Emmi AI announced today that it successfully procured €15 million as part of a seed funding phase, making it the largest early-stage investment ever made in an Austrian start-up company. The investor round included venture capital funds three.vc, Speedinvest, Serena and Push.vc. This is the first time that these leading Austrian venture capitalists have invested together in a start-up company, underlining the investors’ extraordinary confidence in Emmi AI's technology and its team.

Emmi AI focuses on developing AI-supported physics simulation models used in industrial applications, including fluid dynamics, multi-physics, and solid mechanics. Using artificial intelligence can drastically accelerate complex simulations and thanks to the JKU spin-off company Emmi, simulations and processes that previously took days to complete can now be carried out in a matter of seconds, thereby radically shortening industrial development and production cycles and helping companies to drive innovation forward faster.

Johannes Brandstetter, chief scientist, co-founder of Emmi AI, and a researcher at the JKU’s Institute for Machine Learning remarked: “At Emmi AI, we are on a mission to push the boundaries in the field of industrial engineering. By pairing AI and physics, we can now carry out simulations in real-time - simulations that in the past used to take days. It’s a quantum leap for research and industry and the seed funding will help turn our scientific vision into reality even faster, bringing our groundbreaking solutions to other areas of industry.ˮ

Emmi AI currently works closely together with the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce. These partnerships provide Emmi AI with access to leading research and industrial partners, as well as provide support in allowing the company to further advance its innovative solutions in a real-world, hands-on way.

JKU Rector Stefan Koch: "Emmi AI, a JKU spin-off company, is a prime example of how to combine scientific excellence with a pioneering entrepreneurial spirit, impressively demonstrating just how scientific expertise can be successfully applied in practice and how research findings can translate successfully into innovative applications. These kinds of initiatives reinforce Upper Austria as a location of business and contribute significantly to addressing social challenges. I would like to congratulate Johannes Brandstetter and the Emmi AI team on their tremendous success and I am confident their research will continue to drive groundbreaking ideas forward."

About Emmi AI
Established in 2024 by Johannes Brandstetter, Dennis Just, and Miks Mikelsons, Emmi AI Ltd. is a JKU spin-off company based in Linz, Austria. The deep-tech start-up creates AI-supported simulation models to accelerate physical processes in areas including fluid dynamics, multi-physics, and solid mechanics. Emmi AI's mission is to revolutionize industrial product development by using artificial intelligence and facilitate real-time simulations across a wide range of industries.