Rasmus Rothe: Building and Scaling A.I Ventures

Published: May 28, 2020, 3:54 p.m.

Rasmus Rothe studied Computer Science at Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zurich. 

After a short stay at Google he co-founded Merantix: A Berlin-based venture studio building transformative AI companies in industries such as healthcare and automotive.

Through its focus on A.I Merantix is fulfilling a unique position as a venture studio announcing the raise of a €25 million fund to build eight companies in the upcoming years. Together with Rasmus we are talking on the opportunities for specialized venture studios and the future of intelligent products. We are tackling the current landscape touching upon the affect Covid-19 and the long-term outlook for the applied A.I within the corporate world. As the Co-Founder of the German A.I association Rasmus has a second role with the goal to represent German A.I start-ups to collaborate with the German government. Since its establishment the German A.I association has developed close ties with the government and is working jointly on the national A.I strategy.