Did ex-Chevalier CTO steal code from legal tech?

According to a media report, this allegation is now being investigated by the Tiergarten district court in Berlin. One of the founders of Hopkins is said to have taken the code from Chevalier.

According to research by Gründerszene the founder Markus Petrykowski of Hopkins stole a code from his former employer Chevalier and used it to set up his new start-up. A corresponding lawsuit, which has not yet been admitted for trial, has been filed with the Tiergarten district court in Berlin.

Both companies focus on claiming compensation payments in the area of employment law and automating these processes. Chevalier spun out of the start-up Flightright, which focuses on the same process only for air travel.

Petrykowski left Chevalier together with Simon Wolff in August 2019. Together they founded the legal tech start-up Hopkins. This is where Petrykowski is said to have taken the code. The charges have only been brought against him; he left Hopkins in March of this year. Petrykowski did not respond to inquiries from Gründerszene; his former colleague Wolff writes to Gründerszene that he only knows of a professional reorientation that led to Petrykowski's departure. There are no charges against his company.