Venture Capital DR. KLAUS HOMMELS | LAKESTAR Founder & CEO SPEAKER BIO Klaus is one of the leading European business angels and is or has been involved in numerous successful internet investments including QXL/Tradus, Skype, Facebook, king.com, StarDoll, Xing and spotify. He invests in promising start-ups that have the potential to become major players in the internet space. Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann. He joined AOL Germanyin 1995 where was as board member responsible for business development, content and advertising sales. He was also involved in the establishment of Freenet, worked for Apax Partners and was a partner of Benchmark Capital before founding Hommels Holding. KEY CORPORATE FACTS& KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters Zurich Switzerland Lakestar invests in Internet companies, with a specific focus on business models that can achieve global scale quickly. Lakestar has had tremendous success investing early in No of Employees 10 marqueebrand names,suchas Facebook, Spotify, and Skype. Active Markets US, Europe In addition, Lakestar has invested at the founding stages of over 25 early stage companies. In each of these companies Lakestar takes an extremely hands-on, or entrepreneurial, approach Target Criteria Internet companies in seed and early stages to investing alongside stellar management teams. Lakestar strongly believes that the key to that can achieve global scale quickly successful investing is not just in finding the next marquee Internet brand – but in helping Key Investments Algomi, Taulia, Sofi, Onefootball create it. Notable Exits Facebook, Spotify, Skype 17