Lukas Schor is the Co-founder of Safe, a comprehensive smart contract platform for securing digital assets on Ethereum. ^[1][2][3]

Career

Schor began his career as a global product platform manager at Bosch Switzerland in August 2014. Afterward, he worked at Jodel and Tech Open Air as a product management intern (2016) and an organizing committee (2017) respectively. ^[1]

He served as the marketing manager for The Argon Group, an investment bank focused exclusively on the emerging cryptocurrency and digital token-based capital markets from 2017 to 2018. ^[1]

Safe

Before becoming the co-founder of Safe, Lukas Schor served as the project lead at Gnosis, a provider of infrastructure tools for expanding the utility of the Ethereum ecosystem. Here, he led the development of Gnosis Safe (Safe, before rebranding) project, one of the infrastructure tools by Gnosis until 2022. ^[1][3]

In March 2022, he became a co-founder of Safe alongside Richard Meissner. ^[1][2]

In July 2022, Safe raised $100 Million led by 1kx. The round was also joined by Tiger Global, A&T Capital, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, Greenfield One, Rockaway Blockchain Fund, ParaFi, Lightspeed, Polymorphic Capital, Superscrypt, and 50 other strategic partners and industry experts. The funding was raised for the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, a non-profit organization protecting strategic assets and contributing to the further development of Safe. ^[4]

"For mainstream adoption of web3 we need to overcome the risks and limitations of private key accounts. Safe provides a critical public good as a composable and use-case agnostic smart contract account that can control digital assets, data, and identities. The transition towards smart contract accounts will be joined effort by the entire web3 community." - Lukas Schor^[4][6]

In 2023, Schor participated in the Show Case Talks of the ETH Global conference in Tokyo, where he presented his company. He talked about use cases of the Ethereum network and the role his company plays in the ecosystem. ^[5]

Future of Safe

In an April 2024 blog, the Safe team highlighted their mission to make every web3 user account a smart account. Smart accounts leverage smart contracts for authentication, allowing for flexibility and programmability. Safe aims to take leadership in driving this movement forward and collaborate with varied communities to drive the mission of "Ownership for all, to realize the full potential of web3". ^[8]

The company aims to enhance security and user experience while fostering ecosystem growth through funding, gas sponsorship, and education. Safe plans to support interoperability across multiple Layer-2 solutions and create a modular marketplace for smart accounts. Initiatives like Safe{Pass} are designed to incentivize user activity and further integrate smart accounts into everyday use. ^[8]