Update September 2025: Mitai has since renamed itself to Denpaflux GmbH.
Munich Startup: What does your startup do? What problem are you solving?
Mitai: Have you ever wondered why cabin crew ask you to turn off your electronic devices before takeoff and landing? One reason is that radio waves – or electromagnetic waves – from electronic devices can interfere with vital aircraft components and thus pose a risk to the aircraft’s avionics.
This is not just limited to electronics in aircraft, but applies to all types of electronic devices. These can interfere with other electronic devices or be interfered with by them. Therefore, all electronic devices must comply with certain electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations for all types of applications.
Normally, electronic devices are tested for EMC in a special laboratory environment as soon as the first hardware is available. In more than 90 percent of cases, new designs of electronic products fail EMC certification, and development engineers must completely redesign their product to meet EMC requirements. Compliance with EMC requirements thus has significant impacts on the costs and time-to-market of new products.
At Mitai, we have made it our mission to solve EMC problems for electronics companies during the design phase, before the first hardware is tested in the laboratory. Our unique software solution enables electronics developers to meet EMC requirements right the first time.
Mitai emerged from TDK’s incubator program
Munich Startup: But that already exists!
Mitai: Mitai’s software solution is unique because it aims to identify EMC problems before they occur during testing. To achieve this, our experts have analyzed many designs that have passed and failed EMC compliance testing. Additionally, years of experience from experienced development engineers in solving EMC problems went into our software. With this multi-step approach, electronics developers are supported in developing their designs market-ready and faster than before. With its flexible configuration options, Mitai’s solution supports the product development process in various phases.
Munich Startup: What is your founding story?
Mitai: Mitai emerged as a startup from TDK’s global incubator program. In the TDK Global Incubator Program, ideas for new businesses are explored in a protected environment with support from a professional business development team. From around 60 ideas from employees across all areas of TDK, Mitai’s idea of helping customers across all electronics sectors avoid EMC problems was selected for the incubator program. The main aspect of our idea was how we could help customers solve their EMC problems, not just with EMC components, which are one of TDK’s core businesses, but in a different way. With our idea, we pursued an approach that goes beyond EMC components.
“The EMC topic is very complex”
Munich Startup: What have been your biggest challenges so far?
Mitai: The EMC topic is very complex. Finding EMC problems in design data and providing recommendations to solve these problems is even more complex and requires much experience in the field of EMC, which TDK possesses. Our biggest challenge at Mitai is packing all this EMC expertise into a software solution. At Mitai, EMC experts must work very closely with software engineers to reduce the complexity of EMC for our customers so they can benefit from our software solution. The key to this is speaking the language of both fields: electrical and software engineering.
Munich Startup: Where do you want to be in one year, where in five years?
Mitai: Our goal is to have our first customers using our service in their daily development within one year. We help them save a lot of time and money by getting EMC design right the first time.
In five years, we want to become the industry standard for achieving EMC compliance in the development of electronic products from the start.
Mitai wants to become the world’s most important player in the EMC field
Munich Startup: How have you experienced Munich as a startup location so far?
Mitai: Munich is now the right place for us. It is the perfect location to find the right talent. There are many startups in the field of electrical engineering and electronic product manufacturing that we can collaborate with. Munich has top universities and large companies in the field of electrical engineering. This gives us a strong network to work with.
Munich Startup: Hidden champion or shooting star?
Mitai: We see ourselves more as a hidden champion than as a shooting star. We only founded Mitai on April 1, 2022. We are still closely connected with TDK and not visible as an independent company. Our goal is to establish Mitai as a new brand under TDK. Together, we want to become the world’s most important player in the EMC field.
