Heizma

Heizma is building Austria’s leading full-service energy company - making homes climate-neutral through electrification. 🇦🇹⚡💚

We started with heat pumps in early 2024, and within 9 months, bootstrapped to over €10M in sales and 500+ installations. What began with one product has quickly evolved into a complete solution:
Heat pump, solar, battery, wallbox, AC, energy manager, and an energy community model - everything it takes to help households access the cleanest and most affordable energy available.

From our own installation teams to software and system intelligence (via our spin-off Optima), we’re building the infrastructure for a future without fossil fuels - one home at a time.

We're always looking for talented people who want to build something meaningful. Let’s electrify this country. 🔋🇦🇹

👉 https://heizma.at 👈

Co-Founder

Optima

Optima is building the intelligent layer for energy systems — controlling electricity and heat in real-time with AI.

Born out of Heizma’s acquisition of meo Energy, Optima develops AI-powered energy management solutions that optimize energy flows across heat pumps, solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, and the grid — from private homes and corporate buildings to energy communities and, ultimately, the grid itself.

👉 https://optimapower.ai 👈

Partner

morgen ventures

morgen ventures, together with its network of unicorn founders, professional investors and family offices, invests between €100k and €300k in outlier founders and their startups.

The company was founded with my good friend Michael Kowatschew and is our private investment vehicle.

While we are mainly passive investors (after all, we are founders first, investors second), we help our portfolio companies by introducing them to relevant parties that can take their business to the next level. 

Active portfolio:
- Fastgen (https://fastgen.com)
- Beyond Areo (https://www.beyond-aero.com)
- Codesphere (https://codesphere.com)
- Margin (https://www.viewmargin.com)
- ContextSDK (https://contextsdk.com)
- Shopstory (https://www.shopstory.ai)

👉 https://morgen.ventures 👈

Co-Founder & Partner

Altify

Board Member

Altify is disrupting the traditional 60/40 stock/bond portfolio by making alternative assets a mass-market product - starting with crypto.

As Chief Strategy Officer, I advise the CEO on the strategic direction of the company and lead our M&A activities.

As of today, the following companies have joined Altify:
- Coinpanion (2023)
- Revix (2023)
- BitFund (2023)

Altify operates across the EMEA region with offices in the UK, South Africa, Austria and Poland.

👉 https://altify.app 👈

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Sigma Squared Society

Uniting and empowering the world’s most ambitious founders under 26.

👉 https://www.sigma-squared.org 👈

Fellow

FounderForge

FounderForge is a newsletter for founders, packed with actionable knowledge and a healthy dose of fun. 

The content is curated from a European perspective to provide insights that are particularly relevant to founders building in Europe.

The newsletter is a side hustle together with my good friends Valentin Perkonigg (Co-Founder Brickwise) and Florian Pircher (PM Coinpanion).

FounderForge is part of the "build in public" movement. Every month, we will share a full overview of our learnings, struggles and current numbers here on LinkedIn.

👉 https://founderforge.eu 👈

🔴 DISCONTINUED DUE TO MY FULL FOCUS ON HEIZMA 🔴

Author & Co-Founder

Various Startups

I occasionally invested in startups during my time at Coinpanion. I have discontinued my individual activity with the launch of morgen ventures.

Active portfolio:
- Creable (https://creable.com)
- Shopstory (https://shopstory.ai)
- MALOUM (https://maloum.com)
- Alts (https://alts.co)

Angel Investor

Coinpanion

Coinpanion simplifies crypto investing with ETF-like portfolios, offering individuals passive exposure to technologies of the future like DeFi, Metaverse, and Web3.

As CEO, I am responsible for spearheading the overall strategic direction, driving expansion initiatives, building high-performing teams, and ensuring sufficient capitalization to achieve our next milestones.

- Raised over €6 million in funding from professional investors such as Hans(wo)men Group, Calm/Storm, HTGF, and business angels from 468 Capital, Scalable Capital, Clark, Bitpanda, Finanzcheck, and many more
- Expanded operations from Austria 🇦🇹 to Germany (2022) 🇩🇪 and Poland (2023) 🇵🇱
- Scaled the company to a peak of 40 employees
- Implemented senior C-level and middle management to support a very young (but ambitious) founder team
- Successfully obtained a VASP provider license (= crypto license)

Today, Coinpanion supports over 25.000 customers on their crypto investment journey! 🚀

👉 Acquired by Altify in 2023! 👈

CEO & Co-Founder

I love turning ideas into companies - and I’m lucky to be surrounded by people who share the same passion. 

Right now, I’m fully focused on Heizma. What started as an idea in December 2023 turned into a company by March 2024. By the end of that year, we had reached €10M in sales and installed over 500 heat pumps. Bootstrapped.

Today, Heizma is Austria’s leading full-service electrification provider, offering heat pumps, solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, air conditioning, energy management, and an energy community to help our customers access the cleanest and most affordable energy possible.


I’ve been chasing ideas and turning them into businesses for as long as I can remember - from flipping goods at flea markets at age 7 to large-scale game key reselling at 15 (XX.XXX€ monthly revenue), which eventually led me to Bitcoin.

What followed were multiple business ideas during my university years, until my early touchpoints with Bitcoin led me to build Coinpanion. The idea? So simple it actually worked: Crypto for people who don’t want to follow charts - just set it, forget it, and let it ride. (hello #ETFs for crypto)

So I did what every 21-year-old entrepreneurial student does: I stopped studying (eventually finished later) and dove headfirst into the rollercoaster. We built a team of up to 40, expanded into 3 countries (Austria, Germany, and Poland), reached 25,000 customers, and raised €6M in funding.

In 2023, we were fortunate to successfully exit the company to Revix, which - together with a consortium of crypto platforms - became Altify, now serving a large number of customers across Africa and Europe.

