As an autistic-majority company, we’re a resource for talent. We integrate our IT specialists into customer organizations and projects, where they work in software testing, Business Intelligence and Robotic Process automation. Clients experience our outstanding autistic professionals first-hand, opening minds and achieving diversity goals.
Our model improves the economic and social conditions of the autistic community with quality careers, unlocking opportunity, and empowering client organisations through actionable neurodiversity training and advisory services. Here, our employees build lifelong careers in technology, discovering personal autonomy and improved self-esteem.
Through auticon Labs, we utilize an entrepreneurial mindset to develop commercial technology solutions to social and environmental challenges faced by autistic professionals, helping them to succeed in the workplace.
We believe affecting change in one life is the starting point for changing society. We therefore measure our social performance through the difference auticon makes to the lives of our autistic colleagues, the impact on our customer organisations, and the role we play in creating awareness of neurodiversity in society.
Between 15-20% of the global population are neurodivergent. 2% are estimated to be autistic. Despite many autistic people being talented, qualified and keen to work, only 29% of autistic people are in full time work. Within the autistic workforce, a vast majority are under-employed, working in jobs that they are over-qualified or over-skilled for.
To build a more inclusive world.
Address the inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults and showcase the strengths of neurodiversity in society.
Our values pervade our daily operations and our relationships internally and to the outside world. They act as rules of conduct and characterise how we do business.
Ruud has been CEO of auticon Netherlands since October 2023. After studying economics, he started his career at Shell, after which he worked for an extended period as manager, director and board member at (medium-)large companies in the financial services industry. The last 10 years, he was COO and CEO of a successful tech scale-up in the circular economy. Ruud has a huge drive to realise sustainable impact and, under the motto ‘no talent to waste’, he is committed to the intersection of purpose, innovation and entrepreneurship at auticon. He is a passionate sportsman and also makes a strong case for social causes in his spare time, including as a member of a Rotterdam Lions club.
Hein is Director of Operations and has worked for auticon for over 10 years. Primarily focused on the company as a social enterprise, the challenge is to shape it into a solid profitable business. With a team of highly intrinsically motivated people, we manage to strike the right balance.
Martijn is a no-nonsense Delivery Manager and has worked at auticon since 2012. ‘Do what you say and say what you do’ is his attitude to life. Martijn always tries to create a healthy balance between commercial growth and taking care of our employees’ needs.
Vincent is Sales Manager at auticon. He has a passion for social entrepreneurship and has gained experience in various commercial roles in his career. These two worlds come together nicely at auticon. Together with the CEO, Vincent is responsible for commercial progress and the sales team.
Investors include Ferd, Autism Impact Fund, Ananda Impact Ventures, KOIS, Felix Porsche, Sir Richard Branson, Ferst Capital Partners, and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
auticon was founded in Berlin in 2011 by a father wanting better employment opportunities for his autistic son. Autistic professionals were employed as quality assurance consultants, debugging Websites and applications. As Managing Director of a small investment firm, Kurt Schöffer was approached by Ananda Social Venture Fund, who invited him to partner in creating Germany’s first social impact fund. The fund’s first investment was in auticon, where Kurt served as an advisor on the fund’s behalf. For Kurt, this was an opportunity to apply his business acumen to solve the social issue of rising unemployment among autistic adults, who often possess STEM skills applicable in a range of technology careers. After three months as an advisor, Kurt accepted a role as auticon’s Group CEO, later developing its 6 German office locations and expanding into Paris and London. The company added major clients such as BMW and Allianz, and new technology consulting services.
In 2016, Sir Richard Branson’s investment brought international attention to the company as it expanded into Italy and Switzerland. In 2018 auticon acquired two North American autism employers: MindSpark in Los Angeles and Meticulon in Calgary, later adding clients such as Salesforce and Deloitte and surpassing 200+ autistic employees globally. In 2019, auticon opened in Australia with one of the island’s largest employers.
In 2023, auticon and Unicus entered an agreement under which the two companies would unite. The historic deal established a global model for an autistic-majority social enterprise and ESG company, addressing the inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults. The two combined companies became the largest autistic-majority company in the world, with 81% of its 600 employees on the autism spectrum across 15 countries.
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