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AI is spiking chip design costs – can it solve them too?

The old adage of “If you build it, they will come” might be translated into chip design better as, “You can’t build it, since they don’t exist.” The small but crucial profession of chip design used to be a quieter niche within the broader semiconductor market, with just a handful of companies hirin…

49. Shahin Farshchi Ph.D, General Partner at Lux Capital

Lux Capital General Partner Shahin Farshchi, PhD, talked with me about his background, Lux’s history, and how the firm came to position itself as the leading investor in hard-tech. A focus on outstanding teams, market readiness, patience and taking the lead from entrepreneurs on the “next great sec…

6,800 Harvard students barred, OpenAI UAE megahub, EU €40M defense push

Featured Guests: Shahin Farshchi, partner, Lux Capital | Connor Love, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners The Trump administration has banned Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, seriously threatening the admission status of 6,800 Harvard students, OpenAI is building a mega AI hub …

E1: Shahin Farshchi: Investing at Lux Capital and Accelerating a Sci-Fi Future

This is it—the very first episode of We The Builders. Earlier this year, I sat down with Shahin Farshchi in LA. He is a General Partner at Lux Capital, a venture fund with $5B AUM. To kick us off, who better than the man who was investing in hard tech 18 years before it was cool: Shahin has investe…

How compute and AI will create next-gen superapps

The launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5 has ushered in a panoply of views on the future of AGI and end-user applications. Does the platform’s aggressive router presage a future of lobotomized AI responses driven more by compute efficiency than quality? Will new chip models be able to make up the difference? A…

In Conversation with Shahin Farshchi at Lux Capital, $7B Fund Accelerating SciFi

Special conversation with Shahin Farshchi at Hill & Valley Forum 2026 now available wherever you get your podcasts. Lux Capital has deployed over $7B in deeptech and have been accelerating us towards SciFi future for over 20 years. Shahin has invested in companies manufacturing in space (Varda), b…

The Future of AI: Agents, Defense, Space & Trillion-Dollar Startups with Shahin Farshchi & Ann Bordetsky

Dan Nathan sits down with Lux Capital partner Shahin Farshchi and AI investor Ann Bordetsky from the RBC Private Tech Conference to explore what comes after ChatGPT — and where the next wave of AI is headed. From defense, robotics, semiconductors, and space infrastructure to AI agents, enterpris…

Bullish on Automation and Robotics, but not Humanoid Robots | Shahin Farshchi

Robotics hype is everywhere, but are humanoids actually the main event? Lux Capital partner Shahin Farshchi joins David to explain why the bigger opportunity may be AI-powered automation hiding inside factories, warehouses, and other industrial settings.---📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOT…

Businesses Benefitting from the AI Boom: Opportunities in Innovative Hardware

[Monty2026: Disruptive Technologies] Stelios Diamantidis (Chief Product Officer, Cognichip), Ofer Shacham (Co-Founder & CEO, Majestic Labs), and Joseph Costello (CEO, InPho) discuss AI hardware bottlenecks with moderator Shahin Farshchi (General Partner, Lux Capital). Framed around Nvidia's $20 b…

Lux Capital’s Shahin Farshchi on Opportunities in Neuro

Shahin Farshchi, partner at Lux Capital, joins us to talk about investing in the next generation of neural interfaces. Lux is currently investing out of a $1.5B fund, and its portfolio includes Anduril, Hugging Face, Zoox, and CTRL-Labs.Shahin likes to say neural interfaces have been “five years aw…