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Culture: “Ownership is assumed, not assigned” – team members are trusted to take ownership of their work and decisions. Collaborative, research-driven environment shaped together.
Work Mode: Hybrid/remote-friendly – “In-Office or Remote” per Built In; HQ in Bremen, Germany.
Team: Small (11 people) with high impact – technical roles dominate (6 of 11 in engineering, research, product). Open positions include AI Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Sales & GTM Manager.
Notable Perks: Working on cutting-edge AI agents for real-world regulated environments; opportunity to contribute to open-source research; exposure to EU AI Act compliance and enterprise deployment.

One-liner: ellamind builds vertical AI agents for regulated back-office work, providing evaluation, deployment, and monitoring infrastructure that is auditable, model-agnostic, and EU-AI-Act compliant.
Entity Type: Private (Startup – no disclosed funding rounds; bootstrapped or early-stage)
Headquarters: Bremen, Germany
Founded: 2024
Founders: Dr. Jan Philipp Harries (Co-Founder & CEO), Björn Plüster (Co-Founder & CTO)

Primary Industry: AI infrastructure & agentic automation for regulated industries (health insurance, banking, public sector, e-commerce)
Target Customers: Enterprise B2B – primarily statutory and private health insurers, banks, and government agencies in the EU
Mission or Purpose: Build AI agents that “stand up to reality: regulation, scale, and responsibility” – safe, verifiable, and compliant by design

elluminate: Evaluation and monitoring layer that turns AI agent performance into repeatable, evidence-based workflows. Generates EU AI Act–aligned technical documentation, pass-rate reports, and continuous monitoring.
ellarun: Secure agent runtime with sandbox isolation, credential brokering, and full Article 12 audit trail. Agents interact through browser UIs like a human colleague, eliminating costly custom integrations.
Agent Lab: Pre-packaged vertical agents for specific operational bottlenecks – currently live in health insurance (GOÄ claim review, hearing procedures, self-payer calculations) and e-commerce (multimodal product-listing remediation).
Frontier Research: Custom AI services and applied research (model evaluation, development, AI audits) that also feeds R&D into Agent Lab products.

Valuation/Market Cap: Not disclosed
Key Metric: 11 employees (as of mid-2026), +54.5% YoY headcount growth; 1M+ open-source model downloads by founders; 7 open job postings
Notable Investors/Partners: No public funding rounds disclosed. Anchor customers include hkk Krankenkasse, BITMARCK, BIG, Bundesamt für Wasserwirtschaft, ITZBund. Research partners: OpenEuroLLM, LLMs4EU, EU-SAI, IPCEI_AI.
Growth Signals: Production rollout with a major GKV (statutory health insurance) anchor customer for three vertical agents; accuracy improvement from 40% to 93% on a 30-claim evaluation; 1,281 LinkedIn followers (+63% yearly)

EU AI Act readiness by default: Full audit trails, compliance documentation, and evidence-based reporting built into every agent.
Data sovereignty: “Made in Germany” – German data centers, 100% EU data residency, air-gap option for sensitive environments.
Model-agnostic: Works with Claude, GPT, Mistral, Llama, or self-hosted models – switch providers without retooling.
Open-source foundation: Built on NVIDIA OpenShell and open standards – no vendor lock-in.
Deep research pedigree: Founders authored top-10 ranked open-source models (1M+ downloads) and are embedded in the European open-source AI community (Mistral, Hugging Face, LAION).

Double down on vertical agents for regulated industries: health insurance (GOÄ claims, grievance handling, self-payer), banking, and e-commerce.
Expand the “Agent Lab” product line while growing “Frontier Research” custom engagements as a revenue engine.
Maintain compliance leadership as the EU AI Act takes full effect (August 2026) – positioning auditability as a core differentiator.

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