Shahin Farshchi

Partner at Lux Capital. Brain-chip designer, founder, pilot, car enthusiast, trekkie, dad, Bear, and Bruin

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor and Board Member
May 2026
Observable Space is an LA-based space startup building the infrastructure to enable satellites and spacecraft to see, navigate and communicate. The vertically-integrated, full-stack company develops and builds advanced optical systems across laser communications, ground-based sensing, and in-space payloads. Co-founded in 2025 by former SpaceX exec Dan Roelker, Observable Space now employs more than 175 people across its manufacturing, engineering, spacecraft, and design labs.
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2024
Majestic Labs is reimagining AI infrastructure for the world’s most demanding workloads. Today, organizations are forced to overprovision expensive compute just to access the required memory their models need. We took a fundamentally different approach by pairing a massive amount of compute with 1000x the memory to create game changing improvements in performance, power and deployment efficiency. Our customers can literally replace racks of traditional AI infrastructure with a single Majestic server.
Investor and Board Member
May 2024
Cognichip is developing the world’s first Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®) to reimagine chip design. Founded by experts from Amazon, Google, Apple, Aquantia, Synopsys, and KLA, the company tackles high cost and inaccessibility in chip development, enabling hardware to evolve as quickly as AI software innovation. Backed by $33 million in seed funding from Mayfield, Lux Capital, FPV, and Candou Ventures, Cognichip’s ACI® features a first-of-its-kind physics-informed foundation model, purposely built for semiconductors. ACI® accelerates innovation and broadens access to semiconductor technology by making it easier, more affordable, and accessible to a broader range of innovators.
Investor and Board Observer
Jun 2022
Impulse Space, the in-space mobility company, is accelerating our future beyond Earth beginning with a fleet of cost-effective, high-performance space vehicles. Founded by Tom Mueller and led by a team of industry pioneers, Impulse Space is transforming in-space mobility by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
Board Member
May 2022
Epsilon3 is the leading solution for complex engineering, testing and operations. Our intuitive cloud-based platform helps your team plan, build, test and analyze—so you can focus on innovation and growth. With Epsilon3, you can expect: - Standardized operations and workflows - Improved visibility, traceability and scalability - Integrated, compliant and secure deployment - Enhanced communication and collaboration - Reduced errors and overhead costs Epsilon3 is backed by Y Combinator, Lux Capital, and other world-class investors.
Board Member
Dec 2021
At Formic, we make automation simple. Were dedicated to helping manufacturing businesses across the United States supercharge their productivity. Our cutting-edge robot fleet empowers factories to pack goods and stack onto pallets with confidence, savings, and simplicity that they cant find anywhere else. Our versatile robots play a role in producing a wide array of products you know and love - from delicious chocolate chip cookies and matcha powder to specialty chemicals and hardware fasteners, and more. Were on a mission to create a world of abundance through innovative automation solutions. Discover the impact of our technology at www.formic.co.
Board Member
Aug 2021
We are on a mission to make public information systems more valuable, beginning with public notice.
Board Member
Dec 2020
At MosaicML, we believe that all organizations should have access to state-of-the art AI capabilities. Our fully managed infrastructure and software tools lets you train and deploy large-scale machine learning models using your own data. We optimize every layer of the model development process - from algorithms to systems to hardware - so you can get more accurate insights, faster. We’ll help you train the ML models you need with the time and budget you have. Let’s put your data to work.
Board Member
Feb 2018
Subspace offers a global managed delivery service for WEBRTC and real-time traffic. Spacespace routes your traffic over the world’s most highly available, ultra low latency, global private network- with a simple configuration change. Subspace is built to optimize real-time application network traffic when every millisecond impacts the customer experience. With our dedicated fiber-optic backbone, globally distributed hardware and proprietary AI weather-mapping software, your WebRTC applications are faster and more stable than the competition.
Investor
Oct 2017
Our mission is to build the Covariant Brain, a universal AI to give robots the ability to see, reason and act on the world around them. Bringing AI from research in the lab to the infinite variability and constant change of our customer’s real-world operations requires new ideas, approaches and techniques. Success in the real world requires a team that represents that world: diversity of backgrounds, points of view, and experiences. Our common denominator: ambitious expectations, love of learning, empathy for those around us, and a team-first mindset.
