Managing Partner
Lukas Bennemann is Partner at ALSTIN CAPITAL and joined for its foundation in April 2016.
Previously, he had many years of experience in the venture capital market with VCDE Venture Partners, an Evergreen fund financed by over 150 well-known entrepreneurs, specializing in software / SaaS, FinTech, BigData, Adtech and mobile investments.
In his role as investment manager, he was responsible for parts of a portfolio of over 25 holdings and has participated in numerous exits, including several international trade sales and IPOs, leading or advising. For some of the portfolio companies, including US and U.K. holdings, Lukas Bennemann acted as board director, supervisory board member or advisory board and was the active representative of VCDE.
In addition, Lukas Bennemann was responsible for the registration of VCDE Venture Partners (as one of the first German VC funds with registration under the EuVECA regulation at BaFin) and as initiator of the event series „GrowthCon“ in Frankfurt with over 500 participants from venture capital and technology industry and geography.
From 2010 to 2012, Lukas Bennemann worked as an investment associate advising large wealthy and family offices at Credit Suisse (Deutschland) AG, where he was already entrusted with investment portfolios.
Lukas Bennemann holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. in General Management / Business Law) and a Master of Science (M.Sc. in Management) degree from European Business School Oestrich-Winkel – with abroad experience at Copenhagen Business School ( Copenhagen, Denmark) and George Washington University (Washington DC, USA) – from.
Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden with the aim of making it easier for people to shop online. In the last 15 years, technology has evolved, excited and transformed the world around us, yet our mission remains as relevant as ever, to make paying as simple, safe and above all, smoooth as possible.
Klarna is the leading global payments and shopping service, providing smarter and more flexible shopping and purchase experiences to 90 million active consumers across more than 250,000 merchants in 17 countries. Klarna offers direct payments, pay after delivery options and instalment plans in a smooth one-click purchase experience that lets consumers pay when and how they prefer to.
When the company acquired SOFORT in 2014 the Klarna Group was formed. Klarna is backed by investors such as Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake, Bestseller Group, Dragoneer, Permira, Visa, Ant Group and Atomico.
