Nikaxu was founded by six people who had spent their careers building AI and digital systems for large organizations in asset-intensive industries: at Nokia, Finning, MDA, and Silo AI, Europe's largest private AI lab at the time, with over 400 AI scientists. What they kept seeing was the same pattern: vendors sell a product, and the client reorganizes around it. They started Nikaxu to flip that: systems shaped by how the client's operation actually runs.

 

When AMD acquired Silo AI in 2024 and brought the team in-house to build AI solutions for AMD's own hardware and software stack, the team chose to continue its original client-focused, operationally-grounded work independently. Nikaxu was incorporated in October 2024. Within four months, the company had secured its first engagements, including a multi-year collaboration with Elomatic that became AURA APM: a commercially deployed platform giving shipowners and operators unified control over maintenance, dry dock management, and fleet performance.

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We build for your specific operation: no platform in between, no generic product adapted to fit. You own what we build: the code, the models, and the knowledge of how it works, with no vendor lock-in and no licensing dependency. Our definition of done is production: a system running in your operation.

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That's still what Nikaxu is built around: long-term partnerships with clients, and staying close enough to the work to see the systems it delivers keep solving the problems they were built for, year after year. The team takes real pride in watching a system run in a live operation, doing exactly the job it was built for.

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