Listen in as Bavarian U.S. Offices continues its podcast series, featuring successful founders and innovation experts active in the US and Bavaria. Guests chat in-depth about their motivation, pitfalls, scaling internationally, and choosing the right location. When is the right time to expand? How does one set up shop abroad and build a network from scratch? Many entrepreneurs face similar challenges. NOW, they want to share their stories with you! 

Listen to our episodes below:

Operating at the Apex of AV Development: Insights from Jan Becker, President, CEO, & Co-Founder of Apex.AI

We are excited to kick off this first episode with our guest Jan Becker, Ph.D., President, CEO, & Co-Founder of Apex.AI – a Palo Alto and Munich-based startup which is building an operating system for autonomous vehicles to enable developers to successfully implement complex, safety-critical AI software and applications for autonomous mobility.  We are eager to learn more about his journey in the automated vehicle space and the opening of their European operations in Bavaria in 2019.

Jan Becker is Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Apex.AI, Inc. and serves as Managing Director of Apex.AI GmbH. Prior to founding Apex, he held senior positions in research and engineering on autonomous driving at Faraday Future and Bosch in both the US and Germany. Since 2010, he serves as a lecturer for autonomous vehicles and driver assistance at Stanford University, and was previously a visiting scholar at the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL). Becker was also a member of Stanford’s 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge racing team. 

Accelerating R&D with Uncountable: Insights from Jason Hirshman, Founder of Uncountable

Our Project Manager, Lena Maria Ludwig, gets together with Jason Hirshman, Founder of Uncountable to talk about his startup’s journey, international expansion, and what needs to change in the AI industry. Uncountable is a San Francisco and Munich-based startup with a focus on R&D acceleration across the materials and chemicals industry. 

Jason was previously at Stanford University, where he received a Master’s in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics. He was selected for the Stanford A.I. Innovation Group, which sought to apply machine learning in impactful ways. Jason’s prior industry experience includes building software at Palantir to model data from Syrian refugee camps and working with the World Bank on their proposal review process.