Story of Ruben Hetfleisch: AI ventures, ecosystem and initiatives
AI Venture Studio
- Klartext AI
- Founder & CEO
- Bootstrapped to 12 people in a year
- €375,000 of won research money
- 2 ventures
- 20+ clients
- doclarity (Klartext AI Venture)
- Co-Founder & Advisory Board
- PDF accessibility
- 70+ public institutions in one month
- Stealth (Klartext AI Venture)
- Cooperation with a leading business university in Europe
Ecosystem
- AI Austria
- Board Member
- Austria's leading AI association
- 14,000+ followers, 6,000+ meetup members
- European AI Forum
- Austrian representative
- Largest European AI association
- Regulatory & policy work
- Members include KI Bundesverband (Germany), Hub France IA (France)
Current Initiatives
- AI Austria Meetups
- 28 events in 2 years
- 3,282 different participants
- From tech events to CIO-only events
- AIA GenAI Codeforce
- DeepTech virtual meetup
- 14 events
- 50+ monthly participants
- With Philipp Besinger
- AIA WhatsApp Community
- 1,032+ members
- Tech exchange, jobs platform, events platform
- With Daniel Toth
- AI Austria Podcast
- AIA Afterworks & Breakfast
- Initiated, now support
- 8+ events
- With Amin Khater & Cristian Hofmann
- Austrian Legal Tech Talks
- Initiated, now support
- Austria's leading platform to talk legal & AI
- With Lucas Jamnig
- Hackathons
Previous Affiliations
- TU Darmstadt
- Grade: 1.1 (top 1%)
- Research focus: AI, autonomous driving, CNNs & GANs
- 10+ scientific publications
- University at Buffalo
- DAAD Scholarship
- GPA: 1.0
- Fraunhofer Austria
- Research topic: Causal generative AI in sensitive application areas
- Developed research track for GenAI
Lecturer
- TU Vienna (AI Lecturer for Executives)
- WU Vienna (AI Lecturer for Executives)
- ARS Wien (AI Lecturer for Executives)