Entrepreneur · Advisor · Angel Investor
For most of my life, knowing things was the edge. It isn't anymore. What stays scarce is trust, judgment, and the people who can connect worlds that don't otherwise meet.
Founder, UNID Solutions · Co-Founder & CEO, ADLAS · Group Board Member, Huemer Group
I work between Europe, the Middle East and Asia — with owners and engineers, and in markets where culture decides as much as demand.
Why I work the way I do.
Intelligence just got cheap. Trust, judgment, and the bridges between worlds didn't come down with it.
For little money a month you can now get hold of knowledge companies used to poach specialists from the best universities for. Anyone who could never get near it is suddenly in the game, and I think that is good news. But what everyone has gives no one an edge. That belongs to whoever builds it deeper into a real operation than anyone else — and who brings what no machine delivers: judgment before the situation is clear. A feel for the people you are dealing with. An understanding of how things work in worlds that otherwise never meet. None of that comes on a subscription.
I grew up between worlds — Iranian roots, a European home — and learned early to read people across the lines that usually divide them. That instinct became the work: building transnational teams, companies and investments across DACH, MENA and Asia — in the places where others find the distance too great.
The full argument: When Intelligence Is Free →
Vienna · Between worlds
Three ways to work with me.
A sparring partner to owners, boards and management. First we work out where your company's real value lies and what knowledge holds it up. Then what threatens it over the next few years, and what opens up along the way. We build on that with the right technology, so decades of work are still worth something ten years from now.
From first idea to operating company — and across borders. Developing products, finding suppliers and manufacturing in MENA and Asia, building cross-functional, transnational teams, entering a market you don't know yet.
Early and hands-on. I back teams nobody has on their radar yet, and bring people who work alongside them from day one.
Where I write down my thinking at length.
Essay
On what still has value once raw knowledge costs nothing.
Where I think the real value is moving now that knowledge is free — written from the companies I actually run between Vienna and the Gulf, the jewellery brand I started because of what AI is doing to everything else, and what I've learned about which bridges hold and which get commoditised.
Companies I founded or help lead.
Founder & Managing Director
Operational growth partner — tech, sourcing and management across DACH, MENA and Asia.
Co-Founder & CEO
Production-AI lab. AI and software systems that run in production — for industry, public administration and education.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
A modern fine-jewellery brand. Handcrafted, with a contemporary design.
Prokurist & Group Board Member
Austrian IT group — data centres, digitalisation and software development.
Published internationally, mostly peer-reviewed.
A. Martin · M. Allagha · Y. Misnikov
In Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering · Springer, Cham · 2021
M. Allagha · O. Kruschitz · K. Voss · S. Binder · K. Truckenthanner
Fourth Place Best Paper Award — ISSIP HSSE Conference 2022
In The Human Side of Service Engineering · AHFE Open Access · 2022
C. Leitner · M. Allagha · J. Krenjova · K. Reinsalu · C. Stiefmüller
In Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering · Springer, Cham · 2020
Founder · NGO, Vienna · Since 2017
Politikos is a non-partisan platform that makes democracy accessible — political content in language everyone understands, and a real voice for citizens, especially young people, who have the biggest stake in what comes next. Its work spans democracy education, direct democratic participation, and transparency in politics.
Started as an idea in 2015 and founded in 2017, with a startup mindset: to close the distance between people and politics and make participation approachable. It meets young Europeans (16–29) where they already are — plain-language explainers, moderated forums in Vienna and online across Europe, and an AI assistant that answers everyday questions about democracy, elections and the EU.
What you can expect when we work together.
You don't find out whether someone can be trusted when the deal closes. You find out when things stop going to plan.
What decides outcomes is whether someone makes the call without knowing everything, follows through when it stops being convenient, and gets the right people into one room. That holds long before a deal and long after it closes.
I've been building since 2015 — early, often before there were rules for what I was making. A few principles hold throughout: I say what I see, even when it isn't the answer people hoped for. I stay with the people I work with, especially when things get hard. I think in years, not quarters. And I'd rather say no early than back out late.
A market you don't know yet. A technology you don't have in-house. People who work differently from your team. If your next move leads there, get in touch.
What people usually come to me for: advisory for owners and boards, building a company across DACH, MENA and Asia, or co-investing at pre-seed and seed.
Both reach me directly.
