Lumo Labs funding news – Eindhoven-based LUMO Labs Secures LUMO Rise Fund at €100Million

In doing so, LUMO Labs builds on its investment strategy and expertise related to the opportunities and challenges of a society in which physical and digital reality are becoming increasingly integrated.

For LUMO Labs, this new fund means an expansion in capital for more regional diversification and more room for follow-on financing to increase the financial, social, and environmental return on its investments.

LUMO Labs technology focus is on emerging digital technologies that are pivotal for achieving these Sustainable Development Goals, as formulated by the United Nations.

Emerging digital technologies such as the Internet of Things, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Blockchain and especially (deeptech) Artificial Intelligence, enable processing and evaluation of unparalleled quantities of information with unparalleled speed, at unprecedented scale. This makes the further development and application of these technologies particularly relevant in the current context of intricate social, economic, and environmental challenges.

Andy Lürling, Founding Partner LUMO Labs, comments, “Emerging digital technologies, such as deeptech AI, allow people to manage complexity with unprecedented speed and scale. This holds the key to structural solutions and sustainable alternatives to widespread degenerative habits and unsustainable systems. We invest in impact-driven entrepreneurs who have the ambition and potential to reach large numbers of people, with digital propositions aimed at improving people’s quality of life and well-being, and relieving the ever-increasing strain on healthcare, social services and the planet.”

Sven Bakkes, Founding Partner LUMO Labs said, “For startups with innovative, digital propositions, (pre)-seed funding is critical for speed and scale. In addition to funding, it is key to understand and facilitate the specific kind of value creation and risk mitigation that fits this exceptional stage, to succeed. We swear by methodical and timely selection, active monitoring, and our proven LUMO Program. Built on four solid pillars related to leadership, product-market fit, storytelling and follow-on investment, this active support program is tailored to each startup’s individual needs and updated on a rolling basis.”

Upon investment from LUMO, startup founders immediately enter in the bespoke LUMO coaching program, involving specific third-party subject-matter experts and experienced entrepreneurs in addition to LUMO Labs’ inhouse team and partners. This tailor-made support program is aimed at optimizing economic value creation, as well as at optimizing the social and environmental impact of the startup in line with the fund’s impact objectives.

Dagmar van Ravenswaay Claasen, Senior Partner LUMO Labs, emphasizes, “Our investments must not only pay off financially, they must also contribute to our specific sustainable development goals. From the very first contact and screening prior to investment, we pay a lot of attention to the impact proposition of the startup and provide continued support, to ensure that our investments align with our impact focus.”

With the launch of LUMO Rise Fund, the investment team is now also proactively looking at suitable startups outside of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, namely in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Spain and Portugal. Local experts will be added to the team shortly. Start-ups from the rest of Europe are also eligible for investment from the fund.

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About LUMO Labs

LUMO Labs was founded in 2016 by former tech entrepreneurs Andy Lürling and Sven Bakkes. After an initial stint as angel investors with only their own capital, they started the first LUMO fund in 2020 and were the first in the Netherlands to make a strict combination of emerging digital technologies and UN SDGs as the foundation of its investment strategy.