Axel Schmiegelow builds the infrastructure of agentic commerce. He co-founded Agentic Systems AG, a leading provider of vertical agentic AI for retail, travel, logistics and financial services, and earlier the enterprise-AI pioneer Hivemind Technologies. A digital transformation pioneer since the 2000s, he founded denkwerk, sevenload and itravel and built e-commerce and digital platforms for Metro, BMW, Thomas Cook and TUI. He studied AI and machine learning at Caltech and MIT.