Lukas Helminger

Lukas Helminger is Co-founder and CEO at TACEO, a research and software company focused on bringing post-quantum and privacy-preserving cryptography to market, headquartered in Graz, Austria. He co-founded the company in July 2022 and has led it to a $5.5M Seed round, raised to build what TACEO describes as a network for verifiable encrypted compute — referred to internally as private shared state — enabling collaboration on data without exposing the underlying data itself. In April 2026, he participated as a speaker at a Paris Blockchain Week breakfast event organised by The Big Whale, where he appeared alongside representatives from Boerse Stuttgart Digital, Spiko, 21x, and AMINA Bank to discuss onchain exposure for financial institutions.

Prior to founding TACEO, Helminger worked as a researcher at Know-Center GmbH in Graz from January 2019 to June 2022, where his work spanned privacy-preserving techniques, secure multiparty computation, and applied cryptography. His published research includes co-authorship on PASTA, a paper on hybrid homomorphic encryption published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, as well as work on multi-party computation in the context of GDPR, privacy-preserving disease analytics, and decentralised identity revocation. Earlier in his career he held software engineering roles at Raiffeisen Salzburg and Eurolyser Diagnostica GmbH, and completed a six-month administrative internship with the Austrian Armed Forces. He holds a Master of Science in Mathematics from Technische Universität Graz, completed between 2016 and 2019.