Team

Management team

Penny Schiffer

CEO & Co-Founder

experienced startup investor with over 30 early stage investments in Swiss and European companies
management consultant (ex-Accenture) and corporate innovation / M&A (ex-Swisscom)
education in business informatics, organisational psychology and statistical analysis

Thomas Schulz

CTO & Co-Founder

combines profound data engineering skills with fast prototyping on state-of-the-art no-code platform
built global communities with 50K business professionals around AI, bots and robotics
has been coding on various hand-on projects for almost two decades (ex-IBM, ex-Deloitte)

Asya Pyatigorskaya

Data Pipeline & ML

passion for data combined with domain knowledge in investments (ex-BNP Paribas)
created and maintained complex ETL pipeline with ML elements on Google Cloud Platform
versatile engineer with strong attention to detail

Yiea-Funk Te

Full-Stack Data Scientist

full analysis pipeline development and deployment for machine learning and data mining projects
PhD thesis on predicting the financial growth of SMEs using web mining
advanced experience with deep learning, NLP and transfer learning

Advisors

Helmut Grabner

Research Lead

experienced and versatile researcher in data science with impressive list of scientific publications
B2B AI startup founder (exit to Logitech in 2015)
leading Raized.ai's USD 630K Innosuisse research project in collaboration with ZHAW

Daniel Rüegge

Advisor and Executive Coach

33 years of experience how to turn “data into dollars” through statistics and machine learning
led teams of up to 50 engineers resulting in USD 180M savings
executive roles in various venture funded technology companies and global bank (ex-UBS)

Oliver Heckmann

Advisory Board Member & Investor

well-connected advisor supporting startups on both sides of the Atlantic ocean
14 yrs VP at Google, managing large engineering teams, now head of engineering at Coda.io
advanced experience in “blitzscaling” amazing engineering teams

Mitch Hatscher

Advisory Board Member & Co-Founder

Staff UX designer on Google's Shopping / Merchant Tools team, Google Calendar, and Gmail
20 years of designing complex B2B software solutions (ex-SAP)
outstanding experience in selecting and hiring exceptional tech talent