Made with ❤️ in Frankfurt.

AI will transform the world that we know. Let's embrace its potential and shape it for the better.

Hi, my name is Sebastian and I'm into Data & AI.

About

Hi there, thank you for visiting my website 🙏 As an entrepreneur, I have immersed myself in the fascinating world of AI for over a decade. Being at the forefront of the AI revolution is exhilarating, and I'm dedicated to pushing boundaries, shaping the future, and unlocking the potential of AI for our economy, society and environment.

2009

Studies

Studies in Economics and Statistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

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2010

Freelancing

Working for academia and research clients on statistics and analytics.

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2013

statworx

Started statworx as a consulting business in the data science space.

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2020

statworx next

Transformed the company into a Data & AI first service provider.

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2023

AI Hub Frankfurt

Launched AI Hub Frankfurt as an AI ecosystem company in Frankfurt..

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Featured ✨

I am working on multiple projects across industries and disciplines at the intersection to AI. Check out, what I've been cooking in AI lately!

The AI Week Frankfurt is Frankfurt's leading Data & AI event for industry professionals from the region and beyond. The AI Week features conference-style talks and panels, exceptional networking opportunities and cultural happenings around artificial intelligence.

In 2024, the event attracted more than 2000 people from 500+ companys across five event days:

Day 1: AI Cross-Industry Day
Day 2: AI in Mobility & Logistics
Day 3: AI in Science & Technology
Day 4: AI in Banking & Finance
Day 5: AI Start-up and Investors Day

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The AI Hub Pop-up is an 10-week physical location in Frankfurt, dedicated to everything AI. The goal of the AI Hub Pop-up is to foster the adoption and exchange around AI between companies and experts. We therefore curated a diverse program that covers AI from variety of different industries and angles.
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Date: May to June 2024, Vitra Showroom Frankfurt

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The AI Trends Report 2024 is a comprehensive, 70 pages document that highlights the 12 most important AI trends in 2024. It features over 30 expert opinions from industry and research and is just candy to the eye! Download your copy now and be ahead of the curve!

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The AI Strategy Workbook is a collaboration project between statworx and t3n, Germany's leading platform for content and news around digital. The workbook features 150 pages full of insights, and best practices around implementing AI in an organization (German language).

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the byte is Germany's first AI-powered pop-up restaurant. It features AI as an enabling technology for innovative gastronomical experiences. At the byte we use AI to create concepts, visuals, recipes, drinks, music and art to create an immersive culinary experience for our guests.

Pop-up 1: May 2023, Stanley Frankfurt
Pop-up 2: November 2023, Shuka Bar, Frankfurt

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Companies

I love working entrepreneurial, to build and create from scratch. Over the last years I've built four companies in the space of Data & AI.

statworx is a technology-independent service provider with a focus on Data & AI solutions for companies. From over 10 years of experience and more than 500 successful projects with well-known customers, we know what matters. With statworx, AI becomes a success story for you, too.

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2011

Founded

In Frankfurt ❤️

85+

Experts

Working at statworx

2500+

Projects

Successfully delivered

100+

Customers

Across Industries

statworx ventures is the investment company of statworx that manages and orchestrates all venturing activities, including start-up investements and venture building activities.

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2021

Founded

In Frankfurt ❤️

2

Team

Managing investments

8

Investments

Pre-Seed and Seed

1

Exit

Yay! 🚀

The AI Hub is Frankfurt's leading AI ecosystem that connects companies, start-ups, investors and talents from Frankfurt Rhine-Main and beyond. The AI Hub aims at unfolding the potential of data and AI for the region of Frankfurt and Rhine-Main.

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2023

Founded

In Frankfurt ❤️

5

Experts

Husltlin' for AI!

2000+

Visitors

At our events

10+

Partners

Shaping AI

AI Hub Ventures is the investment company of the AI Hub Frankfurt that manages and orchestrates all venturing activities, including start-up investments and venture building activities.

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2023

Founded

In Frankfurt ❤️

2

Experts

Managing investments

-

Investments

Coming soon

-

Exits

Coming soon (hopefully)

AI will shape the future ↔ Let's be part of this incredible journey.

Talks

Let’s talk about AI. I regulary give keynotes, join panel discussions, and share my knowledge about AI with the world.

Year

Title

Client

Audience

2025

CGI Know How Day

CGI

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200 2025

Partner Conference Germany

Huawei

↗︎

200 2025

Tech Aperitivo

Deutsche Bank

↗︎

100 2025

European Economic Outlook

FAZ

↗︎

200 2025

Digital Leaders Day

Roche

↗︎

100 2025

AI in ESG

VFU

↗︎

100 2024

AI Keynote

Executive Lounge

↗︎

50 2024

AI Keynote

Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft

↗︎

100 2024

AI in Compliance

BDB

↗︎

50 2024

AI Keynote

DATEV

↗︎

100 2024

AI in Banking

Handelsblatt

↗︎

100 2024

AI Keynote

Merck Healthcare

↗︎

100 2024

AI Keynote

Rotary Club

↗︎

50 2024

AI Workshop

Capnamic

↗︎

20 2024

KI im Risikomanagement

BDB

↗︎

50 2024

AI Panel

EintrachtTech

↗︎

200 2024

AI in HR

Commerz Real

↗︎

50 2024

AI and Leadership

KfW IPEX

↗︎

100 2024

The Power of AI

BASF Chemovator

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250 2024

KI zum Espresso

Deutsche Bank

↗︎

30 2024

Founder Story

BASF Chemovator

↗︎

30 2024

AI Keynote

Merck Inhouse Consulting

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100 2024

AI Keynote

Immobilien-Dialog Köln

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100 2023

AI Keynote

Metzler Bank

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100 2023

Impulsvortrag

Der Aufsichtsrat

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100 2023

AI Keynote

Handelsverband Hessen

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100 2023

AI Keynote

IHK Frankfurt

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100 2023

AI Panel

DREES & SOMMER

↗︎

200 2023

AI Panel

Wirtschaftsrat

↗︎

50 2023

AI Panel

Copetri

↗︎

200 2023

AI Keynote

DEHOGA

↗︎

100 2023

GenAI Keynote

EO

↗︎

100 2023

GenAI Workshop

dex

↗︎

200 2023

Bias in AI

Allen & Overy

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100 2023

AI Panel

S.O.U.P.

