# Lukas Gentele

> Lukas Gentele is the co-founder and CEO of vCluster Labs, formerly Loft Labs. He started a web business at sixteen in Germany, studied at the University of Mannheim and worked with future co-founder Fabian Kramm on developer tooling before focusing on Kubernetes tenancy. His current work spans virtual Kubernetes clusters, tenant isolation and AI cloud infrastructure.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at vCluster Labs
- **Organizations:** vCluster Labs (formerly Loft Labs), covexo GmbH, Webmans
- **Nationality:** German
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Mannheim, Master of Science in Computer Science & Management of Enterprise Information Systems, University of Mannheim
- **Known for:** Co-created vCluster, an open-source Kubernetes virtualization project launched in 2021., Co-created DevSpace, which became a CNCF Sandbox project., Led the company through a $24 million Series A announced in April 2024.

## Career timeline

- **Age 16** — Started a website business in Germany after obtaining permission to operate as a minor.
- **University years** — Built a software services business and hired Fabian Kramm, later his co-founder and CTO.
- **2018** — Launched the open-source Kubernetes developer tool DevSpace.
- **2019** — Worked with Kramm on a platform-as-a-service offering; their experience with multi-tenancy informed a later pivot.
- **2021** — Launched vCluster as an open-source project.
- **2024** — Announced a $24 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures.
- **2025** — Renamed Loft Labs to vCluster Labs on August 15.
- **2026** — Announced vCluster Free in January and vMetal in March; the company announced a Deutsche Telekom Industrial AI Cloud deployment in October.

## Achievements

- Co-created vCluster, an open-source Kubernetes virtualization project launched in 2021.
- Co-created DevSpace, which became a CNCF Sandbox project.
- Led the company through a $24 million Series A announced in April 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — vCluster Labs announced that Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud uses its automation with NVIDIA DSX OS components to provision private customer environments in Germany.
- **2026-09** — Published an argument for Private Nodes and hard tenant isolation in customer-facing AI clouds.
- **2026-03** — Introduced vMetal for bare metal GPU server provisioning and lifecycle management.
- **2026-01** — Introduced vCluster Free and vind, the latter enabling vCluster in Docker.

## Links

- Website: https://www.vcluster.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gentele/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/LukasGentele
- GitHub: https://github.com/LukasGentele

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Last updated: 2026-10-23