Lukas Vordemann

Stealth startup

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Working on something new since September 2026. More soon.

Egonym

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Egonym developed a novel AI technology to anonymise faces in images and video while keeping the data useful. As its first CEO I took it from 0 to 1, until the technology was acquired by one of the big five technology companies.

Along the way I led the company end to end: product and the launch of the first MVP, fundraising and non-dilutive funding, building the team, and IP, legal and partnerships.

icebreaker.science

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Built a platform to support newcomer researchers in chemistry
Raised €42,000 from the Carl Zeiss Foundation to fund development
Handed operations over to the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

PIRAT

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Founded the initiative to tackle resource shortages early in the Covid-19 pandemic
Coordinated 20 volunteers and went from idea to public release in under a month
Launched in Germany, Austria, Italy and Malaysia

Hello again, world

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After losing the code for my old site, I rebuilt it with Hugo.

Classic Sauerkraut

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ingredients

1 kg white cabbage
20 g salt (2 % of the cabbage weight)
1 tsp caraway seeds (optional)

Method

Shred the cabbage finely and weigh it.
Add 2 % salt and massage until it releases its juice.
Pack tightly into a jar so the brine covers the cabbage. Weigh it down.
Leave at room temperature, tasting from week three.

Learnings

Below 18 °C it takes longer but tastes cleaner.
White film on top is usually kahm yeast. Skim it off.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a product-focused entrepreneur based in Zurich. I like working at the forefront of technology, especially on intelligent, interactive systems, privacy and transparent AI.

Since September 2026 I’m building a new startup, still in stealth. Before that I spent three and a half years as the first CEO of Egonym, where we took an AI face anonymisation technology from research to revenue, until the technology was acquired by a big tech company. Before that I studied computer science in Munich, Stockholm and Zurich and did research on human-computer interaction and robotics.