Bilal Zuberi

Partner | Lux Capital

Bilal believes technology can help address some of the world’s largest problems, from mobility and connectivity to food scarcity, manufacturing, healthcare, and climate change. He invests in startups that solve big, practical problems with technically ambitious solutions.

Bilal backs founders at any stage of their journey who are driven to build very large companies and envision a better, more prosperous future than today. Having been on boards of companies from seed stage to IPO, Bilal has led investments in disruptive technology and software companies like DesktopMetal, Evolv Technology, Applied Intuition, Ironclad, Saildrone, OpenSpace, Fiddler, Nozomi, Meter, Commure, Orbital Insight, Happiest Baby, and several others.

Prior to joining Lux, Bilal was an investor at General Catalyst Partners. Before becoming an investor, he was an entrepreneur and co-founded GEO2 Technologies. Earlier in his career, Bilal was a strategy consultant at BCG and a visiting scientist at PNNL/DOE Labs.

Bilal has a passion for higher education and among other roles served as member of the founding team of the School of Science and Engineering at LUMS University. He also co-founded few initiatives to promote university entrepreneurship, including student-led investment fund, RoughDraft.vc. He presently serves on the Advisory Board of the Lemelson Foundation.

Bilal earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (under Prof. Mario Molina, Nobel laureate, 1995). He is an immigrant citizen in this country and is thankful every day for the opportunities that he has been afforded here.