Klaus Hommels
Founder & CEO @ Lakestar
Zürich, Switzerland
Klaus Hommels is a seed investor at Lakestar in Zürich focused on E-Commerce and Software. Klaus Hommels is the Chairman of Lakestar. Klaus previously worked at NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) as a Chairman. Klaus Hommels attended the University of Fribourg.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Klaus Hommels invests in
Stages Klaus Hommels invests in
Countries Klaus Hommels invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$50M
- Series A
- $10M–$98M
- Series B
- $7M–$260M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (17%)
- Software 4 (14%)
- News 3 (10%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
- Military 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (31%)
- Series A 8 (28%)
- Series B 3 (10%)
- Funding Round 3 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (7%)
Country
- Germany 10 (34%)
- United Kingdom 5 (17%)
- Sweden 2 (7%)
- United States 2 (7%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Agon wants to help customers prepare for current military scenarios, such as allowing counter-drone systems to practice reactions to virtual drone swarms. | $23M / Seed / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance. | $97.6M / Series A / Jun 30, 2026 | ||
| SE3 Labs creates Spatial AI tools to improve real-time awareness in defense, construction, and smart systems. | $6.3M / Seed / Jun 26, 2026 | ||
| Isar Aerospace develops and operates launch services for small and medium-sized satellites, supporting both dedicated and rideshare missions to orbit. Its core offering is the Spectrum launch vehicle, a two-stage rocket designed to deploy satellites and satellite constellations into low Earth orbit with flexible launch configurations. The companydesigns and manufactures its launch technology in-house, using automated production processes and a vertically integrated approach to vehicle development. In addition to launch services, Isar Aerospace works with commercial, institutional, and space industry customers seeking access to orbital transportation for satellite missions. The company focuses on expanding launch capacity and supporting the growing demand for satellite deployment and space-based infrastructure. | $311.6M / Series D / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| UFORCE is a defence technology business that specialises on combat-proven unmanned systems for air, ground, and marine operations. | $50M / Seed / Mar 05, 2026 | ||
| Onodrim Industries is a European defence and industrial technology platform developing the next generation of hardware, software, and industrial capacity required for Europe's long-term security, resilience, and prosperity. The company focuses on mission-critical systems across defence manufacturing, advanced sensing, and networked platformsto strengthen deterrence, improve readiness, and enable seamless interoperability among European and allied forces. Backed by a coalition of leading European and American investors, Onodrim is focused on rebuilding the foundations of Europe's defence ecosystem and addressing high-priority national security challenges, from border protection to resilient supply chains for key mission systems. Onodrim's leadership team draws on senior experience across government, advanced engineering, and global technology organizations. | $47.4M / Seed / Feb 13, 2026 | ||
| Constellr creates imaging technology for the agriculture industry to evaluate soil health, vegetation, and industrial monitoring, using proprietary space infrastructure. Constellr supports food security by enabling high-precision smart farming services across the globe. The company specializes in tackling climate change with accountability andmonitoring data for multiple markets. | $44M / Series A / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. | $22.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| Neko Health is a Swedish health-tech business. Its ambition is to build a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy by focusing on prevention and early detection. Neko has created a new medical scanning technology concept that allows for comprehensive and non-invasive health data collection that is both convenient and economical for thegeneral people. | $260M / Series B / Jan 22, 2025 | ||
| Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. | Pre-Seed / Jun 18, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Lakestar
Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expanded and broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London. Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.
Lakestar Contacts
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Mathias Haniel
Partner
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Mika Salmi
Managing Partner
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Oliver Heimes
Partner
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Stephen Nundy
Partner & Chief Technology Officer
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Steven Jacobs
Partner & Chief Product Officer
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FAQ
What does Klaus Hommels invest in?
Klaus Hommels invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and News startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Klaus Hommels invest in?
Klaus Hommels typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$50M at Seed, $10M–$98M at Series A and $7M–$260M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Klaus Hommels's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Klaus Hommels took part in.
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When did Klaus Hommels last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Klaus Hommels closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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