Anuxis did not arise from a business plan nor from a market study. It arose from a hospital call, weeks of uncertainty, and a question that wouldn’t let me sleep.
A few years ago my father suffered a severe meningitis. He was in a coma for days. When they finally woke him, he spent weeks with a clouded head, unable to manage anything. It took months to recover fully.
One night, in the midst of that process, I woke up startled with a thought: if something like that happened to me, I’d be a huge trouble for my partners. There’s information I manage that is better kept under my own control. Passwords, access, contracts, instructions. Things that don’t make sense to share in day-to-day life, but that are essential in an emergency.
As a developer, the first thing I did was build the tool myself. Something simple, functional, for my own use. But the more I used it, the clearer it became that the problem wasn’t just mine. Anyone with responsibilities, with a family, with a minimally complex digital life, sooner or later faces the same question. So what began as a personal project scaled to become Anuxis: a SaaS so everyone can have their own safety net.
You don’t have to die for the information you manage to be urgently needed by others. An accident, a hospitalization, a trip that gets complicated. That was Anuxis: the answer to a question that no one has solved.
“In the US it’s very common to have an emergency binder at home: a folder with banks, insurances, alarms, instructions for the family. Anuxis is that, but digital, secure and prepared for the world we live in.”
— David Merinas, founder of Anuxis
There are tools designed for after death. Anuxis is designed for when you’re still alive but cannot act.
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Anuxis
CEO of Anuxis · Córdoba, Spain
Degree in Physical Sciences and a self-taught developer since the mid-90s. His career began with an Amstrad CPC 6128 at the age of 9 and never stopped. He has founded and co-founded companies in diverse sectors such as web design, e-commerce, artisanal ceramics, and artificial intelligence: Deidos Studio, 7pa7, Cerámica Rambleña, Unipimus and Agentes de IA, among others.
Currently he is the CTO of Trikomer (True Reviews), a startup that certifies the authenticity of digital reviews using AI, and he leads Surfer Koala, a think-tank from which Anuxis has been gestated.
In the tech community he has organized events such as Betabeers Córdoba, Startup Weekend and Google Developer Groups, has spoken at TEDx (“The Internet of People”, 2016) and at Google DevFest, and serves as a mentor in Andalucía Emprende programs and EOI. He has several open-source WordPress plugins published with hundreds of active installations and, in 2017, participated in a project that, among other things, sent a botijo to space.
In 2024 he published Emails to Lucilius: Stoicism in the AI era, a practical guide to integrating classical stoic philosophy into the modern digital routine.
May the information you alone manage never be a problem for those who depend on it when they need you most.