# Ilhan Scheer > Ilhan Scheer is chief Executive Officer at Aleph Alpha. Kolibri-1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ilhan-scheer/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ilhan-scheer/index.md (~1,300 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ilhan-scheer/index.min.md (~980 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ilhan-scheer/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-28 Chief Executive Officer, Aleph Alpha. Ilhan Scheer is chief executive and sole managing director of Aleph Alpha. He joined as chief growth officer in 2025 and became co-CEO in February 2026, and he is to become Cohere's chief operating officer when its combination with Aleph Alpha closes. He earlier founded fable+, a data analytics company Accenture acquired, and co-wrote Decision Intelligence. ## What Ilhan builds - [Kolibri-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kolibri-1.md), graded C, 61/100, in Open-weight models. Kolibri-1 is Aleph Alpha's open-weight mixture-of-experts reasoning model for German and English, 78B parameters with 3.46B active per token, published on Hugging Face in FP8 and BF16 under Apache 2.0 and served with vLLM. Chief Executive Officer, Aleph Alpha, researched 2026-10-28. ## Works with - [Jonas Andrulis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonas-andrulis/), Founder, Aleph Alpha, stepped down as CEO in October 2025 - [Samuel Weinbach](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/samuel-weinbach/), Co-founder and Co-Chief Research Officer, Aleph Alpha - [Yasser Jadidi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yasser-jadidi/), Co-Chief Research Officer, Aleph Alpha ## Backed by - [Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/innovation-park-artificial-intelligence-ipai/) - [Bosch Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bosch-ventures/) - [Schwarz Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/) - [Christ&Company Consulting](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christ-company-consulting/) - [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hewlett-packard-enterprise/) - [SAP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sap/) - [Burda Principal Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/burda-principal-investments/) - [Lakestar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lakestar/) - [Earlybird](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/earlybird/) - [UVC Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/uvc-partners/) - [Cavalry Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cavalry-ventures/) - [LEA Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lea-partners/) - [468 Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/468-capital/) ## Questions ### Who is Ilhan Scheer? Ilhan Scheer is chief executive and sole managing director of Aleph Alpha. He joined as chief growth officer in 2025 and became co-CEO in February 2026, and he is to become Cohere's chief operating officer when its combination with Aleph Alpha closes. He earlier founded fable+, a data analytics company Accenture acquired, and co-wrote Decision Intelligence. ### What does Aleph Alpha make? Anchor Terminal lists Kolibri-1 from Aleph Alpha. Kolibri-1 is Aleph Alpha's open-weight mixture-of-experts reasoning model for German and English, 78B parameters with 3.46B active per token, published on Hugging Face in FP8 and BF16 under Apache 2.0 and served with vLLM. ### Who has invested in Aleph Alpha? The sources our research read name Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai), Bosch Ventures, Schwarz Group, Christ&Company Consulting, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SAP, Burda Principal Investments, Lakestar, Earlybird, UVC Partners, Cavalry Ventures, LEA Partners and 468 Capital. ### How are Ilhan's tools graded? Kolibri-1 is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 - https://aleph-alpha.com/ - https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/kolibri-sovereign-ai-made-in-germany/ - https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/cohere-agreement-transatlantic-sovereign-ai/ - https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/cohere-aleph-alpha-global-ai-powerhouse/ - https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/leadership-team-expanded/ - https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/half-billion-dollar-investment-round/ - https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/reto-spoerri-leaves-ilhan-scheer-ceo/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_Alpha These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). 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