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Top 50 Angel Investors in Austria

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Austria

Investor	Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	44
Hermann Hauser	14
Alfred Luger	9
Patrick Poschl	6
Bernhard Niesner	5
Markus Ertler	4
Christian Kaar	4
Gernot Singer	4
Frank Westermann	4
Nikolaus Futter	4
Michael Altrichter	4
Klaus Hofbauer	4
Henrik Herr	3
Peter Steinberger	3
Johannes Braith	3
Carsten Maschmeyer	3
Schnidar Harald	3
Michael Ströck	3
Felix Ohswald	3
Michael Kamleitner	3
Zaid Al-Aifari	2
Ariel Luedi	2
Dieter Rappold	2
Ingo Drexler	2
Chris Adelsbach	2
Ferdinand Dietrich	2
Suvi Haimi	2
Udo Schloemer	2
Christoph Prinz	2
Rene Giretzlehner	2
Gunther Birkner	2
Jürgen Rauch	2
Bernhard Lehner	2
Ibrahim Imam	2
Thomas Bachem	2
Rainer Diera	2
Reinhard Manzl	2
Eric Demuth	2
Michael Brehm	2
Peter Schicho	2
Roderik van Kessenich	2
Rene Schneider	2
Joerg Floeck	2
Niki Stadler	2
Anton Kittelberger	2
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	2
Stefan Schneider	1
Don Hoang	1
Markus Grund	1
David Niedermaier	1

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Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Hermann Hauser co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin out ARM), Active Book Company,Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited (acquired by Cambridge Display Technology), Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK and has supported many other start-ups.Hermann’s successes at Amadeus include: CSR plc (LON: CSR); Entropic Research Laboratory (acquired by Microsoft in 1999); Solexa (acquired by Illumina in 2007); and Icera (acquired by Nvidia in 2011). He is currently a non-executive director of XMOS, a company that is revolutionising re-configurable silicon chips; Intune Networks, a pioneer in the field of Optical Packet Switch & Transport; Tobii, the world leader in eye tracking and gaze detection; Plastic Logic, the first company to commercialize flexible plastic transistors (currently used in computer displays); and Cambridge Broadband Networks, a leader in point-to-multipoint wireless backhaul products.Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Hermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Ruskin University and was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’ in 2001. In 2004, he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science & Technology. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his contribution to the translation of science into business, and in 2013 a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.Austrian by birth, Hermann speaks German, English and conversational Italian and French.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
zeroRISC — ZeroRISC operates as a stealth start-up making hardware security foundations transparent and trustworthy.

Alfred Luger

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Learning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
Shadowmap — Shadowmap aims to help with this procedure. Our contribution is the democratization of insolation data availability. We are creating the tools and inspiring humanity to re-establish a harmonious relationship with the Sun.
Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.

Patrick spent over 8 years in the financial service industry based in Vienna and London. Most recently before Scalable at Goldman Sachs in London, he was working in the team responsible for structuring of financial products and developments of electronic trading platforms. Patrick studied international business at the Vienna University of Economicsand Business. Additionally, during his studies, he was self-employed as an IT-specialist.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

corplife — CorpLife is changing the Corporate Expense Processes with the App Clevexa. The Employees have a really simple and quick solution and the coporates save Money and time. Additional to this App CorpLife is providing the most innovative Solution in Employee Benefits. Based in Vienna/Austria CorpLife is already operating internationally.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
Farmdok GmbH — FARMDOK is mobile, simple and automatic production documentation for agriculture - a farm management system, a field record, field diary! With a smartphone app, a web system and a unique GPS driving pattern evaluation, the recording costs for the farmers is not only reduced, but the fulfillment of legal documentation obligations is simplified. Atthe same time, FARMDOK created a reliable database for operational decision-making.FARMDOK is a Lower Austrian AgTech startup based in Wieselburg that develops smart farming solutions that simplify planning and recording in agriculture. Records are required by law and as a business decision-making basis. The four founders Andreas, Johann and Peter Prankl, as well as Franz Heinzlmaier, have an agricultural background themselves. They developed FARMDOK with the motivation to not only make the huge amount of agricultural data and information available to the farmer but above all to harness it.

