Lukas Gentele
InvestorFounderCEO, vCluster at EMERGENT VENTURES · Founder at Loft Labs
United States
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Lukas Gentele is Co-Founder and CEO of vCluster Labs, which develops software for cloud and AI infrastructure operators. The company offers three products: vMetal for bare metal provisioning and machine lifecycle management, vCluster for Kubernetes tenant clusters with virtual control planes, and vNode for runtime-level security in AI workloads. vCluster's technology is deployed across more than 100,000 GPUs in production environments and holds CNCF certification.
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Berkeley SkyDeck FundBerkeley · $200K checks · since 2024BlackRockWilmington · since 2021EMERGENT VENTURESSilicon Valley · since 2024Foundation CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2021FusionPalo Alto · $500K – $1M checks · since 2024Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks · since 2024Surface VenturesNew York · $250K – $2M checks · since 2024Uncork CapitalSan Francisco · $3M – $5M checks · since 2021
Co-founders at Loft Labs
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Fabian KrammDirector
Experience
- vClusterCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- DevSpace TechnologiesCo-Founder & CEO2019 — 2021
- Berkeley SkyDeckSkyDeck Accelerator Program2019Berkeley, California, United States
- Institute for Enterprise Systems (InES)Research Assistant2013 — 2014
- University of MannheimResearch Assistant @ Chair of Artificial Intelligence2012 — 2013
- Web Management Systems (Self-Employed)Co-Founder & CEO2009 — 2012
Skills & more
Java1Artificial Intelligence (AI)2Natural Language Processing (NLP)1Vectorization1Enterprise ArchitectureSystems DesignInvestor RelationsFundraisingEntrepreneurshipGo-to-Market StrategyContainer OrchestrationOpen Source Platforms
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Cloud InfrastructureData Center ArchitectureProduct ManagementCloud-Computing IaaSContainerizationKubernetesWeb TechnologiesMicro ServicesGPU InfrastructureSystems ResearchMulti-Tenant ArchitectureAI Clusters- Speaker: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Talk: "Sharing Clusters: Learnings From Building a Namespace On-Demand Platform" — The Linux Foundation
- Speaker: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 - Talk: "Beyond Namespaces: Virtual Clusters are the Future of Multi-Tenancy" — The Linux Foundation
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Ankur Jain
Managing Partner at EMERGENT VENTURES
Anshul Sadana
CEO, Nexthop AI at EMERGENT VENTURES
Anupam Rastogi
Managing Partner at EMERGENT VENTURES
Emrecan Dogan
VP of Tech & Platform, Glean at EMERGENT VENTURES
Katie Passalacqua
Head of Finance at EMERGENT VENTURES
Marc Manara
Head of Startups, OpenAI at EMERGENT VENTURES
Niha Gottiparthy
Investor at EMERGENT VENTURES
Pankaj Garg
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft at EMERGENT VENTURES
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Lukas Gentele?
- Lukas Gentele is Co-Founder and CEO of vCluster Labs, which develops software for cloud and AI infrastructure operators. The company offers three products: vMetal for bare metal provisioning and machine lifecycle management, vCluster for Kubernetes tenant clusters with virtual control planes, and vNode for runtime-level security in AI workloads. vCluster's technology is deployed across more than 100,000 GPUs in production environments and holds CNCF certification.
- Where does Lukas Gentele work?
- Lukas Gentele is Founder of Loft Labs and CEO, vCluster at EMERGENT VENTURES.
- What companies did Lukas Gentele found?
- Lukas Gentele founded Loft Labs.
- Where did Lukas Gentele go to school?
- Lukas Gentele studied at University of Mannheim (Master of Science, Computer Science & Management of Enterprise Information Systems); University of Mannheim (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Information Systems).
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