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Founding SE at a pre-seed AI infrastructure company for industrial manufacturers, in Munich/Hamburg. You'd own outbound into Mittelstand buyers (€ 250m-€ 5b, DACH) in months-long cycles – path to Founding AE in 12-18 months. Native German, 1-2 years cold outbound, co-building the playbook with the founders – if you want a working system, this isn't it. We invest significantly in the people creating our category with us.
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The components inside power transformers that keep the grid stable. The pressure gauges and sensors monitoring industrial processes from chemical plants to water systems. The optical sensors that guide automated production lines. The hydraulic valves driving machine tools and heavy machinery. The things that make the world around us move and function are built by industrial manufacturers most people have never heard of, on decades of accumulated expertise.
That expertise is the constraint. Tens of thousands of products, dozens of markets, and a handful of experts who hold it all together. That doesn't scale. And everyone knows it.
When a customer asks which product fits their case, the answer lives in expert heads, legacy PIM systems, and documents nobody has read since 2014. Sales engineers spend their weeks answering the same questions. Markets nobody has time for stay underserved. Manufacturers are forced to trade off growth against service quality, new customers against existing ones, breadth against depth.
Originating at the Technical University of Munich, we started nexwise to resolve this constraint – AI infrastructure that makes deep product expertise accessible across every team, channel, and customer interaction – in any market, any language. Our first agents walk customers through complex industrial catalogues to the right product, reliably. The same layer goes on to enable partners and power the workflows behind technical sales, after-sales, and product marketing.
We're already deployed with leading manufacturers. 42CAP led our pre-seed, joined by the CDTM venture fund, alongside operators and owners from industry as well as the founders of ProGlove, hybris, and Signavio. Eight people, building from Munich, solving for global industry. The companies pulling for us are large engineering manufacturers – Mittelstand, many of them more than a century old, mostly DACH. The market is large, rewards patience, and just starting to take this seriously – which is exciting.
You'd own the top of our funnel. Today Mathis (co-founder and CCO) runs outbound between everything else. That's the wrong allocation of his time and is capping pipeline. You'd take it over and turn it into something repeatable.
The mechanics:
SE is the entry, not the destination. Within 12-18 months we expect you to be running your own cycles end-to-end as a Founding Account Executive – sourcing, discovery, qualification, scoping, executive buyer meetings, close.