Engineer. Founder. 6 years in energy. Made every mistake myself.

Ben Mörzinger

I'm Ben Mörzinger, an engineer from Vienna. PhD at TU Wien in Manufacturing Data and Knowledge Graphs. After that, I co-founded nista.io — an energy management platform that we built from idea to product with six-figure ARR over 6 years. 500+ customer conversations, 1.5M€ in funding, ISO 50001-compliant software for industry.

nista.io went insolvent in 2025. That's part of the story. What remains: deep understanding of the energy sector, of building software products for industry, and of the mistakes you can make along the way.

Today I work as an independent consultant with industrial companies that want to advance their digitalization — pragmatic, technically grounded, and with the knowledge of what it takes to not just conceive a product, but actually bring it to market.

Track Record

Since 2026
Independent Consultant — Digitalization & product development in the energy sector
2019–2025
Co-Founder & CEO/CTO nista.io — Energy Management SaaS (1.5M€ raised, 6-figure ARR, 500+ customer conversations)
Ongoing
Lecturer at FH St. Pölten & TU Wien
2019
PhD TU Wien — Manufacturing Data, Virtual Knowledge Graphs
Before
ECOP (heat pump startup), HTL Mödling (mechanical engineering)

Industry Focus

Biomass & Bioenergy Industrial Automation Energy Management CCS/CCU