AI startups in Berlin

Conversational-AI platform automating customer-service contact centres via voice/chat AI agents. Founded 2017; became a Berlin AI unicorn on the back of large 2024–2025 rounds. A leading European enterprise-...

Claire Novorol, Martin Hirsch, Daniel Nathrath

Founded 2011. AI-powered symptom-assessment app pairing a medical knowledge base with probabilistic reasoning; billed as the world's most popular symptom checker. Raised ~$120M (Series B led by Leaps by Baye...

AI-native operating system acting as a full-stack property manager for short-term / alternative accommodations. Raised ~$36M (€31.1M) Series A in Oct 2025. A standout Berlin proptech applying agentic AI to o...

GenAI startup building enterprise-grade AI agents and a private 'knowledge engine' for companies to deploy agents securely on internal data. Raised €17.5M (announced Feb 2026) to scale enterprise agentic AI ...

Milos Rusic, Malte Pietsch, Timo Möller

Founded 2018. Creator of the open-source NLP/LLM-orchestration framework Haystack and the deepset AI platform for building enterprise RAG and agentic AI on-prem or in-cloud. Total funding ~$46M over three ro...

Han Xiao, Nan Wang, Bing He

Founded 2020 (CEO Han Xiao, ex-Tencent AI Lab; Chinese-origin founding team). Builds a 'Search Foundation' of multimodal/multilingual embeddings, rerankers and readers for enterprise search, RAG and GenAI. R...

Open-source LLM observability and analytics platform (tracing, evals, prompt management) for teams shipping AI products. YC-backed, founded 2022; a fast-rising Berlin AI-developer-tools name.

Rasmus Rothe, Adrian Locher

Founded 2016. Europe's first AI venture studio; builds and backs AI companies from Berlin and runs the 6,000 m² Merantix AI Campus (launched 2021), home to 80+ AI teams and 300+ events/year — the anchor of B...

Merantix Group

Berlin's central AI community hub (launched 2021, 6,000 m²): 80+ resident AI teams, 300+ events/year, co-located with Merantix Momentum and portfolio startups. Together with TU Berlin, DFKI, HTW and the ai.b...

Rasmus Rothe (Merantix)

The applied-AI/enterprise arm of the Merantix group. Designs, builds and operates custom AI systems (from research to production) for enterprises and the public sector across industries, including generative...

CJ Simon-Gabriel, Florian Wenzel

Founded 2023 by two ex-Amazon AI-lab researchers (and musicians). Builds foundation models that generate synchronized sound effects for AI-generated and uploaded video, tackling the 'silent video' problem in...

Fair-code workflow-automation platform blending AI agents with business-process automation; one of Berlin's hottest AI stories. Raised a ~$180M (€154.9M) Series C in Oct 2025 amid explosive open-source growth.

Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, Michael Huth

Founded 2017 (spun from Oxford/Imperial research). Europe's first 'sovereign' legal AI — its own Legal Language Model plus a Legal Copilot, built with a Legal AI Alliance (CMS, C.H.Beck). Rebranded from Xayn...

Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit

Founded 2023 by Dr. Feiyu Xu (ex-SVP & Head of AI at SAP; Chinese-origin) with DFKI's Prof. Hans Uszkoreit. Building European, industry-focused foundation models / LLMs tuned to Europe's cultural and legal c...

Marius Meiners, Tobias Siwona, Daniel Drabo

Founded 2025 (team met at Antler Berlin). Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) analytics — tracks whether and how brands appear in ChatGPT and other AI search engines, benchmarking vs competitors. Explosive ...

AI 'receptionist' for medical practices — handles inbound calls, appointment booking and admin so clinics reduce no-shows and phone load. Raised ~$6.7M seed (Oct 2025). Berlin health × applied-AI startup.

AI-driven loitering-munition / strike-drone maker founded 2024, selling to the Bundeswehr and NATO states. Raised ~€500M Series C (co-led by Sequoia and Founders Fund; NATO Innovation Fund among backers) at ...

Hakob Astabatsyan, Albert Astabatsyan, Sassun Mirzakhan-Saky

Founded 2023 (Armenian-origin founding team). No-code platform to build, deploy and scale natural-sounding enterprise voice AI agents for phone automation. Raised a €17.2M Series A led by Accel (with Atlanti...

Founded 2024. Builds AI voice agents that collaborate with humans in call-center / call operations, automating outbound and inbound phone workflows. Raised a €3.1M round (Apr 2025) to grow its human-plus-age...

Jonas Muff, Stefan Bunk

Founded 2018 out of the Merantix AI venture studio. AI + workflow software supporting radiologists in breast-cancer mammography screening; raised ~$8.9M. A 2024/25 landmark German real-world study demonstrat...