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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$8.3M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$8.3M
Venture round · Jan 2025 · 21 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
+4 posted in 30 days
Grants
$2.2M
4 grants · CORDIS
Backers
4
Ecapital, Local Globe
The money's age
Due for its next round
21 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
20/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 2, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $8.3M · SiliconANGLE Feb 1, 2023 Won a grant $457k · CORDIS Aug 1, 2022 Won a grant $122k · CORDIS Jun 1, 2021 Won a grant $802k · CORDIS Jul 1, 2020 Won a grant $852k · CORDIS 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.78%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2025 $8.3M — SiliconANGLE
Grant Feb 2023 $457k — CORDIS
Grant Aug 2022 $122k — CORDIS
Grant Jun 2021 $802k — CORDIS
Grant Jul 2020 $852k — CORDIS
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity AI GmbH its site
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Robin RöhmGeschäftsführercompany's site
Michael HöhGeschäftsführercompany's site
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Overview

Apheris enables federated machine learning so that models can be trained across organisations without moving the data. Founded in 2019 in Berlin, it focuses on pharmaceutical and industrial consortia that cannot pool proprietary datasets. Its governance layer defines exactly what computations each party permits.

News

News markets.ft.com 1 year ago
- Company Announcement - FT.com
The latest company information, including net asset values, performance, holding & sectors weighting, changes in voting rights, and directors and dealings.
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News SiliconANGLE 1 year ago
Apheris raises $8.25M for its healthcare-focused federated AI platform
Apheris raises $8.25M for its healthcare-focused federated AI platform - SiliconANGLE
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
Apheris rethinks the AI data bottleneck in life science with federated computing
AI is fundamentally dependent on data, but the vast majority of health data goes unused for understandable reasons - chiefly patient privacy, regulation,
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News Business Insider 6 years ago
Ex-Google CFO Patrick Pichette backed deep tech startup Apheris in a $3 million seed round
The AI privacy industry is set to be worth almost $50 billion by 2027.
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Drug Discovery Europe 2027
Pushing traditional boundaries in pharmaceutical science by accelerating the discovery of novel therapeutics
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Apheris over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
11
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
Figma
Webflow
AI & ML
Claude
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People

Robin Röhm
Geschäftsführer
Michael Höh
Geschäftsführer
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
79/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
8
5 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 days
faster than 27% 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.
AI/ML
42% ▲
Early Careers
17%
Backend
8% ▼
Product
8% ▼
Design
8% ▲
Sales
8% ▼
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Webflow to stack Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack Sep 2026
Added Canva to stack Sep 2026
Added Adobe After Effects to stack Sep 2026
Added SharePoint to stack Sep 2026
Added Outlook to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack Sep 2026
Added Cursor to stack Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Berlin Germany
HQ
1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
seen since Sep 2026

Jobs

Remote (likely Germany) • Full-Time • PhD
Python
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Federated Learning
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
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≈ $111k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely Germany) • Full-Time
Python
PyTorch
Federated Learning
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
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≈ $125k – $265k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely Germany) • Full-Time
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≈ $111k – $246k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely Germany) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp
Machine Learning
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≈ $134k – $283k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely Germany) • Full-Time
Machine Learning
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≈ $111k – $246k per year (Estimated) • Remote (likely Germany) • Full-Time
Machine Learning
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$10.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $8.3M Details
Grant 2023 $457k Details
Grant 2022 $122k Details
Grant 2021 $802k Details
Grant 2020 $852k Details