About Hirschblau Consulting

Hirschblau Consulting is a boutique technology consultancy founded in 2011 to help startups turn ambitious ideas into working products. We advise on architecture and strategy, design and build software, protect intellectual property, help assemble teams, and support fundraising — whatever it takes to get from concept to market.

Our roots are in data-intensive engineering: machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing and large-scale data analysis. We bring genuine depth in these areas — not just familiarity with the tools, but an understanding of the theory behind them. That lets us move quickly without cutting corners, and choose the right approach rather than the fashionable one.

With so much capability available through open-source frameworks and cloud services, knowing what to build, what to integrate and what to leave alone is often the hardest decision a young company faces. We help founders and their investors navigate these trade-offs, balancing speed to market against the long-term value of owning your own technology.

Because much of our work is research-driven and bespoke, the solutions we deliver often carry value beyond the immediate problem — giving clients a genuine edge and, in many cases, patentable intellectual property.

Our Services

Software Development

Whether it's an entire product, a critical subsystem, or a tricky algorithm at the heart of your platform — we build it. Our work tends to live where standard frameworks end and genuine engineering begins: computer vision pipelines, ML-driven backends, real-time data processing. We can own the full stack or slot into your existing team for as long as you need us.

Financing

Raising a seed round is part science, part storytelling. We help founders sharpen their pitch, model their technology roadmap for investors, and connect with the right angels and VCs. Where the fit is right, we co-invest — because we'd rather have skin in the game than just a seat at the table.

Technology Analysis

Investors and founders alike need a clear-eyed view of what a technology can and can't do. We produce independent assessments — surveying the state of the art, benchmarking approaches, and identifying risks — so that due-diligence decisions rest on evidence rather than enthusiasm.

Intellectual Property

If your technology is your moat, a well-drafted patent makes the moat wider. We work with founders to identify what's genuinely novel in their stack, then guide the drafting and filing process from first disclosure through to grant. Whether the technology originates with us or not, we treat IP strategy as a first-class concern — not an afterthought.

Selected Projects

tiefgruen weeding
tiefgruen weeding
Kassel, Germany

tiefgruen weeding is a truly innovative early-stage startup building machines for pesticide-free weed control. It combines a proprietary hardware stack of dazzling complexity with a fair dose of AI and signal processing. Hirschblau Ltd has been involved from an early stage and has helped with all aspects of software development.

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eemio.de
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.

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smartrplace
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 for web development, infrastructure design and data analytics.

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doks innovation
doks-innovation.com
Dortmund & Kassel, Germany

doks.innovation 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.

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ASAP54
asap54.com
London, UK & Braga, Portugal

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.

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myezzie
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.

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empora
empora.com
London, UK & 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 multi-million research grant.

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kevelo
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. Hirschblau Consulting was responsible for all parts of the development, from data acquisition, deep learning classification, infrastructure and web application development.

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