About Us
Dynamic scale-up with big goals in the heart of Cologne
Our vision is that companies can sell even complex products online as easily as a pair of shoes.
Who we are
In summer 2017 Michel Nicolai, Szilard Toth, Rolf Benken and Johannes Alte-Teigeler founded e.pilot GmbH. When we took a closer look at the energy market, it was clear to us: the time has come for a new generation of software solutions for the energy world. Since the company was founded, we have grown rapidly: With now more than 80 employees, we work every day to revolutionise the energy world together with our customers.
Our mission:
To build the leading eCommerce ecosystem for the energy world
We bring together all market participants in the energy world – from energy suppliers and grid operators to tradesmen and manufacturers, and all the way to customers. As the underlying ecosystem of the energy world, we want to bring transparency, customer focus, user-friendliness and efficiency to a market that has been opaque up to now.
Our environmental impact:
We at epilot are reducing our Co2 footprint
The organization Leaders For Climate Action has set up a catalog of action items called “we take climate action” that companies can use to reduce their carbon footprint.
As a tech company, we can already tick a good amount of boxes and want to achieve more – that’s why we received our “Climate Action”-BadgeImportant to us: digital services run on green energy, as cloud servers achieve energy efficiency 5-6x higher than traditional on-premise services
We build on this
Our values
Customer first
Honest and open
We move fast
It´s okay to make mistakes
We´re a team
Our team
Get to know the team that works with enthusiasm to continually develop epilot and provide our customers with the best experience. As expertise is our number one priority, we at epilot bring together various experts from the energy industry, cloud business, sales and eCommerce.
Developed the e-mobility business with VW at LichtBlick. At Trianel he was responsible for the sales platform for energy services T-PED and successfully sold it to Vattenfall.
Michel
Founder & CEO
International experience in product management at Atlassian (Jira,Confluence, Trello), software development and finance – successful delivery to millions of users
Szilard
Founder & CTO
Headed the grid department of Stadtwerke Velbert and, with the liberalisation of the energy market, founded the first private energy supplier and service provider, EVB Energie AG
Hannes
Founder & CSO
Financial and energy market expert. Successful founder with experience from meanwhile 17 start-ups.
Rolf
Founder & CFO
E-commerce expert. Founded the online shop paigh and gained experience in the field of electric mobility as team leader at the launch of Car2Go.
Marlon
Head of Sales
Headed the operations department for EDL products at Mainova. Extensive experience in project management at Lufthansa, Johnson Controls & in the Volkswagen Group.
Bodo
Head of Operations
Set up the MyHammer and Grünspar business in Austria and founded derDigitalversorger
Roland
Country Manager Austria/ Switzerland
Further shareholders
The enercity group based in Hanover is a provider of sustainable and intelligent energy solutions. With a turnover of around 2.4 billion euros, the group is one of the largest municipal energy service providers in Germany. The company supplies around one million people with electricity, heat, natural gas and drinking water. In addition, enercity offers energy-related services relating to electromobility, energy efficiency, decentralised customer solutions, telecommunications and smart infrastructure.
AXON IVY is a company of the AXON ACTIVE Group with more than 700 employees worldwide. In addition to its headquarters in Lucerne, AXON IVY has branches in Munich, Vienna, Singapore and Silicon Valley and has development laboratories in Switzerland and Vietnam. More than 1000 large corporations and SMEs from all industries worldwide use the Axon.ivy BPM Suite.