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Top 25 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Austria

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Austria

Investor	Artificial intelligence Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	7
Hermann Hauser	5
Patrick Poschl	4
Schnidar Harald	3
Rene Schneider	2
Bernhard Niesner	1
Qasar Younis	1
Gunther Birkner	1
Johannes Braith	1
Sander van de Rijdt	1
Axel Kühner	1
Gerhard Kürner	1
Max Schnoedl	1
Wolfgang Platz	1
Timmu Tõke	1
Norbert Mühlburger	1
Alexander Zrost	1
Franz Fuchsberger	1
Leo Strohmayr	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Markus Grund	1
Geoff Renaud	1
Rafael Vartian	1
Siegfried Milly	1
Ibrahim Imam	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 is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Austria, 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bench IQ — Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing.
Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
Kinetic Automation — Effortless modern vehicle maintenance. Service electric and autonomous vehicles at scale with effortless speed and precision using our all-in-one, in-the-box digital vehicle maintenance solution.

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.

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.

After studying at the Vienna University of Technology and Vienna University of Economics, Sander worked for an international consulting group. From 2006, he has launched several IT companies in partnership with Ibrahim. At PlanRadar, he’s mainly responsible for management and finance.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Construction
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".

Axel Kühner is the CEO of Greiner. He attended VWA Stuttgart | Academy of Administration and Economics.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Circly — Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further:Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to thecompany at any time.With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies.Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!

Gerhard Kürner is the Founder and CEO of 506, a fast-growing data & performance solution provider servicing partners, retail market leaders, global industry groups and fast-rising consumer brands.Gerhard Kürner grew up in a family full of entrepreneurs and started testing and learning with the first available home computer system in the mid80s. Starting his professional career in the early 90´s with the introduction of CD-Interactive, Gerhard Kürner has always been on the leading edge of communication of brands and people. As a result, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Advertising in 1995. He helped to build up one of Austrias first privat television stations and one of the first nationwide digital streaming services in 2000. After the acquisition by Austrias largest publisher group he worked on the transition of voestalpine , the largest stock traded Austrian industry group. He helped turning the old fashioned Austrian steel maker into a global technology leader. During this time Gerhard Kürner won several global awards and was also responsible for the development and construction of the voestalpine Stahlwelt, which has since achieved worldwide recognition.In 2015 Gerhard Kürner took a share in an advertising agency in Linz. Together with his partners, he developed Lunik2 into one of the top 3 advertising agencies in Upper Austria by 2019. In November 2019, he founded 506, a solution provider for AI-driven and data-based marketing, which he heads as CEO.Selfmade entrepreneur Gerhard Kürner is always searching for new and better ways to build up businesses and to support people to do so. As a Business Angel and member of startup advisory boards, he lectures at various universities. He was part of the jury for the Austrian State Prize for Public Relations and also a board member at the Public Relations Association of Austria from 2011 to 2013. Kürner is married, has three children and lives in Wels, Austria.

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.

Max Schnoedl is an independent board director, advisor and investor.He currently serves as Chairman emeritus of Springbrook. Previously, Max was President/CEO of Springbrook and COO, CFO and CSO of Accela. In addition, he also served as Board Chair of BRZ, Deputy Board Chair of Österreichische Post and Investment Committee Member ofÖsterreichische Beteiligungs AG. Prior to that, Max served as the Vice President of Deutsche Bank in San Francisco and New York, and previously held positions in Moscow, Russia and Frankfurt, Germany. Max holds an MBA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Austria, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Cohart — Cohart is a vertical marketplace for creators and their collectors. Creators build storefronts, meet collectors, and monetize/manage their communities – while next-gen consumers discover, collect, and re-sell. Starting with art and expanding to other creative collectible verticals in the future.
Circly — Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further:Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to thecompany at any time.With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies.Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!
medudoc — medudoc is a Berlin based digital health start-up that aims to digitalize the analog process of patient education prior to a medical intervention.

Wolfgang Platz is currently working at VIPASO, Katharo Ventures, and eQventure.

Investment focus

Software, Railroad, Education
Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
nista.io — gnista.io is a no code data clearing tool for energy managers.

Founder of Wolfprint 3D.

Investment focus

3D Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.

Norbert Muehlburger serves as CEO and Chairman of the Advisory Board of WESTCAM Beteiligungs - & Management GmbH.

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.

Alexander Zrost

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.

Co-Founder at Tricentis - the "Disruptor" in Software Test Management & -Automation.

Investment focus

Railroad, Software, Education
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training

Leo Strohmayr is the Founder and Managing Director at Anwert Technologies AG.

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.

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.

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.

Geoff Renaud

Investment focus

Music, 3D Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Joyn — Joyn is a collaborative platform designed to support the large-scale co-creation of Web3 media.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
Medallion — Medallion is homebase for artists.

Rafael Vartian

Investment focus

Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics
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

Siegfried Milly

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.

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.

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