About Hirschblau Consulting

Hirschblau Consulting is a boutique IT consultancy founded in 2011 to serve the needs of technology startups. We help emerging businesses take their ideas to market quickly, through high-level technology advice, agile software design and development, project management, protection of intellectual property, team hiring, and financing.

Our passion is for companies that want to tap into the enormous potential that recent advances in machine learning have opened up for businesses of all kinds. Deep learning, data analysis, natural language understanding and visualisation are the areas we are most excited about. We combine a passion for theory with a thorough understanding of the nature and complexity of modern engineering practices. We take a pragmatic approach to choosing development tools, languages and frameworks with an emphasis on maintainability and long-term efficiency.

With so much technology being made available through open-source frameworks, it needs good judgement to decide whether to extend existing software, to integrate a number of open-source solutions, or to engineer something proprietary. When technology becomes a problem of choice, we help decision-makers balance the needs for rapid development and IP value creation.

Because much of what we do is bespoke and research-intensive, we implicitly provide more than a solution to a problem: clients for whom technology is a main differentiator benefit from innovative approaches that can help them significantly bolster their portfolio of intellectual property.

Email us at info@hirschblau.com to start the conversation.

Our Services

Software Development

We are passionate about developing elegant, innovative solutions to interesting problems. A solution can take the form of an entire web or mobile application, a back-office system, or a library serving a very specific purpose within a larger system. In all cases, we aim to deliver something bespoke that helps start-ups achieve early differentiation through technology. For some assignments, Hirschblau Consulting is responsible for all the engineering, for others, we are merely a temporary extension of your existing technical operations.

Financing

One early part of the business life-cycle, at least for technology companies, is to raise finance in exchange for equity from angel investors or venture capital firms. We love to get involved at this early stage. This can take many forms, from helping you prepare your pitches, getting you connected with angels, to making small co-investments as part of a seed round.

Technology Analysis

Technology analysis involves surveying the state of the art of a chosen field of technology that will help start-up companies to make the right choices. This service is offered also to business angel investors and venture capital firms that need independent expert advice as part of their technology due dilligence. We have a deep understanding of technologies from search, natural language processing to data mining and machine learning.

Intellectual Property

For companies with technology as a main differentiator and barrier to entry, protection of the intellectual property can be key. Patents are a powerful means of safeguarding your intellectual assets, and one that's highly prized when it comes to pitching for equity finance. Whether or not the technology originates with us, we see you through the early stages of patent drafting and filing.

Selected projects

tiefgruen weeding

Kassel, Germany

tiefgruen weeding is a truly innovative early-stage startup buiding machines for pesticide-free weed control. It combines a proprietary hardware stack of dazzling complexity with a fair dose of AI and signal processing. Most importantly: it works and is ready for launch. Hirschblau Ltd has been involved from an early stage and has helped with most aspects of software development.

eemio.de

Germany

eemio.de is a German SAAS business offering a range of cloud services for owners of tenanted properties and shared condos. eemio.de is owned by Hirschblau Ltd.

smartrplace.com

Kassel / Berlin, Germany

smartrplace is a B2B technology startup that helps companies of all sizes monitor, control and optimise the use of various resources - from desk space to electricity. Hirschblau was brought in to build out their suite of web applications.

doks-solution.com

Dortmund / Kassel, Germany

doks.solution is a B2B company developing smart ways to automate many of the labour-intensive processes within logistics companies - autonomous drones for inventory management is but one of many solutions offered to a long list of international customers. Hirschblau Consulting developed a substantial part of their software technology stack including many of the underlying computer vision and machine learning algorithms.

asap54.com

London, United Kingdom

ASAP54 was founded in 2014 to become the latest search engine for all things fashion. Hirschblau Consulting was engaged from very early on to help with software development, deep learning, recruitment, fund-raising, and team management. The company won many accolades including Apple's "App of the year". It was sold to Farfetch in 2017.

myezzie.com

New York, USA

myezzie was a collaborative travel planning app and personal assistant for web and mobile. Hirschblau Consulting was responsible for infrastructure, architecture, all server-side software development, data aggregation, search and natural language processing.

empora.com

Wismar, Germany

Empora Group GmbH was a conglomerate of various technology startups, including Europe's first visual search company Pixsta Ltd founded by Daniel Heesch in 2006. At Empora, Daniel was brought in to secure and later oversee the execution of a >€1M research grant.

kevelo.com

London, United Kingdom

Kevelo was the largest portal for road bikes in the UK covering nearly 100 brands and everything from time trial bikes, single speed bikes, track bikes, cyclocross bikes and the classic road bikes - in all its modern manifestations. Hirschblau Consulting was responsible for all parts of the development, from data acquisition, deep learning classification, infrastructure and web application development.