Florian Scherl, now 21, developed an early interest in IT and Artificial Intelligence. Aged just 12, he taught himself programming after school from online courses, attended programming camps, and entered IT competitions with AI models he had trained himself. But the boy from Traunstein, Upper Bavaria, soon outpaced those beginnings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always got pretty far, but then I didn\u2019t take the projects any further, and that used to bother me a bit,\u201d says Florian Scherl. Instead of working on a program in purely theoretical terms, his aim was to transform it into entrepreneurial reality. That opportunity came along in Year 11 at his school, the Chiemgau-Gymnasium. As part of a project seminar, Florian Scherl and two of his fellow students drew up a business plan involving the use of Artificial Intelligence to produce short movies. The team\u2019s idea scooped second place in JUGEND GR\u00dcNDET, a competition for budding entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
Learning from the Silicon Valley\u00a0<\/p>\n
From those beginnings, Scherl and his teammates took giant leaps towards founding their company. As their prize for achieving second place, they were invited to visit Silicon Valley in the U.S.A., the cradle of so many high-tech companies. Florian Scherl also received a donation of a high-performance AI-computer from a company and was invited to take up an internship at an AI start-up in Pforzheim. \u201cThese experiences clinched it for me,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI decided to found a start-up of my own.\u201d And so it came that on the day before his math exam in May 2022, 18-year-old Scherl was sitting in a notary\u2019s office in Traunstein waiting for official notarization of his company\u2019s shareholders\u2019 agreement.<\/p>\n
However, he felt the lack of someone to talk to about his progress and share the responsibility. TUM, which he joined as an Informatics student in 2022, provided exactly what he needed. An entrepreneurship scheme by the student initiative TUM.ai<\/a> brought him into contact with Philipp Gabriel, a master\u2019s student of Information Systems who had already amassed practical experience in a variety of companies. \u201cWe make a great team,\u201d says Scherl.\u00a0<\/p>\n Taking up the opportunities in coaching and networking offered by TUM Start-up Consulting<\/a> and TUM Venture Lab Software\/AI<\/a>, the duo honed their company idea: FAST AI Movies. Their focus is now an AI model that automatically creates explanatory videos based on companies\u2019 existing online brochures or Intranet texts. The program recognizes semantic relationships between concepts, such as\u00a0similarities, hierarchies, and causalities, and transforms them into a graphic structure augmented by easy-to-understand pictograms. The animations are accompanied by quiz questions, likewise generated automatically. Finally, the videos can be edited manually. \u201cOur software is designed to smooth the transfer of knowledge between employees and departments and make the content more memorable,\u201d says Florian Scherl.<\/p>\n Promoting accessible knowledge<\/p>\n As the primary market for their product, the company\u2019s founders have identified industries that require compliance with complicated regulations or that sell intangible products, such as the IT, financial, and insurance sectors. Their AI software is already used by savings and cooperative banks and by the public health insurance company AOK Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. In addition, the company gained its first investor at the end of 2024. Scherl is now fully occupied with the task of relocating from the TUM Incubator<\/a> to his own premises and recruiting his first full-time employees, and has put his studies on hold for the moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n What\u2019s the most exciting aspect of working at a start-up? \u201cOur AI enables us to provide easier and fairer access to work-related knowledge,\u201d affirms Florian Scherl. \u201cA start-up may only be a small first step, but it enables us to maximize our limited resources in creating something that will have a great impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florian Scherl, now 21, developed an early interest in IT and Artificial Intelligence. Aged just 12, he taught…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45,49,48,137,12454,12455,12456],"class_list":{"0":"post-13425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-grundung","13":"tag-kunstliche-intelligenz","14":"tag-schulungsvideos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}