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Aiperia
Founded 2021 · 50 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
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AIPERIA provides AI-based demand forecasting and production planning for highly perishable fresh goods, generating per-store, per-item order and baking recommendations that factor in around 150 external variables like weather and holidays. It serves bakeries and retailers managing bakery counters and food-to-go assortments across multi-location store networks, aiming to reduce waste and improve product availability.
Also known as AIPERIA · PlanerAI · PlanerAI GmbH
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Investors · 5
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026AIPERIA, formerly known as PlanerAI, is a Würzburg, Germany-based software company that builds an artificial-intelligence platform for demand planning of fresh and ultra-fresh food. The system forecasts store-level demand and automatically determines order and production quantities, allowing food retailers and manufacturers to align output with expected sales and thereby reduce waste at the start of the supply chain while improving margins.
The platform is described as an end-to-end solution spanning production through to the supermarket shelf. It integrates with existing merchandise-management (ERP) and checkout systems without requiring additional hardware, and combines historical and current sales data with more than 150 external influencing factors, including consumer demand, retail stock levels, weather forecasts, public holidays and school vacations, promotions, and store location. The company's first product targeted waste of perishable baked goods; its longer-term stated aim is to extend the platform to other perishable goods and broader supply-chain planning.
Founding story
The company was founded in 2021 by a team including CEO Franz Seubert, CTO Dr. Jan Meller and COO Dr. Fabian Taigel, building on more than a decade of prior research into demand forecasting and optimization for perishable goods. The accelerator Campus Founders, whose CEO Oliver Hanisch says it supported the company from the start, provided intensive mentoring to the early team ahead of its institutional financing.
Business model
AIPERIA sells an AI-based planning software solution to food retailers and suppliers, integrated into their existing merchandise-management and point-of-sale systems, addressing what it describes as a €10 billion software market for planning ultra-perishable goods.
Software-based demand-planning solution deployed across customer store networks; scale is reported in terms of the number of stores using the product (almost 2,600 stores as of April 2024).
Traction
Reported 500% year-over-year customer growth from 2022 to 2023 (approximately 300 stores in 2022 to over 1,800 in 2023), reaching almost 2,600 stores in German-speaking countries by April 2024, and almost 60 employees. Customer outcomes cited by the company average a 30% reduction in waste, a 4% increase in sales, and a 90% reduction in order-planning time.
Latest developments
In April 2024 the company announced a €7.5 million Series A round led by ETF Partners and LBBW Venture Capital with existing investor Earlybird Venture Capital and a group of angel investors, to fund international expansion into the UK and EU and further technology development. Goodwin advised ETF Partners on the financing.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Describes itself as the leading planning solution for fresh food in the German-speaking market, established over three years of operation, and identifies foodforecast, foodtracks, delicious data, SAP UDF, RELEX and Remira as competitors in fresh-food demand planning.
Company states that, unlike competitors, it does not rely on existing algorithms but uses its own specially developed AI models and proprietary optimization algorithms built through over a decade of research, designed for the demand uncertainty specific to fresh food; the solution plans end to end from production to shelf and requires no additional hardware.
Technology
Proprietary AI forecasting and optimization models developed in-house rather than adapted from existing algorithms, drawing on more than ten years of research. The models incorporate over 150 influencing factors — such as weather, public holidays, promotions, store location, retail stocks and consumer demand — alongside historical and live sales data to handle the high demand uncertainty of fresh food. Integration into ERP and checkout systems handles missing data exchanges without additional hardware.
Go-to-market
Sold to retailers and suppliers in German-speaking markets with integration into their existing ERP and checkout systems; the Series A proceeds are earmarked for rollout into new international markets, specifically the UK and wider EU.
Food retailers, grocery stores and suppliers/manufacturers of fresh and ultra-fresh perishable goods, with early traction in the bakery and baked-goods segment.
Geography
Headquartered in Würzburg, Germany (Dealroom-sourced listing gives a Großrinderfeld, Germany location for PlanerAI GmbH), with customers concentrated in German-speaking countries and stated expansion plans across the UK and EU.
History
Founded in 2021 and originally operating under the name PlanerAI, the company launched its first product for perishable baked goods and expanded across German-speaking markets. Its customer base grew roughly 500% year over year between 2022 and 2023, from about 300 stores in 2022 to more than 1,800 stores in 2023, reaching almost 2,600 stores by the time of its April 2024 Series A announcement. Within three years the team grew to almost 60 employees.
Risks & controversies
Press coverage notes the company must navigate a fragmented fresh-food supply chain, secure wider adoption among stakeholders, and compete with established planning vendors; performance figures such as the 30% waste reduction and 4% sales uplift are company-reported averages.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsThe Würzburg-based fresh-food demand-planning company closed a €7.5 million Series A round led by ETF Partners and LBBW Venture Capital, with existing investor Earlybird Venture Capital and a consortium of angel investors participating. Proceeds are intended for international expansion into the UK and EU and further technology development.
Following its Series A, the company stated it would extend its technology for fresh-food retailers and suppliers beyond the German-speaking market into the UK and EU.
The company, previously known as PlanerAI, operates under the name AIPERIA.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- AIPERIA Secures €7.5M in Series A Funding to Combat Food Waste with AIigrownews.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Aiperia do?
- German developer of an AI demand-planning platform that helps fresh-food retailers and suppliers cut waste and over-ordering.
- Who are Aiperia's investors?
- Aiperia's investors include Earlybird Venture Capital, ETF Partners, LBBW Venture Capital GmbH.