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Lukas Vollmer

Founder

Founder at Uplane

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedUplane · YC

About

Lukas Vollmer spent 15 years in fullstack engineering roles and served as Head of Engineering at two YC-backed companies.

Founder at UplaneYC F25

Intro paths

YC

Lukas went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Uplane's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Lukas can intro founders to Uplane's investors below.

Uplane's investors · 4

20VCLondon · $250K – $5M checks · since 2026Play VenturesSingapore · since 2026Rebel FundSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Uplane

JKJulius Körfgen
Julius KörfgenCo-Founder & CEO
MAMarvin Abdel-Massih
Marvin Abdel-MassihFounder
JKJulius Korfgen
Julius KorfgenFounder

Experience

  1. Uplane (YC F25)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Fastgen (YC W23)Head of Product2023 — 2025
  3. Fastgen (YC W23)Founding Engineer2023
  4. Blair (YC S19)Lead Software Engineer2020 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Blair (YC S19)Founding Engineer2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  6. WILM&COCo-Founder2017 — 2019Berlin
  7. unicon Conference - hosted by students of CODECo-Founder, Head of Technology & Finance2017 — 2019Berlin
  8. 3m5.Full Stack Engineer2014 — 2017Germany

Skills & more

Kubernetes6SEO2Social Media3Event Planning1Web Services1Customer ServiceTime Management1Typo3VUEJS13Google Cloud Platform6Node.js1Amazon Web Services (AWS)1
+12 moreJavaScriptPHPWordPressHTMLCSS3jQueryHTML5MongoDBPhotoshopC++CNuxt

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Lukas Vollmer?
Lukas Vollmer spent 15 years in fullstack engineering roles and served as Head of Engineering at two YC-backed companies.
Where does Lukas Vollmer work?
Lukas Vollmer is Founder of Uplane.
What companies did Lukas Vollmer found?
Lukas Vollmer founded Uplane.
Where did Lukas Vollmer go to school?
Lukas Vollmer studied at Y Combinator (F25); CODE University of Applied Sciences (B.Sc. Software Engineering).

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Shared employers

Also worked at Uplane (YC F25)2

Julius KörfgenCo-Founder & CEO at UplaneMarvin Abdel-MassihFounder at Uplane

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Laura RagglSelection at EWORMike MahlkowFounder at BlairDavid NordhausenFounder at BlairConstantin SchreiberFounder at Blair

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