Tobias Otte

Co-Founder at Bead AI

Co-founder

2026Scout· a16z speedrun

Founder · since 2025

Company

a16z speedrun

Role

Scout

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Bead AI

Bead is building AI agents for Internal Audit teams, automating repetitive work in a $70B industry.

Experience

Career

Bead AI
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
a16z speedrun
Scout · 2026 – Present
2026
11x.ai
Building · San Francisco, California, United States · 2023 – 2025
2023
Gaia
Head of Engineering · London Area, United Kingdom · 2022 – 2023
2022
Learnerbly
CTO · London, United Kingdom · 2017 – 2022
2017
Lyst
Senior Product Manager · London, United Kingdom · 2015 – 2017
2015
Lyst
Lead Engineer · London, United Kingdom · 2013 – 2015
2013
XING
Software Engineer · Hamburg, Germany · 2009 – 2013
2009

15 years building and scaling tech startups