Osman Dumbuya

Overview

Osman Dumbuya is a software entrepreneur based in Berlin, known as the founder and chief executive of Incari, a company that builds a development platform for human-machine interfaces, or HMI. Incari's own company page describes him as founder and CEO and notes that he previously founded PI-VR in 2008, a real-time visualisation company that was acquired by Autodesk. Incari itself traces back to May 2011, when the business was founded as CGI Studio GmbH; it was rebranded as Incari GmbH in May 2021. In a Startuprad.io founder interview, Dumbuya described his path from film visualisation to industrial visualisation at a Munich company before starting the venture, and said he studied computer science in Berlin.

Why this entity matters

Dumbuya matters to the DACH ecosystem as the face of a deep-software company that serves the automotive industry, one of the region's core sectors, with tooling rather than hardware. The in-vehicle interface is becoming a competitive differentiator for carmakers, and design-to-code tooling that lets designers and engineers work on the same interface can shorten development cycles. In the Startuprad.io interview Dumbuya said the platform could cut interface production time from almost four years to about eighteen months; that is the founder's own claim and has not been independently verified. His stated ambition, reported in trade press, is to help establish a European operating-system alternative within roughly five years, which is a vision statement and not an established fact.

Career, company, or institutional background

Incari's Series A was announced on 11 June 2021: a EUR 15 million round led by Lukasz Gadowski's investment company, according to the startbase report. A second trade-press report names the lead as Team Global rather than Team Europe, so the exact investor vehicle is flagged here as differing between sources. The startbase report adds that the platform was developed in partnership with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations, and that the software then served the automotive sector while targeting healthcare, construction and aerospace.

The company page lists the wider leadership team as Nils Remus (Chief Operations Officer), Abdallah Huballah (Chief Technology Officer) and Alexander Grasse (Chief Product Officer), additional offices in France, Poland and South Africa, and public-programme logos including the German federal economics ministry and the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs. Those logos are reported as listed on the page, not as an endorsement by Startuprad.io. This record does not describe any role for Dumbuya outside Incari beyond the earlier PI-VR venture.

Role in the ecosystem

Dumbuya represents the founder archetype of a visualisation specialist who moved from entertainment and industrial graphics into automotive software. Incari Studio competes in the market for HMI and cockpit design tooling, where carmakers and suppliers choose between building interface stacks in-house, buying established embedded-graphics tools, or adopting newer design-led platforms. Berlin gives the company access to a deep tech and design talent pool, while its customers sit in the German automotive supply chain. The company's expansion into aerospace, healthcare and construction, as stated by Dumbuya in the interview, would extend the same interface-tooling idea beyond cars.

Selected relationships and affiliations

Company: Incari GmbH, Berlin, of which Dumbuya is founder and CEO. Predecessor: CGI Studio GmbH, the earlier name of the company. Earlier venture: PI-VR, founded 2008 and acquired by Autodesk, per Incari's company page. Investor relationship: the 2021 Series A led by Lukasz Gadowski's investment company, attributed to Team Europe in one source and Team Global in another. Development partners named in trade press: the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations. Executive colleagues: Nils Remus, Abdallah Huballah and Alexander Grasse.

Startuprad.io relevance

Startuprad.io interviewed Osman Dumbuya as a founder guest about Incari and its ambition to become an operating system for the cars of the future. The interview exists as an original episode post from October 2021 and as a longer founder-interview post that was migrated from the former Medium publication to the Startuprad.io blog. Both are listed below.

Public source context

Sources reviewed for this record include Incari's company page https://www.incari.com/company/ , a startbase report on the 2021 funding round https://www.startbase.com/news/incari-sammelt-15-millionen-euro-ein/ , a StartupValley feature on Incari, the Startuprad.io interview posts, and a public Crunchbase person listing. The founder's quotes on production-time reduction and on a European operating system are his own statements and are not independently verified. Private-life and biographical details beyond professional background were deliberately left out of this record.

Startuprad.io coverage
Incari wants to be the OS for the cars of the future
Published: 06 October 2021
Last updated: 21 September 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/incari-wants-to-be-the-os-for-the-cars-of-the-future

Incari wants to be the OS for the cars of the future — Founder Interview
Published: 15 March 2026
Last updated: 21 September 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/incari-wants-to-be-the-os-for-the-cars-of-the-future-founder-interview

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