Stefan Weirich is co-founder & CEO at mimic, building frontier AI models for robot dexterity. Based in Zurich and San Francisco, the team brings together talent from Google DeepMind, Tesla and Stanford, and has raised more than $20M from top VCs. mimic pioneered video-action models that let robots predict their next actions in the real world, solving complex, unstructured tasks in manufacturing and logistics — positioning it as Europe's leading contender in the global race toward general-purpose robot foundation models. Stefan holds master's degrees from TUM and RWTH Aachen, with experience spanning Siemens Healthineers, early-stage startups like RobCo, and research at ETH Zurich. His work has produced multiple patents and publications, including in Nature.