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Bilal Zuberi
Founder and Managing Partner, Red Glass Ventures
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Menlo Park, CA
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Bilal Zuberi is founder and managing partner of Red Glass Ventures, a Menlo Park firm investing at the intersection of AI and the physical world, including infrastructure, robotics and healthcare technologies. He launched the firm in January 2025 after twelve years as a general partner at Lux Capital, where he sat on the boards of Applied Intuition and Saildrone. Red Glass has backed Nominal, a hardware test and analysis software company that raised an 80 million dollar round in 2026. He holds a PhD in physical chemistry from MIT.
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Nominal
Builds test, monitoring and analysis software for hardware engineering teams in aerospace and defense.
2026 round
Applied Intuition
Builds simulation and autonomy software for self driving and defense vehicles.
Series F 2025, Lux board seat
appliedintuition.com
Saildrone
Operates unmanned surface vehicles for ocean mapping, data and maritime defense missions.
Series C 2025, Lux board seat
saildrone.com
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