Frankfurt am Main/ Lugano, October 2, 2025
ACATIS Investment KVG, a pioneer in AI-supported portfolio management, today announced the complete acquisition of AI research company NNAISENSE, based in Lugano, Switzerland. This strategic move is the result of a successful partnership spanning more than ten years and consolidates ACATIS' technological leadership in the field of artificial intelligence.
Through this acquisition, ACATIS has secured exclusive access to, and development rights for, NNAISENSE's Large Investing Model (LIM), which is based on a new generation of generative AI technology developed by AI pioneer Alex Graves (formerly of DeepMind) and NNAISENSE. This technology is particularly promising for use in the financial sector.
The acquisition will enable both companies to fully exploit their synergies. NNAISENSE will continue its research and development as part of the ACATIS Group and focus on further developing the Large Investing Model (LIM) exclusively for ACATIS and its portfolio management. This new model is intended to complement the existing AI systems already successfully deployed at ACATIS and significantly expand the company's technological expertise.
NNAISENSE's headquarters and research facility will remain in Lugano to ensure continuity and maintain the innovative environment.
“The acquisition of NNAISENSE is a logical and transformative step for us,” says Dr. Hendrik Leber, founder and managing director of ACATIS. “After more than a decade of fruitful collaboration, we are now joining forces to ignite the next stage of AI-powered investing. With NNAISENSE's Large Investing Model in-house, we have a unique asset to continue delivering superior results for our investors in the future.”
“Becoming part of the ACATIS-Group opens up fantastic opportunities for us,” adds Faustino Gomez, CEO of NNAISENSE. “Our fundamental AI research can now be directly applied to portfolio management. We share ACATIS's vision and look forward to working together to push the boundaries of what AI can achieve in finance.”
About NNAISENSE
NNAISENSE was founded by some of the leading minds in the field of artificial intelligence (led by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber). Building on more than 20 years of pioneering scientific research, NNAISENSE has developed a groundbreaking generative AI framework for financial markets. This proprietary Large Investing Model (LIM) enables the prediction of coherent market scenarios across multiple asset classes, data sources and modalities, including macroeconomic, fundamental and alternative data. NNAISENSE plans to implement this proprietary technology in a market-neutral global equity fund in the near future, leveraging the unparalleled predictive power of LIM to identify profitable opportunities across a range of market conditions.
About ACATIS Investment Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft
ACATIS Investment Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1994. The company's core expertise is value investing according to Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett, which ACATIS has developed further in recent years under the heading "Buffett 2.0". Today, ACATIS manages several investment funds, including equity, mixed and bond funds as well as mandates. Several funds have a sustainable focus and pursue sustainable criteria in accordance with Article 8 or 9 of the EU Disclosure Regulation. In 2022, ACATIS was recognised as the most sustainable investment boutique for the second time in a row by the magazine €uro (based on data from Mountain View). The flagship fund ACATIS Aktien Global Fonds was launched back in 1997. ACATIS has also been working with artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in portfolio management for several years. The first practical application of AI at ACATIS took place in 2016. The managing directors of ACATIS are Dr. Hendrik Leber (Portfolio Management, awarded Fund Manager of the Year 2017), Dr. Claudia Giani-Leber (Marketing and PR) and Thomas Bosch (Risk Management, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit and Administration). The company manages assets of around 10.0 billion euros (30 June 2025).