Benedikt Koehler
Co-Founder at DataLion GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedikt Koehler is a veteran founder and AI-driven market research pioneer with 14 years of experience building products that turn weeks-long studies into actionable insights in hours. He has founded and led multiple companies—currently DataLion, Factor168, and HybridAI—where he architects ML pipelines, synthetic respondent systems, and LLM-powered automation to generate statistically validated responses across diverse demographics. Trained as a social scientist with a PhD and a background in information visualization and probability theory, he uniquely combines rigorous research methods with hands-on ML engineering. His career spans early social media analytics and sentiment algorithms to cutting-edge context engineering for autonomous research, reflecting a consistent focus on making complex data usable for business decisions. Based in Munich, he also brings media and community-building experience from co-founding a successful tech web TV show and industry groups, which informs his product and go-to-market instincts.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Sociology Ethnology Psychology, PhD Sociology Ethnology Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenInternationale Deutsche Schule Brüssel (iDSB)
German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (45)
python9
machine-learning9
statistics9
data-analysis9
scikit8
nodes8
matlab8
scikit-learn8
data-science8
edges7
jquery-plugin7
graph-drawing7
react6
graph6
twitter-bootstrap6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
furukama/IPythonNotebooks
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
furukama/misc
Mar 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 2 months
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