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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 40 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.
The 40 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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Germany11
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UK7
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Sweden2
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France1
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Switzerland1
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Spain1
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Portugal1
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Israel1
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Hong Kong1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces9
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Fintech9
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Health Tech & Medtech5
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Cybersecurity5
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AI3
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Other B2B Software3
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Space1
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Transportation1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Other1
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Robotics1
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Energy1
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Series B+17
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Series A13
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Seed4
Lakestar’s biggest current 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 →
Lakestar's 40 Power Law outcomes.
How does Lakestar stack up?
Lakestar in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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 selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Lakestar's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
118 founders across the 40 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University 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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