Bernhard Niesner is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu – the world´s largest social network for language learning with more than 35m users. busuu provides language courses in 12 different languages combined with direct interaction with native speakers from the community. The London-based start-up received several awards and was named “Best EducationStart-Up in 2011” by TechCrunch. busuu is backed by renown business angels like Martin Varsavsky and received investment from PRO-Founders Capital.Before founding busuu, Bernhard worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In addition to busuu, he is Associated Professor at IE Business School in the area of online marketing.Bernhard graduated summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA (with honors) from IE Business School. In 2009 he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the year” in Austria.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Energy Management
Seed, Angel
Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
Shadowmap — Shadowmap aims to help with this procedure. Our contribution is the democratization of insolation data availability. We are creating the tools and inspiring humanity to re-establish a harmonious relationship with the Sun.
notarity — notarity is the most user-friendly platform for fully digital collaboration with notaries. Notarize documents online from anywhere at anytime.

Markus Ertler - Investor @ Necture

Investment focus

Parking, Software, Sensor
Pre-Seed, Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Repark — Repark relies on its own access module, which the firm claims can be put on the garage door in a matter of hours. Following installation, residents and Repark users can use a smartphone app to open the garage.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.

Christian Kaar is the VP of Finance and Business Analytics at Leaders21com. Christian Kaar attended University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Angel
Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Inoqo — In a world of over, mis- or blurred information, inoqo wants to provide consumers with scientific-based data on the environmental, social and biodiversity impact of familiar grocery products. Our mission is to help all of us aligning our daily purchasing decisions to our key concerns so that we can actively contribute to a sustainableproduction-consumption cycle.The app uses a specific innovative technology that can passively and smartly track the user’s grocery basket for informing them about -for example- the CO2 impact of their purchase and how aligned it is to their environmental priorities or social valuesThe solution will actively recommend alternative products of lower impact and encourage them through personalized content, gamification and community challenges to further pursue a sustainable lifestyle.We strongly believe that our daily habits can change the world. Our vision is to enable millions of consumers around the globe to learn why and how their consumption decisions impact biodiversity, climate and their own well-being. We want to accelerate the change towards sustainable production: as users consume more responsibly, they create healthy competition between companies who start to produce responsibly.We have ten years left to cut our CO2 emissions by half. From now on, every action counts. Join inoqo.
Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
Mimo — Mimo is an app that teaches the computer science in a fun and interactive way. Mimo’s lessons are fun and interactive, fit into people’s everyday lives, and lead them to make a habit of self-improvement. Getting through to more than 1.5 million people and achieving completion numbers far above the industry average, Mimo is well on its way tobecoming the one-stop shop for education and entertainment on the go.

Gernot Singer is a business angel

Investment focus

Software, Consulting, Telecommunications
Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
Proofcheck — Proofcheck is a multilingual AI proofreading platform and a collaborative in-browser workspace for PDFs and epubs. Their next-generation AI workflow and collaboration tool helps content creators quickly catch costly mistakes before they reach audiences. Proofcheck is headquartered in Vienna, Wien and was founded in 2022.

- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health - Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017) - Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech

Investment focus

iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
Seed, Series A, Angel
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.

Nikolaus Futter - Chairman @ PSI Alliance

Investment focus

Software, Sensor, Parking
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Ataleo — Ataleo provides digital solution to guide through and automate processes.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
WeAreDevelopers — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.

Michael Altrichter - Managing Director and Director @ Paysafecard

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Diagnosia — Making medicine simple.
wikifolio — Investiere in wikifolio-Zertifikate und hol dir die Performance privater und professioneller Investoren direkt in dein Depot.
App Radar — Grow your apps with our App Store Optimization and App Advertising tools. We provide services when you want more Create a free account and contact us today!

Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at

Investment focus

Marketplace, Apps, Music
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

markta — Digital farmers market
Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.

25 years experience in banking industry and private banking. Building visions and strategies in changing environments.

Investment focus

Training, E-Learning, Human Resources
Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
Leaders21com — They offer our customers an exciting portfolio of practical training and services. Based on our many years of experience and our specially developed leadership approach. Flexibility and situational action are essential leadership qualities. That is why we also structure our cooperation with our customers in exactly the same way - flexible andadapted to individual requirements. Digital and analog.
Speedinvest Heroes Consulting GmbH — Speedinvest Heroes Consulting GmbH is an Human Resource company.

Founder of PSPDFKit

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Procurement
Angel, Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.
reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.

