SERIES SEED 2026

The German Mittelstand is entering its extinction event.
We built the way out.

25 years inside their offices. 16 consultants. 110 relationships with the decision makers. The only team with both the trust and the technology.

THE DISRUPTION

Three forces. No escape.

41%

of all code committed globally in 2025 was AI-generated

What happened to software is now happening to every knowledge worker. Salesforce didn't 'transform' 4,000 customer service roles in September. They deleted them. Overnight.

GitClear 2025 · NBC/Fortune Sept 2025

Trophy case with dead office in reflection

0.35%

Mittelstand AI spend as % of revenue. Down from 0.41%.

Everyone else is accelerating AI investment. The Mittelstand is cutting it. This isn't a gap anymore — it's a death sentence being written in slow motion.

Horvath/Reuters, Jan 2026

13.4M

workers reaching retirement by 2039 — 31% of the workforce

160 days to fill a vacancy. Gen Z stays 1.1 years. The people who built these companies are walking out the door, and nobody is capturing what they know. When they're gone, they're gone.

Destatis Sep 2025 · Gallup 2024 · Randstad 2025

Abandoned boardroom with digitalization plan still on screen

THE LANDSCAPE

Everyone else has already failed.

Microsoft Copilot

Content generation toy. No memory between sessions. 95% of enterprises stuck in pilot after a year. Manufacturing utilization 52% — dead last. And one US executive order can shut it all down.

Vibecoded Startups

No QA, no enterprise security, no compliance. They demo well and break on the first edge case. The graveyard of 2025 startups is full of them.

ChatGPT / Generic

No company context. No persistent memory. No M365 integration. Your employees paste confidential data into a public chatbox and call it 'AI transformation.'

amaiko

Multi-agent system with persistent memory. Learns your company, lives in Teams and Outlook, runs on any model, deploys in one day. Built by people who've been inside these companies for 25 years.

THE PRODUCT

The product they actually use.

Persistent Memory

Learns your company. Remembers every conversation.

Proactive Tasks

Briefings, summaries, follow-ups — before anyone asks

Multi-Agent System

Specialist agents collaborate on complex work

M365 Native

Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive

1-day deployment

78% daily adoption

NPS 78

DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY

92%

of European data sits on US-controlled servers

Breaking news: US terminates cloud contracts with EU

Your AI runs on someone else's terms.

In February 2025, Microsoft suspended the ICC chief prosecutor's email account — on a US executive order. In June, they admitted under oath in a French court that they cannot guarantee digital sovereignty from the CLOUD Act. In October, AWS went down for 15 hours — 3,500 companies in 60 countries, $1B+ in damage. This is not a theoretical risk. It already happened.

amaiko's position

Model-agnostic: Claude, Mistral, or any provider

Data stays in Europe

No single point of failure

EU AI Act compliant from day one

European sovereignty in AI infrastructure isn't just policy — it's a €200B market.

EU InvestAI, Feb 2025

ENGINEERING VELOCITY

We ship faster than teams 10× our size.

AI-augmented development isn't our pitch. It's our process. What takes others quarters, we ship in weeks.

Multi-platform, built in under a year

Teams Outlook iOS Android Apple Watch CarPlay Desktop Web

Model-agnostic architecture — no vendor lock-in

Weekly production releases

Full test coverage, zero known defects

Microsoft moves at committee speed. Vibecoded startups break on the first edge case. We iterate with production-grade quality, every week.

MARKET OPPORTUNITY

€3.37B market. One team with access.

SOM

€43.9M

TAM: €3.37B

SAM: €1.07B

TAM €3.37B

62,600 SMBs in DACH × 150 seats × €359/license

SAM €1.07B

20,000 SMBs in target verticals

SOM €43.9M

Year 1–3 target

Ideal Customer Profile

~500 employees
Manufacturing / engineering / professional services
DACH region
€50–200M revenue
Budget authority at department level

The US has invested $470B in AI. Europe: $50B. A 9:1 gap. European companies need European AI built by people who understand them — not another Silicon Valley product localized into German.

Federal Reserve, Oct 2025

TRACTION

Early. By design.

Enterprise Customers

150

Active Seats

NPS Score

78%

Daily Active Users

Growth without investment

2026

€1.08M

3,000 seats · 30 customers

2027

€2.87M

8,000 seats · 65 customers

2028

€5.39M

15,000 seats · 110 customers

This is the organic trajectory. With investment, we capture 3× more market before the window closes.

18 sales-qualified opportunities. €100k weighted pipeline. Every customer came through existing PASSION4IT relationships — zero cold outbound.

If we had €50k MRR, we wouldn't need your capital. The opportunity IS the timing. In 18 months, the first-mover advantage is locked in. Every reluctant CEO who waited for certainty is now writing the postmortem.

THE TEAM

We don't study the Mittelstand. We are the Mittelstand.

We ARE the mid-market.

25 years as Mittelstand entrepreneurs. Not consultants. Not analysts. We've signed the leases, hired the teams, survived the recessions.

Built-in distribution.

16 PASSION4IT consultants = sales force from day 1. Trusted advisor status to 100+ decision makers.

Proven execution.

PASSION4IT: €0 → €4.5M profitable, zero external capital. Through COVID and Ukraine. We don't theorize about resilience — we've lived it.

We implement, not theorize.

Every feature from a real customer problem. Delivery-focused, not pitch-focused.

Christian Kirsch

CEO & Co-Founder

Digital strategist and entrepreneur. Founded PASSION4IT in 2019, scaled to €4.5M revenue. Author of 'Digital Mindset' and 'Building Leaders'. Speaker at IHK and Digital Future Congress.

Stefan Kirsch

CTO & Co-Founder

Physics degree from Uni Regensburg, working with AI since his studies. 15+ years building engineering teams across startups and enterprises. The builder who ships.

THE ASK

€2.5M

The question isn't whether AI will reshape the Mittelstand. It's whether you're backing the team that's already inside — or waiting until the market has been captured.

Without Investment

With Investment

Delta

2028 ARR

€5.4M

€14.4M

+€9M

Customers

110

250

+140

Strategy

Organic

Aggressive expansion

5.7× ROI

Use of Funds

Team

€1.2M (48%)

Marketing & Sales

€800k (32%)

Product

€300k (12%)

Operations

€200k (8%)

WHY NOW

The ship has sailed. Are you on it?

The inflection point is now.

EU AI Act hard deadline August 2026. 13.4M retirements accelerating. Companies that don't adopt AI in the next 18 months won't exist in 5 years.

Proven where it matters.

9 customers, NPS 78, 78% daily adoption. Not a pitch deck hypothesis — a production system processing real work every day.

Distribution nobody else has.

16 consultants already in customer offices. 100+ decision-maker relationships built over 25 years. This is not replicable.

Winner takes most.

The first AI that learns a company's institutional knowledge becomes irreplaceable. Switching cost is total. Second place is irrelevant.

Built by operators, not pitchers.

We built one profitable company without outside capital. Now we're building another one — faster, in a market 100× larger. The investment accelerates what's already working.

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Every image on this page was generated by AI in under 60 seconds. The page itself was built in one day. This is what AI-augmented execution looks like. Imagine what we do for your portfolio companies.

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The German Mittelstand is entering its extinction event.We built the way out.