Lucas Venture Group

Lucas Venture Group is a second generation venture capital firm focused on investments of $500,000-$5,000,000 Our focus spans robotics, networking, software analytics/big data, and trans formative autonomous machines. LVG was founded by second-generation venture capitalist Donald A. Lucas, who grew up in an environment steeped in the entrepreneurial spirit in Silicon Valley. He has spent his entire professional career focused on investing in private companies, working with entrepreneurs and their management teams, leveraging his vast network to create value throughout all stages of investments.

Martin Brusco

CFO

Jack Bixby Lucas

General Partner

Sarah Lucas

Managing General Partner

35 past transactions

Prellis Biologics

Series C in 2022
Prellis Biologics is building human tissues for drug development, and ultimately, developing human organs for transplantation. Bioprinting vascularized human tissue and organs will revolutionize healthcare. Prellis Biologics'​ technology leverages massive gains in print speed and resolution to break the microvasculature barrier. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rizzle AI

Series B in 2022
Rizzle empowers businesses and publishers to transform their text content and podcasts into engaging videos. Utilizing advanced AI technology, we bring stories to life with professional images and lifelike, natural voices—captivating audiences, broadening reach, and driving content monetization. With tools for effortless video creation, custom thumbnails, short-form content, and interactive maps, we make telling stories easy, engaging, and impactful. What Makes Us Different: - End-to-End Simplicity: From idea to video in minutes, we eliminate the need for complex editing. - Premium Media Access: Powered by partnerships with Getty Images, ElevenLabs, Soundstripe, Statista, Maptiler and more ensuring every video looks professional. - Unparalleled Syndication: Distribute and monetize your content widely through partnerships with MSN, Yahoo, Apple News, and SmartNews. - Flexible Solutions: Whether self-serve or managed, we tailor our services to fit your needs. Rizzle AI-powered solutions enable you to present your content in an engaging and professional video format that captures audience's attention. Designed for businesses and creators, our service streamlines video production, making it efficient and accessible while allowing your teams to focus on strategy, creativity, and driving revenue through content monetization.

Builders Patch

Seed Round in 2021
We work with builders to manage their deal from acquisition to finance on one collaborative platform that allows all partners to access all information, analytics in real time. We help raise construction finance efficiently and easily through our marketplace.

Chptr

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Chptr is a mobile-first platform for memorialization that collects, shares, and preserves memories of a loved one's life for future generations. is a collection of recollections brought together to describe a loved one's entire life narrative.

Rizzle AI

Convertible Note in 2021
Rizzle empowers businesses and publishers to transform their text content and podcasts into engaging videos. Utilizing advanced AI technology, we bring stories to life with professional images and lifelike, natural voices—captivating audiences, broadening reach, and driving content monetization. With tools for effortless video creation, custom thumbnails, short-form content, and interactive maps, we make telling stories easy, engaging, and impactful. What Makes Us Different: - End-to-End Simplicity: From idea to video in minutes, we eliminate the need for complex editing. - Premium Media Access: Powered by partnerships with Getty Images, ElevenLabs, Soundstripe, Statista, Maptiler and more ensuring every video looks professional. - Unparalleled Syndication: Distribute and monetize your content widely through partnerships with MSN, Yahoo, Apple News, and SmartNews. - Flexible Solutions: Whether self-serve or managed, we tailor our services to fit your needs. Rizzle AI-powered solutions enable you to present your content in an engaging and professional video format that captures audience's attention. Designed for businesses and creators, our service streamlines video production, making it efficient and accessible while allowing your teams to focus on strategy, creativity, and driving revenue through content monetization.

Mighty Networks

Series B in 2021
Mighty Networks is an online platform for creators and brands to build communities. Their SaaS platform serves creators with the purpose of selling experiences, relationships, and expertise to their members via community, content, online courses, and subscription commerce–all offered in one place under the creator’s brand, on every platform. A Mighty Network brings together community, online courses, sales pages, and more in one place under their brand, available on every platform. A Mighty Network connects members to each other so that the creators' brand gets more valuable for every member with each new person who joins. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA.

Enjoy

Venture Round in 2021
Enjoy is a technology-powered platform reinventing commerce at home to bring the store directly to the customer. Their platform integrates orders, matches them in real-time to experts and coordinates logistics for delivery. Enjoy Technology files for bankruptcy (chapter 11)

Kognos

Seed Round in 2020
Kognos is a cloud-based detection and investigation platform that detects, investigates, and responds to attack campaigns. The XDR investigator platform gives security teams the ability to detect an attacker executing their campaign in real-time. It uses artificial intelligence to ask forensic questions per second, mining these relationships to track malicious users or external actors throughout the network and present the findings as visual stories that empower security analysts to respond in real-time and significantly reduce dwell time. The Santa Clara, California-based startup was founded in 2017 by Rakesh Nair.

