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✨ What we do
We are building AI agents to transform the construction industry through human-AI collaboration.
At Mercura, we pair human experts with AI to redefine how sales teams in construction work. Our software automates quoting for building material suppliers. By freeing sales teams from manual back-office tasks, we let them process requests in minutes instead of days.
Mercura is in the top 5% of Y Combinator’s Winter '25 batch in terms of revenue. Our team uniquely combines deep industry knowledge with most recent research from Human-Computer-Interaction, and we have seen rapid early traction within weeks of launch.
Our mission is to enable human-AI teams, ensuring that technology scales human effort rather than leaving anyone behind. For this mission, we’re hiring great talent that helps us scale.
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🎯 Why Mercura
- Be part of an exceptional team: Our team has experience from Google, Meta & Bain and studied at MIT, TUM, Harvard, CDTM & Cambridge. Your future colleagues are top-of-class graduates, Physics Olympiad medallists, PhDs, ex-founders and BCG alumni. We hire top talent and help you reach your full potential as your mentors and teammates. We care about your success during your time here and beyond.
- Work with the latest tech: AI is at the core of our product. As we are backed by Y Combinator, we can leverage the latest tech to push the boundaries of LLMs and AI-UX design. With us, you’ll tackle meaningful challenges and shape how users interact with AI.
- Thrive in a high-growth, high-commitment environment: We’re growing extremely fast because we always put our customers first. Whether it’s taking calls at 4 AM or flying 12 hours for a meeting: we do whatever it takes to make our customers happy. If you excel in a fast-paced, adventurous setting and want to be part of a rocket ship from day one, Mercura is the place for you.
- Build something with real-world impact: We ship code that directly helps a massive, yet overlooked manual industry run more efficiently and sustainably. With us, you can work on AI that contributes to economic growth and stability on a huge scale.
- Build our company: As an early team member, you will have a direct, lasting impact on our culture, technology, and product. Joining us offers immense rewards: ownership, financial upside, and the unique opportunity to learn and build something extraordinary from the ground up.
- 💖 Our company values
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🧙♂️ Founders
We are Lukas, Stefan, and Hai, the founders of Mercura. We bring experience from Google, Meta & Bain and studied at MIT, TUM, Harvard, CDTM & Cambridge. All of us come from non-academic families, and two of us have a migration background. We know what it means to carve our own paths. This experience drives our commitment to social mobility and equal opportunity.
- 💙 More about diversity, equity & inclusion at Mercura
Lukas Bock
CEO & Co-Founder
Background:
- AI Engineer at Google X, Data Scientist in the Global Data & AI Team at Allianz
- Grew up in a family with 100+ years of legacy in the construction industry
- Turned down a fully funded PhD at the University of Cambridge to start Mercura
- B.Sc., M.Sc. in Engineering from TUM
- CDTM
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Stefan Zheng
CPO & Co-Founder
Background:
- Consultant at Bain focusing on manufacturing & operations
- Research at MIT & Harvard Business School
- B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from TU Darmstadt
- M.Sc. in Management & Technology from TUM
- CDTM
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Hai Dang
CTO & Co-Founder
Background:
- PhD at the University of Bayreuth and Harvard University
- Expert in human-AI collaboration with 10 papers, 400+ citations, and 1 patent
- Built software at Meta, Autodesk, and Celonis
- B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Computer Science from LMU Munich
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💸 Investors
What you can expect working with us
We’re early on our journey, so joining us means you’ll have the chance to take huge ownership and shape everything we do.
If you’re curious, passionate, ambitious, and ready to make a real difference, we’d love to chat. Connect with us via LinkedIn (Lukas / Stefan / Hai) or shoot a message to [email protected].