the firs... |
| 16.12.2018 | Luminous Ventures Joins $25.6M Series B for Synthace | Synthace Ltd., the company behind the leading cloud software platform for automating and improving the success rate of biological research and development, today announced the closing of a $25.6m Series B financing round led by Horizons Ven... |
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