We are proud to see our founder Klaus Hommels ranked at top position #5 in the 2019 Midas List Europe, which recognises the best venture capitalists from across Europe, who have invested into the most disruptive tech companies. This exceptional result, his highest to date, underlines the success of Lakestar and its role in shaping the European venture capital ecosystem.

In an interview with DIE WELT, Klaus Hommels talks about Germany’s backwardness in digitalisation and the driving force behind it in other countries. But it’s not too late to make up leeway. “We just need more tolerance for failure”, Klaus explains.

Eigen is a London-based startup whose machine learning engine helps banks and other businesses that need to extract information and insights from large and complex documents. Congratulations to the founders Lewis Z. Liu and Jonathan Feuer.