Stefan Eipeltauer

CEO & Founder ARkid Studio | High-end 3D & AR Product Visualisations

Bad Vöslau, Lower Austria, Austria

About

I started my first digital media business in 2006. Back then, "digital" in the parenting space meant a basic website and maybe a forum. A lot has changed. Today I lead three businesses at the edge of where the children's products industry is going: ARkid turns physical products into photorealistic 3D assets, AR experiences, and AI-generated visuals — for brands like Maxi-Cosi, Britax, BeSafe, Hauck, and Venicci, and 100+ others across 18+ countries. We started with a simple idea in 2017: what if parents could see a stroller in their living room before buying it? That idea became an industry standard. The Kids Industry is our answer to a problem every brand and retailer in this space shares: product data and content that's fragmented, inconsistent, and slow. We're building the platform that fixes that. FOKUS KIND Medien is Austria's largest parenting publisher — 400,000+ monthly readers, long-running communities in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, and two decades of trust in the DACH family market. My background spans fine and digital arts, pro audio and experimental music, entrepreneurship, digital publishing, UX/product development, SEO, e-commerce, and immersive technology. But the thread running through all of it is the same: finding where an industry is stuck, and building the thing that unsticks it.

Experience

  • CEO & Founder at THE KIDS INDUSTRY
    Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • CEO & Founder at ARkid
    Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

    We help brands to showcase their products like never before and engage audiences with interactive 3D and augmented reality.

  • Founder at FOKUS KIND Medien
    Jun 2006 - Present · 20 yrs 1 mo

    FOKUS KIND Medien provides parenting media outlets as well as consulting and marketing services in the german speaking countries. With multiple online portals, worldwide apps & communities, as well as digital magazines, conferences and events, FOKUS KIND Medien is among the strongest publishing houses for parenting and woman’s health related topics in Europe.

  • Co-Founder & CMO at APPlyzer
    Nov 2015 - May 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    APPlyzer is a leading market analytics platform for people in the app industry. Since 2009 our services provide real time app market intelligence data for app professionals.

  • Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
    Oct 2006 - Oct 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo