Josh Wolfe
American entrepreneur
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Josh Wolfe |
| birth_date | c. |
| birth_place | Coney Island, New York City, United States |
| education | Cornell University |
| occupation | Venture capitalist |
| years_active | 2000–present |
| known_for | Co-founder of Lux Capital |
| spouse | Lauren Wolfe (née Taylor) |
| children | 3 |
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Josh Wolfe is an American venture capitalist who is the founder of Lux Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in emerging technologies.
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. Wolfe graduated from the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in 1999 with a BS in finance. He is Jewish, and had his bar mitzvah in Jerusalem.
Career
Wolfe co-founded Lux Capital in 2000 with Peter Hébert and Robert Paull.
In January 2025, following the launch of Chinese large language model DeepSeek, Wolfe called for increased investment in American artificial intelligence.
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.
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.
References
References
- Gormley, Brian. (2025-05-22). "Lux Capital Digs Deeper Into Academia for Technological Gems". Wall Street Journal.
- Garfinkle, Allie. (2024-11-01). "Lux's Josh Wolfe on launching Lux Labs and making science fiction reality".
- Russell, Emily. (2025-09-06). "Lux Capital's Josh Wolfe on How the Venture-Capital Firm Is Turning Sci-Fi Into 'Sci-Fact'".
- "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".
- Copman, Linda. (2022-10-25). "Josh Wolfe '99 invests in human ambition".
- Shulman, Sophie. (2025-05-26). ""Despite disgusting descriptions of the IDF, the world still wants Israeli tech": Lux's Josh Wolfe on global demand for defense innovation".
- Alloway, Tracy. (2025-09-08). "Josh Wolfe on AI and the breaking of silicon valley's social contract".
- Chapman, Lizette. (2025-01-31). "Venter Vapitalist Wolfe calls for more investment to combat deepseek threat".
- Primack, Dan. (2025-06-05). "Amid Trump cuts to Harvard, Columbia, and more, VC could fill funding gap".
- Hordern, Annmarie. (2025-09-25). "Netanyahu discusses AI in private meeting with tech investors".
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