Board Member
Dec 2016
Aeva’s mission is to bring the next wave of perception to a broad range of applications from automated driving to industrial robotics, consumer electronics, consumer health, security and beyond. Aeva is transforming autonomy with its groundbreaking sensing and perception technology that integrates all key LiDAR components onto a silicon photonics chip in a compact module. Aeva 4D LiDAR sensors uniquely detect instant velocity in addition to 3D position, allowing autonomous devices like vehicles and robots to make more intelligent and safe decisions.
early stageAutomotive
Board Member
Nov 2015
Survios is an award-winning console, VR, and PC game development studio located in Marina del Rey, CA. We’ve developed top selling games like Creed: Rise to Glory, Westworld, The Walking Dead: Onslaught, and Alien: Rogue Incursion. We take a holistic approach to development, merging our hardware, software, and games expertise to create unbelievable immersive game experiences. We offer successful applicants a competitive salary and benefit packages including medical, dental, and vision, comprehensive mental health support through Teladoc, unlimited PTO for full-time exempt employees, permanent remote work, free courses for Agile, Leadership, and Art, a dog friendly office, and much more. Our company culture is an open environment for people to be themselves and share their ideas, perspectives, and spirit. Anti-crunch, healthy work life balance is a core pillar of who we are and what we communicate and value. We take diversity seriously and hire incredible people from different backgrounds to inform our stories and enrich our culture. By teaming up with people of diverse strengths and life experiences, weve made a home for exciting new ideas that continue to push us beyond our imagination. Survios is an equal opportunity employer. Connect with us⬇️ linktr.ee/survios Facebook: @SurviosVR Instagram: @Survios Twitter (X): @Survios Discord: discord.gg/Survios
early stageComputer Games
Board Observer
Jul 2015
Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.
early stageAutomotive
Board Member
Apr 2015
Founded in 2012 by Mike Henry and Dave Fick, and based in Austin, TX and Redwood City, CA, Mythic is creating a unified hardware and software platform that relies on unique analog compute-in-memory technology to deliver revolutionary power, cost, and performance that will shatter the limits restricting AI innovation. Mythic is making it much easier and more affordable to deploy powerful AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.
Board Observer
Feb 2014
Nervana Systems is an artificial intelligence software company based in San Diego, California, and Palo Alto, California. The company provides a full-stack software-as-a-service platform called Nervana Cloud that enables businesses to develop custom deep learning software. On August 9, 2016, it was acquired by Intel, for an estimated $408 million.
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2026
Investor and Board Member
May 2026
Observable Space is an LA-based space startup building the infrastructure to enable satellites and spacecraft to see, navigate and communicate. The vertically-integrated, full-stack company develops and builds advanced optical systems across laser communications, ground-based sensing, and in-space payloads. Co-founded in 2025 by former SpaceX exec Dan Roelker, Observable Space now employs more than 175 people across its manufacturing, engineering, spacecraft, and design labs.
2024
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2024
Majestic Labs is reimagining AI infrastructure for the world’s most demanding workloads. Today, organizations are forced to overprovision expensive compute just to access the required memory their models need. We took a fundamentally different approach by pairing a massive amount of compute with 1000x the memory to create game changing improvements in performance, power and deployment efficiency. Our customers can literally replace racks of traditional AI infrastructure with a single Majestic server.
Investor and Board Member
May 2024
Cognichip is developing the world’s first Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®) to reimagine chip design. Founded by experts from Amazon, Google, Apple, Aquantia, Synopsys, and KLA, the company tackles high cost and inaccessibility in chip development, enabling hardware to evolve as quickly as AI software innovation. Backed by $33 million in seed funding from Mayfield, Lux Capital, FPV, and Candou Ventures, Cognichip’s ACI® features a first-of-its-kind physics-informed foundation model, purposely built for semiconductors. ACI® accelerates innovation and broadens access to semiconductor technology by making it easier, more affordable, and accessible to a broader range of innovators.
2022
Investor and Board Observer
Jun 2022
Impulse Space, the in-space mobility company, is accelerating our future beyond Earth beginning with a fleet of cost-effective, high-performance space vehicles. Founded by Tom Mueller and led by a team of industry pioneers, Impulse Space is transforming in-space mobility by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
Board Member
May 2022
Epsilon3 is the leading solution for complex engineering, testing and operations. Our intuitive cloud-based platform helps your team plan, build, test and analyze—so you can focus on innovation and growth. With Epsilon3, you can expect: - Standardized operations and workflows - Improved visibility, traceability and scalability - Integrated, compliant and secure deployment - Enhanced communication and collaboration - Reduced errors and overhead costs Epsilon3 is backed by Y Combinator, Lux Capital, and other world-class investors.
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