
Head of Product & Technology
Alessandro Chalimba
Former founder and product manager who turns platform services into businesses that scale.
- years in product management
- 5+
- startup co-founded
- 1
Alessandro Chalimba is Head of Product & Technology at Gateway Ventures and responsible for Calmar: what the team builds, how it is priced and how it is brought to market.
Calmar started as a tool for one network. His work has been to turn it into a product that angel networks and family offices can offer under their own brand. He builds prototypes and internal tools himself with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, so the team has a working version to discuss and improve.
He has worked in product management at several companies, among them Klarna and the EV charging network SMATRICS, always with one focus: turning platform services into businesses that scale. Before that he co-founded adconomy, a Munich startup for micro-influencer marketing. On the side he built Fin Cinema, an iOS app for Vienna’s arthouse cinemas.
Experience
- 2025 – todayHead of Product & TechnologyGateway Ventures and Calmar, Vienna
- 2021 – 2025Product managementGateway Ventures, SMATRICS and Klarna
- 2019 – 2021Co-founderadconomy, Munich