Luminous Ventures

Luminous Ventures Limited is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage, Seed, Seed+ and Series A investments. The firm seeks to invest in businesses developing frontier technologies companies, applied science, healthcare, life science, nutrition, food and agriculture. Luminous Ventures Limited was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Europe and North America.

9 past transactions

Magdrive

Private Placement in 2020
Magdrive Limited develops a next generation of spacecraft propulsion for small satellites. The company offers technology of new plasma thruster that combines both high thrust of chemical rockets and the high efficiency of other electric thrusters. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Didcot, United Kingdom.

Astroscreen Ltd

Private Placement in 2019
Astroscreen Ltd develops software as a service (SaaS) based platform that uses machine learning techniques and human intelligence to detect astroturfing campaigns. The platform detects fake accounts and botnets. It uses machine learning techniques and social media bot data to detect fake accounts, bots, and spams on social networks. Astroscreen Ltd was incorporated in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Hadean

Private Placement in 2019
Hadean Supercomputing Ltd. develops an application platform that enables developers to run algorithms using existing tool chain. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Mahana Therapeutics

Private Placement in 2020
Mahana Therapeutics, Inc. develops an application for treating patients suffering from gastrointestinal (GI) diseases and conditions. The company offers Parallel, a clinically-validated and minimal-contact digital program for people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Mahana Therapeutics, Inc. was formerly known as Mahana Health, Inc. and changed its name to Mahana Therapeutics, Inc. in July 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

Phenomic AI

Private Placement in 2020
Phenomic AI is a developer of a drug discovery platform designed to discovery and optimize therapeutics directly against phenotypic assays.The company's platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze phenotypes in complex disease models including high-content co-culture and 3D assays, enabling pharmaceutical companies to discover drugs in an easier way.

Optellum

Private Placement in 2019
Optellum Ltd develops AI clinical decision support software for lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. Optellum Ltd was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Temporall Ltd.

Private Placement in 2020
Temporall Ltd. develops an online platform that offers advice, guidance, and operational assistance to businesses and other organizations on management issues, such as corporate strategic and organizational planning, business process re-engineering, change management, marketing objectives and policies; human resource policies, practices, and planning; and production scheduling and control planning. Temporall Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Climax Foods

Private Placement in 2020
Climax Foods Inc. produces plant based food using its artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Its products match the taste and texture of animal based food using data science and machine learning. The company's technology consists of multiple synergistic, data science, simulation, machine learning, and predictive model frameworks to accelerate the food innovation processes. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Universal Quantum

Private Placement in 2020
Universal Quantum is building quantum computers to tackle real-world problems that would take today’s fastest supercomputers billions of years to solve.