Maximilian Arnold
Interdisciplinary AI product engineer and venture builder who designs, builds, and forms teams dedicated to creating products shaped by intention and exceptional design that next generations will value.
Interdisciplinary AI product engineer and venture builder who designs, builds, and forms teams dedicated to creating products shaped by intention and exceptional design that next generations will value.
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Ontora
COO & Co-Founder. We are enabling consultancies & agencies to identify and deliver their next client project faster. Our platform extracts operational knowledge from people and documents; the output is collected into a shared context layer that AI agents can natively access. Cursor for consultants.
Porsche AG
Project lead. Developed agentic SAP process mining on procurement data, enabling self-service analytics and tools, cutting costs and enabling non-technical users. Now used at 4 Volkswagen subsidiaries.
Stanford University
Exchange semester, Computer Science. Established an official partnership between my home university and Stanford. CODE University Berlin has become one of only 30 global partner universities; 20 students annually exchange at Stanford on scholarships, with the first 15 already successfully completing their exchanges. I knew the best answer to "How did you get in?" was building a bridge.
sterna.studio
Agency. Built vertical SaaS for the renewable energy market and wind turbine construction. Led 7 young engineers in backend, cloud, and cybersecurity. Next to full-time studies, then moved on.
CODE University of Applied Sciences
B.Sc. Software Engineering. Student Council President. Top 1% at CODE University Berlin, DAAD Scholarship (awarded for academic excellence and leadership by the German Academic Exchange Service).
kein Abseits! e.V.
Berlin-based social startup focused on educational equity for refugee children and underprivileged youths. Personally honored by the Berlin Senate for Education for conceptualising and running STEM programs and workshops.
Winning Team (team Roche) + personal award "Most likely to found a Unicorn Startup" (2 weeks of working and living in a glass cube)
Winning Team (2nd place) €50.000. Presented to the executive board of T-Mobile US. Funded my college tuition within my first year of undergrad.
Winning Team, St. Gallen, Switzerland / Santa Clara, USA. Fast track offer into the Intel Liftoff Startup program. Presented to CTO of Intel IT at HQ in Santa Clara.
Top 10 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow, Frankfurt, Germany 2023. Presented to the executive board of Samsung Germany, later handed IP over to ENBW.
Personally honored by the Berlin Senate for Education for conceptualising and running STEM programs and workshops.
Y Combinator Spring Batch 2026 
The Sandbox Tech: Europe 2026 
Null Fellows Aalto University 2026 
EuroTech Federation Fellow 2025 
Buildspace Night & Weekend SF 2024 
Stanford BASES Mentorship 2024 
MotionLab.Berlin IoT Talent Program and Scholarship 2022 My memory starts when I destroyed my father's laptop at age two. I pushed key combinations until it shut down and never booted back up. That was my first lesson in "intuitive" interaction.
Growing up, I was fascinated by things that lasted. I remember finding a Roman coin in a field near my Bavarian grandparents' home. It struck me: someone crafted this object two thousand years ago, and it outlived its empire.
Today, we build disposable software and neglect to preserve our data and memories.
My mission is to create a Digital Bauhaus:
technology that balances function, aesthetics, and long-term responsibility.
Whether I’m designing AI systems that make decades-old data usable again, or running social experiments
with deliberately provocative products like an esports wagering platform, I’m interested in one question:
what are we leaving behind?
I want to build artifacts that future archaeologists - human or machine - would be proud to uncover.
Technology should be meaningful, beautiful, durable, and serve purposes that current and next generations will continue to value.
