Munich Startup: What does your startup do? What problem are you solving?
Adrian Kochsiek, CEO of Onvy: Onvy is your AI health coach for your pocket – powered by real-time biometric data and personalized prevention. We transform wearable data into real life change: concrete recommendations for more energy, better sleep, performance and long-term health.
The fundamental problem we solve: Most people have wearables but no idea what to do with all the data. We bring structure to health chaos – intelligently, individually, effectively.
At the same time, we develop scalable technological solutions for companies to systematically integrate preventive health promotion into existing infrastructure. This means: Onvy can be embedded in digital health platforms, corporate health programs or wearable ecosystems – with modular technology, scientific depth and privacy-compliant architecture. This way we create real added value in tomorrow’s healthcare not just for individuals, but also for organizations.
More than just tracking
Munich Startup: But that already exists, doesn’t it!
Adrian Kochsiek: Does it? Not really. Most solutions track – we, on the other hand, translate individual health data into highly personalized action recommendations.
People are empowered to manage their health holistically and proactively. Companies improve their key performance indicators in engagement, retention and user experience in a flash – through genuine personalization in healthcare. Others tell you how many steps you’ve taken. Onvy shows you why your energy level is at 73 percent today – and what you can do to bring it to 90 percent. Based on your sleep data, your stress progression, your diet, your hormonal cycle, data from your environment – and much more.
Onvy thinks about health proactively and holistically: from precise recovery to mental fitness to real-time adaptation of exercise and nutrition – tailored to your individual life rhythm. This is not tracking. This is precision health – made possible by hundreds of data integrations and the targeted use of AI to translate this data into personalized prevention and predictive health management.
Munich Startup: What’s your founding story?
Adrian Kochsiek: I would have to go back quite a bit for that. The short version: After a cancer diagnosis at a young age, I quickly recognized how fundamental it is to rethink health – not as a reaction to illness, but as active, highly personalized and preventive self-management.
After five formative years at UnternehmerTUM – Europe’s leading center for tech innovation and startup development – I built my first company in the healthcare field. We combined diagnostics with individualized micronutrient supplements and built a seven to eight-figure business within three years with a strong interdisciplinary team. Despite the success, it was clear to me: the next big lever for global impact is not in products, but in technology, especially in AI. I monitored market movements, technological breakthroughs and social change very carefully – and waited until AI was no longer just a buzzword, but could create real, everyday added value for people.
When that sweet spot was reached, I founded Onvy – with the clear goal of building the first real AI health coach in the world. Long before the big tech companies became active in this field, we set out with Onvy to write a new chapter in personalized health prevention.
“We are on an expansion course”
Munich Startup: What were your biggest challenges so far?
Adrian Kochsiek: Health is a highly regulated, highly sensitive market. Between data protection, scientific responsibility and technical complexity, you often walk a fine line. Our biggest challenge was developing a product that is both scientifically sound and user-centered. Setting up data protection according to the highest EU guidelines was a mammoth project.
A central challenge was finding investors who not only provide capital but also have a deep understanding of healthtech & the macro trends in this field in our highly innovative segment and can provide market access. Our model sits at the intersection of B2C and B2B – that often requires a bit more explanation, but harbors enormous potential. A concrete aha moment came when we realized that the greatest innovation often doesn’t lie in a new feature, but in how easily it integrates into users’ lives. For that, we had to go deeper, test more, work even more closely with users.
Munich Startup: Where do you want to stand in one year, where in five years?
Adrian Kochsiek: In one year, we have established ourselves successfully on the international stage. Following the entry of a major US investor and our first enterprise customers in North America, we are on an expansion course. At the same time, we are systematically driving the expansion of our B2B division – focusing on deeper product integrations, intelligent API usage and new use cases. We will be able to announce major breakthroughs in this area later this year.
In five years, Onvy is deeply embedded as a key technology in the everyday lives of millions of people around the world. Our biggest lever is enabling our enterprise customers – through seamless integration of our health AI into existing products, platforms and service ecosystems. Five years is a huge time frame in the world of AI – we will use it to shape a new global health paradigm: proactive, predictive & hyper-personalized.
“Munich could be bolder”
Munich Startup: How have you experienced the startup location Munich so far?
Adrian Kochsiek: Munich is a strong location for deep tech – with excellent universities, solid infrastructure and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem. Here, technological depth meets a growing awareness of innovation. At the same time, we sense: the location could be bolder. What I would like to see is a scene that supports unconventional ideas early on – rather than only getting involved after other markets like the US or Asia have already shown the way. Visionary ideas need not only capital, but above all trust, speed and willingness to take risks.
Especially at the intersection of artificial intelligence and health technology, regulatory hurdles are high in Europe – while in other regions implementation happens faster because the mindset is more agile and future-oriented. Nevertheless: Munich is my home. And I’m grateful for what we’ve been able to build here. The location provided us with everything we needed to bring Onvy to where we stand today – including the launchpad for our internationalization.
Munich Startup: Public transport or bike?
Adrian Kochsiek: Bike – with a wearable on my wrist and the good feeling of an already completed workout logged in my Onvy app. It saves time, brings fresh air and natural sunlight.
Onvy doesn’t just track my movement, but also environmental factors like light, air quality and temperature – and shows me how they affect my energy level and well-being. Moments like these in everyday life show exactly how smart health management can work: simple, integrated, effective.
