- Joined
- Jan 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- opusCo-Founder & CPTO
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Sources1linkedin.com
Details
LocationUnited Kingdom
UniversityTechnical University of Munich
Palantir Foundry
Notes
- Posted on LinkedIn (verbatim): "Next Tuesday Cognition is co-hosting a Founder Showcase in London together with Lightspeed and five degrees." The Oct 13 event at Lightspeed London offered "access to roles that aren't public yet".Oct 6, 2026Next Tuesday Cognition is co-hosting a Founder Showcase in London together with Lightspeed and five degrees. 50 handpicked engineers and operators, some of the UK's fastest-growing startups demoing what they're building, and open conversations after, including access to roles that aren't public yet. If you're thinking about your next move, come say hi. Oct 13, 7pm, Lightspeed London. DM me if you want to join. Thanks to Olivia Hupfeld, zoran kokolanski, Ivana Dominkovic and Alexander Schmitt for putting it together.
- Co-founded Stitch Technologies (YC W24) with Raj Dosanjh, his former Palantir colleague. Raj announced it on LinkedIn: "So alongside my friend Till Kern we've decided to co-found Stitch!"Nov 28, 2023
- Current role is Special Projects at Cognition.
- Christian W. (Cognition VP, Central Europe) named Till Kern, Bryce Hunt and Yannis Psorakis as the people hiring "the best FDEs on the market" for Cognition.Sep 2026
- Hackathon judge bio for the Generative UI/A2A Hackathon (Google, CopilotKit, A2A Net): "Special Projects Engineer at Cognition and previously founded an AI Startup with funding from Y Combinator and General Catalyst after spending several years at Palantir as a product lead." This is the only source that names General Catalyst as a backer of his startup.2026
- During YC W24 Stitch pivoted after a month in San Francisco. Kern wrote: "recently had to face a hard truth: people didn't want what we built." They rebuilt from scratch and "received more inbound in 4 days than over the last 5 months."Feb 22, 2024It’s been a month since we came to San Francisco and recently had to face a hard truth: people didn’t want what we built. So 10 days ago we decided to restart from scratch. This time, we set out to do what we were told over and over again, we wanted to 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 (this hits very different now, trust me). We called up everyone we talked to over the last 5 months, this time to hear about their problems. After a few days we found a new idea, built a working prototype, a new landing page, and received more inbound in 4 days than over the last 5 months. Crazy to see how one of our lowest points catapulted us to new heights! #ycombinator #startup #pivot
- Y Combinator lists Till Kern as a W24 founder of Stitch Technologies ("Builder, part-time ski instructor, Co-founder & CEO of Stitch").Jan 2024
- After Stitch, he was Co-Founder & CPTO of opus (2024-2025), a Berlin company building AI agents that automate Purchase-to-Pay procurement workflows. Its listed founders include Niklas Tauch, Benedict Hofmann, Ozum P., Jan Stawowiak and Shane Soh. Moving from frontend tooling to agentic enterprise automation is the bridge to deploying Devin at Cognition.2024
- Named inventor with Joshua Chomicki, Rajdeep Singh Dosanjh, Stephanie Yu and Walker Burgin on Palantir patent US 12737427, 'Multi-section support in graphical application builder' (filed 2023-09-29, granted 2026-09-15).Sep 15, 2026
- He joined Cognition in 2026, after Cognition's July 2025 acquisition of Windsurf. Public sources reviewed tie his work to Devin go-to-market and deployment (Central Europe lead, FDE hiring, London founder events), not to Windsurf itself. He did not come to Cognition through an acquired company.2026
- Stitch's original product turned any React library into drag-and-drop widgets for frontend development. It was London-based, had a 2-person team and spent 4 months in stealth.Jan 11, 2024
- Public headline says "Building Central Europe @ Cognition AI".
Experience
Special Projects Engineer / Central Europe Lead at Cognition
Jan 2026 - Present
London Area, United Kingdom
Co-Founder & CPTO at opus
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
Product Manager at Palantir Technologies
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Intern | Data Analyst at Amazon
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Student Researcher | SAP UCC at Technische Universität München
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Intern | Technology Strategist at Microsoft
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Student Consultant at Academy Consult München e.V.
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Academic Tutor at Technische Universität München
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Education
Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
Honors Degree, Technology Management
Technical University of Munich
Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik
Projects
Stitch Technologies: turn React libraries into drag-and-drop widgets (YC W24, pivoted)
opus: AI agents for procurement / Purchase-to-Pay
Cognition x Lightspeed x five degrees London Founder Showcase (Oct 2026)
AcceleratorsY Combinator W24 (Stitch Technologies)
Recent posts
October 2026
Next Tuesday Cognition is co-hosting a Founder Showcase in London together with Lightspeed and five degrees. 50 handpicked engineers and operators, some of the UK's fastest-growing startups demoing what they're building, and open conversations after, including access to roles that aren't public yet. If you're thinking about your next move, come say hi. Oct 13, 7pm, Lightspeed London. DM me if you want to join. Thanks to Olivia Hupfeld, zoran kokolanski, Ivana Dominkovic and Alexander Schmitt for putting it together.
February 2024
It’s been a month since we came to San Francisco and recently had to face a hard truth: people didn’t want what we built. So 10 days ago we decided to restart from scratch. This time, we set out to do what we were told over and over again, we wanted to 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 (this hits very different now, trust me). We called up everyone we talked to over the last 5 months, this time to hear about their problems. After a few days we found a new idea, built a working prototype, a new landing page, and received more inbound in 4 days than over the last 5 months. Crazy to see how one of our lowest points catapulted us to new heights! #ycombinator #startup #pivot
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