Thom van den Homberg

Founding Mechanical Engineer @ Loki Robotics

About

Curious and building :)

Country

Switzerland

City

Zurich

Industry

Industrial Automation

Skill

Customer Development, Rapid Prototyping, Start-up Leadership, Business Development, Fundraising, Recruiting, Financial Modeling, Structural Engineering, Composites, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), FEMAP, SOLIDWORKS, 3DEXPERIENCE, CATIA, React.js, Python (Programming Language)

Experience

Founding Mechanical Engineer

Loki Robotics

2025-5 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Zurich, Switzerland

building robots that free up people’s time

Founder in Residence

Entrepreneurs First

2024-4 - 2024-7 · 4 mos

London, United Kingdom

Part of a curated community of exceptional future founders. Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor, backed by top founders including Patrick and John Collison, Reid Hoffman, Tom Blomfield, Sara Clemens, Nat Friedman, and Matt Mullenweg. EF brings together people with extraordinary futures to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from top global investors.

Co-Founder

Shore Systems

2020-7 - 2024-3 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Building hydrogen powered drones to inspect offshore wind turbines remotely.

Chief Structural Engineer

Silverwing Aeronautics

2018-1 - 2020-3 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Delft, Netherlands

Engineer

Femto Engineering

2018-5 - 2018-9 · 5 mos

Delft

Hospitality

Verwiel en Wijngaard

2016-6 - 2018-5 · 2 yrs

Netherlands

Education

Delft University of Technology

Mechanical Engineering

Dropped out to pursue Shore Systems.

Delft University of Technology

Mechanical Engineering

• Minor in Geo Resources and Politics. • Thesis comparing dynamic load cases for a novel wind turbine design, simulating real-world weather conditions in a wind tunnel.