Company type | Limited Company |
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Industry | Professional Services |
Founded | 2011 |
Headquarters | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Italy |
Key people | Kurt Schoffer (Group CEO) |
Services | Quality Assurance Consulting Software Testing Data Analysis Software Development |
Number of employees | 370, including 270 with an autism spectrum diagnosis (December 2022) |
Website | auticon |
Auticon (stylized "auticon") is an international information technology consulting firm that exclusively employs adults on the autism spectrum as Information technology (IT) consultants. Auticon identifies as a social enterprise. Services mainly focus on IT quality management, including transformation, migration, data analytics, data analysis, security and deep web analysis, as well as compliance and reporting.[1]
Auticon is based in Berlin[2] and currently employs more than 200 members of staff, around 150 of whom are on the autism spectrum.[3] Auticon has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, and Italy.[3]
Dirk Müller-Remus, who has a son on the autism spectrum, launched Auticon in 2011 with an investment of the Munich-based Ananda Social Venture Fund.[4] The launch was inspired by the Belgian company Passwerk.[5] Auticon's concept to employ people on the autism spectrum as ICT consultants has since been acknowledged internationally.[6][7][8][9] The Auticon model was presented at the G8 Social Impact Investment Forum, held in London on 6 June 2013, in front of 150 leaders in social impact investment.[10]
In 2018, Auticon acquired MindSpark,[11] a company in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2013 by Gray Benoist, whose two sons are also on the autism spectrum.[12]