With no break at all, things unfolded as they did, and I found myself in the next adventure: Heizma - and honestly, I love it every day. 

Occasionally, I also invest in other startups via morgen ventures, but the truth is:
I’m a founder first, investor second - and right now, it’s heads-down building time.

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“Play long-term games with long-term people.”
- Naval Ravikant

Alexander V.

BIG NEWS: We acquired Viessmann Climate Solutions 🤯 👀



... as our new strategic partner for 2026! (got you there 😉)


Over the past two days, we visited Viessmann’s global headquarters in Allendorf and spent time with CEO Thomas Heim, Nadi Ahmad, Christopher Müller and Peter Huber - the team that made this partnership possible.


2025 was incredible.

2026 is where we shift gears. Strong partners matter, and Viessmann is exactly that.

It was special to experience this moment together as a full Heizma crew - Bruno Manda, Raphael Rotter, Hans Georg Einwagner, Drago Majic, Emanuel Jöbstl (Optima integration 👀) - and of course my amazing Co-Founders Michael Kowatschew and Valentin Perkonigg.

We’re ready for a huge year ahead and to electrify 1.000+ homes in 2026.

Just getting started! ⚡️🏡

Alexander Valtingojer

Founder @ Heizma 💚 | Building the future of energy 🏗️ | Prev. Founder @ Coinpanion (acquired)

Gemeinsam mit Alexander V. und Valentin Perkonigg – beide sind Under 30-Alumni, allerdings für ihre Leistungen als Gründer von Coinpanion bzw. Brickwise – gründete Michael Kowatschew im Frühjahr 2024 Heizma, ein Start-up, das Einfamilienhäuser mit Wärmepumpen, Photovoltaikanlagen, Batteriespeichern und Energiemanagementsystemen ausstattet. 

Kowatschew verantwortet People & Business Development und hat das Unternehmen nach eigenen Angaben innerhalb von zwei Jahren auf 50 Mitarbeitende und über 10 Mio. € Jahresumsatz skaliert. Im Dezember 2024 übernahm Heizma die Grazer Firma Meo Energy, um intelligentes Energiemanagement anzubieten. 

Für das Wachstum holten sich die drei Gründer im April 2025 ein Investment von 2,5 Millionen Euro von Investoren wie Bernhard Niesner (Busuu), Felix Porsche und Hanno Lippitsch (Eversports).

Mehr zu den Listmakern gibt es hier: https://lnkd.in/e7CH2DS3

#Forbes #ForbesAT #U30

Florian Geiser

Hula Earth

We monitor natural ecosystems and provide comprehensive data on biodiversity health and dynamics. By integrating satellite data with our proprietary IoT sensor network and AI, we can identify the sounds of nature, detect the scents of the wild, sense temperature and humidity, and visually capture the vibrant life on the ground. Our goal is to create a world where technology and nature work in harmony to protect and enhance the biodiversity of our planet.

Co-Founder & CEO

Motius

Project Owner: Embedded Systems & AI

Tech Specialist: Embedded Systems & AI

At Motius we work on different R&D projects. As an Embedded Engineer you are not just developing an important part on projects with newest tech, but also have to take responsibility and make decisions together with clients. Teamwork is crucial and an agile working mode allows us to create great results in a short period of time.

Embedded Engineer

KINEXON

- Co-development and adaptation of hardware modules for recording and analysing movements
- Development of circuits based on the latest sensor and radio technologies
- Design of printed circuit board layouts
- Hardware verification using measuring instruments
- Firmware development on micro-controller platforms

Embedded Systems & IoT Development

TIS innovation park

Product Development & New Technologies, Internship

ELAS GMBH

Payroll Office, Internship

AUTOTEST S.p.A. - A.G.

Quality Management, Internship

Our planet's biodiversity and natural ecosystems are at a tipping point, facing unprecedented threats. Yet, there's still room for impactful action.

With a strong technical background, we built Hula Earth to focus on what we believe is a crucial lever for change: ecosystem monitoring and biodiversity conservation. We're harnessing the power of satellite data, IoT sensors, and AI analytics to provide actionable insights into the health and dynamics of our planet's most vital ecosystems.

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in discussing biodiversity, ecosystem conservation, sustainable technology, or potential collaborations.

Why we built our own bioacoustic AI model (and why it matters) 🦉

When we started Hula Earth, we tested every available detection model out there. BirdNET, others - all impressive academic work. But here's what we learned: they weren't built for the reality of urban or industrial environments.

The screenshots show two of our recordings, both containing bird data. One from a quiet natural area, one from an industrial site with heavy background noise. Urban and industrial sites aren't quiet nature reserves. They're filled with machinery noise, traffic, construction - the kind of acoustic interference that causes existing models to struggle. We needed something better.

👉 So we built it ourselves. And already a while ago, our edge model surpassed BirdNET's accuracy in those conditions.

But accuracy is just the beginning. The real breakthrough came recently when we closed the loop: data collection → analysis → expert verification → model improvement. Every single sound snippet we collect now feeds back into making our model smarter, learning from real-world conditions daily. Whether that's wind farm turbines, solar park inverters, or urban traffic. The tough industrial environments that break other models? They're making ours stronger.

This is the difference between a model trained on clean recordings and one that's battle-tested in the field, learning from every deployment.
For wind and solar operators, this means reliable bat and bird detection that actually works in your conditions. For conservation projects, it means data you can trust. For biodiversity compliance, it means monitoring that doesn't fail when the environment gets noisy.

💪 Continuous learning. Real conditions. Better data every day.

Which species did we just share? 😉

Co-Founder & CEO at hula.earth (we're hiring!) 🌳 | Giving nature a voice!

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