APHERIS
Founded 2019 · 61 employees on LinkedIn · 11 known investors
Apheris provides a platform enabling large global life sciences organizations to collaborate on sensitive, proprietary data and jointly train machine learning models on distributed datasets while maintaining privacy across teams, borders, and organizations.
Founders & leadership
APHERIS was founded in 2019 by Robin Röhm and Michael Höh.
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Robin RöhminCo-Founder & CEORobin Röhm is Co-Founder and CEO of Apheris, which provides federated computing infrastructure allowing life sciences organizations to collaboratively train machine learning models on distributed proprietary data while preserving privacy and governance. He studied medicine, philosophy, and mathematics.
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Michael HöhinCo-Founder & CTO
Investors · 11
another.vcMülheim an der Ruhr · $270K
Dig Ventures Management LimitedSt Peter Port
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERSMünster · $2.2M – $6.5M
eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners AG
Heal CapitalBerlin · $1M – $5M
hubraumBerlin
KfW CapitalFrankfurt am Main
Octopus VenturesLondon · $130K – $1.3M
OTB VenturesAmsterdam · $1.1M – $7.7M
LocalGlobereported · 2 sourcesLondon
Also in the syndicate · 1
Dig Ventures
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountseed extension roundMar 2025
Octopus Ventures (lead), Another.VC, Dig Ventures, Heal Capital, LocalGlobe
Source ↗ - Undisclosed amountSeries AJan 2025Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
Hugging Face9 shared keywordsHugging Face is a collaboration platform that hosts and provides access to machine learning models, datasets, and applications. It offers both open-source tools for the ML community and paid compute and enterprise solutions for teams building AI applications.
Tamarind Bio7 shared keywordsTamarind provides a computational platform for protein and molecular engineering, offering AI and physics-based tools to design antibodies, peptides, enzymes, and small molecules. The platform integrates state-of-the-art published tools like AlphaFold and RFdiffusion through a user-friendly interface for life sciences companies.
Isomorphic Labs5 shared keywordsIsomorphic Labs applies artificial intelligence to drug discovery, working to develop treatments for serious diseases. It operates in the biotech and AI space.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does APHERIS do?
- Apheris provides a platform enabling large global life sciences organizations to collaborate on sensitive, proprietary data and jointly train machine learning models on distributed datasets while maintaining privacy across teams, borders, and organizations.
- Who founded APHERIS?
- APHERIS was founded by Robin Röhm, Michael Höh in 2019.
- Who are APHERIS's investors?
- APHERIS's investors include another.vc, Dig Ventures Management Limited, eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS, eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners AG, Heal Capital, hubraum, KfW Capital, Octopus Ventures and 2 more.