Startup entrepreneur & enthusiastic leader building the world's largest completely digital self-storage solution, solving the problems of urbanisation & the struggles of last mile logistics. Storebox is the first completely digital self-storage solution in Europe. Instant - smart - 24/7. With +130 outlets in +35 cities Storebox isone of the fastest growing tech companies & franchise-systems in Europe tackling the problems of urbanisation & the struggles of last mile logistics. www.yourstorebox.com

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
Talentir — Content Monetization
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor

Investment focus

mHealth, Software, Biopharma
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

SCARLETRED — SCARLETRED is an international Digital Health Scaleup revolutionising the global skin care market by the AI powered SCARLETRED®VISION platform system. The problem we solved is subjective skin assessment and lacking standardization in Dermatology. Our medical device certified platform is fully mobile, runs via mobile App on smartphones and connectsto our web platform, which enables to generate smart imaging data and novel AI decision support applications in Dermatology and Telemedicine. The multi award winning technology is supplied international via SaaS to Biopharma and Cosmetics Industry, Hospitals and Medical Experts. Protected via worldwide patents it facilitates standardized skin documentation and remote tracking of skin changes and therapeutic effects via mobile App. Images can be uploaded in a cloud based platform and objectively analysed for visual skin changes over time, such as for allergic reactions, pigmentation changes, acne, psoriasis, disease or wound healing. SCARLETRED provides services on a broad range of dermatologic conditions ranging from B2B to B2B2C applications.

Founding partner and investor at Calm/Storm Ventures. Previously founded companies in consumer e-commerce (KochAbo; exit to Marley Spoon in 2015) and enterprise SaaS (Gustav; YC S17). Launched and grew successful open source projects (Vienna RSS; over 10 million downloads), as well as various community and charity projects (FounderTalks.org,Chancen:reich).I‘m especially passionate about the very early stages of company-building and have a track-record of early stage investments in my own companies, as well as healthcare and health-tech startups like Mediclass, hi.health and Probably Genetic (YC W19). Other notable investments include Flaviar (YC S14), Joblocal.de (Exit 2015), Kiko, Biloba and an investment as one of the first limited partners in Austrian venture fund Speedinvest.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Catch — Set aside for taxes and retirement. Save thousands on health insurance. Free personal payroll and benefits for freelancers, contractors, and the self-employed.
Flaviar — Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentarybottles every month.Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.
Glidian — Glidian understand the trouble of finding forms, tracking multiple authorization requests, and faxing out documents. Glidian is designed to solve all of your prior authorization needs.

I believe everybody has a hidden talent and it needs a trigger to develop the full potential. My trigger was my brother when we set the foundation for building GoStudent, the best funded K-12 EdTech startup in Europe. My vision is to scale GoStudent to become the No. 1 global school helping children to unlock their full potential.

Investment focus

EdTech, Travel, Leisure
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
Seasy.com — Making Sea Life Easy
Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.

Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep

Zaid Al-Aifari

Investment focus

Travel, FinTech, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
Austria, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Monkee — Monkee combines Personal Finance and Cashback in one unique product. We help our users to save more money for what's important to them and actively support them in growing their savings while consciously shopping the things they need. At the same time we help our retail partners to connect with consumers in a relevant and rewarding way. Thecompany was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
QuickSpeech —

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Augmented Reality
Seed, Series A, Angel
Switzerland, Austria, Australia

Portfolio highlights

CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
Squirro — Empower your enterprise decision-making with SquirroGPT's generative AI, enabling smarter decisions, evidence-based answers, and enterprise-grade security.
Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!

Dieter Rappold is the current CEO of tubics. He previously worked at Virtual Identity as a Founder. Dieter Rappold attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Along — Join our waitlist and try it first!
tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
Smint.io — Smint.io offers a Content Experience Platform for stakeholder needs. It helps companies create unique content experiences and optimize their digital touchpoints. The platform lets companies build sites that sit on top of Digital Asset Management Systems, Cloud Storage or Enterprise Content Management Systems. It helps nontechnical owners orfounders to get their content assets online in a simple and appealing way for different types of stakeholders, enabling businesses to build branded, stakeholder-friendly content portals and boosts up brand experience and content usage.

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.

Ferdinand Dietrich - CCO & Co-founder @ Storebox

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
Talentir — Content Monetization

Suvi Haimi is the founder and CEO Sulapac, a company that develops fully biodegradable packaging material innovation made out of wood. Most recently, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki (Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine).

Investment focus

Apps, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largest startup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines hisone of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
Actio — Learn from the best experts. Live, interactive classes and consultation in topics around Business, Finance, Arts, Love & Relationship, Career, Yoga, Nutrition, and many more. Book 1-on-1 consultation or group sessions. Download for free!
Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.

