The Autism Impact Fund (AIF), whose mission is to revolutionize the status quo for diagnosing, treating and living with autism through a venture capital model, has led a new investment round in auticon, a technology consulting provider that is the global leader in employing autistic individuals. Since its founding in 2011, auticon now has operations […]
auticon, a social enterprise with offices in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, USA and Canada has won the International Impact award at the UK Social Enterprise Awards, held at the Guildhall in central London on the evening of 8 December. The national Awards, organised by Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) recognises excellence and outstanding […]
auticon is celebrating being one of the pioneering firms in neurodiversity employment and their journey over the past 10 years, from the organisations humble beginnings in Germany to becoming a global business headquartered in eight countries. The founder a software engineer and father to an autistic child Dirk Müller-Remus, realised that 85% of autistic people […]
Broadcaster, vocal and leadership coach and campaigner, Carrie Grant MBE, is hosting a brand new podcast to drive great conversations about autism. ‘Autism: In conversation with auticon’ is being launched by the social enterprise of the same name, to drive awareness of the realities of autism in the workplace, from the merits of hiring neurodiverse […]
Social enterprise businesses like auticon cannot get off the ground without amazing investors who believe in our mission and our people. One of those investors is Sir Richard Branson and The Virgin Group who first invested in auticon in October of 2016. Virgin repeatedly invests in companies like auticon because of their own values. Sir […]
auticonsult Canada is extremely proud to have been selected as the winner of this prestigious prize of the Prix À Part Entière, for the prize in the business category, awarded by the OPHQ (government of Quebec). This is the first year that the Prix À Part Entière has included the corporate category, so we are grateful to […]
auticon, a global IT consulting firm employing highly skilled adults on the autism spectrum, today announced it is expanding its Canadian operations into Toronto with client, Deloitte. An initial deployment of six to ten auticon consultants will work with Deloitte clients by providing technical skills that include quality assurance and testing, extract, transform, and load services (ETL), and […]
Alongside lead investor Ferst Capital Partners, this round of financing included participation from new investors based out of the US and France as well as significant commitments from existing shareholders. Ferst Capital Partners shares in auticon’s desire to employ 1,000 autistic adults – an ambitious global milestone that the company has set for itself. Addressing […]
auticon, a company that employs adults on the autism spectrum as technology consultants, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration with three of Ohio’s leading companies to make jobs available to the local autism community. auticon will provide full-time, permanent employment to 50 autistic consultants who will work on technology projects at leading […]
Richard Branson and Lisa Thomas attended the Australian launch and spoke about the importance of neurodiversity in boosting business performance, as well as the need for companies to adopt a more inclusive approach to their operations. “We’re in the business of changing business for good. Autistic adults often have wonderful cognitive abilities – such as […]