Robert Heinecke

Founder & CEO @Breeze Technologies

Hamburg, DE

Breeze Technologies provides an environmental intelligence platform that offers hyperlocal, comprehensive and accurate air quality data, as well as insights and actionable recommendations.Breeze\'s platform integrates a multitude of public and private air quality data sources, as well as the startup\'s own low-cost air quality sensors. The collected data is then aggregated and assimilated through different applications. Smart algorithms evaluate air quality in real time, suggest the most efficient and effective air quality improvement measures, connect customers to intervention partners and track the success of implemented and ongoing interventions for both smart buildings and cities.Breeze\'s platform is deployed in Germany\'s two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg, as well as in a growing number of international corporates including Otto and Deutsche Telekom.The startup was founded in 2015 in Hamburg, Germany. It has been funded through two EU startup innovation programmes, a grant from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, as well as the Google DNI fund. The company has been recognised in multiple national and international competitions as one of the most promising European startups by the European Parliament and Commission, Germany - Land of Ideas (award from the German President) and Forbes 30 Under 30.

Leipzig University

BSc., Computer Science

University of Hamburg

Master of Science (M.Sc.), IT Management & Consulting