Pascal Weinberger is a serial founder and AI-focused operator with 11 years of experience building product-led startups and scaling ambitious research-to-product efforts from Switzerland. Currently Co-CEO at Owkin, he is leading the creation of an agentic AI Scientist platform that leverages a decade of pharma and hospital partnerships to accelerate drug discovery. He co-founded Bardeen and WIQ, blending deep product engineering with process automation and agent design, and invests/advises across AI, cyber-security and open-science ventures through Weinberger Ventures and Alpha Intelligence Capital. His background spans brain-inspired ML research (Numenta, Max Planck) to applied quantitative work in finance and satellite-enabled agtech, giving him a rare mix of theoretical grounding and pragmatic deployment experience. Known as an LLM pilot and prompt engineer, he translates cutting-edge models into usable agents and workflow automations. Outside the obvious startup track record, he actively shapes infrastructure for public goods like World and has a habit of turning complex scientific systems into commercially viable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt
Computer Science AI etc., Computer Science AI etc. at Udacity
Abitur Abitur, Abitur Abitur at Eichendorff-Schule
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