14.10.2025 | News AI software made in Germany: IntraFind turns 25
On 20 October 2025, IntraFind Software AG will celebrate its 25th anniversary and look back on a successful corporate history. Founded as a two-man start-up by Franz Kögl and Bernhard Messer on the Software Campus in Munich – both are still owners and sole directors – the company has long been established as a manufacturer of enterprise search software and AI-based applications. Today, it employs over 70 people, has a subsidiary in the United States and partners and customers worldwide, including well-known industrial groups and federal authorities.
IntraFind's software solutions enable companies and public authorities to efficiently search, find and analyze structured and unstructured information in all available internal and external data sources. IntraFind has been using AI processes for this purpose since 2005, long before the hype began. As a result, the benefits of the software go far beyond traditional company-wide searches. It can intelligently link information from different data sources and reveal connections between them – even across billions of documents. This enables users to gain a thorough understanding of entire situations, make better decisions and identify hidden risks.
The software's features now naturally include generative AI and large language models. This not only improves the search quality of its software but also provides helpful GenAI tools. One of these enables secure chat with the organization’s own data. It allows responses and summaries to be generated from company data, considering all user access and read rights. Another GenAI tool from IntraFind enables companies to implement common use cases of generative AI, as known from internet chatbots such as ChatGPT or Perplexity AI, within their own IT infrastructure – in compliance with all security and compliance guidelines, with ready-made micro-apps and without costly in-house developments.
The Software Campus Munich, where IntraFind started 25 years ago, was run by Software Offensive Bayern, an initiative of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs at the time. The aim of the campus was to turn creative ideas into sustainable software companies with long-term growth prospects. To this end, it offered young founders not only space, but also coaching by experienced high-tech managers.
‘25 years of IntraFind – that fills me with great gratitude and pride. What began as an idea in 1999 has become a successful, internationally recognized company thanks to a fantastic team and loyal customers,’ says IntraFind CEO Franz Kögl. "Developments in generative AI in particular have given our business a whole new dynamic and opened up exciting new opportunities. For me, this anniversary therefore marks not only a successful past, but above all the dawn of an exciting future."
Read our blog post on the development of IntraFind technology: 25 years of IntraFind: Where Enterprise Search meets Generative AI
