Adrian Locher

Merantix Capital Founder & General Partner - investing in AI-first companies

📍 Berlin, Berlin, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 25 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Sep 2025
Arqh optimizes logistics operations with a Unified AI Command Tower and proprietary Optimization Engine. We transform manual processes into real-time, data-driven decisions, delivering significant cost savings and strategic advantages for our clients. Ready to transform your operations and boost efficiency? Connect with us to learn more.
Board Member
Jul 2025
With Droidrun you can automate any mobile app. Grant AI native control of virtual & physical phones - Automate mobile workflows, unlock data, and more. Everything is possible through natural language.
Board Member
Feb 2024
At Libra, we believe the law is a fundamental invention for our society. Our vision is a world where every person that wants to use the law is able to do it. We make tools that break down the complexity of legal processes and make it as easy to interact with as natural language.
Board Member
Apr 2023
Ovom redefines how reproductive care is brought to patients by combining modern in-person care with advanced AI-based technology. Catering not just to patients but also to healthcare professionals, we create an ecosystem that allows for increased success rates, improved accessibility, and reduced life disruption for patients.
Board Member
Oct 2022
Deltia is now Almetra! AI-based process analytics platform to increase productivity and quality in manual shop-floor processes. Processes are captured using computer vision and automatically analysed with a highly flexible AI to identify improvement potential. 1. Real-time capture with cameras Cameras are installed at individual assembly stations capturing live video streams of assembly or packaging tasks. 2. AI tracks material & work steps Video streams are continuously analyzed to detect workpiece movements, cycle times, and work step sequencing. 3. Aggregation for data analysis Process data is aggregated per article and production to provide insights on process performance. Video snippets allow for a comprehensive root-cause analysis. 4. Data-driven improvements Your factory managers and process engineers define, implement and measure process improvements to increase productivity and quality in your assembly line.
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Sep 2021
Based out of the Berlin AI Campus and financially backed by Merantix AG, we have access to a network of more than 90 engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs from leading companies and universities.
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Sep 2020
Cambriums mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing biology’s molecular building blocks. We fundamentally believe that the ability to align economic and environmental incentives makes biology the most important manufacturing technology of the 21st century. Using our molecular design technology, we create novel material building blocks with previously inaccessible functionalities. Our molecules enable innovators to create products that are better for people, and the planet. We are a highly interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, designers and entrepreneurs, united by our vision to create materials that matter. Intrepid, vibrant, and purpose-driven we are on a quest to unlock the power of biology, and reinvent materials from the molecular level.
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Sep 2020
Kausa is a decision intelligence platform powered by AI that delivers actionable insights by testing millions of hypotheses in your data to enable comprehensive decision-making at the speed of business. As data grows in complexity and volume, traditional BI tools only manage to scratch the surface, widening the gap between data collected and used in decision making. Kausa bridges this gap by facilitating the collaboration between business and data teams to optimize their revenue growth and GTM funnel. Kausa’s mission is to empower every business to derive the maximum value from their data.
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Apr 2020
Better breast cancer screening should be a universal offering to every woman in the world. Vara’s AI-powered software platform, created with screening radiologists in Germany, mitigates much of the human subjectivity associated with reading mammography results—and reduces the repetitive work screening physicians are routinely subjected to—we’re making breast cancer screening more effective, more measurable, and more accessible for everyone, everywhere. By democratising access to early screening around the world, we deliver measurable impact backed by clinical evidence. We are partnering globally, to deliver breast cancer screening where it is needed most.
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Jan 2020
Building robust, industrial AI like automated driving is extremely difficult. Everyone thinks about algorithms, but up to 75% of engineering time is spent on highly manual tasks, namely manually reviewing and selecting masses of data instead of building algorithms. That is why we developed SiaSearch, a data management platform which automatically extracts frame-level, contextual metadata and utilizes it for fast data exploration, selection and evaluation. Automating these tasks with metadata can more than double engineering productivity and remove the bottleneck to building industrial AI. In November 2021, SiaSearch was acquired by Scale AI. The SiaSearch team will join Scale's Nucleus business unit and the technology will be woven into the Nucleus product, enabling Scale AI to provide the full data engine for every AI team.
