Apheris AI was founded by Robin Rohm and Michael Hoh with a shared dream to empower companies to run analytics on decentralized datasets. Michael developed software infrastructure for distributed data during his PhD at Forschungszentrum Julich and his time at BCG. Robin has a background in algebraic theories for data linkage and data privacy and has experienced the complexity of centralizing sensitive personal healthcare data firsthand in one of his previous start-ups.