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, 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

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Matthias Zandanel

Gubbi AG

Head of Development

Chargd

I joined Chargd after inception and designed and built a prototype to test our business hypothesis as quickly as possible. After some iterations, customer interviews and outreach we had developed a prototype that was then sold to a startup.

Additionally to building the prototype I learned a lot about validation, customer interviews and outreach while enjoying the short journey.

Co-Founder & CTO

Coinpanion

- As a tech leader, my job is being an allrounder. In the beginning I was focusing on backend development. Once we started scaling, my focus was hiring and building up the team, scaling up internal processes and worked on DevOps & Infrastructure. Close Colaboration with my Tech Co-Founder @Aaron Penn who is instead focusing mostly on tech-only matters.
- We employed over 40 people
- We got close to 6M in funding
- Building up and leading the tech team of over 10 people

Tech Stack: 
- Frontend: React / React Native
- Backend: NodeJS, ASP.NET Core, python, Microservice Architecture
- DevOps & Infrastructure: Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, DigitalOcean, Datadog

Welcome to my LinkedIn profile! I am Matthias and l love very hard challenges and creating inspiring things like companies. 

While constantly trying to take as much opportunities as possible to further grow as a person, I am a tech-focused allrounder: I can build and lead teams, develop products and try to extend my scope to everything around technology that is needed to build and run a business.

I have shown these skills at Coinpanion where I went from a tech-only founder to a CTO that led a team of 10+ people inside a company of around 40 people.

Currently I am expanding my skills as a personal coach / psychological consultant while looking for the next big challenge in the tech leadership area that brings the company, me and people around to the next level.

Reach out to me to talk about software development, leadership, building companies, personal development, education and much more. I am always happy to discuss ideas.

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