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Who we are
Our Core Team
Maxim Nitsche
CEO
Maxim Nitsche
CEO
Maxim Nitsche
CEO
Antonia Düker
COO
Antonia Düker
COO
Antonia Düker
COO
Thomas Nitsche
President
Thomas Nitsche
President
Thomas Nitsche
President
Lukas Tetzlaff
CTO
Lukas Tetzlaff
CTO
Lukas Tetzlaff
CTO
Raphael Nitsche
Technical Advisor
Raphael Nitsche
Technical Advisor
Raphael Nitsche
Technical Advisor
Our Mission
deep® is a Berlin-based tech company committed to uncovering the network of disinformation and to empowering democratic institutions to respond with confidence in real-time.
deep® is a Berlin-based tech company committed to uncovering the network of disinformation and to empowering democratic institutions to respond with confidence in real-time.
Reliable, scalable, sustainable. Any solution must meet these three criteria to achieve real-world impact. For us, that means consistently delivering actionable results, expanding seamlessly to any scale, and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
Reliable, scalable, sustainable. Any solution must meet these three criteria to achieve real-world impact. For us, that means consistently delivering actionable results, expanding seamlessly to any scale, and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
Wholeheartedly European. We strongly believe in the necessity of Europe’s technological sovereignty. This is why we spent six years to build our fully proprietary technology — deepAI — which is now the core of deeptrust.
Wholeheartedly European. We strongly believe in the necessity of Europe’s technological sovereignty. This is why we spent six years to build our fully proprietary technology — deepAI — which is now the core of deeptrust.
Our Story
The story of deep spans over four decades, always driven by one idea: using technology to solve complex, meaningful problems.
The story of deep spans over four decades, always driven by one idea: using technology to solve complex, meaningful problems.
1984 — Mephisto. deep co-founder Thomas Nitsche delves into AI and develops one of the first chess computers — Mephisto — and wins the computer chess world championship.
1984 — Mephisto. deep co-founder Thomas Nitsche delves into AI and develops one of the first chess computers — Mephisto — and wins the computer chess world championship.
1997 — Patents. Thomas continues his AI journey and invents and patents the intelligent switch and the learning thermostat (see NEST by Google). deep co-founder Thomas Nitsche delves into AI and develops one of the first chess computers — Mephisto — and wins the computer chess world championship.
2000 — Proximic. Thomas develops a large-scale search technology (Infominer), which goes on to power Allianz Group’s corporate search engine in 2003. In 2006, Proximic is founded on top of Infominer and acquired by Comscore in 2015.
2009 — MATH 42. deep co-founders Maxim and Raphael Nitsche have the idea for MATH 42: A math learning app that enables students to solve their problems step by step — based on a new didactic AI system.
2013 — Millions of students. MATH 42 launches and becomes the world’s first true step-by-step math solver. The app eventually helps over 5 million students across the world – from Germany and France to the US, China, and Mexico.
2013 — Millions of students. MATH 42 launches and becomes the world’s first true step-by-step math solver. The app eventually helps over 5 million students across the world – from Germany and France to the US, China, and Mexico.
2017 — MATH 42 x Chegg. MATH 42 is acquired by Chegg Inc., a US Based E-Learning giant.
2017 — MATH 42 x Chegg. MATH 42 is acquired by Chegg Inc., a US Based E-Learning giant.
2019 — deep®. Seeing by the political developments of the past years (Brexit, Trump 1, Marine LePen) co-founders Antonia Düker, Thomas, Maxim, and Raphael Nitsche come together to start deep. Their goal is to create deepAI — a new technology capable of structuring the world of information in real-time to leverage it for good.
2019 — deep®. Seeing by the political developments of the past years (Brexit, Trump 1, Marine LePen) co-founders Antonia Düker, Thomas, Maxim, and Raphael Nitsche come together to start deep. Their goal is to create deepAI — a new technology capable of structuring the world of information in real-time to leverage it for good.
2023 — deepnews. After 4 years of development, deep’s first showcase built on top of deepAI launches: deepnews aggregates, contextualizes and personalizes all online news in German and English into one engaging experience.
2023 — deepnews. After 4 years of development, deep’s first showcase built on top of deepAI launches: deepnews aggregates, contextualizes and personalizes all online news in German and English into one engaging experience.
2025 — Search patent. deep gets the patent for the first major revision to Google' page rank algorithm: Defining a system that is able to assess the relevance of a document or site, without having to rely on links to it.
2025 — Search patent. deep gets the patent for the first major revision to Google' page rank algorithm: Defining a system that is able to assess the relevance of a document or site, without having to rely on links to it.
2025 — deeptrust. deep’s second case is about to launch: a real-time early warning system that tracks, verifies, and maps disinformation at scale. Built on deepAI, it supports journalists, researchers, and democratic institutions in uncovering and countering disinformation.
2025 — deeptrust. deep’s second case is about to launch: a real-time early warning system that tracks, verifies, and maps disinformation at scale. Built on deepAI, it supports journalists, researchers, and democratic institutions in uncovering and countering disinformation.