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For a disease-free future for everyone.
We believe in a disease-free future for all of humanity and create AI technology that uncovers unknown patient needs and generates the deepest possible understanding of how humans suffer from diseases. Through Artificial Intelligence we can learn from the global patient experience for the first time in full scale and provide patient-centric guidance for new therapies and to improve the quality of care for billions, one disease at a time.
We would like to get to know you.
We would like to invite you to get in touch with us. We are a tech company – but moreover, we are a bunch of people who deeply believe in a future without diseases. Therefore we work hard and passionately, but more importantly we would like to spread the word that our technology really can help our society.
We guide you to get a better understanding of us.
As our technology is not always easy to understand we invite you to talk with us. So please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We are looking forward to meeting you.
Your Press Team of Semalytix.

Jannis Johannmeier
Press Representative
Hi! I am looking forward to getting in touch with you!
jannis.johannmeier@semalytix.com | +49 172 5270504
2015
Foundation
70
Employees
(Jan 2021)
24
Nationalities
229 035
Recognised Clinical Data Types and Entities
13
Diseases researched from
various Treatment Areas, incl. Rare Diseases
(Jan 2021)
17 000 000
Patient Narratives analyzed
Semalytix in the media
Handelsblatt
February 17th, 2021
Semalytix: AI platform evaluates patient comments
Berlin. For Semalytix CEO Janik Jaskolski, sentences are not just a series of letters; they function according to mathematical laws [...]
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Press Release
January 18th, 2021
AI startup Semalytix receives € 2 million from NRW.BANK.Venture Fund
As part of an extended Series A financing round, NRW.BANK is investing in Semalytix with its venture fund. The Bielefeld-based startup has developed the artificial intelligence-based platform “Pharos” for the systematic research of patient needs. The aim is to improve future generations of drugs by recording patients’ treatment experience and uncovering any unknown side effects. The company plans to expand its software, improve performance, and further strengthen its market position with the investment. [...]
2021
January 21st, 2021
Manager Magazin // How East Westphalia-Lippe became a hotspot for the digital scene
For a long time, the region stood for big middle-class companies and old money: rich, but a little sleepy. Now the province is breaking into the digital modern age.
Torsten Bendlin (51), a single father, business administrator, 17 years with kitchen manufacturer Nolte in Löhne, most recently as head of corporate purchasing, first heard the word pitch six years ago when he was doing his international MBA [...]
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January 5th, 2021
Das kommt aus Bielefeld.de // The ear to the net
Artificial intelligence is their métier. "We focus on the pharmaceutical business with the algorithms and tools we develop," says Janik Jaskolski, CEO of Semalytix, a Bielefeld-based startup founded in 2015 and created as a spin-off of the Semantic Computing research group. The goal is to improve treatment methods for people by incorporating the patient perspective or their insights.
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2020
November 24th, 2020
Press Release // Corporate Vice President of Bayer Pharmaceuticals becomes advisor to Semalytix
Semalytix announced today that Frank Misselwitz, Corporate Vice President of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, is supporting the company in the role of an advisor […]
October 30th, 2020
Handelsblatt // Focus wanted
The lighthouse is beginning to shine: "Pharos" is what the start-up Semalytix has christened its central program [...]
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August 31st, 2020
TechCruch // Semalytix picks up €4.3M to build the world’s largest patient experience data set
Semalytix, a Bielefeld, Germany-based startup that offers pharmaceutical companies an AI-powered data tool to better understand real-world patient experiences, has raised €4.3 million in Series A funding [...]
2019
May 24th, 2019
StartupValley Magazine // Have the courage and self-confidence to think big
Semalytix: Machine Reading in combination with Data Story Telling. Please introduce yourself and the startup Semalytix to our readers! My name is Janik Jaskolski, I am co-founder and managing director of Semalytix. Simply put, we teach computers to read and explain these read digital texts. Our main focus is to make medical content understandable. We transform [...][Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator]
May 6th, 2019
deutsche startups.de // “When we started, we were one of the few startups in the region."
The Bielefeld start-up Semalytix is currently working on "important milestones" to reach the planned Series A round. "This includes the next major customers, the achievement of some new developments and internal restructuring that will allow us to move on to the next stage of growth," says co-founder Janik Jaskolski […]
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January 21rst, 2019
Press Release // Bielefeld-based start-up Semalytix participates in EU research project
Prêt-à-LLOD: Ready-to-use Multilingual Linked Language Data for Knowledge Services across Sectors - this is the name under which a research project was launched at the beginning of 2019 for which the European Commission is providing €3 million under the Horizon 2020 funding line […]
2018
November 26th, 2018
Forbes // Meet The 100 Most Innovative Startups Of Germany In 2018 (Forbes)
The Hundertis a Berlin-based startup project and print magazine featuring outstanding companies and their founders since 2013. Every issue puts 100 amazing startups in the spotlight and tells their stories […]
November 26th, 2018
The Hundert // Dark Data Understanding
Semalytix is a Spin-Off out of Bielefeld University. They move cutting edge research into the business intelligence and competitive intelligence markets to help teams maximize their competitive edge and return on investment. Highlight of the year: Closing Seed-Funding round to accelerate product development and goto-market […]
November 17th, 2018
Wirtschaftswoche Economy 4.0 // Semalytix brings light into the global pharmaceutical industry
Mr. Jaskolski, what added value does Semalytix offer the pharmaceutical industry? We are working on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to explain the global conversation around the core values of the pharmaceutical industry. Our technology is able to develop a human-like understanding of text and thus make complex relationships in large amounts of unstructured data accessible to the user. Our AI-as-a-Service platform combines information from the following sources […]
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