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Lakestar
Venture capital firm · Founded 2012 · Active in 2026
Lakestar is a venture capital firm based in Switzerland, founded in 2012. The page below shows 35 Power Law outcomes from Lakestar's portfolio — 30 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Germany · UK. Lakestar ranks #167 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Lakestar’s biggest exits.
Lakestar portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Lakestar’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Lakestar’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 10 companies where Lakestar is a named shareholder, worth about $1.4B in estimated equity value.
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1
Blockchain.com
8%
$7.0B
$560M
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2
Sennder
9.5%
$2.1B
$201M
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3
Cedar
6%
$3.2B
$192M
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4
Alan
2.5%
$5.5B
$138M
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5
Isar Aerospace
8.5%
$1.1B
$94M
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6
Onefootball
7%
$1.0B
$70M
- 7 3.5% $2.0B $70M
- 8 6.5% $1.0B $65M
- 9 2.5% $1.1B $28M
- 10 4.96% $250M $12M
4 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Lakestar’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Lakestar also appears inside investor groups in Public, Revolut, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 35 Lakestar Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA14
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Germany10
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UK6
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Sweden2
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France1
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Spain1
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Hong Kong1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces9
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Fintech8
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Health Tech & Medtech5
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AI3
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Other B2B Software2
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Space2
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Robotics2
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Other1
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Energy1
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Cybersecurity1
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Transportation1
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Series B+17
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Series A13
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Seed4
Lakestar's 35 Power Law outcomes.
How does Lakestar stack up?
Lakestar in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Lakestar's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
108 founders across the 35 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. ETH Zurich and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Lakestar.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Lakestar
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Lakestar on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Lakestar
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Lakestar — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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