# Lukas Weder

> Lukas Weder is a pre-seed investor at Founderful backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Founderful](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wingman-897a)
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 85%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-weder-249a74166/
- Website: https://www.wingman.ch

Lukas Weder is a pre-seed investor at Founderful in Zürich focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Lukas Weder is based out of Zürich, Zurich and is the Founding Partner of Founderful. Lukas previously worked at Board Member Arqhas a Board Member. Lukas Weder attended the University of St. Gallen.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 15% |
| Renewable Energy | 2 | 15% |
| B2B | 1 | 8% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sparkli | Sparkli offers an AI-powered educational platform that turns children’s questions into interactive learning journeys called “expeditions.” The platform generates multimodal content blending visuals, audio narration, games, and quizzes to help learners explore topics and build skills like design thinking, financial literacy, sustainability, andemotional intelligence. It personalizes experiences using generative AI so that young learners engage with content aligned to their curiosity and interests. Sparkli also includes features to track progress and encourage regular engagement through challenges, rewards, and creative reflections. The platform supports both individual exploration and guided learning contexts for children. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Apheros | Apheros is a metal foam cooling solutions company. It offers a patent-pending, easily scalable manufacturing approach for metal foams with unique cooling qualities. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Aug 19, 2024 |  |
| 8links | 8links offers a multi-layer coating technique for scalable lithium-ion battery manufacture. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |
| 8links | 8links offers a multi-layer coating technique for scalable lithium-ion battery manufacture. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |
| Axmed | Axmed is a business focuses on LMICs and strengthens the purchasing power of these markets to ensure the supply of cost-effective, high-quality medicines. We partner exclusively with authorized, high-quality pharmaceutical companies and certified caregivers to accelerate access to medicines. | $2M | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| UniSieve | UniSieve is a cleantech company that provides molecular separation membrane solutions for a wide range of applications. Its platform technology enables a unique combination of various molecular sieves and polymeric membranes, yielding reliable separation solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $5.4M | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Calvin Risk | Calvin Risk develops comprehensive and quantitative solutions for assessing and managing the risks of commercial AI algorithms. Its risk assessment framework and risk management platform lay the groundwork for reliable and responsible AI. The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| aspaara AG | We help companies to save money, enhance efficiency, and improve employee happiness with our AI workforce planning platform.Talents are the most influential production factor as well as the largest cost factor. However, staffing is rather complex because of a variety of constraints. Our artificial intelligence-based optimization engine#matchingcore satisfies customized scheduling criteria while adapting to our clients' very specific situations.Among further improvements, we help our clients save up to 6.8% of wrongly allocated labour costs and reduce up to 48% unnecessary travel costs. Our clients are in professional services, automotive, aircraft groundhandling and health care. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| grape | grape is an insurer to pay for employees’ health. Support team with coaching and therapies. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Snipd | Snipd is an AI-powered podcast player to discover, highlight and share the best moments in podcasts. It provides transcripts and summaries for highlights created by users, enables users to share their highlights via link or short video clip and offers various ways to discover the most interesting moments within podcast episodes with the help of AI. | $701.2K | Pre-Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [another.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/another-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ETH Zurich Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eth-zurich-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Übermorgen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/%C3%BCbermorgen-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Venture Kick](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturekick) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Founderful

VC Fund · Zürich, Switzerland

Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.

5 contacts available at Founderful.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Stöckl | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-stoeckl |
| Emily Kruse | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-kruse |
| Lukas Weder | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lukas-weder |
| Pascal Mathis | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pascal-mathis |
| Antonia Albert | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonia-albert |

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## FAQ

### What does Lukas Weder invest in?

Lukas Weder invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Lukas Weder last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lukas Weder closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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