About knowing01
knowing01 GmbH is a Munich-based life science software and analytics company founded in 2020. We help researchers in industry and academia transform complex biological data into actionable insights and high-impact outcomes faster, more reliably and with less manual overhead.
Our team
Dr. Nikola Müller
Nikola drives knowing01’s vision to help biotech and pharma partners leverage fully omics data for biologically informed therapeutic development as founder and CEO.
Florian Bittner
Flo translates our vision into reliable, secure software and scalable infrastructure, ensuring that the product is fast, robust and easy to use as CTO.
Karolina Worf
Karolina brings science, storytelling and design together, making our product and research accessible and easy to understand
as Online Content Manager.
Dr. Janine Knauer-Arloth
Janine leads interdisciplinary data analysis and AI projects, turning complex omics data into clear results and informed decisions as
Head of Research & AI Solutions.
Franziska Brekenfelder
Franziska keeps knowing01 running smoothly, taking care of day-to-day operations and scalable processes as we grow as
Head of Operations.
Lucy Ann Woods
Lucy works closely with partners and customers to understand their data challenges and find the fastest path to value with knowing01 as Sales Catalyst.
Want to join our team? Visit our Jobs page.
Our story
Our business idea was sparked by the desire to harness technology and abstract recurring tasks of life science data experts into an easy-to-use software used by researchers directly.
In December 2015, we received the m4 award granted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Bavaria and managed by Bio-M (read more in our ideation phase blog post). Over the following years, our core technology was developed at the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich led by Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis, in close collaboration with test clients and with the support of accelerator programs such as EIT Health LaunchLab 2017.
In May 2025, we successfully secured public funding from Bayern Innovativ’s Bavarian funding program for technology-oriented startups (BayTOU) to further develop our Software as a Service (SaaS) platform (read more in our press release).
We are proud to be supported by the European Commission through Women TechEU, which supports female-led deep tech champions.
