About Zeit AI
Zeit AI builds ZeitMind, an AI agent that automates data engineering for mid-sized companies. It connects ERP, CRM and more than 600 other source systems, cleans the data and builds analytics-ready applications. It is aimed at businesses that rely on spreadsheets when their ERP or FP&A tools cannot meet reporting needs.
What is Zeit AI?
What is Zeit AI?
Zeit AI is a startup developing autonomous data engineering technology for mid-sized European companies. Its product, ZeitMind, is an AI agent designed to take on the work a data engineer would normally do: connecting business systems, cleaning and structuring data, and building analytics-ready applications based on a company's requirements.
The company targets mid-sized businesses that often fall back on spreadsheets and manual processes when their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) or financial planning and analysis (FP&A) systems cannot support specific reporting and analytical needs. Building that data infrastructure usually requires specialised data engineering staff, which can be hard and costly for these companies to hire.
ZeitMind connects ERP, customer relationship management (CRM) and more than 600 other source systems. According to the company, results are designed to be traceable back to individual transactions, and the platform is operated in German data centres.
Zeit AI was founded in 2024 by Palantir alumni Leopold von Waldthausen and Marvin Bornstein. In September 2026 it raised EUR 5 million from investors including Y Combinator, the University of Oxford's Seed Fund, the Sequoia Capital Scout Fund, ACE Ventures and Hasso Plattner VC. The company says it will use the capital to reach more mid-sized businesses and hire engineers to support ZeitMind deployments.
Pros
- Connects ERP, CRM and more than 600 other source systems
- Automates data cleaning and structuring before building applications
- Results are designed to be traceable to individual transactions
- Operated in German data centres, relevant for European data residency needs
Cons
- Focused on mid-sized companies, so fit for very small teams is unclear
- Pricing is not published in the funding coverage
- Early-stage company founded in 2024
How to Use Zeit AI
- 1Book a conversation
Contact Zeit AI through its website to discuss your reporting and data needs.
- 2Connect your systems
Link the ERP, CRM and other business systems that hold your company data.
- 3Define requirements
Describe the analytics or reporting application you need so ZeitMind can clean and model the data.
- 4Review and use outputs
Work with the analytics-ready application and trace results back to underlying transactions.