Who is behind Agora Cosmica?

ChipMates started as a GmbH in 2023. In 2025 it was granted gemeinnützige status, the German term for a registered charity. It sits in the commercial register at Amtsgericht Freiburg under HRB 728848. The purpose on record is the advancement of education.

Nonprofit means we answer to that purpose and not to investors. No one shares in the profits. What counts is the work. Agora Cosmica is open to anyone, anywhere, and the code is open source under AGPL-3.0.

We also run Museum of Ages, a digital museum. It rebuilds places from history in 3D, starting with Leonardo da Vinci's last house in Amboise.

The ideas that help people most are often the hardest to reach. They sit in books nobody hands you, in courses that cost money, in sentences written for other scholars. We think that is the wrong way round. So we took 30 people from philosophy, science, faith, art, and activism, and put their lives and their thinking into short stories.

We count it a success the day you outgrow us. From our short stories to the real books. From curiosity to study of your own. That is the whole point.

30 remarkable people from history, each life told in the first person in a set of short stories. From Marcus Aurelius to Frida Kahlo, from Rumi to Virginia Woolf. The stories draw on what these people wrote, on their documented lives, and on the ideas they spent their lives developing.

From ancient philosophers to modern artists, from Eastern sages to Western scientists. Each with their own story, told in the first person and checked against the sources.