Fabian Westerheide
Founding Managing Partner @ Asgard - human Capital for AI
Berlin, Germany
Fabian Westerheide is a seed investor at Asgard - human Capital for AI in Berlin focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Fabian J. G. Westerheide, founder and CEO of Asgard, is an international expert on Artificial Intelligence strategy, serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist.Fabian advises governmental institutions including the European Commission, European Space Agency, German parliament and departments such as the secretary of defense and foreignministry, as well as Fortune 500 companies, think-tanks and startups.Prior to Asgard, Fabian was a founding employee of the Berlin-based Venture Capital company Point Nine Capital, where he invested in and helped launch companies such as Delivery Hero. Fabian previously joined the company builder Team Europe where he helped startups scale ideas to exit within a few years. He then founded Wunsch-Brautkleid, building Europe’s largest marketplace for wedding dresses, which was sold to a German wedding media platform. Additionally, he is a renowned TEDx speaker, regular guest at international tech conferences and coordinator for Artificial Intelligence at the German Startups Association.An avid Sci-Fi lover from childhood, Fabian has turned his lifelong passion for technology and human progress into investment expertise. Fabian launched Asgard in 2014 to combine his wealth of knowledge of Artificial Intelligence with his ability to grow companies and pick startup winners.Fabian holds a master’s degree in strategic and international management from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Münster (Germany).
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
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Industries Fabian Westerheide invests in
Stages Fabian Westerheide invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (60%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (60%)
- Robotics 2 (40%)
- Machine Learning 2 (40%)
- Art 1 (20%)
Country
- Germany 2 (40%)
- Hong Kong 1 (20%)
- United Kingdom 1 (20%)
Investments
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Micropsi Industries
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Micropsi Industries is building cognitive machines: Theyr’re providing high-end machine learning solutions for robotics and process control.micropsi industries MIRAI is a robot control system designed for complex assembly tasks. MIRAI-controlled robots perform movements that react to minute changes in the environment, as perceived by the robotwith cameras or force sensors. MIRAI skills aren't programmed, but trained - through demonstration, correction, and repetition. This allows users to create skills without writing a single line of code or modelling the problem.The company was founded in 2014 by a group of experienced entrepreneurs, software engineers and scientists, most of them with cognitive science or machine learning backgrounds. micropsi industries is backed by Vito Ventures, coparion, and a group of experienced business angels from Munich and Berlin. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 27, 2017 | |
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Micropsi Industries
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Micropsi Industries is building cognitive machines: Theyr’re providing high-end machine learning solutions for robotics and process control.micropsi industries MIRAI is a robot control system designed for complex assembly tasks. MIRAI-controlled robots perform movements that react to minute changes in the environment, as perceived by the robotwith cameras or force sensors. MIRAI skills aren't programmed, but trained - through demonstration, correction, and repetition. This allows users to create skills without writing a single line of code or modelling the problem.The company was founded in 2014 by a group of experienced entrepreneurs, software engineers and scientists, most of them with cognitive science or machine learning backgrounds. micropsi industries is backed by Vito Ventures, coparion, and a group of experienced business angels from Munich and Berlin. | Seed / Oct 01, 2016 | |
Accelerated Dynamics
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Currently, drones, robots & connected IoT devices are limited by their method of control as there is no unifying platform that grants true autonomy and can control multiple robots. This means one or more operators are required per vehicle or robot. Accelerated Dynamics provides an AI software platform that enables autonomous, collaborativerobot missions and an ecosystem environment enabling seamless data collection and analytics solutions from third party providers. Our proprietary mission management system is built upon strong IP portfolio based on machine learning and multi-agent technologies, including: autonomous robot decision making, neural network based fleet management and strategy creation, navigation, path planning, collision avoidance for the fleet and autonomy level management for human-robot interaction. | $560K / Seed / Aug 22, 2016 | |
parlamind
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parlamind is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Customer Service. Based on latest research in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning as well as state of the art cloud software the parlamind team is building an AI of the next generation. parlamind will analyse, route, and autonomously answer incoming customer communication, and thus worksseamlessly together with its human counterparts as a member in the customer service team. parlamind was founded in August 2015 by Dr. Tina Klüwer, Christian Wolf, Dr. Núria Bertomeu Castelló and Tobias Lehmann. The founders combine their experience from E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, and AI-Research from leading companies and research facilities like wirkaufens.de, German Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and Searchmetrics. | $1.7M / Seed / Jul 07, 2016 | |
Soundbrenner
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Soundbrenner - making music practice addictive. Over 1 billion people have tried learning an instrument and failed. More than 90% of people who start playing music give up in less than a year. Enter Soundbrenner. By combining wearables with great software, Soundbrenner creates a music practice experience that is fun and rewarding, allowing anyoneto learn and master any instrument.To date we shipped over 80,000 wearables and are in music stores in over 40 countries. Our mobile apps are used by over 500,000 musicians every month. We're headquartered in Hong Kong and operate an additional office in Berlin. While we are proud of the progress we made so far, we still consider ourselves to be at the very beginning of what is to come. | $500K / Seed / Aug 01, 2015 |
Co-Investors
Asgard Capital provide early stage capital for companies with Artificial Intelligence.
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What does Fabian Westerheide invest in?
Fabian Westerheide invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Fabian Westerheide closed in Jun 2017. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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