Manuel Thurner
Founder at Lioma
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
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Top SchoolManuel Thurner is a serial founder and technologist with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-led companies at the intersection of software and healthcare. He co-founded and served as CTO and later Co-CEO of Kaia Health, helping grow the company into a $285M exit to Sword Health, and previously co-founded foodora, which scaled across 13 countries before its acquisition. Trained at TUM, CDTM and MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, he blends deep technical expertise in software engineering with a keen sense for product-market fit and operational scale. Today he leads Lioma, focused on the “intention layer” for agentic AI—tackling the hard problem of deciding what matters when execution is no longer the bottleneck. Notably, his career moves repeatedly show a pattern of turning small technical teams into category-defining businesses through pragmatic engineering and strategic vision.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Technical University of MunichHonours Degree Technology Management, Honours Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)Center for Collective Intelligence, Center for Collective Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMatura, Matura at Akademisches Gymnasium SalzburgVisiting Student Computer Science, Visiting Student Computer Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ManuelThurner/floma
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
ManuelThurner/spree_sofort
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:9 pushes in 4 months
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