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Hearth

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Group buying for home insulation, street by street

MarketplacesValidateBelgium
Active users
2.9K
Paying customers
640

The problem

Home owners put off insulating because quotes are confusing and expensive, while installers waste days driving between single jobs.

The solution

Hearth signs up a whole street at once, negotiates one price and schedules the installer to do every house in the same week.

Who it's for

Owners of houses built before 1990.

Market

Bottom-up: about 120,000 customers like this in Belgium and nearby, worth roughly $280 million a year at our prices.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Mostly spreadsheets, phone calls and doing nothing. The established suppliers sell to large organisations and are too expensive and too slow to set up for the customers we serve.

Why this team wins

Lotte organised neighbourhood energy schemes for a city council, so the team knows the buyers by name. Bram built the core technology, and the first customers came by referral.

Headline metric

2,900 active users, growing 21% a month

The team

Lotte knows the customer and has sold to them before; Bram has built this kind of system at scale. We have worked side by side since before Hearth had a name.

Worked together
More than 3 years
Hiring
A senior engineer and our first customer-success hire.

About the founder

Lotte Peeters

Founder & CEO · Ghent, Belgium · 6 years of experience

Lotte organised neighbourhood energy schemes for a city council. Started Hearth in 2025 and works on it full-time from Ghent.

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