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"At Merantix Venture Studio we build and scale machine learning companies. Through our unique incubation platform, seed financing and exceptional teams of entrepreneurs and engineers, we transfer world-leading research into products that will change existing and create new industries."

Adrian Locher, CEO & Founder

Fire, printing, steam, electricity, the internet - humanity has historically progressed forward through new general purpose technologies, unprecedentedly enriching societies and its people. Artificial Intelligence will be the most transformative technology of the 21st century. While its potential is undisputed, we believe that the most impactful companies have not yet been built.

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Companies

Vara is building machine learning-based web solutions that perform automated diagnoses on radiological images. Our breast cancer product detects and separates unsuspicious mammograms at very high confidence. more

SiaSearch is building machine learning-powered systems to automatically identify and tag the most relevant scenes in petabytes of raw driving data. Our intelligent filters help developers to access the data they need without manual effort. more

Merantix Labs develops and integrates machine-learning software solutions for clients. We have the expertise and the execution power needed to integrate AI solutions into your business in order to fuel innovation in your products and services. more

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Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology will set off massive economic change, in particular bio-based manufacturing and healthcare. Machine learning will enable numerous steps in synthetic biological processes and generate value for our partners, investors, patients and the climate.

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Knowledge Economy

Natural language processing, along with parsable representations of complex networks, will drive major disruption in the modern knowledge economy. Human augmentation and modeling in financial services, including the detection of financial crime and provision of legal services such as due diligence processes are obvious candidates.

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Manufacturing Automation

Designing and manufacturing complex components includes challenging optimization and quality assurance steps. Machine learning will improve subtractive and additive processes by reducing set up and cycle times and ultimately bringing new methods to the mass market.

We are continuously working on the most transformative ideas throughout a variety of industries. The next companies are already under way—plenty in ideation, some already being incubated. Visit us again to keep updated.

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Insights

Vara Raises $7M Series A To Expand Breast Cancer Software
03/06/2020
25 Millionen für künstliche Intelligenz aus Berlin
29/01/2020
Berlin venture studio Merantix raises $27M fund to concentrate on AI startups
27/01/2020
Schweizer Startup-Gründer setzt Millionen-Fonds auf
23/01/2020
SiaSearch — A Tool to Tame the Data Flood of Intelligent Vehicles
23/01/2020
Press Release
Merantix announces EUR 25M venture studio fund in Davos
23/01/2020
Merantix Automotive becomes SiaSearch
16/01/2020
Our Approach to Pull Requests
10/12/2019
Nicole Büttner, CEO of Merantix Labs, has been chosen as a Rising Talent
02/12/2019
Clemens Viernickel, MXA's CEO rocking it on stage at Tel Aviv University's AI week!
22/11/2019
Certifying a Medical Device as a Startup, Part 2: V-Model Doesn’t Mean Waterfall Development
13/11/2019
Erste Künstliche Intelligenz für Brustkrebsvorsorge erhält Zulassung
24/10/2019
Erste Zulassung für digitale Krebsdiagnose im Hochrisiko-Bereich
24/10/2019
Certifying a Medical Device as a Startup, Part 1: How not to Fail in the First Month
24/10/2019
Dr. KI
23/10/2019
Top 30 KI-Start-Ups aus der DACH-Region
24/04/2019
Das KI-Start-up Merantix vernetzt Forscher und Industrie
11/02/2019
Journey from academic paper to industry usage
21/01/2019
Künstliche Intelligenz - mehr als nur ein Hype
11/01/2019
Deep learning: From natural to medical images
19/12/2018
Bringing machine learning research to product commercialization
01/11/2018
The long tail of medical data
27/10/2018
Enterprise AI will make the leap — who will reap the benefits?
17/04/2018
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Leadership

  • Rasmus Rothe, Ph.D.
    Rasmus Rothe, Ph.D. Founder

    Rasmus published 15+ papers on deep learning while attending Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zurich, where he received his Ph.D. in computer vision and deep learning. Before founding Merantix, Rasmus worked for BCG, Google, and built a deep learning service with 150m+ users. He is a founding board member of the German AI Association. 

  • Adrian Locher
    Adrian Locher Founder

    Adrian has been a serial entrepreneur and investor for more than 20 years. He holds a degree in business  and economics from the University of St. Gallen. Over the years, he has founded more than 10 companies in various industries and markets. His last exit was at a $100M revenue e-commerce company with a 200 people team.

  • Prof. Luc van Gool
    Prof. Luc van Gool Founding Advisor

    Prof. Luc Van Gool is a computer vision professor at ETH Zurich & KU Leuven. He is a leading researcher in the field of computer vision. Prof. Van Gool is ranked top 10 globally by citations for computer vision and top 20 for machine learning. He is also a board member of top-tier journals and conferences.

  • Radu Timofte, Ph.D.
    Radu Timofte, Ph.D. Founding Advisor

    Radu is group leader and lecturer at ETH Zurich. His research is at the confluence of machine perception and AI. His seminal works have large impact in industries such as mobile, automotive, and media. Radu serves as reviewer and chair for top-tier journals and conferences.

Careers at Merantix

We encourage passion

We invite our team members to pursue their curiosity for a wide range of topics. Only with dedication and commitment can we create machine learning solutions that are capable of transforming entire industries.

We build on trust

We believe that we can only deliver outstanding results if we trust each other’s capabilities and drive. At Merantix, people take on ownership and responsibility for their projects and receive recognition for their hard work.

We are part of a community

We are a significant contributor to the open-source community because we believe that knowledge is most impactful when shared. To strengthen the nexus between research and business, our team members regularly attend academic and industry conferences.

We expect excellence

In everything we do, we strive for outstanding quality and visionary ideas. We push each other to get the best out of every one of us and invest in personal development.

We are looking for machine intelligence engineers, entrepreneurs, business minds, software & data engineers as well as industry experts to join our team.

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