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Sebastian Schaal
Co-Founder & Managing Director at Luminovo
Experience
Founder & Managing Director
Luminovo
Nov 2017 - Present
Founders Pledge Member
Founders Pledge
Aug 2020 - Present
Founding Member
Deutscher KI-Verband e.V.
Mar 2018 - Present
Education
Stanford University
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Management Science & Engineering
2015 - 2016
Technical University of Munich
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering
2015 - 2018
Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
Honours Degree, Technology Management
2014–2015
Technical University of Munich
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering
2011 - 2015
Biography
Sebastian is guided by the fundamental belief that innovative technology is the most powerful tool for solving today's global challenges. This conviction is the driving force behind Luminovo, the B2B SaaS company he co-founded in 2017 to accelerate the pace of technological progress.
After studying at Stanford University, Sebastian made the strategic decision to build his company in Munich, proving that passion and dedication can foster a world-class technology hub outside of Silicon Valley.
An electrical engineer by training, Sebastian is driven by a mission to have a lasting, positive impact and create a meaningful place to work. This principle is the driving force behind Luminovo, which he co-founded to solve the complex challenges facing the electronics industry. As a leader, he holds the principles of psychological safety as high as Bavarian traditions and is a strong advocate for team health.
At Luminovo, he leads a mission to empower the electronics industry which is the pacemaker of digitalization. The company's software streamlines the path from idea to market-ready product by integrating the value chain and automating complex processes, ultimately making technological innovation faster and more accessible.
Guided by his favorite principle, "Be proactive," Sebastian leads Luminovo's high-level direction and strategy. Outside of work, he is passionate about fitness, skiing, and hiking , and is currently trying to keep up with his co-founder's reading pace by listening to audiobooks at 1.5x speed.
Role at Luminovo
As a Founder and the lead for Revenue department lead, his work involves several key areas:
Founder: Alongside his co-founder Timon, he is responsible for setting Luminovo's mission and long-term strategy. He leads by example to establish the company culture, ensures the product roadmap aligns with the strategy, and secures the necessary funding for Luminovo's financial needs. He also represents Luminovo's mission at conferences and speaker engagements.
Revenue department lead: He oversees and aligns activities across our Growth, Sales, Customer Success and Revenue Operations. He is focused on developing the sales team, refining their processes, and ensuring they have the technical expertise to succeed, while also closing deals himself.
Manager: He is committed to creating an environment of psychological safety for his team. His goal is to provide regular feedback and guidance to help his direct reports grow and to ensure they have the freedom and resources needed to do their best work.
As a well-known face in the global tech and electronics industry, Sebastian Schaal is often invited to speak on industry event stages. Below are a few of his recent appearances.
Speaker at EMS-Tag 2025: 'Lecture: Digital business models for EMS'
Interview with Handelsblatt: 'This start-up bans Excel from the electronics industry'
Video Interview with EMSNow: 'Up Close with Sebastian Schaal, Founder & Managing Director, Luminovo'
Industry
Big supply chain issues: Key challenges and solutions
Discover the biggest challenges facing electronics supply chains today, from component shortages to rising costs and logistics delays. Explore actionable solutions and innovative strategies to build resilience and optimise operations in a rapidly changing landscape.
Industry
How CPQ software transforms pricing and quotation processes
Discover how Configure Price Quote (CPQ) software revolutionizes pricing and quotation processes in the electronics supply chain. Improve accuracy, speed, and profitability while staying ahead in a dynamic market.
Industry
Why modern RFQ software is the tool to secure your bottom line
What does modern RfQ software look like? And how can it help you ramp up your EMS business revenue? Read our Founder’s advice to end your 2022 with a bang, despite the challenges of the electronics sector.
Industry
The end of the chip crisis?
You've read it right – looks like the global chip shortage is coming to an end, but other challenges await. In this blog, we’ll go through the latest research findings on the semiconductor industry and what we can expect in the near future. Read on!
Tech
Cloud solutions in the electronics industry – Why now?
This blog combats prejudice against the cloud, by providing technical, easy-to-understand insights into cloud solutions, and explaining their benefits and why they play an inevitable role in the future of the electronics industry.
News
Onboarding eight renowned business angels
We’re incredibly proud to announce that eight new and impactful business angels have joined Luminovo’s journey to revamp the electronics industry.
AI
New perspectives on transfer learning: Structuring ML concepts
This last installment introduces Hybrid Processing and maps it together with Active Learning and Transductive & Inductive Semi-Supervised Learning in a novel framework.
AI
Processing unlabeled data in machine learning - Structuring ML concepts
In this post, I finally found personal closure on the topic of how AL translates to some real-world scenario and introduce Hybrid Processing as a new paradigm.
AI
The four “pure” learning styles in machine learning - Structuring ML concepts
People are starting to realize that some techniques that were previously regarded as Unsupervised Learning should more aptly be named Self-Supervised Learning. Let’s expand on that.
News
From AI to electronics
Lumimovo goes Electronics! We have received over €2 Million in pre-seed funding for our new journey into the Electronics Industry.
AI
AI and the question of explainability
Do we need to understand our models in order to trust them?
AI
Data privacy in machine learning
Data privacy - one of machine learning’s biggest challenges and how to tackle it.
AI
The deep learning toolset
Every problem worth solving needs great tools for support. Deep learning is no exception. If anything, it is a realm in which good tooling will become ever more important over the coming years.
AI
Mythbusters: 7 common myths about AI
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most hyped topics of recent years. Naturally, a lot of superficial knowledge has found its way into the press and the minds of the general public. In this post, I want to uncover a few of those misconceptions.
AI
A refresher on batch (re-)normalization
If you’re like me, you enjoy throwing CNNs at every pictorial problem that comes your way. If you’re like me, then you have heard of BatchNorm.
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