Co-CIO & General Partner
CV VCCheck size: CV VC's published early-stage program invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP and initial traction. This is a firm program limit, not Lukas's personal allocation range; other vehicles and follow-ons may differ.
Lukas backs early frontier-technology companies building a decentralized and tokenized economy, with a current emphasis on traditional businesses moving onto blockchain rails and the convergence of blockchain with AI. He favors working products with measurable utility, economic or social impact, and operationally credible paths from early traction to institutional or global adoption.
Founders with an MVP, pilot or revenue; measurable real-world utility; blockchain used to change ownership, trust, settlement, or incentives; politically neutral infrastructure; economic participation for network suppliers; disciplined execution; and products capable of winning against centralized systems on performance or cost.
No personal pass list is public. CV VC's stated filters and Lukas's recent comments imply weaker fit for pre-product teams, token speculation without utility, blockchain that adds no trust or ownership advantage, AI that cannot safely act or transact, and decentralized infrastructure unable to beat centralized alternatives on measured performance, cost, or adoption.
Bring a functioning MVP plus a pilot, usage, or revenue. Explain why decentralization or tokenization is essential, the trust and incentive model, measurable utility, technical and regulatory risks, and the next milestone that up to $500K would unlock. For AI agents, show identity, permissions, payment controls, settlement, auditability, and failure containment.
Verify a working MVP and at least one concrete signal—pilot, usage, or revenue—before advancing within CV VC's published early-stage process.
Compare the decentralized product with centralized alternatives on latency, cost, utilization, supplier economics, user adoption, reliability, and social or economic impact.
Assess agent identity, permissions, spending limits, service discovery, authentication, payment initiation, settlement, audit trail, fraud controls, and human recourse.
Test whether blockchain materially changes ownership, neutrality, interoperability, settlement, authenticity, or incentive alignment rather than merely changing the implementation stack.
Decentralized compute is compelling when a live product turns idle hardware into measurable performance, lower capital intensity, digital sovereignty, and economic participation for suppliers and publishers.
Blockchain adoption opportunities span protocols, applications, and service infrastructure such as custody, market making, and KYC, with finance, media, energy, supply chains, security, telecom, and health among likely early adopters.
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Lukas helped build CV VC from its early days and has more than a decade of international experience spanning finance, venture and private-equity investing, strategy, and business development. Official CV Labs material names prior experience at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and LGT Capital Partners. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of St. Gallen.