↗︎

300 2023

GenAI Keynote

DFC

↗︎

200 2022

AI Keynote

START HACK

↗︎

500 2023

AI Keynote

INBETA

↗︎

300 2023

GenAI Popup

Roche

↗︎

100 2023

GenAI Panel

GEC

↗︎

500 2022

Bias in AI

VINCI Energies

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30 2022

AI Panel

DMEXCO

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300 2022

AI Workshop

DIGITAL FESTIVAL

↗︎

30 2022

AI Keynote

INBETA

↗︎

300 2022

AI in ESG

NVIDIA

↗︎

1000

2021

AI Keynote

FIFTEEN SECONDS

↗︎

500 2021

AI Keynote

Lufthansa

↗︎

50

Feel free to contact me for speaking opportunies! 🙌

Investments

During the last years, I've invested in several AI-related start-ups to support their entrepreneurial journey.

Langdock is the GDPR-compliant ChatGPT for teams. It's the first interactive chat assistant for companies of any size. Made in Germany, with all privacy settings so you can stay compliant.

Backed by:

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2022

Founded

Year of founding

Seed

Stage

Investment phase

DE

Location

Geography

AI in Work

Theme

Area of business

neuroflash is building an AI-powered content creation engine. With LLMs, neuroflash creates more than 90 differenttext types for marketing and content purposes, including images and SEO-optimized content.

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2021

Founded

Year of founding

Seed

Stage

Investment phase

DE

Location

Geography

AI in Marketing

Theme

Area of Business

FLOWIT builds a holistical HR solution for people and performance management that uses AI to improve feedback, learning and development. Simple, digital and inclusive.

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2021

Founded

Year of founding

Seed

Stage

Investment phase

CH

Location

Geography

AI in HR

Theme

Area of business

Horizon helps companies to easily gather quantitative, behavioral and reliable consumer insights to make data- and AI-backed product development decisions.

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2021

Founded

Year of founding

Seed

Stage

Investment phase

DE

Location

Geography

AI in Marketing

Theme

Area of business

Prematch owns the leading data and AI-driven platform for amateur football players. Digitizing and gamifying the non-professional football world and building a vibrant specialized network for football.

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2021

Founded

Year of founding

Seed

Stage

Investment phase

DE

Location

Geography

AI in Sports

Theme

Area of business

Kern.ai develops open-source technology for data-centric AI. Their current flagship platform product "refinery" enables AI developers to create data-centric NLP models.

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2021

Founded

Year of foudning

Seed

Stage

Investment phase

DE

Location

Geography

AI in Dev

Theme

Area of business

cre[ai]tion is building an AI powered muse for designers, providing a unique source of inspiration with the aim of enabling data- and AI-driven design.

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2022

Founded

Year of founding

Pre-Seed

Stage

Investment phase

DE

Location

Geography

AI in Design

Theme

Area of business

8080Labs was acquired by databricks, a category leader for Data & AI platforms in 2021 to strengthen their platform offering for low-code data analysis.

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2019

Founded

Year of founding

Exited

Stage

Investment phase

DE

Location

Geography

AI in Dev

Theme

Area of business

Media

My work is featured in different magazines, newspapers, podcasts. Tune in, and find out more about me and my work.

FRM Magazin

The AI Hub Frankfurt and myself were featured in the August/September 2023 edition of the FRM Magazine.

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FAZ Metropol Magazin

The AI Hub Frankfurt, my co-founder Marcel and myself were featured in the August/September 2023 edition of the Metropol Magazine.

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IHK WirtschaftsFORUM

Feature about the AI Hub and me in the documentation about artificial intelligence in the RheinMain region (July 2024).

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AI.MAG

Article about the AI Hub and our Pop-up in May/June 2024 (July 2024).

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F.A.Z., 14.02.2024

Article about the AI Hub Program for 2024, incl. the AI Hub Pop-up and AI Week 2024.

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F.A.Z., 17.10.2023

Article about the AI Week Frankfurt 2023 and Frankfurt's potential in AI.

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F.A.Z., 20.07.2023

Article about a panel discussion on AI at work, where I participated.

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F.A.Z., 18.05.2023

Article about the AI Hub and it's ambitions in the region Frankfurt Rhine-Main.

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F.A.Z., 16.05.2023

Article about Frankfurt's position in the national AI start-up landscape.

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F.A.Z., 16.05.2023

Article about Hessen's position in the national AI landscape.

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Datenbusiness Podcast

Bernard Sonnenschein and Marcel Windau from Datenbusiness visited me to talk about AI, building a company, investing and what I envision the future of statworx to be like.

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Performance Podcast

Marco Adelt from CLARK interviewed me about AI, my entrepreneurial journey and how I structure my daily life and work to get the most out of it.

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Startup Schlau Podcast

Marc Schlegel from "Start-up Schlau" visited me in his VW Bully to talk about me entrepreneurial journey, AI start-ups and the role of Europe in the global AI race.

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