GreenShift is a spin-off of Fachhochschule Dortmund (University of Applied Sciences). Its technology comes from the research project EMULATE in the European IPCEI-CIS programme. The company (GmbH) will be founded on 1 January 2027.
Founder
Dan is responsible for GreenShift's business model, financing and go-to-market. At Fachhochschule Dortmund he heads start-up development, turning research results into viable ventures. Before that he led an €800K seed round as Entrepreneur in Residence at a Luxembourg AI start-up. He holds a Master's in Entrepreneurship from Trinity College Dublin (First Class Honours with Distinction).
Founder
Jaime designed GreenShift's technical concept. As Lead Systems Architect at Fachhochschule Dortmund he leads the architecture behind the university's €5.6M stake in the European 8ra initiative (IPCEI-CIS), coordinating a twelve-person team across cloud, edge and embedded systems. He has spoken at KubeCon, holds five registered hardware patents, and won Samsung Electronics' 2018 5G Challenge as team lead.
GreenShift grew out of research at Fachhochschule Dortmund. In the research project EMULATE, part of the European IPCEI-CIS programme for cloud and edge infrastructure, the team developed the foundations GreenShift builds on.
Platform & billing architecture
Software engineer with a PhD and over twenty years of experience, eleven of them in distributed systems. Before that, seven years at BSS provider Qvantel building billing systems for mobile network operators.
Software engineering
Builds GreenShift's measurement core. Before that, seven years as an engineer of low-latency trading systems. Master's in Wireless Systems from KTH Stockholm; second Master's in Embedded Systems Engineering at Fachhochschule Dortmund.
Development
Builds the test environment where GreenShift checks its measurement chain. Four years of IT operations experience; Master's in Digital Transformation at Fachhochschule Dortmund.
Development
Builds GreenShift's data processing and reporting. Over eight years of experience with software and data architectures in banking, insurance, industry and energy. Master's in Data Science from TU Dortmund.
Scientific advisor
Leads the research project EMULATE, from which GreenShift's technology originates, and advises the team without an operational role.
We are looking for cloud providers for our first pilot projects, and for investors and partners to develop GreenShift further with us. Write to us; thirty minutes are enough to start.
