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Airfocus

Hamburg, DE · 38 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors

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airfocus makes product management software that helps product teams manage work and roadmaps, align across teams, and connect strategy to execution. Founded in 2017 in Hamburg, it was acquired by Lucid Software in February 2025.

Also known as airfocus by Lucid

Founders & leadership

MSMalte Scholz
Malte ScholzinCo-Founder, CEO & CPOCo-founder of Airfocus, a product management software company founded in 2017 that helps teams manage roadmaps and align strategy across organizations. The company was acquired by Lucid Software in February 2025.
VFValentin Firak
Valentin FirakinCo-founder
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Christian HoffmeisterinCo-founderChristian Hoffmeister studied mathematics and co-founded Airfocus, a product management software company established in 2017 in Hamburg. He has professional expertise in multiple programming languages and software development practices.

Investors · 5

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Funding

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

airfocus, presented as "airfocus by Lucid", is a product management platform that consolidates product strategy, prioritization, roadmaps, objectives and OKRs, customer feedback and insights into a single connected system. The product includes modules for objectives and OKRs, roadmaps, prioritization, feedback and insights collection, and a branded user-facing portal for engaging with users.

The platform emphasizes handling multi-team and multi-product complexity through configurable hierarchies, custom fields and portfolio-level views, and positions itself as an "intelligence-powered" tool that acts on information rather than only displaying it. Stated intelligence capabilities include automatically and continuously surfacing patterns from tickets, transcripts and surveys with traceability back to the source, flagging drift, blockers and risks across a product portfolio in real time, and AI-assisted work such as triaging feedback and insights, co-authoring PRDs and specs and closing stakeholder loops. The company also positions airfocus as a context layer for external AI tools and agents, so that systems such as Claude and Copilot can operate on a team's actual strategy, feedback and roadmap data; one customer references using an MCP layer on top of airfocus data.

Business model

airfocus sells its product management platform to product organizations, with sales led through booked demos and hands-on deployment support rather than purely self-serve adoption.

Traction

The company cites use by large product organizations and publishes customer references from Papirfly, Oodrive, Visit Group and Ricoh Europe. Papirfly's CPO states that a unified setup covering 32 products and more than 300 services was built in 12 months using airfocus.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

airfocus positions itself as a "Product Intelligence Platform" for product management, marketed to enterprise product organizations and operating as part of Lucid Software.

Stated differentiators include adaptability to existing organizational structures via configurable hierarchy and custom fields, design for multi-team complexity from the outset, enterprise-grade readiness aligned with Lucid Software's security approach, EU-based hosting, hands-on deployment support, and grounding third-party AI tools and agents in the customer's own product strategy, feedback and roadmap data.

Technology

The platform provides a structured context layer combining strategy, signal and insight data, with configurable hierarchies, custom fields and portfolio views. It applies AI to surface patterns from tickets, transcripts and surveys, flag portfolio risks and drift, triage feedback, and co-author PRDs and specifications, and exposes product data to external AI tools and agents (including via MCP, as described by a customer). Enterprise security standards are addressed as part of Lucid Software's security approach, and EU-based hosting is cited by a customer as a differentiator.

Go-to-market

The website's primary call to action is booking a demo. The company states that rolling out across a complex organization is not a self-serve project and that its team works hands-on through deployment alongside customers, including organizations managing around 20 product teams.

Product organizations and product leaders, including CPOs, CTOs, heads of product and product operations managers, particularly larger and multi-team enterprises managing complex product and service portfolios. Named customers include Papirfly, Oodrive, Visit Group and Ricoh Europe.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Customer deployment scope (Papirfly): products managedJan 202532 products
Customer deployment scope (Papirfly): services managedJan 2025over 300 services
HeadcountAug 202638

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Airfocus do?
airfocus is a product management platform for prioritization, roadmapping, OKRs and customer feedback, now part of Lucid Software.
Who founded Airfocus?
Airfocus was founded by Malte Scholz, Valentin Firak, Christian Hoffmeister.
Who are Airfocus's investors?
Airfocus's investors include Newion, Riverside Acceleration Capital, XAnge.
Where is Airfocus headquartered?
Airfocus is headquartered in Hamburg, DE.