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On a mission to put Healthcare Systems in the 21st century.
Nikolay is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Kranus Health, a globally leading player in virtual care for Urology. The company focuses on developing clinically validated (e.g. published in peer reviewed journals like NEJM Evidence) therapies for a wide range of indications from Andrology to Uro-Oncology. As CTO, board member and Managing Director he is responsible for Product & Engineering, Customer Success, BI, Regulatory & InfoSec. Together with his Co-Founders, Nikolay's company secured $20M+ in VC funding and achieved significant 7-figure revenues within its first commercial year. The company holds the rank of #23 fastest-growing startup in Germany, #1 in Healthcare (GlassDollar, 2022) and has been covered in over 40 media outlets (Forbes, Sifted, Business Insider, Bild, Les Échos, Handelsblatt, Esquire, ...)
Nikolay was also awarded the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe recognition in the category Science & Healthcare followed by the Capital Top 40 unter 40 award in Germany in 2024. Additionally, Nikolay was a member of the Forbes Technology Council, providing insights into European digital healthcare harmonization. He is also a contributing writer at Towards Data Science, focusing on technology trends and innovations around AI. He is also active as an Angel Investor in the German startup ecosystem.
Nikolay's career includes past positions such as Senior Product Manager (Platform Infrastructure & Data Lake) at Celonis, one of Europe's most valuable startups. He was also a Tech Executive: Software Engineering (focus: NLP & data mining) at Motius, a deep tech R&D consultancy for large enterprises, where he worked with customers like BMW (e.g. worked on pre-production version of BMW's Intelligent Personal Assistant) and Allianz. Prior to that he held internship positions in various roles at KPMG, Siemens, Payoneer Germany, as well as TelefĂłnica Germany.
He holds a M.Sc. degree in computer science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and he wrote his thesis on "A text mining and NLP based approach to exploring the incentives for consumer health wearables". It all started in boarding school with making websites for friends & family and selling/designing T-Shirt prints. And even prior to that: figuring out how to let bots farm loot in RPG games (Diablo 2) in primary school.
