Jan Kinne
CEO at ISTARI.AI
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Kinne is a scientific entrepreneur and CEO with eight years of experience turning web-scale data into actionable market intelligence through ISTARI.AI, a platform analyzing 40 million organizations for real-time insights. Combining a PhD in Geoinformatics and research roles at ZEW and Harvard, he blends rigorous academic methods with product-focused AI and web intelligence engineering. As co-founder and "data wizard" he has guided the company from research prototypes to a trusted provider for businesses, public decision-makers, and researchers. His work bridges innovation economics and applied data science, pioneering web-based indicators for scouting, competitive intelligence, and innovation tracking. Based in Mannheim, Germany, he remains active in forecasting and expert AI panels, applying foresight methods to anticipate technology and market shifts. Colleagues would note his uncommon mix of deep geospatial expertise and hands-on startup leadership that makes complex web data genuinely usable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Geography, Visiting Student Geography at Loughborough UniversityCGA Associate Associate at Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) of Harvard University, CGA Associate Associate at Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) of Harvard University at Harvard UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Geography (Geoinformatics), Master of Science (MSc) Geography (Geoinformatics) at Heidelberg UniversityDr. rer. nat. (PhD) Geoinformatics, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Geoinformatics at Universität Salzburg
German, English, French
Github Skills (18)
scraper10
springer10
webscraping10
crawling10
scrapy10
crawler10
scrapyd10
python9
cli2
geospatial1
spatial-data1
geotools1
spatial1
geo1
gis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
istariAI/istariAI.github.io
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
🧙 ISTARI.AI Scrollytelling Repo.
Contributions:13 reviews, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
scrollytelling
datawizard1337/WebDataScience
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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