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Andreas Roell and the price of getting bigger
A soccer player from Karlsruhe helped build Geary Interactive into an international agency. The deal that followed gave Andreas Roell a second education - and a different way to think about a founder’s exit.
KIT-Gründerschmiede and the art of getting out of the lab
A research result can be brilliant and still have no customers. In Karlsruhe, KIT-Gründerschmiede helps founders make the awkward, necessary journey between the two.
Daedalus
Daedalus is an AI-driven precision manufacturing company building software-defined factories that produce high-precision parts for defense, medtech, semiconductors and industrial customers. Founded by former OpenAI Robotics technical lead Jonas Schneider, the company pairs off-the-shelf CNC hardware with its proprietary Manufacturing AI Platform to automate the work that traditionally requires veteran machinists - quoting, process planning, machine control and quality inspection - and runs it all out of a 50,000-square-foot factory in Karlsruhe, Germany.