AI Mapping: Cologne Startup Aims to Revolutionize Engineering with AI
21. June 2025

The Studydrive founders Sven Gasper and Philipp Mackeprang are embarking on a new venture. With AI Mapping GmbH, they have founded a company specializing in AI-powered software solutions for engineers, architects, and urban planners.

The Cologne-based startup plans to enter the market under the brand name Reiner, for which a corresponding trademark application has already been filed.

Image © AI Mapping

According to the commercial register, the team is developing software to automate workflows and is focusing on AI agents for industries such as construction, regional planning, and architecture. In job postings, the company emphasizes its ambition to “take engineering and construction to the next level through artificial intelligence.” Even before its official launch, AI Mapping secured an investment from Munich-based venture capital firm HV Capital, which now holds a 17% stake in the company.

Gasper and Mackeprang are no strangers to the startup scene: in 2013, they founded the learning platform Studydrive, which was acquired by job marketplace StepStone in 2019. Whether AI Mapping will achieve similar success remains to be seen—but the founders have already proven once that they can build a winning venture.

Miguel Ebbers
Miguel Ebbers
Miguel Ebbers is head of M&P's Digitalization/BIM competence center and head of consulting at the Düsseldorf office. After completing his studies in architecture and facility management, he joined M&P as a consultant in 2010. Having started with functional consulting topics, his current focus is on process consulting and digital transformation in real estate and facility management.
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