# Maik Wehmeyer

> Maik Taro Wehmeyer is the co-founder and CEO of Taktile, an AI decision platform that helps banks, insurers, and fintechs automate high-stakes risk decisions like credit underwriting, onboarding, fraud detection, and claims. A Harvard-trained statistician and former QuantCo, McKinsey, and Bosch alum, he started Taktile in 2020 with fellow Harvard classmate Maximilian Eber after they repeatedly rebuilt the same decision infrastructure for enterprise clients. In June 2026 the company raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing total funding to roughly $189M, and now serves more than 150 financial institutions from offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Taktile
- **Organizations:** Taktile, QuantCo, McKinsey & Company, Bosch, SAP
- **Nationality:** German
- **Education:** Statistics, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Taktile to more than 150 financial institution customers across offices in New York, London, and Berlin, Raised roughly $189M in total funding, including a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in June 2026, Grew the company to around 190 employees

## Career timeline

- **pre-2020** — Worked at QuantCo, McKinsey, Bosch, and SAP, building AI-powered applications for enterprise customers
- **2020** — Co-founded Taktile with Maximilian Eber, a Harvard classmate, to make automated decisioning self-service
- **2022** — Taktile raised a $20M Series A; company went through Y Combinator
- **2023** — Closed a $54M Series B round
- **2026** — Raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with Tiger Global, Index Ventures and Y Combinator participating

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Taktile to more than 150 financial institution customers across offices in New York, London, and Berlin
- Raised roughly $189M in total funding, including a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in June 2026
- Grew the company to around 190 employees
- Member of the AI Alliance at the EU Commission
- Founding member of the German AI Association
- Built a platform credited with helping one large insurer project over $90M in claims-processing efficiencies and a fintech cut false positives by 75%

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Taktile raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to power AI transformation in financial institutions, bringing total funding to roughly $189M.

## Links

- Website: https://taktile.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maik-taro-wehmeyer
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/taktile_org
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0u041IaKHs

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Last updated: 2026-07-15