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Funding and backers

Total raised
$5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
Venture round
Feb 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
3
High-Tech Gründerfonds, D11Z. Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
32 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 1, 2024 Raised a round Venture round Jan 29, 2024 Raised a round Seed $5M · PRNewswire Mar 15, 2023 Raised a round Venture round 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Feb 2024 — — handelsregister.de
Seed Jan 2024 $5M — PRNewswire
Venture round Mar 2023 — — handelsregister.de
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity akirolabs GmbH its site
Registered 5 Mar 2021
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Detlef SchultzManaging Directorscompany's site
Michael PleugerManaging Directorscompany's site
Christoph FlöthmannManaging Directorscompany's site
Tim ErgenzingerManaging Directorscompany's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Build better category strategies with akirolabs’ Category Management Platform. Align stakeholders, cut inefficiencies, and drive smarter procurement results.

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Shared investors3
OTB VenturesVia a fund
33 portfolio companies: Cisco Systems, Veridion, Waiv and 30 more
D11Z. VenturesVia a fund
43 portfolio companies: OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Anthropic and 40 more
516 portfolio companies

News

Press release PRNewswire 2 years ago
akirolabs Secures 7-digit Grant to Develop the Leading LLM for Strategic Procurement, Building on Recent $5M Seed Round
Highlights: akirolabs awarded 7-digit non-dilutive public funding from Investitionsbank Berlin and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The jury...
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News Pulse 2.0 2 years ago
akirolabs: Procurement Technology Company Raises $5 Million
akirolabs - a Berlin-based ProcureTech startup enabling enterprises worldwide to augment strategic procurement processes - announced that it has raised $5 million in its recent seed funding round. The investors in this round included HTGF, OTB Ventures, D
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Press release CNWGroup 2 years ago
akirolabs Raises $5M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Strategic Procurement
Founded in 2021, Berlin-based akirolabs empowers procurement organisations to unlock 4-5x higher sustainable business value beyond traditional cost savings....
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Press release PRNewswire 2 years ago
akirolabs Raises $5M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Strategic Procurement
Founded in 2021, Berlin-based akirolabs empowers procurement organisations to unlock 4-5x higher sustainable business value beyond traditional cost savings....
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News news.qq.com 2 years ago
akirolabs 在种子轮融资中筹得 500 万美元以推动战略采购的变革_腾讯新闻
总部位于柏林的 akirolabs 公司成立于 2021 年致力于为采购组织挖掘出比传统节约成本高出 4-5 倍的可持续商业价值 本轮融资由 HTGF、OTB Ventures 和 D11Z. Ventures 领投还获得了行业领导者 Fredrick Spalcke、Heiko Schwarz、Markus Ehrle 和 Detlef Schultz 的天使投资 资金将用于改进 akirolabs 的 SaaS 产...
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Press release PRNewswire 2 years ago
akirolabs Raises $5M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Strategic Procurement
Founded in 2021, Berlin-based akirolabs empowers procurement organisations to unlock 4-5x higher sustainable business value beyond traditional cost savings....
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 4 years ago
Auquan Named a Gartner Cool Vendor for Agentic AI in Banking and Investment Services
Auquan, the leader in automating complex financial workflows with autonomous AI agents, today announced it has been named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner report Cool Vendors for Agentic AI in Banking
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at akirolabs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Cloud & platforms
Perplexity
Apollo
Webflow
Developer tools
Adobe Photoshop
Canva
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
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People

Detlef Schultz
Managing Directors
Michael Pleuger
Managing Directors
Christoph Flöthmann
Managing Directors
Tim Ergenzinger
Managing Directors
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
44/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
740 days
faster than 2% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Berlin
Berlin Germany
HQ
Ready to Transform Your Procurement Strategy?
1 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Management
10405 Berlin, Germany
seen since Apr 2024 company site, job postings

Financials

Total raised
$5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 — Details
Seed 2024 $5M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 — Details