“Tiny Companies”: How to start a business with AI today – without a team, just with these skills and tools

Fabian Westerheide is a founding partner of the AI-focused venture capital firm AI.FUND and has been investing privately in AI companies through Asgard Capital since 2014. Westerheide provides strategic advice to public and private institutions in the field of AI and hosts the annual AI conference Rise of AI in Berlin. In this article, he summarizes how AI is turning the entire logic of how startups have been built up to date on its head.

In the past, you needed a team to start a business. Today, the right toolkit is often all you need.

Artificial intelligence (AI) transforms founders into digital decathletes: coding, designing, writing, pitching, selling—everything is possible, often simultaneously. Those building a startup today no longer first ask themselves "Who do I need?", but rather "What can I do myself with AI?"

Welcome to the age of Tiny Companies – lean, highly productive units that scale with minimal team size but maximum AI deployment.