Casie kept losing French conversations to one missing word. With Philip she built COCO, an AI that hands you the next word as you speak.
Subin
At 42 Berlin, Subin learnt that feeling lost passes. Back in Korea, curiosity took her from deep learning down to C++ and AI inference engineering.
Tanmay, Pashá and teamBattle of the Tech Schools 2025, WBS Coding School
An AI platform that helps newcomers find their people in Berlin won the 2025 Battle of the Tech Schools, then came back with a new version.
AlexanderFlyWeb
Alexander's fascination with FPV drones became FlyWeb, a long-range autonomous drone for last-mile delivery of food or medical supplies.
MilanCora Intelligence
What started at 42 Berlin as a fix for cold outreach is now Cora Intelligence, a company building AI voice agents.
LukasVAARHAFT
Lukas met VAARHAFT at a pitch on the 42 Berlin campus. A year later he joined full-time, working on image fraud and deepfake detection.
AlexBayer
Alex worked in biotech and consulting. Now he is a forward deployed engineer at Bayer, building AI tools inside the teams that use them.
Faris, Manoa, Jonas and six othersAgent Hackathon, 42 Berlin and Needle
Build a coding agent by day, then leave it alone with a sealed spec from 8pm to 11am. No paid tokens. Some agents held together. These won.
Emil and FelixAI for Future Workforce Hackathon, Wolfsburg
Emil and Felix took on skill matching and internal talent mobility for Akkodis, and built a working answer to it in a single day.
Helen, Pedro, Claudia, Kristin and TanmayAI for Future Workforce Hackathon, Wolfsburg
55 hackers, 11 teams, 24 hours. Road One took first place in Volkswagen's challenge on the months between signing a contract and day one.
ShenyaData and Research Center, Berlin
Shenya worked in wildlife conservation in Sri Lanka. Now she builds the datasets investigative journalists dig through, at DARC in Berlin.
AlenaUnityWerk, SIBB incubator
Alena taught, studied computer science while raising her children, then came to 42 Berlin. Now she runs UnityWerk, for women returning to work.
Maryna, Samuel, Sergej, Shehani and ShuxinBattle of the Tech Schools 2026
One listing, hundreds of applications. Five students built BesichtiGO, which reads a landlord's inbox and ranks every applicant in one dashboard.
Casie and PhilipCOCO, Conversation Copilot
Casie kept losing French conversations to one missing word. With Philip she built COCO, an AI that hands you the next word as you speak.