21energy expands management team with Chief Growth Officer Dr. Harald Rauter

Innsbruck/Zurich, 1.4.2025 - Austrian energy start-up 21energy is expanding its management team and has announced the appointment of Dr. Harald Rauter as its new Chief Growth Officer (CGO). In this role, he will be responsible for the areas of capital strategy, growth strategy in the B2B and B2B2C segment and service development. Together with CEO Maximilian Obwexer, he also shares the role of CFO.

Born in Carinthia, he has extensive experience in strategic corporate development & financing, the development of new ecologically sustainable business areas and the associated growth. At 21energy, he will focus in particular on the further development of innovative services for business customers in order to sustainably drive the company's growth in the dynamic energy sector.

“I am very much looking forward to working with the 21energy team,” says Dr. Harald Rauter. "The intersection of energy, high performance computing and Bitcoin is the innovation space that is radically changing traditional valuation benchmarks. 21energy occupies a key position in this paradigm shift. Together, we will aggressively scale the company and consistently expand our market leadership."

CEO Maximilian Obwexer emphasizes: "With Harald Rauter, we are not only gaining an international expert at the interface between energy, Bitcoin & decarbonization, but also an investor & board member. Together, we will position 21energy even more consistently as a growth-ambitious innovation leader."

The collaboration is part of a sweat equity deal, which further emphasizes Dr. Rauter's entrepreneurial responsibility. The new CGO and Co-CFO will play a long-term role in establishing 21energy as one of the leading platforms for sustainable energy supply and consulting.

About 21energy

21energy develops and sells innovative heating systems based on high-performance computers, the so-called Bitcoin Miner: Here, the electricity energy is converted into both heat and computing power and thus revenue through the so-called “mining” of Bitcoins.

In this way, 21energy customers earn “money with heating” and effectively save heating costs and, when switching from oil or gas, a correspondingly large amount of carbon dioxide.

The entire value creation process, from development to production and sales, takes place in Tyrol, Austria. Founded in October 2022, the start-up has already sold around 2,000 units of its world-leading heating system across Europe.

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Benjamin Kehrer
CMO & Communcations 21energy
Email: benjamin.kehrer@21energy.com
Phone: +43 512 250 210 04
Press Website: https://21energy.com/pages/press