Zeit AI

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Location Munich, Germany
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised €5M
Website https://zeit-ai.com
Sector
ai data-infrastructure enterprise-saas vertical-ai analytics

Investors

Y Combinator yc-s24 (2024)

Founders

Leopold von Waldthausen CEO & Co-Founder
Marvin Christopher Bornstein CTO & Co-Founder

About

Zeit AI GmbH is a Munich, Germany-based Y Combinator-backed (Summer 2024 batch) startup that positions itself as “the autonomous data engineer for the European mid-market” 12. Its ZeitMind platform lets non-technical business users connect over 600 data sources (SAP, ERP, CRM systems) and build custom dashboards, reports, and applications via natural language, without coding 1. Co-founders Leopold von Waldthausen (CEO, Oxford CS, former Palantir) and Marvin Christopher Bornstein (CTO, former Palantir engineer with 18 years of software experience) built the company to €1M ARR within twelve months of joining Y Combinator, running with a 12-person team and customers including Kolbenschmidt, Allgaier Agrarhandel, Jetfly, and Capomondo 2. The platform is GDPR-compliant and runs on EU servers with no model training on customer data 1.

On September 3, 2026, Zeit AI announced a €5 million round to build Europe’s autonomous data engineer 3. Zeit AI’s “Backed by” page lists Y Combinator (Summer 2024 batch), Sequoia Scout Fund, HP VC, ACE Ventures, and the University of Oxford as prior backers; the specific participants and lead of the €5M round were not disclosed in the announcement 13.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-09-03 Seed €5M — Syndicate not disclosed. Company’s “Backed by” page lists Y Combinator, Sequoia Scout Fund, HP VC, ACE Ventures, University of Oxford as prior backers 13
2024 YC Batch — Y Combinator (Summer 2024 batch) 2

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Sources

  1. Zeit AI company website (zeit-ai.com), accessed September 2026. https://zeit-ai.com/↩↩↩↩↩

  2. Y Combinator company profile, “Zeit AI,” accessed September 2026. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zeit-ai↩↩↩

  3. EU-Startups, “YC-backed Zeit AI raises €5 million to build Europe’s autonomous data engineer,” September 3, 2026. Accessed September 2026. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/09/yc-backed-zeit-ai-raises-e5-million-to-build-europes-autonomous-data-engineer/↩↩↩