# Lutz Kettner

> Lutz Kettner is a pre-seed investor at NVIDIA (Berlin) backing CleanTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NVIDIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nvidia)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kettner/

Lutz Kettner is a pre-seed investor at NVIDIA in Berlin focused on CleanTech. Lutz Kettner leads the design and engineering efforts for the material definition language and the Iray renderer from the NVIDIA advanced rendering center. He has been working on leading software products in advanced rendering, language design, API design, and geometry for 20 years. Lutz is known for his influential work on the open sourceComputational Geometry Algorithms Library. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and led a research group at the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany. He has also served on the International Organization for Standardization and European Computer Manufacturers Association. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

## Contacts

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## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meloon | Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Nov 20, 2023 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BackBone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Berlin Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berlin-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NVIDIA

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

NVIDIA is a computing platform company innovating at the intersection of graphics, HPC and AI. The company specialises in the manufacture of graphics processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices. The company is a major supplier of integrated circuits used for personal computer motherboard chipsets, graphicsprocessing units (GPUs), and game consoles.

5 contacts available at NVIDIA.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alison Lowndes | Artificial Intelligence DevRel \| EMEA | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alison-lowndes |
| Garren Givens | Vice President, Professional Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garren-givens |
| Gerard Andrews | Senior Product Marketing Manager, Robotics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerard-andrews-da0e |
| Greg Estes | VP Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-estes |
| Jeremy Archuleta | Senior System Safety Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-archuleta |

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## FAQ

### What does Lutz Kettner invest in?

Lutz Kettner invests primarily in CleanTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Lutz Kettner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lutz Kettner closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 1 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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