Zeit AI
AI Agents
3open roles
$4.6Mlatest round · Venture round · Sep 2026 · 2 mo ago
1backers · Y Combinator
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Meet the Zeit AI team. A small, Munich-based team of engineers, builders and operators backed by Y Combinator. Our story, our principles, and the people building ZeitMind.
How Zeit AI hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Zeit AI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$4.6M
1 round on record
Latest round
$4.6M
Venture round · Sep 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
6
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
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
Sep 3
Raised a round Venture round $4.6M · EU-Startups
Jun 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Jun 2024
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2026 | $4.6M | — | EU-Startups |
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Jobs
≈ $76k – $153k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Munich
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$106k – $303k per year · In office · Full-Time · Munich · London
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Supabase
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
tRPC
Mantine
DevOps
WebSockets
Docker
Cloudflare
VPN
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$213k
Typical range
$112k – $303k
Open positions
4
3
Jobs
Junior
33.3%
Senior
33.3%
Staff
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $168k | $168k |
| Senior | 1 | $112k | $112k |
| Staff | 1 | $303k | $303k |
Highest paying role
Staff Backend Engineer, Platform
$303k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
6
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 51% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Data Science
20% ▲
Backend
20% ▼
Marketing
20% ▲
Sales
20% ▼
Operations
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added YouTube to stack
Oct 2026
Added Webflow to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Ads to stack
Oct 2026
Added GA4 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude Code to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude to stack
Oct 2026
Added WebSockets to stack
Sep 2026
Added Snowflake to stack
Sep 2026
Added Databricks to stack
Sep 2026
Added Cloudflare to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$4.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $4.6M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zeit AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
18
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
Mantine
React.js
tRPC
Databases
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Cloud & platforms
Supabase
Webflow
Cloudflare
Databricks
AI & ML
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18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6311 portfolio companies
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
Zeit AI: Palantir-Technologie für den Mittelstand
Leopold von Waldthausen arbeitete lange für Palantir. Heute baut der Deutsche mit Zeit AI eine eigene Datenplattform. Sie soll leisten, wofür Palantir bekannt geworden ist, nur für Maschinenbauer statt für Behörden.
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Spotify - Web Player
Leopold von Waldthausen, Co-Founder und CEO von Zeit AI, erklärt im Spotlight mit Jan Thomas, warum KI-Projekte im Mittelstand nicht in der IT starten sollten und wie aus Unternehmensdaten ohne Excel-Umweg operative Entscheidungen werden.
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YC-backed Zeit AI raises €4.3 million to build Europe's "autonomous data engineer"
Zeit AI, a Munich-based startup building the autonomous data engineer for Europe, today announced that it has closed a €4.3 million ($5 million) funding round. Investors in this round include Y Combinator, the University of Oxford's Seed Fund, the Sequoia
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Palantir-Gene, Millionen-Ziel, San-Francisco-Speed - Was hinter Zeit AI steckt
Vor 10 Jahren schlich sich Leopold von Waldthausen auf die Demo-Days des Y-Combinators. Danach hat er bei Palantir gelernt und ein KI-Startup gegründet.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Munich
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6 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Data Science, Backend
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $303k Avg Salary
hires for Backend