Investors acquire Aimondo AG’s artificial intelligence (AI)
Düsseldorf, August 2025. Following a series of crises and legal disputes surrounding Aimondo AG, more than a hundred forward-thinking investors have taken over the technologically leading AI platform developed by the Düsseldorf-based specialist. Thanks to a management buyout, this expertise is now being transferred under new leadership to the newly formed company Ainstynity in Cyprus, where it will be further developed for the international online economy. The goal: to assume a key role in global eCommerce through innovative algorithms, automation, and pricing intelligence – free from the location disadvantages of the German market and with the prospect of rapid stock market listing.
In early 2025, as part of an initiative from the board of the AI specialist Aimondo AG (see Newsflash 06/24), an engaged group of investors came together. In the first half of 2025, they held a series of informative and open video meetings with the Aimondo Board. These addressed the impact of development disruptions caused by legal investigations against the founders and management of Aimondo AG. Allegations were made that there was neither a product nor any working AI or viable business model. These claims struck at the core of what had been a promising, AI-driven business model expansion since 2018. Equally damaging was the sustained obstruction of the concrete plan, pursued since 2020, to raise capital and reputation on the stock exchange for R&D and international expansion.
The company was unable to fully liberate itself or develop sustainably from the widely communicated suspicions asserted by the authorities – at a time when AI was evidently still considered something of an intangible science-fiction concept. In order to leverage the enormous potential [1] still present in this industry-leading AI methodology for online vendors, a feasible route was sought. This route would bring the technological expertise, market contacts, and capital from hundreds of investors to successful fruition, delivering returns and high value as expected.
Artificial intelligence has been booming since at least November 2022. Both the Aimondo team and its investors recognised this trend much earlier, evidenced by the first public draft of the business plan [2] from 2017, as well as the valuers’ report [3] from 2018. The revised business plan [4] from 2021 further reinforced expectations.
Industry giants [5] from the USA have also invested massive sums in AI methods over the years: Palantir [6], for example, committed more than one thousand times [7] the investment of the Aimondo team by 2019, and is today valued at around $400 billion. The French company Mistral [8], founded in 2023, achieved turnover of nearly €100 million by its third financial year, despite repeated annual losses estimated between €200–400 million, and boasts a market capitalisation of around €12 billion [9]. By comparison, the German firm Aleph Alpha [10] in 2023 endured a loss of around €19 million [12] on annual revenues of less than €1 million [11], but is still valued at $500 [13] – 625 million.
Aimondo provides essential success data for online trade in consumer goods, in a market which globally reached €4.12 trillion in 2024. Besides services, physical consumer goods form the world’s largest market. Their online share surpassed the 20% mark for the first time in 2024, continuing to grow by around 18% [14] annually. From the outset, the addressable market for the two founders was enormous. Specialisation in context-sensitive pricing has always been the most important tool for retailers and online shops, as sales, market position, profits, and key operational metrics can be directly influenced. Aimondo had already convinced both investors and highly qualified IT specialists back in 2017, thanks to its technological lead.
This core has not changed to this day: technological leadership remains the decisive differentiator. Many competitors who tried to gain a foothold have failed. The complex combination of high-volume data research, tailor-made forecasts, and efficient AI methods has proven itself in practice—also because other providers withdrew or sought new niches. The Aimondo team overcame obstacles, developing a new modular system (‘360° Flex’) that opens up further data sources and analyses. This gave rise to today’s ‘SaaS Re-Pricing Orchestration Platform’ for AI and data processes: a cloud solution linking internal and external data sources—including via AI agents—through a 360° architecture to automate optimal pricing decisions. It is a strategic core solution for the dynamic digital economy.
After industrialisation and digitisation, the Cognitive Era [15] has now begun—a time in which machines autonomously automate intelligent processes. In this sense, Aimondo has set a decisive milestone for online repricing.
From mid-2025, this foundation developed in Düsseldorf will be advanced by more than 100 forward-looking investors. As early as April 2024, this group rallied behind entrepreneur Werner Jaschinsky, an investor since 2017 who has witnessed the development of the service, the team, and the legal disputes. As part of a so-called management buyout (MBO), he now leads the group that is acquiring Aimondo’s technology as an asset deal, ensuring continuity for industrial and commercial clients. These services are now widely regarded as indispensable: higher margins, increased sales, lower costs, maximal benefit from price elasticity, and less capital-intensive inventory are all crucial for success and competitiveness.
As an experienced entrepreneur, Jaschinsky identified among the 700 investors those with the vision and financial strength to develop the multimillion-euro platform into one of global relevance. Returns from daily business and value increases form the basis for current and future digital marketplaces, where competitors are always just one click away. With the gradual implementation of Web 3.0, the topic is gaining existential importance.
The newly established company is called Ainstynity and is headquartered in Nicosia. The original founders are stepping back in favour of the investors’ interests, transferring all commercial rights, know-how, and contacts to the new team. Operational management is now in the hands of Thomas Baierlein, an experienced mathematician and well-connected figure in the AI scene, who understands the technology, market dynamics, and open nature of the eCommerce sector perfectly. The aim is to keep the new public limited company largely free from the disadvantages of the German business environment and to safeguard the opportunity for global market leadership with these AI tools.
Prospects are promising: since 2024, the company has operated close to breakeven—despite strict cost discipline, no marketing budget, and continuous technological development in a volatile market environment.The clients face similar challenges; for them, the 360° solution proves itself with demonstrated profit increases of 5% and more through constant autonomous price optimisation. Further efficiencies—such as lower staffing costs, improved goods deployment, and optimised planning—have not even been factored in yet.
A stock market listing is already planned for the newly created operating company in the near future, initially in a protected segment that permits special entry for young enterprises. From there, a step-by-step move to the main segment and possibly a US market listing is an option—a logical path for fast-growing digital companies in the AI sector seeking high valuations and urgently needed growth capital. AI demonstrates just how quickly innovations can change markets and operating conditions.
The chances are good. Since 2024, the platform has consistently operated roughly at financial break-even, despite extremely frugal operations, no significant marketing budget, and constant technological advancements in a dynamic setting. The company’s online-economy clients also face significant challenges and the team has demonstrated that, with the 360° solution, profit increases of 5% and more are easily achieved through the autonomous price optimisation process chain. Ancillary benefits, such as lower staff costs, optimised inventory, avoided write-downs, or balanced procurement and production planning, are yet to be fully considered.
Who would have guessed five years ago that, when the Tagesschau [16] reports on the International Tech Fair IFA, its headline would read “IFA dominated by AI”?
More information will follow here shortly. Should any investors require further updates, a quick message will suffice. The same applies for shares—news regarding the status of shares and participation certificates has also been and continues to be published in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce.
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[1] The global market volume for AI has risen since 2018 from approximately £39 billion in 2018 to £184 to £200 billion (2024). No data was available for AI in the e-commerce segment for 2018 – i.e. practically ‘0’. By 2024, this figure had already risen to £7-8 billion.
[5] OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Scale AI, Glean Technologies …
[7] https://www.stock-analysis-on.net
[9] https://www.boersen-zeitung.de/
[11] https://www.businessinsider.de/
[12] https://www.unternehmensregister.de/
[14] https://redstagfulfillment.com/
[16] Tagesschau 06.09.2026 08:00 p.m. – Min 09:03
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