Nicolas Jakob
Co-Founder Avelios Medical
Co-Founder & CTO, Avelios Medical · Munich chapter
Nicolas Jakob is co-founder and CTO of Avelios Medical, the Munich healthtech building a structured-data hospital operating system. Avelios raised a €30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital (2025) and runs at 12 German hospitals including Sana Kliniken and LMU Klinikum.
Highlights
- Co-founded Avelios Medical (2020) with Christian Albrecht and Dr. Sebastian Krammer; as CTO he leads engineering on a from-scratch hospital information system built on structured data.
- Raised a €30M ($31M) Series A led by Sequoia Capital in February 2025, with Revent and High-Tech Gründerfonds participating, after an earlier €5M round.
- Avelios is deployed at 12 German hospitals, including Sana Kliniken AG, LMU Klinikum Munich and Hannover Medical School (MHH).
- Started Avelios out of AI research on classifying skin conditions, after finding that legacy hospital IT could not deliver the structured data modern clinical AI needs.
Co-founded Avelios Medical (2020) with Christian Albrecht and Dr. Sebastian Krammer; as CTO he leads engineering on a from-scratch hospital information system built on structured data.. Raised a €30M ($31M) Series A led by Sequoia Capital in February 2025, with Revent and High-Tech Gründerfonds participating, after an earlier €5M round.. Avelios is deployed at 12 German hospitals, including Sana Kliniken AG, LMU Klinikum Munich and Hannover Medical School (MHH).. Started Avelios out of AI research on classifying skin conditions, after finding that legacy hospital IT could not deliver the structured data modern clinical AI needs..
About Nicolas Jakob
Nicolas Jakob is co-founder and CTO of Avelios Medical, a Munich-based company building a modern hospital operating system powered by structured data. He is a software engineer and deep-learning expert, and previously co-founded a company together with Avelios CEO Christian Albrecht.
Avelios was founded in 2020 by Jakob, Albrecht and Dr. Sebastian Krammer after the founders discovered that hospitals' legacy IT systems could not provide the structured data needed for modern AI applications such as classifying skin conditions. Instead of building on top of outdated systems, they built a new hospital information system from scratch.
In February 2025 Avelios raised a €30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital, with Revent and the High-Tech Gründerfonds participating – one of the largest digital-health rounds in the German-speaking market. Customers include Sana Kliniken, LMU Klinikum Munich and Hannover Medical School.
As CTO, Jakob leads the engineering organisation and works on AI for clinical workflows, real-time scheduling, explainable decision support and voice-based interaction with the hospital information system.
Education
Topics & Expertise
- Preventive Medicine
- Cancer Prevention
- hospital information systems
- structured medical data
- deep learning in healthcare
- clinical decision support
- AI infrastructure
- real-time clinical scheduling
Frequently Asked
Who is Nicolas Jakob?
Nicolas Jakob is co-founder and CTO of Avelios Medical, a Munich-based healthtech company building a modern hospital operating system powered by structured data. He is a software engineer and deep-learning expert, and a Sequoia Capital portfolio founder since the company's €30M Series A in 2025.
What does Nicolas Jakob's company Avelios Medical do?
Avelios Medical builds a next-generation hospital information system covering electronic health records, clinical documentation, lab results, billing and patient portals. The modular platform structures patient data end to end, cutting documentation effort and enabling clinical AI, and is used by 12 German hospitals including Sana Kliniken, LMU Klinikum Munich and Hannover Medical School.
Who founded Avelios Medical?
Avelios Medical was founded in Munich in 2020 by Christian Albrecht (CEO), Nicolas Jakob (CTO) and Dr. Sebastian Krammer (Chief Medical Officer). Jakob and Krammer had been researching AI classification of skin conditions and found hospital legacy systems could not supply the required structured data; Albrecht, a McKinsey alum and prior co-founder with Jakob, joined to build the company.
What is Nicolas Jakob's background?
Nicolas Jakob is a software engineer and deep-learning expert who studied at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Before Avelios Medical he co-founded a company with Avelios CEO Christian Albrecht, and his AI research on classifying skin conditions led directly to founding Avelios.
Who invested in Avelios Medical?
Avelios Medical raised a €30 million ($31M) Series A in February 2025 led by Sequoia Capital, with existing investors Revent and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) participating. The company had previously raised around €5 million.