CISMO

What CISMO does

CISMO Clearing Integrated Services and Market Operations GmbH is a Vienna-based B2B service center founded in 2005 that operates the clearing, settlement, exchange, balancing, and billing infrastructure for Austria's liberalized electricity and gas markets. The company functions as a shared service center, bundling personnel, IT, and organizational tasks for major Austrian energy sector entities including the gas clearing houses AGCS and A&B, electricity settlement body APCS, power exchange EXAA, green electricity settlement body OeMAG, and the European Renewable Gas Registry (ERGaR). Approximately 20 Austrian energy companies and financial institutions hold equity stakes in CISMO, with the largest shareholders being OeKB (18.50%), smart technologies Management-Beratungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft (18.50%), MS Dr. Markus Singer Beteiligungsgesellschaft (15.00%), and GAS CONNECT AUSTRIA (11.56%). The company is headquartered at Palais Liechtenstein in Vienna's 9th district and employs between 11 and 50 people.

The company's product portfolio centers on specialized IT platforms for energy market operations. EnergyMonitor.at is an open-data transparency platform aggregating Austrian electricity and gas market data from APCS, AGCS, EEX, and EXAA under Creative Commons licensing. Cert-X Europe is the IT platform powering ERGaR, enabling cross-border renewable gas certificate tracking across Europe. EnergyNewsMagazine.at provides industry news and analysis, and the 'teem' training program delivers structured education on liberalized energy markets in partnership with EXAA.

CISMO's revenue model combines recurring managed services and subscription-based IT platform services for energy sector clients, supplemented by professional services consulting. The go-to-market is direct enterprise B2B sales to a fixed universe of Austrian energy infrastructure operators and exchanges, with no publicly disclosed pricing. There is no evidence of disclosed revenue, funding rounds, M&A activity, or material headcount growth in the available source material.

Name

CISMO

Legal name

CISMO Clearing Integrated Services and Market Operations GmbH

Website

https://cismo.at

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CISMO is a Vienna-based shared service center founded in 2005 that provides clearing, settlement, IT platforms, and consulting to Austria's energy market operators, exchanges, and clearing bodies, with cross-border reach via ERGaR's renewable gas registry.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Energy Market Clearing and Settlement Services

NAICS

Natural Gas Distribution (2212), Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2211)

SIC

Natural Gas Distribution (4924), Electric Services (4911)

akta.pro primary industry

Customer Information System (CIS) Administration & Configuration (EUAJAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Multi-Utility Distribution Companies (Electric + Gas/Water Distribution) (EUADABAJ), Customer Satisfaction, QA & Performance Analytics (VoC, NPS/CSAT) (EUAJAHAN)

Keywords

• Energy market clearing
• Settlement services
• IT platform operations
• Renewable gas registry
• Energy sector consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Breitenfurt Bei Wien

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Energy Market Clearing and Settlement Services: CISMO provides clearing, settlement, exchange, balancing, and billing process services for energy market participants and system operators. The company bundles personnel, IT, and organization tasks and provides modern infrastructure as a shared service center.
2. IT Platform Services: Operation and maintenance of specialized IT platforms including EnergyMonitor.at, Cert-X Europe, and data exchange systems for the energy sector.
3. Energy Market Consulting: Consulting services for the energy industry, public institutions, and infrastructure companies including project management for new requirements implementation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CISMO operates as a shared service center for the Austrian energy sector, providing clearing, settlement, exchange, balancing, and billing process services for electricity and gas markets. The company bundles personnel, IT, and organizational tasks for system operators, exchanges, and clearing bodies, and operates specialized platforms such as EnergyMonitor.at, Cert-X Europe, and EnergyNewsMagazine.at, alongside the teem training program.