Rocket Money

Series B in 2019
Truebill enables users to manage their personal finances and improve their financial health. It is a platform that allows users to find, track, and manage their subscription services and recurring bills. To use Truebill, users must simply connect their bank account or credit card statement and instantly see everything they're paying for on a recurring basis. Any unwanted subscriptions can be canceled with just a few clicks. Truebill is backed by Y Combinator, Social Capital, Cota Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mighty Networks

Series A in 2019
Mighty Networks is an online platform for creators and brands to build communities. Their SaaS platform serves creators with the purpose of selling experiences, relationships, and expertise to their members via community, content, online courses, and subscription commerce–all offered in one place under the creator’s brand, on every platform. A Mighty Network brings together community, online courses, sales pages, and more in one place under their brand, available on every platform. A Mighty Network connects members to each other so that the creators' brand gets more valuable for every member with each new person who joins. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA.

FILLD

Series B in 2018
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.

BlastWave

Series A in 2018
BlastWave protects infrastructure, smart factories, and high-value assets with the first of its kind, unhackable stack BlastWave is creating the next phase of cybersecurity solutions, built on proprietary hardware, software, and a social layer. Our mission is to protect our infrastructure from cyber threats, starting with IoT devices and networks. BlastWave is working exclusively with Axiados’ semiconductor technology in this endeavor, who is equally focused on this problem and market.

Berkeley Lights

Series E in 2018
Berkeley Lights is a provider of research and development services using micro-droplet technology intended to fundamentally change the way biological processes are done. The company's services revolutionize how scientists and researchers study the interaction of cells and transform and accelerate cellular therapies, enabling clients to meet the demands for cell-based processes in biotherapeutic discovery and development, cellular therapy manufacturing, synthetic biology, ag-bio, and other fields.

Rocket Money

Series A in 2018
Truebill enables users to manage their personal finances and improve their financial health. It is a platform that allows users to find, track, and manage their subscription services and recurring bills. To use Truebill, users must simply connect their bank account or credit card statement and instantly see everything they're paying for on a recurring basis. Any unwanted subscriptions can be canceled with just a few clicks. Truebill is backed by Y Combinator, Social Capital, Cota Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bossa Nova Robotics

Series C in 2018
Bossa Nova Robotics is a provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry. Its technology collects terabytes of data that enables the retail ecosystem to optimize the omnichannel shopping experience. With a multidisciplinary team of robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and big data scientists, Bossa Nova has solved the challenges to deploy fully autonomous service robots in busy and crowded environments. Bossa Nova is privately held and is founded in 2005. It is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Mountain View and Pittsburgh.

Signifyd

Series D in 2018
Signifyd is a SaaS-based, enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores. It simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. It was founded based on the belief that e-commerce businesses should be able to grow without fear of fraud. The solution solves the challenges that growing e-commerce businesses persistently face: billions of dollars lost in chargebacks, customer dissatisfaction from mistaken declines, and operational costs due to tedious, manual transaction investigations. Launched in 2011, Signifyd is used by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 lists.

Bossa Nova Robotics

Series B in 2017
Bossa Nova Robotics is a provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry. Its technology collects terabytes of data that enables the retail ecosystem to optimize the omnichannel shopping experience. With a multidisciplinary team of robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and big data scientists, Bossa Nova has solved the challenges to deploy fully autonomous service robots in busy and crowded environments. Bossa Nova is privately held and is founded in 2005. It is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Mountain View and Pittsburgh.

FILLD

Series A in 2017
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.

Katerra

Series C in 2017
Katerra is a technology company optimizing every aspect of building development, design, and construction. The global team includes leaders in design, software and building engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and construction. Katerra has a growing number of domestic and international offices, factories, and building projects.

Mighty Networks

Series A in 2016
Mighty Networks is an online platform for creators and brands to build communities. Their SaaS platform serves creators with the purpose of selling experiences, relationships, and expertise to their members via community, content, online courses, and subscription commerce–all offered in one place under the creator’s brand, on every platform. A Mighty Network brings together community, online courses, sales pages, and more in one place under their brand, available on every platform. A Mighty Network connects members to each other so that the creators' brand gets more valuable for every member with each new person who joins. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA.

Berkeley Lights

Series C in 2015
Berkeley Lights is a provider of research and development services using micro-droplet technology intended to fundamentally change the way biological processes are done. The company's services revolutionize how scientists and researchers study the interaction of cells and transform and accelerate cellular therapies, enabling clients to meet the demands for cell-based processes in biotherapeutic discovery and development, cellular therapy manufacturing, synthetic biology, ag-bio, and other fields.

Signifyd

Series A in 2015
Signifyd is a SaaS-based, enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores. It simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. It was founded based on the belief that e-commerce businesses should be able to grow without fear of fraud. The solution solves the challenges that growing e-commerce businesses persistently face: billions of dollars lost in chargebacks, customer dissatisfaction from mistaken declines, and operational costs due to tedious, manual transaction investigations. Launched in 2011, Signifyd is used by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 lists.

