Co-Written by Adrian Locher and Finn Grotheer. This article is part of an article series about Merantix. In this article, we will outline how our ideation process works — from hiring the right entrepreneurs, to identifying a second-to-none business opportunity, to validation with our network of advisors and industry partners. In…

Overcoming the hidden obstacles of AI company-building: interdisciplinarity, hybrids and new business models — Co-Written by Adrian Locher, Finn Grotheer and John McSpedon. This article is part of a series of articles about Merantix, our existing portfolio companies, the business cases we are currently working on, as well as the domains we deem pivotal and would like to further explore. …

Lessons learned at Merantix: The difference between academia and industry — Motivation Last weekend I spent some time back at home with my family and started to reflect about the past couple of years since my time at university, including all the excitement and challenges I experienced during the different stages of my career. …

3 lessons from our work at Merantix — The rise of artificial intelligence in recent years is grounded in the success of deep learning. Three major drivers caused the breakthrough of (deep) neural networks: the availability of huge amounts of training data, powerful computational infrastructure, and advances in academia. Thereby deep learning systems start to outperform not only…