Get to know our current shareholders.

L-Pub GmbH was founded in September 2015 as a spin-off of the marketing agency steelecht GmbH. A GmbH in Germany is roughly equivalent to a Ltd. in the U.S. or the U.K.

The founding members of L-Pub are:

  • Leonore Kleinkauf
  • Marco Bellavia
  • Battista Vailati
  • Urs M. Fischer

Seed level financing round

In January 2017, L-Pub welcomed two further investors to the company:

At the same time, many of the previous shareholders reinvested, raising the post-money valuation of L-Pub GmbH to € 1,325,000 (status of January 2017).


Additional financing

L-Pub got further funding for a unique research-based collaboration with TU Darmstadt. The project is called “a!” (automated language instruction).

This project (HA-Projekt-Nr.: 521/17-03) was sponsored in part by the Hessen ModellProjekte financed by the LOEWE program – Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz, Förderlinie 3: KMU-Verbundvorhaben.

More information at www.innovationsfoerderung-hessen.de (Available only in German)

Read about the a! project here.