investments At Lucas Venture Group we invest in people with great ideas, supporting those who create the companies that will change our world. Below lists our most recent investments. Click here to view our on-going investments. Avinger Private Founded in 2007 by renowned cardiologist and medical device entrepreneur Dr. John B. Simpson, Avinger develops next-generation catheter-based technologies for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD). Chegg Private Chegg is #1 in textbook rentals. Don't buy it, rent college textbooks from us and save a ton on books. We plant a tree every time you rent online. Reputation.com                                                       Private Founded in 2006 to defend your good name on the Internet, Reputation Defender has grown to be the world's first comprehensive online reputation management and privacy company. Wired Benefits Private WiredBenefits provides products and services to help connect consumers, employers and healthcare providers. Wordnik Private As a leading provider of dynamic digital word data, the Company's platform enables a suite of new produces and services for publishers, websites, mobile devices, ereaders and tablet manufacturers, search engines, developers, analytic companies, test prep organization, government, and professional firms in areas such as legal, finance, and marketing. The Company has developed a lightweight, open technology standard called Smartwords, that provides an open standard for retrieving and publishing contextually-aware information about words. Twitter Private Twitter is a rich source of instantly updated information. It's easy to stay updated on an incredibly wide variety of topics.