Grace Isford

Grace Isford is a Partner at Lux Capital where she invests in pre-seed, seed, early-stage, and growth companies across data and LLM software infrastructure, network and compute infrastructure, and vertical LLM applications, as well as AI, ML infrastructure, data, developer tools, open source software, enterprise and infrastructure, vertical software applications, fintech, and blockchain infrastructure. She invests in companies in the United States and Japan. She serves on the board of Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and has invested in companies like Sakana AI, Runway, Together.xyz, Reflex, and LangChain. Before Lux, she was an investor at Canvas Ventures, Stripes Group, and Stanford Management Company, and worked in product management at Handshake (Stryder Corp.) and in operations at Lean In. Grace graduated from Stanford University and lives in New York.