Why Securities?
Securities is Danny Crichton’s newsletter exploring the complex tradeoffs at the intersections of science, technology, finance and the human condition. It’s a publication of Lux Capital.
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Who is Danny?
Danny Crichton analyzes technology, growth and power as Editor-in-Chief of Securities and Riskgaming in my position as Partner, Research at Lux Capital.
Prior to Lux, he was managing editor at TechCrunch as well as previously a foreign correspondent based in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he wrote more than 1,000 news stories and longform analyses chronicling U.S.-Asia technology relations, semiconductors, data infrastructure, fintech, disaster and climate tech, venture finance, product development, and a wide number of other complex subjects with technical and policy intersections.
In addition to his reporting and analysis at TechCrunch, he co-hosted its leading podcast Equity; co-programmed stages at its flagship Disrupt SF and Berlin conferences as well as its Sessions and Early Stage events; launched the premium news service Extra Crunch and grew it to seven figures of revenue; co-managed a multi-million dollar freelance budget; developed the TC-1 series of deep startup profiles and The TechCrunch List; and contributed broadly to the organization’s news, operational, and talent development strategy.
There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom. –Clausewitz
Danny is also a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and has published research on AI and urban economics; overseas venture capital; as well as technology and economic development with City Journal, the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the National Review. Formerly, he was an early-stage venture capitalist with General Catalyst in Palo Alto and Charles River Ventures in Boston and New York.
After graduating Stanford with honors in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, he was awarded a Fulbright research scholarship to South Korea, where he investigated the country’s modern industrial policy for startup innovation at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST).
Danny is based in Brooklyn, New York.
What is Lux Capital?
Lux Capital is an early-to-growth stage venture capital firm that specializes in startups translating sci-fi to sci-fact in the computational, physical and life sciences. With offices in New York City and Silicon Valley, Lux has grown to 40 full-time professionals who manage more than $7.5 billion of capital. Its startups can be found across the United States and throughout allied nations, including Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, Bulgaria, Lithuania and more.
