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Luminous Ventures

Luminous Ventures portfolio

Luminous Ventures has 3 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: luminousvc.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 3.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Rounds led: 1 of 4.

Capital in their rounds: $256.5M.

Latest deal: Laiye · May 17, 2022.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm. It led 1 of the 4 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Laiye's $160M Series B+ round in May 2022, alongside HOPU Investment Management Company, VMS Asset Management, Youshan Capital and 1 other. By category, its portfolio leans toward Robotics and hardware (2) and AI agents (1). It has co-invested with Lightspeed, Wu Capital and HOPU Investment Management Company, most often Lightspeed (3 rounds).

About Luminous Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Sectors: Climate Tech, Consumer, Deep Tech, Fintech, Hardware, SaaS.

Leads rounds: No.

What Luminous Ventures invests in

Robotics and hardware · 2 · 67%
AI agents · 1 · 33%
HR and recruiting · 1 · 33%
Manufacturing and industrial · 1 · 33%

Luminous Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
LLaiye	Series B+ · $160M	May 17, 2022	HOPU Investment Management Company (lead), VMS Asset Management, Youshan Capital +1
LLaiye	Series B+ · $50M	Apr 20, 2021	Wu Capital, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Equity Investment Fund (lead), Ping An Global Voyager (lead) +2
UUniversal Quantum	Seed · $4.5M	Jun 14, 2020	JANSZKY GmbH, LA ROCA Capital, Hoxton Ventures +4
LLaiye	Series B+ · $42M · lead	Feb 24, 2020	Wu Capital, Cathay Innovation, Lightspeed (lead)

How Luminous Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	3 75%	$252M
Seed	1 25%	$4.5M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2020	2 50%	$46.5M
2021	1 25%	$50M
2022	1 25%	$160M

Luminous Ventures portfolio companies

LLaiye$160MSeries B+ · May 2022
UUniversal Quantum$4.5MSeed · Jun 2020
AAmbibacker

Company	Round with Luminous Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
LLaiye AI agents	May 17, 2022 Series B+ · $160M	$252M	May 17, 2022 Series B+
UUniversal Quantum Robotics and hardware	Jun 14, 2020 Seed · $4.5M	$104.5M	Oct 8, 2026 Series A
AAmbi	backer	$26M	Oct 5, 2026 Seed

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Robotics and hardware).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 4 rounds on Recent Funding that name Luminous Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Luminous Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/luminous-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.