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# About POMA AI

The story, the team, and the people who back us.

POMA AI is the missing infrastructure layer for retrieval-augmented generation. Below is the why, who, and who's behind us.

## Why POMA AI

We built the missing infrastructure layer everyone assumed was already solved.

The chunking problem isn't new. What's new is solving it with structure-preserving technology that treats documents the way they were actually written — as hierarchies, not strings. The patent is the outcome of that engineering work, not the point of it.

![POMA AI elevator pitch](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/elevator-pitch-BR38ERgb.png)

Elevator pitch

Dr. Alexander Kihm

## The people behind POMA AI

Built by engineers who've been inside the pipelines everyone else is still building.

Our team has shipped document and retrieval infrastructure at scale before. POMA AI is the engine we wished existed when we were building it ourselves.

! ![POMA AI team](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/poma-team-DAATogwL.png)

## Backed by

Industry leaders and operator-investors.

POMA AI is supported by venture firms and angels who have built and shipped the document and infrastructure tooling that everyone else uses today.

Venture partners

-    [![Heartfelt Ventures](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/heartfeltvc-BHaRjW5c.png) Heartfelt Ventures Venture capital](https://heartfelt.vc/)
-    [![B# Ventures](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/bsharpvc-Is4Muaen.png) B# Ventures Venture capital](https://www.bsharp.vc)

Angel investors

-    [![Till Faida](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/tillfaida-B-29I-uH.jpg) Till Faida Co-founder, AdBlock](https://www.linkedin.com/in/till-faida-2480483a/)
-    [![Felix Dahlke](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/felixdahlke-DsNjIHzq.jpg) Felix Dahlke Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixdahlke/)
-    [![Steffen Reitz](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/steffenreitz-COUG6-WW.jpg) Steffen Reitz Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffenreitz/)
-    [![Veronika Chrestin](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/veronikachrestin-CNw357MQ.jpg) Veronika Chrestin Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronika-chrestin/)
-    [![Cora Ansorg](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/corafreyaansorg-CgZJ-F9e.jpg) Cora Ansorg Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cora-freya-ansorg/)
-    [![Dr. Jan Wildhirth](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/janwildhirth-CibufjGy.jpg) Dr. Jan Wildhirth Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwildhirth/)
-    [![Wolf-Alexis Puttfarken](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/wolfalexisputtfarken-DGJrWTfm.jpg) Wolf-Alexis Puttfarken Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfalexis/)
-    [![Dr. Jan Simon Raue](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/jansimonraue-D99RetKO.jpg) Dr. Jan Simon Raue Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jansimonraue/)
-    [![Dr. Philip Liebenow](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/philipliebenow-CKG4oXwl.jpg) Dr. Philip Liebenow Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-liebenow/)
-    [![Thomas Gros](https://www.poma-ai.com/assets/thomasgros-yDLZok-3.jpg) Thomas Gros Angel investor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-gros-24119357/)
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