We’re excited to back Zeit AI founders Leopold von Waldthausen and Marvin Bornstein in their $5M Seed. Zeit AI is building a new way for enterprises to turn operational problems into production-ready AI solutions—fast.

The opportunity

Enterprise data is where most of the value hides, and where almost none of it gets used. The insights sit locked across ERPs, CRMs, and endless spreadsheets, reachable only through IT backlogs and expensive BI projects that take months to ship a single dashboard.

For most companies outside the tech bubble, the gap between the data they own and the decisions they can act on is enormous.

What Zeit AI does

Zeit AI closes that gap. With ZeitMind, business teams connect their systems, build custom applications, and run their processes entirely in plain language. No data engineers, no IT queue, no code.

Finance data merged with CRM pipeline in minutes. A spend tracker or a margin-risk monitor live in weeks, not quarters. And it already delivers hard numbers:

• €24M unlocked in better procurement negotiations

• €700k saved through smarter inventory

• 90% of reporting automated

Real impact, in real industrials, fast.

Why HPVC invested

The best enterprise software companies have always been built close to the customer. Zeit AI takes that seriously.

Its Forward Deployed Engineers work alongside customers, go deep into the operational problems that actually matter, and get solutions into production fast. Around this model, Leopold von Waldthausen and Marvin Bornstein have built an unusually talent-dense team—combining deep technical expertise with the willingness to roll up their sleeves and solve problems side by side with customers.

What the team learns on the ground feeds directly back into ZeitMind, making the product better and more scalable with every deployment. That is how we believe enterprise AI adoption becomes real:

1. Solve a problem that matters.

2. Prove value quickly.

3. Learn from it.

4. Turn it into a much bigger transformation.

Built in Europe, for enterprise

As AI becomes part of the operational core of more companies, sovereignty matters too. Europe needs to build more of the technology its businesses will increasingly depend on. Zeit AI is built and hosted in Europe, GDPR-native, and Made in Germany.

It’s Zeit to build

We’re proud to partner with Leopold, Marvin, and the entire Zeit AI team in their $5M Seed alongside Y Combinator, Oxford Seed Fund, Sequoia Capital Scout Fund, ACE Ventures, and an impressive group of angels, including Mario Götze.

They are just getting started—and they are hiring across engineering, product, and forward-deployed roles. Explore the open positions at jobs.ashbyhq.com/zeit-ai.

It’s Zeit to build. With Courage. ⏰ 💪