Private angel investor.

Investment focus

Travel, Rental, Sailing
Angel, Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Diagnosia — Making medicine simple.
TourRadar — TourRadar is the world's most trusted online marketplace for multi-day tours. Compare, read reviews, meet guides & travelers, book with confidence.
Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.

Rene Giretzlehner

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Dating
Angel, Seed
Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
Mimo — Mimo is an app that teaches the computer science in a fun and interactive way. Mimo’s lessons are fun and interactive, fit into people’s everyday lives, and lead them to make a habit of self-improvement. Getting through to more than 1.5 million people and achieving completion numbers far above the industry average, Mimo is well on its way tobecoming the one-stop shop for education and entertainment on the go.
pagestrip — pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones.

Günther Birkner was appointed President, Food & Beverage Worldwide in November of 2011, broadening his scope as President of the Healthcare & Specialty Business in March of 2016.Birkner was one of the founding partners of Pachem AG, Austria building a successful business focused on the food and beverage markets entering into a jointventure with CCL in 2003 before the outright acquisition of Pachem in 2005.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Services
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Dishtracker GmbH — Software that allows visual detection and automated check-out in the food sector
The MoonVision — The MoonVision GmbH is a young company located in the heart of Vienna, Austria, focussed on transferring expert know-how to AI using visual information. The company was founded in August 2017, and was awarded with the title “Startup of the year” in 2017. In 2018 it was nominated for the “Go Silicon Valley Program” by WKO and won over partners likeAudi, A1, Sacher and Miba. MoonVision detects item type and amounts on a visual basis using proprietary computer vision algorithms and triggers events, like the optimization of machines, payment processes or data generation.

Jürgen Rauch

Investment focus

SaaS, Sales, Software
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

presono — presono completely rethinks the topic of presenting and combines professional presentations and perfect management in a revolutionary software! Previously unsolved challenges such as outdated slide duplicates, wrong content and designs, rigid presentation flows and complicated updates are a thing of the past with this comprehensive solution!Theintuitive tool ensures that users can create outstanding presentations easily and without extensive know-how, adapt them flexibly and spontaneously even during a presentation. The central data management guarantees that all users are always up to date with the latest information. In addition, it ensures that presentations can be automatically and comprehensively evaluated. Future-oriented features such as multimedia animations and interactive overlays also generate a new factor for attention from which everyone can benefit: the speakers as well as the listeners. After all the tension factor of the presentation is usually directly proportional to the information intake of the audience. In addition, a feedback functionality optimises company-internal communication. The possibility of sending presentations directly as a PDF file or as a link via e-mail also simplifies the work process. Furthermore, presono can be used as a smart sales and trade fair app.presono is therefore much more than just a tool for creating ingenious presentations. presono is an intelligent overall solution that optimizes workflows, generates attention and, as a smart guarantee of success, guides its users safely to the goal of their presentations.

Bernhard Lehner is a communication professional through and through. His work with and for the media has always been the centre of his professional life. During his communication studies in Vienna he gathered work experiences as a journalist for print and online media. By the End of the 90ies he had changed the site and worked successfully as a PRadvisor for agencies but also for in house relations. His references from the last few years include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Ikea and Cisco. i5invest appreciates Bernhard’s expertise for strategic communication development measurements and their realisation for old and new media with a focus on Europe.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Training
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

pagestrip — pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Leaders21com — They offer our customers an exciting portfolio of practical training and services. Based on our many years of experience and our specially developed leadership approach. Flexibility and situational action are essential leadership qualities. That is why we also structure our cooperation with our customers in exactly the same way - flexible andadapted to individual requirements. Digital and analog.

Ibrahim had already founded two companies during his studies at the Vienna University of Technology. After completing his studies, he worked with Sander to launch several other startups in the IT sector and has considerable experience in B2B sales. At PlanRadar, he’s primarily responsible for Marketing & Sales.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, CRM
Angel, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
hello again — hello again is a software that offers digital loyalty solutions. Their service includes customer relationships, customer loyalty management, software engineering, loyalty club, communication, customer acquisition, sales promotion, and insights.

Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
WeAreDevelopers — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.

