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Bilal Zuberi
partner, lux capital

Bilal is attracted to startups that solve real, practical problems with technically ambitious solutions. They are often the first of their kind. They might address challenges around physical security by inventing advanced sensors, improve air traffic management for drones, transform manufacturing and automate our world, or build connected devices that reshape consumers’ lives.

Bilal leads Lux’s investments in SailDrone, autonomous ocean data collection; AirMap, airspace traffic management; Desktop Metal, metal 3D printing; Nozomi Networks, industrial cyber security; Evolv, physical security screening; CyPhyWorks, commercial drones; NoonHome, intelligent lighting; Orbital Insight, AI for satellite imagery; HappiestBaby, connected nursery for babies; Veo Robotics, collaborative industrial robotics; Hangar Technology, global aerial data capture; Lightform, Projection AR; Deep Sentinel, home security, and StrangeWorks, quantum computing.

Prior to joining Lux, Bilal was an investor at General Catalyst Partners.

Before he became an investor, Bilal was an entrepreneur. He cofounded GEO2 Technologies, an advanced materials company that also spun out Bio2 Technologies, company that makes bone-graft materials, among other things. Earlier in his career, Bilal was a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and a visiting scientist at PNNL/DOE Labs.

Bilal served as an advisor to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and the founding team of the School of Science and Engineering at LUMS University. He co-founded several initiatives to promote university entrepreneurship, including,, and University Research and Entrepreneurship Symposium. Bilal currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Lemelson Foundation for invention and entrepreneurship. He frequently speaks at universities and conferences on technology, entrepreneurship and startup ecosystems.

He earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (under Prof. Mario Molina, Nobel laureate, 1995), and his technical work has been published in peer-reviewed journals. He holds 30+ patents and patent applications.