Boxbee, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Boxbee originally launched its operations in NYC and San Francisco and built a software platform that supported personal storage operations. Iron Mountain merged the storage operations it acquired from Boxbee with Box Butler and Corovan made a comparable move with its consumer-facing brand Brute Box Moving. Today, Boxbee is managed and operated by Corovan and launched operations across major metropolitan areas in the State of California.

LiquidSpace

Series C in 2014
LiquidSpace transforms the entire commercial real estate process. The LiquidSpace platform makes it easy to discover, transact, and manage your office space on flexible terms and puts the commercial real estate buyer in control. We’re removing the complexities of the traditional office rental process, and cultivating flexibility with the largest flexible office marketplace and a licensing standard that eliminates the need for complex, long-term leases. Providing on-demand workspace by the hour or day, a dedicated workspace for a month, or private office suites for your team for a year, LiquidSpace can help you compare options from the broadest network of operators at LiquidSpace.com.

Touch of Modern

Series B in 2014
Touch of Modern is a curated, online shopping destination for men to discover unexpected products, fashion brands, and accessories to elevate their lifestyle. We showcase one-of-a-kind, in-season products from well-known brands and up-and- coming designers that are hard to find in mainstream retailers or at better prices. We are the fastest growing men’s e-commerce company with over seven and a half million registered users, one million orders driven, 150 percent year-over-year growth and $17 million in venture funding.

Avinger

Debt Financing in 2013
Avinger, Inc., a medical device company, engages in developing catheter-based technologies for treating vascular diseases. It offers Wildcat, a catheter that helps physicians in treating peripheral artery disease. The company also produces the Lightbox imaging console, the Ocelot family of catheters, which are designed to allow physicians to penetrate a total blockage in an artery, known as a chronic total occlusion (CTO), and Pantheris, an image-guided atherectomy device which is designed to allow physicians to precisely remove arterial plaque in PAD patients. The company was founded in 2007 by John B. Simpson and is based in Redwood City, California.

Reverb Technologies

Series C in 2013
Reverb builds technology that creates connections between ideas and people. Our personalization, recommendation, and content analysis technologies allow us to extract the true meaning from content, and to intelligently respond to user preferences and interests. Our products include the Reverb News App, Reverb Recommendations, and Swagger. Our solutions are now implemented across Fortune 500 content, video, and product companies. For more information please visit helloreverb.com, or follow us on Twitter @Reverb.

Chegg

Private Equity Round in 2012
Chegg is a student media learning platform offering services to universities and community colleges. The company also helps students become smarter, saves time & money. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.

Avinger

Series C in 2012
Avinger, Inc., a medical device company, engages in developing catheter-based technologies for treating vascular diseases. It offers Wildcat, a catheter that helps physicians in treating peripheral artery disease. The company also produces the Lightbox imaging console, the Ocelot family of catheters, which are designed to allow physicians to penetrate a total blockage in an artery, known as a chronic total occlusion (CTO), and Pantheris, an image-guided atherectomy device which is designed to allow physicians to precisely remove arterial plaque in PAD patients. The company was founded in 2007 by John B. Simpson and is based in Redwood City, California.

Mighty Networks

Seed Round in 2011
Mighty Networks is an online platform for creators and brands to build communities. Their SaaS platform serves creators with the purpose of selling experiences, relationships, and expertise to their members via community, content, online courses, and subscription commerce–all offered in one place under the creator’s brand, on every platform. A Mighty Network brings together community, online courses, sales pages, and more in one place under their brand, available on every platform. A Mighty Network connects members to each other so that the creators' brand gets more valuable for every member with each new person who joins. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA.

Reverb Technologies

Series C in 2011
Reverb builds technology that creates connections between ideas and people. Our personalization, recommendation, and content analysis technologies allow us to extract the true meaning from content, and to intelligently respond to user preferences and interests. Our products include the Reverb News App, Reverb Recommendations, and Swagger. Our solutions are now implemented across Fortune 500 content, video, and product companies. For more information please visit helloreverb.com, or follow us on Twitter @Reverb.

Chegg

Venture Round in 2011
Chegg is a student media learning platform offering services to universities and community colleges. The company also helps students become smarter, saves time & money. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.

Capella

Venture Round in 2011
Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs.

Reverb Technologies

Series C in 2010
Reverb builds technology that creates connections between ideas and people. Our personalization, recommendation, and content analysis technologies allow us to extract the true meaning from content, and to intelligently respond to user preferences and interests. Our products include the Reverb News App, Reverb Recommendations, and Swagger. Our solutions are now implemented across Fortune 500 content, video, and product companies. For more information please visit helloreverb.com, or follow us on Twitter @Reverb.

Capella

Venture Round in 2008
Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs.
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