Board Member
May 2019
We bring impactful ML solutions to our clients to help them leverage their business potential through a comprehensive AI strategy, tailored AI solutions and reliable AI operations for longterm impact.
Board Member
Aug 2018
Better breast cancer screening should be a universal offering to every woman in the world. Vara’s AI-powered software platform, created with screening radiologists in Germany, mitigates much of the human subjectivity associated with reading mammography results—and reduces the repetitive work screening physicians are routinely subjected to—we’re making breast cancer screening more effective, more measurable, and more accessible for everyone, everywhere. By democratising access to early screening around the world, we deliver measurable impact backed by clinical evidence. We are partnering globally, to deliver breast cancer screening where it is needed most.
Founder & Investor
Apr 2016
Altoida is a pioneer in developing digital biomarkers of neurological conditions, including Alzheimer’s Disease, using augmented reality and machine learning. Our technology platform is designed to enable an objective evaluation of an individual’s cognitive health and function, which may potentially allow for faster and more sensitive monitoring of disease progression and treatment response. Altoida is a privately-held, venture-backed, commercial stage company and our proprietary evidence-based platform is founded on more than 20 years of scientific research and published in multiple peer-reviewed papers including Nature Digital Medicine.
Founder & Member of the Board
Mar 2016
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Oct 2010
Divio is a Swiss-Swedish external development platform provider and cloud consulting provider. We provide an elegant, straightforward interface for your application's complete lifecycle, allowing your technical team to focus on improvement and development. Divio works with open technologies and pay-for-what-you-need policies to avoid lock-in and reduce costs. Our promise is to offer an easier, cheaper and more secure cloud management and development platform solution. Founded in 2006, Divio Technologies is headquartered in Stockholm with offices in Zürich and New York together with expert competence centers across the world. Since 2019, Divio Technologies AB is listed at NASDAQ First North in Sweden. Are you looking to simplify and tailor complex cloud infrastructure to your needs or to migrate and run your apps in the cloud? Contact us at sales@divio.com. We're looking forward to talking to you.
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Sep 2025
Arqh optimizes logistics operations with a Unified AI Command Tower and proprietary Optimization Engine. We transform manual processes into real-time, data-driven decisions, delivering significant cost savings and strategic advantages for our clients. Ready to transform your operations and boost efficiency? Connect with us to learn more.
Board Member
Jul 2025
With Droidrun you can automate any mobile app. Grant AI native control of virtual & physical phones - Automate mobile workflows, unlock data, and more. Everything is possible through natural language.
2024
Board Member
Feb 2024
At Libra, we believe the law is a fundamental invention for our society. Our vision is a world where every person that wants to use the law is able to do it. We make tools that break down the complexity of legal processes and make it as easy to interact with as natural language.
2023
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Apr 2023
Ovom redefines how reproductive care is brought to patients by combining modern in-person care with advanced AI-based technology. Catering not just to patients but also to healthcare professionals, we create an ecosystem that allows for increased success rates, improved accessibility, and reduced life disruption for patients.
2022
Board Member
Oct 2022
Deltia is now Almetra! AI-based process analytics platform to increase productivity and quality in manual shop-floor processes. Processes are captured using computer vision and automatically analysed with a highly flexible AI to identify improvement potential. 1. Real-time capture with cameras Cameras are installed at individual assembly stations capturing live video streams of assembly or packaging tasks. 2. AI tracks material & work steps Video streams are continuously analyzed to detect workpiece movements, cycle times, and work step sequencing. 3. Aggregation for data analysis Process data is aggregated per article and production to provide insights on process performance. Video snippets allow for a comprehensive root-cause analysis. 4. Data-driven improvements Your factory managers and process engineers define, implement and measure process improvements to increase productivity and quality in your assembly line.
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