Maik Taro Wehmeyer is co-founder and chief executive of Taktile, whose software lets banks and fintechs automate high-stakes decisions such as who gets credit. He came to it from graduate research in machine learning, at a time when there were hardly any data scientists.
Harvard and a Machine Learning Consultancy
He studied industrial engineering, then mathematical optimization and statistics at Harvard. In 2016, still in graduate school, he met his co-founder Maximilian Eber, who was doing a PhD on similar problems. They wanted to know whether machine learning worked in the wild, so they asked big banks and insurers for some of their data and offered to show what new statistical methods could do with it.
For about three years they built models for those clients with fellow students, running structured experiments to find the signal in messy data. He also worked at QuantCo, McKinsey and SAP, and served on the European Commission's AI Alliance.
Starting Taktile in 2020
In 2020 the two founded Taktile to turn that work into a product: a low-code platform where credit and risk teams build and change their own decision flows. Early grant funding of more than €3 million paid for development of the no-code engine.
The company raised a $54M Series B led by Balderton in February 2025 and a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in June 2026. He began by asking banks for a sample of their data to prove a point, and he now sells them the tools to run their decisions on it.