Rainer Diera

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

teamecho — Mitarbeiterbefragung neu gedacht: Wie zufrieden, engagiert und motiviert ist dein Team wirklich? Frag einfach. Mit dem intelligenten Stimmungsbarometer von teamecho.
Gateway Ventures — primeCROWD is Austria's biggest network of startup investors with currently over 1000 active investors, including the likes of high-profile business angels such as Johannes Siller, Markus Ertler and Heinrich Prokop. We foster the Austrian and European startup eco-system by connecting investors and startups. Our startup portfolio coversFinTech, CleanTech, HeathTech, IT & Software, Big Data & Social Impact. We have run 19 successful campaigns with seed fundings over € 9M+, including:::. iDWELL ::. Farmdok ::. MOVEEFFECT ::. Carbon Recovery ::. STRATACT ::. Orderlion ::. Domonda ::. CorpLife ::. Wanderwatch ::. myVeeta ::. goUrban ::. Liimtec | PocketDefi ::. FRUX ::. FOEX ::. Fitapp ::. thesocialbet | herosphere ::. viRaTechnologies | viRaCube ::. BiotanprimeCROWD was founded in December 2015. Over 1000 investors and 200 partners are currently participating in the network, including European incubators, accelerators and VCs.https://www.prime-crowd.com/
weffect (a brand of STRATACT) —

Reinhard Manzl

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Navigation
Seed, Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
Shadowmap — Shadowmap aims to help with this procedure. Our contribution is the democratization of insolation data availability. We are creating the tools and inspiring humanity to re-establish a harmonious relationship with the Sun.

Co-founder & Co-CEO of Bitpanda

Investment focus

B2B, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
consola.finance — consola.finance is business-to-business finance and accounting SaaS platform that aims to automate financial processes for Web3 businesses, including bookkeeping, reporting, and analytics.

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Atheneum — Powered by a network of 800,000 experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.

Peter Schicho

Investment focus

SaaS, Billing, Payments
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

helloCash — Here you can find the login for your helloCash cash register. Just sign up and you can start collecting.

Roderik van Kessenich

Investment focus

SaaS, Billing, Payments
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

helloCash — Here you can find the login for your helloCash cash register. Just sign up and you can start collecting.

Rene Schneider

Investment focus

Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Medicus AI — Medicus AI is an innovative technology company that supports you by offering an AI-powered experience that takes your business to the next level and provides your patients with personalized access to better understand and manage their health

Joerg Floeck - Managing Partner @ Speedinvest

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Travel
Angel, Series A
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gustav — Modern staffing teams use Gustav's VMS to source talent from trusted sub-vendors. Fast, secure, and compliant!
TourRadar — TourRadar is the world's most trusted online marketplace for multi-day tours. Compare, read reviews, meet guides & travelers, book with confidence.
wikifolio — Investiere in wikifolio-Zertifikate und hol dir die Performance privater und professioneller Investoren direkt in dein Depot.

Niki Stadler

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Navigation
Seed, Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
Shadowmap — Shadowmap aims to help with this procedure. Our contribution is the democratization of insolation data availability. We are creating the tools and inspiring humanity to re-establish a harmonious relationship with the Sun.

Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health

Investment focus

iOS, Sports, Android
Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

myClubs — One membership. Unlimited sports.We provide digital access to the best gyms and fitness classes in Austria and Switzerland. Our network of more than 800 exclusive partner studios guarantees choice, flexibility and quality. Thousands of customers use our product as well as more and more companies and insurances. By digitalizing the growingfitness market we are following our mission: Rethinking sports.
Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Stefan Schneider - CEO @ FLOOR13

Investment focus

B2B, FinTech, GovTech
Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

kompany — kompany is the RegTech platform for Global Business Verification and Business KYC providing the audit-proof, primary source, and time-stamped company information from 150+ jurisdictions in real-time. It is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has offices in Singapore and the UK. Since being founded in 2012, kompany has attracted a unique pool oftop developers, regulatory experts, and product managers from around the world. It is a government licensed clearing house and official distributor for commercial and business registers in multiple countries worldwide.

Don Hoang is the Partner of Atomico. He previously worked at Revolut as a Vice President of Global Business. Don Hoang attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

B2B, Social, FinTech
Pre-Seed
France, Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
consola.finance — consola.finance is business-to-business finance and accounting SaaS platform that aims to automate financial processes for Web3 businesses, including bookkeeping, reporting, and analytics.

Markus Grund

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

506 — 506 is a marketing data science pioneer for privacy-compliant analysis, visualization and activation of digital visitor and customer data. With its AI and cloud-based 506 customer intelligence platform and extensive marketing and data science expertise, enterprise data is transformed into sustainable business success.

David Niedermaier

Investment focus