Rasmus Rothe

Building and Investing in AI @ Merantix Capital | Chairman of the Board @ German AI Association

📍 Berlin Metropolitan Area, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
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Board Member
Jul 2024
Die Dokumentation in Reha-Einrichtungen ist einer der größten Zeitfresser, der wertvolle Ressourcen bindet und den Klinikalltag erheblich belastet. FICUS HEALTH ist ein Berliner Unternehmen, das mit KI-basierter Software die Dokumentation automatisiert. Aus Patientengesprächen werden mittels Spracherkennung und Künstlicher Intelligenz DRV-konforme Arzt- und Entlassberichte erstellt – für maximale Punktzahl bei Peer-Review-Verfahren. Ärzt:innen und Therapeut:innen werden entlastet und gewinnen wertvolle Zeit für die Patientenversorgung. Die Einarbeitungszeit medizinischer Teams wird deutlich verkürzt, insbesondere für ausländische Fachkräfte durch das Ausgleichen von Sprachbarrieren. Hinter FICUS steht ein Team aus Spezialisten für Rehabilitation, Künstliche Intelligenz und Softwareentwicklung. Das Unternehmen ist Teil des größten europäischen KI-Campus in Berlin.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Social engineering used to require skill, time, and effort. GenAI has removed all three. The result: hyper-personalized attacks at unprecedented scale and speed, across voice, video, email, SMS, and social media. Traditional training cant keep up. revel8 closes that gap. Our AI platform simulates real-world social engineering attacks, tailored to each employees actual risk profile using open-source intelligence. Built from live threat intelligence. Mirroring the exact tactics attackers use today. Delivered across all channels. Each employee gets a personalized, gamified playlist that adapts to their role, risk profile, and progress - turning awareness into instinct. Every interaction feeds back into the system, building a swarm intelligence that makes your entire organization sharper with each simulation.
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.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Looks is an app that digitises your wardrobe and helps you decide what to wear in seconds. Powered by AI, it allows you to easily upload outfits, mix & match individual clothes and connect with friends to share styles and inspire one another. Our society has the tendency to consume more clothes than we need. Did you know that most people only use 50% of their clothes? Yes, this is crazy! Not only does this clutter your wardrobe, it clutters your mind and overconsumption even leads to negative consequences like pollution and waste. Our aim is to build technology that allows you to make more mindful, instead of impulsive, purchases.
Board Member
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.
Board Member
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.
Board Member
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.
Board Observer
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.
Board Member
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.
Founding Member / Member of the Board
Mar 2018
Künstliche Intelligenz ist eine der entscheidenden Technologien unserer Zukunft. Die Mitglieder des Bundesverband Künstliche Intelligenz BVKI e.V. setzen sich dafür ein, dass diese Technologie im Sinne europäischer und demokratischer Werte Anwendung findet und Europa digitale Souveränität erreicht. Dafür muss die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die EU ein attraktiver KI-Standort für Unternehmer:innen werden, in dem Risikobereitschaft gewürdigt wird und Innovationsgeist auf die besten Voraussetzungen trifft. Wir stehen an der Seite der KI-Unternehmer:innen, indem wir ihre Interessen gegenüber Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien vertreten. Unser Ziel ist ein aktives, erfolgreiches und nachhaltiges KI-Ökosystem in Deutschland und Europa. Denn nur, wenn sich die klügsten Köpfe und Vordenker:innen entscheiden in der Europäischen Union zu gründen, zu forschen und zu lehren, können wir im globalen Wettbewerb standhalten. Wir ermöglichen Unternehmer:innen aus den gegenseitigen Erfahrungen zu lernen und in ihre Firma zu tragen. Durch den Austausch in unserem Netzwerk leisten wir einen Beitrag, die Innovationskraft in Deutschland zu stärken. Künstliche Intelligenz kann in Deutschland nur erfolgreich sein, wenn sie von der etablierten Wirtschaft in allen Bereichen angenommen wird. Wir tragen dazu bei, Offenheit für KI-Innovationen in europäischen Unternehmen zu wecken.
Founder & Member of the Board
Mar 2016
Experience · 17 entries
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2025
Shareholders‘ Committee
Sep 2025
CLAAS is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural engineering equipment. Our modern harvesters, tractors, balers and farming information technologies help to serve the rising demand for food, energy and commodities. High-tech products from CLAAS are used in 140 countries. With around 12,000 employees at our sites worldwide we generate turnover of 4.9 billion euros. Harvesting the Future: this is our shared objective. Committed to an international outlook and family values, CLAAS offers an environment shaped by mutual respect and scope for individual development. Legal notice: https://www.claas.com/en-us/about-claas/legal/legal-notice
2024
Board Member
Jul 2024
Die Dokumentation in Reha-Einrichtungen ist einer der größten Zeitfresser, der wertvolle Ressourcen bindet und den Klinikalltag erheblich belastet. FICUS HEALTH ist ein Berliner Unternehmen, das mit KI-basierter Software die Dokumentation automatisiert. Aus Patientengesprächen werden mittels Spracherkennung und Künstlicher Intelligenz DRV-konforme Arzt- und Entlassberichte erstellt – für maximale Punktzahl bei Peer-Review-Verfahren. Ärzt:innen und Therapeut:innen werden entlastet und gewinnen wertvolle Zeit für die Patientenversorgung. Die Einarbeitungszeit medizinischer Teams wird deutlich verkürzt, insbesondere für ausländische Fachkräfte durch das Ausgleichen von Sprachbarrieren. Hinter FICUS steht ein Team aus Spezialisten für Rehabilitation, Künstliche Intelligenz und Softwareentwicklung. Das Unternehmen ist Teil des größten europäischen KI-Campus in Berlin.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Social engineering used to require skill, time, and effort. GenAI has removed all three. The result: hyper-personalized attacks at unprecedented scale and speed, across voice, video, email, SMS, and social media. Traditional training cant keep up. revel8 closes that gap. Our AI platform simulates real-world social engineering attacks, tailored to each employees actual risk profile using open-source intelligence. Built from live threat intelligence. Mirroring the exact tactics attackers use today. Delivered across all channels. Each employee gets a personalized, gamified playlist that adapts to their role, risk profile, and progress - turning awareness into instinct. Every interaction feeds back into the system, building a swarm intelligence that makes your entire organization sharper with each simulation.
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.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Looks is an app that digitises your wardrobe and helps you decide what to wear in seconds. Powered by AI, it allows you to easily upload outfits, mix & match individual clothes and connect with friends to share styles and inspire one another. Our society has the tendency to consume more clothes than we need. Did you know that most people only use 50% of their clothes? Yes, this is crazy! Not only does this clutter your wardrobe, it clutters your mind and overconsumption even leads to negative consequences like pollution and waste. Our aim is to build technology that allows you to make more mindful, instead of impulsive, purchases.
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