Lara Velez
Co-Gründerin & CTO
Studierte Informatik und unterrichtete parallel an einer Stadtteilschule. Führt heute das 18-köpfige Engineering-Team.
Rethinking software for everyday school life.
One platform instead of ten half-built tools.
By the numbers
What we have achieved since 2020
4,000
teachers use the platform every day
65,000
students learn with Lumen
120+
schools across the DACH region
How Lumen came to be
In spring 2020, schools closed overnight. Three Hamburg-based teachers — Anne Lindholm, Marek Schöne and Lara Velez — improvised like everyone else with email lists and PDFs. Out of the frustration came an idea: not to build a twelfth tool for schools, but one that makes all the others redundant.
What started as a weekend initiative became Lumen Schools in summer 2020. Today 35 people from education, product and technology work on it from Hamburg's Schanzenviertel. Lumen was funded in 2023 in a seed round of around €4 million by early EdTech investors.
“We're building Lumen because we refuse to accept that teachers spend half their working day on admin — instead of with the children they're there for. Schools don't need yet another piece of software stacked on top. They need one that makes ten others redundant.”
Looking for people to join us — Lumen keeps growing.
Lumen is currently filling four roles in product development and customer success. Career changers from schools and education administration are explicitly welcome.
Team
From schools, for schools
Investors & partners
Who we build Lumen with
Lumen in everyday life
Impressions from schools and the office
Classrooms where Lumen is used every day. Teacher workshops and the Hamburg office in the Schanzenviertel.
Contact
For anyone looking to use Lumen or get to know it
Lumen stays close to the schools using it. Tarek Sahin personally handles questions about rollout, onboarding and demo bookings. For strategic, editorial or press enquiries, Anne Lindholm is your contact.
