Lux Capital, identified for investing in life science and frontier tech startups, is again out there to fundraise for its newest automobile — however this time with out a devoted late-stage entity.

The agency is concentrating on over $1 billion for Lux Ventures VIII, in keeping with meeting materials from the New Mexico State Funding Council (NM SIC) for March 28, which dedicated $62.5 million to the fund. The fund will mix the agency’s early and late-stage investing methods into one pool.

The agency was based in 2000 and has raised $4 billion throughout 9 earlier funds. Lux declined to touch upon its fundraising efforts.

The fund will nonetheless put money into later-stage alternatives, however the agency’s founder and managing associate, Josh Wolfe, instructed the NM SIC that the fund will primarily make investments on the early stage, and can proceed the agency’s thesis of investing on the intersection of sciences and tech.

The agency most not too long ago raised a pair of funds in June 2021 that totaled almost $1.5 billion. This included $675 million for early-stage targeted Lux Ventures VII, and $800 million for Lux Complete Alternatives Fund, a late-stage fund.

Lux is the most recent agency with early-stage roots to ditch a devoted late-stage fund provided that the late-stage and exit environments have remained muted over the previous yr. Final month, Y Combinator said it will shut down its continuity fund, pulling again from late-stage investing and letting go of 20% of its crew in a single transfer.

A number of corporations, together with Founders Fund and Vibe Capital, have both shrunk the scale of their funds or given buyers a few of their capital again as a result of softening market.

As 2023 rolls on, we anticipate to see extra funds retreat to their conventional investing stage.