Peter Hébert
Partner and Co-Founder·Lux Capital
Bio
Professional summary
Peter Hébert is Partner and Co-Founder at Lux Capital. Lux's official profile says he co-founded the firm to back scientifically and technologically ambitious ventures and now helps lead investments across technology and healthcare. The profile describes Lux's broad frontier focus across AI, automation, biotech, compute, defense, energy, infrastructure, robotics, and related sectors, while specifically crediting Peter with launching Lux's Health + Tech investment strategy and related Nasdaq index and ETF initiatives. It also describes his role in investments such as Auris Health, Everspin Technologies, Flex Logix, Lux Research, Luxtera, Matterport, SiBEAM, Thematic, Transphorm, and Vium, and notes early career experience in Lehman Brothers equity research and education at Syracuse University.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Sector
Thesis
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Frame the opportunity as a scientifically or technologically ambitious company with potential to become infrastructure for a future market, especially if healthcare or deep tech is relevant.
Partneralization hooks
- 1Reference Lux's thesis around once-impossible technologies becoming mainstream.
- 2For health or technology companies, connect to his Health + Tech strategy and digital health work.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Official profile states he launched Lux's Health + Tech investment strategy, the Nasdaq Lux Health Tech Index, and helped launch a digital health ETF.
Official profile lists current investments including Adimab, Basic Capital, eGenesis, Mendaera, Perchwell, Ripcord, Saildrone, and Vosbor.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Lux CapitalCo-Founder & PartnerUnknown – Present
- Lux ResearchFounding CEO (spin-off)2003 – Unknown
- ThematicCo-Founder2021 – Unknown
- Lehman BrothersEquity ResearchUnknown – Unknown
Education
- Syracuse University - Newhouse SchoolB.A., Unknown
Skills
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