Zeit AI raises €5M to bring an autonomous data engineer to Europe's mid-market

The Palantir alumni behind ZeitMind say they reached €1M ARR in 12 months; YC, Oxford's Seed Fund and Sequoia scouts joined the round.

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The round tests whether Palantir-style forward-deployed engineering can be compressed into software for midsize companies without leaving Zeit AI trapped in services-heavy deployments.

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Leopold von Waldthausen (@lwaldthausen) and Marvin Christopher Bornstein, former Palantir colleagues who spent years deploying software inside large European businesses, have raised €5 million for Zeit AI. The Munich startup is trying to package that expensive, labor-intensive work into an AI data engineer that midsize companies can buy.…

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