A Story of Determination
Flashback
A Story of Determination
Two 16-year-olds, Alexey Gromov and Fabian Dietschi, met at an apprenticeship for electronics-technicians at the ETH.
They were both intrigued by the same question: "Why do we hear about successful managers of technology companies, but not about the great engineers who help develop these marketable innovative technologies?"
That was it! The duo decided to make their own company at some point in time.
Alexey joined a company developing electronics and, at around the same time, Fabian started working with a coffee machine manufacturer. He identified the problems of heating liquids and started researching Ohmic Heating technology a potential solution
Later, while continuing his education abroad as an exchange student from Zurich, Alexey came across the MassChallenge competition for early-stage startups/ideas. This led to a serious start for the idea of a start-up.
Action!
Overnight, Alexey and Fabian developed the entire business case, and by 2016 Alexey was back in Switzerland - experimenting along with Fabian on that dining table that survives to tell the tale of a startup.
The current path
2019 and beyond: The determined decision of two young men led to the incorporation of InstaHeat AG. And through the course of time, they created and further developed an ohmic heating-based liquid heating solution that will revolutionise the way the world heats liquids.
The HeatFlow Series by Instaheat AG debuted in 2025 as an integrated device within a fully automatic commercial coffee machine that is ready to roll out production, soon.