Product overview

CISMO operates as a clearing and market operations service center for the Austrian and European energy sector. The company provides a portfolio of IT platforms and information services, including EnergyMonitor.at (an open-data transparency platform for Austrian electricity and gas markets), Cert-X Europe (the European Renewable Gas Registry for ERGaR), and EnergyNewsMagazine.at (energy industry news and analysis). Additionally, CISMO offers training services through the 'teem' program for energy and environmental markets. These offerings are designed to support market participants, system operators, exchanges, and settlement organizations in efficiently processing allocation, exchange, balancing, and billing processes in the energy sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Energy Monitor: Open data platform providing access to Austrian electricity and gas market data including consumption, generation, market prices, and balancing energy from sources such as APCS, AGCS, EEX, and EXAA.
• Energy News Magazine
• teem

Products and services

• EnergyMonitor.at Open data platform providing access to Austrian electricity and gas market data including consumption, generation, market prices, and balancing energy from sources such as APCS, AGCS, EEX, and EXAA, with interactive visualizations and detailed time series available under Creative Commons license.
• Cert-X Europe IT platform operated by CISMO for ERGaR (The European Renewable Gas Registry), enabling cross-border renewable gas certificate tracking, registration, and exchange across European markets.
• EnergyNewsMagazine.at Information platform providing current news and analysis on Austrian and international energy sector developments, technologies, market trends, and energy policy decisions, targeted at industry professionals, decision-makers, and interested public.
• teem (Training for Energy and Environmental Markets) Training program providing compact and current insights into the liberalized gas and electricity sectors, delivered by industry experts to energy market professionals seeking to enter or deepen their knowledge in energy markets.

Quantifiable outcome

• Standardization of energy market services increases quality and reduces costs
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AGCS (Austrian Gas Clearing GmbH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCISMO services the gas clearing house AGCS, providing IT infrastructure and operational support for Austrian gas settlement processes.
• APCS (Abwicklungsstelle für Ökoenergie und nahtlose Produktabwicklung)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCISMO services APCS, providing clearing and settlement services for Austrian electricity market including green energy certificates.
• EXAA (Energy Exchange Austria)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCISMO services the Austrian power exchange EXAA, supporting market operations and data exchange infrastructure.
• OeMAG (Ökostrom-Abwicklungsstelle)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCISMO services OeMAG, the Austrian green electricity settlement body, providing operational support.
• ERGAR (European Renewable Gas Registry)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCISMO operates the Cert-X Europe IT platform for ERGaR, enabling European cross-border renewable gas certificate tracking and exchange.
• A&B (Abwicklungs- und Abrechnungsstelle für Bilanzierungsenergie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCISMO services A&B, providing settlement and billing services for balancing energy in the Austrian gas market.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Open Utility: UK-based energy data and demand-response platform building transparency tools for electricity markets. Comparable emerging peer in the energy-data/transparency layer that EnergyMonitor.at represents in Austria.

Direct peers

• EPEX SPOT: European power spot exchange covering Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and others. Operates similar market-operation, data and clearing-adjacent infrastructure to what CISMO runs for the Austrian market and is a direct competitor for any cross-border mandate.
• ICE Endex: ICE's European energy exchange for gas, power and emissions. Operates clearing and market data infrastructure directly comparable to CISMO's Austrian market utility services.
• Nasdaq Commodities (formerly Nord Pool): Nordic and European energy exchange and market operator. Comparable to CISMO in running day-to-day market operations, settlement and data publication for an energy market and competes for shared-service mandates across Europe.
• European Energy Exchange (EEX): Operates the pan-European energy exchange with market operations and data products. CISMO services the Austrian power exchange (EXAA) that competes in the same market, making EEX the closest scale-comparable market operator in continental Europe.
• European Commodity Clearing (ECC): Central counterparty clearing house for EEX and other European energy exchanges. ECC is a direct functional peer to CISMO's clearing/settlement work for AGCS, A&B and APCS, just at much larger European scale.

Broad incumbents

• Trayport (IPM): Energy and commodities trading infrastructure platform connecting exchanges, brokers and traders. Overlaps with CISMO's IT/data exchange layer for European energy markets, though focused on trading rather than settlement.
• KISTERS: German IT vendor specialising in energy data management, renewables forecasting, water management and energy market platforms. Closest broad IT-platform incumbent to CISMO's EnergyMonitor.at and clearing platform offerings across European utility markets.

Others

• Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Börse): Austrian capital-market infrastructure operator and a CISMO shareholder. Comparable as a domestic Austrian market-infrastructure service provider and partner, though operating in capital markets rather than energy.
• Beroe Energy (Energy Market Operations services): Procurement and energy market advisory firm relevant as a thematic comparator for the consulting/professional-services revenue stream CISMO runs alongside its IT platform business.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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