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Lakestar
Venture Capital · Founded 2012 · Zurich, Switzerland
Lakestar’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Lakestar still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Lakestar directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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1
Revolut
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$115B
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2
Helsing
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$18.0B
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3
Neko Health
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$7.0B
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4
Blockchain.com
8%
$7.0B
$560M
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5
Alan
2.5%
$5.5B
$138M
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6
AngelList
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$4.1B
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7
Cedar
6%
$3.2B
$192M
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8
Poolside AI
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$3.0B
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9
Sennder
9.5%
$2.1B
$201M
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10
GetYourGuide
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$2.0B
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11
WeLab
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$2.0B
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12
Varda Space
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$1.6B
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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 biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Lakestar’s transaction record.
Where Lakestar’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 156 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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Germany53
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USA50
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UK42
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Switzerland9
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France6
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Sweden6
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Spain3
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Belgium2
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Finland2
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Israel2
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Italy2
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Netherlands2
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Enterprise Software55
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Fintech46
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Security17
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Media14
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Robotics14
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Health13
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Gaming12
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Real Estate12
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Transportation11
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Jobs Recruitment8
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Space7
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Travel7
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Seed71
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Series A54
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Series B+31
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Early Growth71
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Breakout Stage58
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Late Growth58
Inside Lakestar’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 156 tracked.
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EiWhere Lakestar’s portfolio founders come from.
192 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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Germany46
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United Kingdom45
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United States38
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Switzerland8
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Peru6
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Sweden6
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France5
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Israel5
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Portugal5
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Spain5
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University of Cambridge13
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Harvard University9
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business9
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology8
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ETH Zurich7
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Stanford University7
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University of Oxford6
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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich5
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Technical University Munich5
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Columbia Business School4
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McKinsey & Company9
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Boston Consulting Group7
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Deutsche Bank7
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Rocket Internet7
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Microsoft5
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Nvidia4
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Roland Berger4
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Airbus3
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Alphabet | Google3
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Bain & Company3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Lakestar.
