Top 10 Automotive Startup Investors in Austria (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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eQventure
VC Fund
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4 | Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$6.6M |
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Hermann Hauser
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Austria, Italy | Series A, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $1.1M–$22M |
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EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Austria, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid | $1.4M–$28M |
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SET Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Energy, Software, Renewable Energy | $3.9M–$27M |
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UNIQA Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Insurance, Health Care | $439k–$125M |
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austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Belgium | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $44k–$2.7M |
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Smartworks Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Software, Energy, Mobile | $1.1M–$8.3M |
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Franz Fuchsberger
Angel
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1 | Austria | Series A | Railroad, Software, Education | $2.3M–$2.3M |
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COI Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Private Equity, Series A | Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Restaurants | |
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aws Gründungsfonds
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.1M–$12M |
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $549k–$1.2M; Series A $768k–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Diamens — Diamens is a company focused on femtech that develops a non-invasive menstrual blood-based molecular diagnostic to detect women-specific diseases like endometriosis.
- Respory — Respory provides real-time people-tracking using proprietary radar sensors, all without capturing personal data. Our scalable sensor network, powered by AI-driven algorithms, delivers precise customer journey insights, critical for in-store performance in retail.
- 2nd Cycle — 2nd Cycle creating a cost-effective, fully automated, and scalable solution for modules for a second life cycle.
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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Austria, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.6M; Series A $1.3M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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
- Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Austria, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$11M; Series A $4.2M–$12M; Series B $5.5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $106M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sunhat — Sunhat empowers sustainability teams to deliver audit-ready responses for customer questionnaires, reporting checklists and ESG ratings.
- Hololight — Leading XR streaming technology platform, support for all XR Devices and an immersive AR and VR experience.
- Greenbird Integration Technology — Greenbird - a VC backed B2B SaaS - provides Utilihive, the Operating System for the Platformed Digital Utility and Energy Cloud. Utilihive is the Domain specific iPaaS purpose-built for Utilities driving the Digital Transformation and empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial IoT.Greenbird’s Utilihive is in full Productive Operationsfor Utilities serving moire than 65 million Clients in Scandinavia, Germany, UK, Middle East and Far East.Greenbird is recognized as Though Leader with Digital Innovation for the ongoing Energy Revolution.Greenbird is an Enterprise SaaS company offering Utilihive the Smart Utility Hub empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).Utilihive is a Big Data Integration Platform (Domain specific iPaaS) purpose built for Utilities. Utilihive is the “Operating System” for Smart Energy Services and the Energy Cloud.
SET propels founders from early growth to European scale. We invest in and grow the solutions powering the digital energy economy.
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Series A $3.9M–$12M; Series B $8.2M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- DEPsys — Our advanced smart grid solutions and insights empower electricity DSOs and simplify their journeys through the energy transition.
- Trunkrs — Wij leveren pakketten tussen 17:00 & 22:00, Sneller, groener en vriendelijker. Same Day & Next Day bezorging door heel Nederland en Vlaanderen.
- Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.
UNIQA Ventures GmbH is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, a leading insurance carrier in Central & Eastern Europe and a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Austria and CEE. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future ofkey industries. Investment areas are the future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and FinTech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $439k–$5.3M; Series A $5M–$13M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
- GoUrban — goUrban offers mobility solutions for sharing operators and B2B fleet management. The way of transportation and mobility is changing rapidly. For operating smarter and using the opportunities of the sharing economy we provide you our fleet management OS.
- doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.
The Austrian Economic Service mbH (aws) is the promotional bank of the Federal Government.The aws SME fund is the largest Austrian Fund for silent corporate investments, but also providers of equity. Founded in late 2009 by the Austrian Economic Service mbH (aws) - the Development Bank of the Federal - he has a term until 31/12/2025.The fund is currently endowed with EUR 80 million and participates in medium-sized companies and brings with it a fresh capital to develop new products or processes, for sales development to international expansion.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $439k–$2.7M; Grant $62k–$603k; Pre-Seed $44k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Digicust — Extend your existing customs software by adding AI customs agents to automate customs declarations and save time and money.
- Repentium — Repentium serves industrial manufacturers seeking reproducible, cost-efficient 3D printing and engineering-grade plastic parts.
- Another Earth — Another Earth is building an AI-powered simulation and synthetic data platform for Earth Observation. As our planet changes, AI models need scalable, high-quality training data to keep pace. Another Earth provides synthetic data, scenario simulations and predictions required to accelerate AI development, and enable faster, smarterdecision-making—enabling smarter decisions for a more resilient world.
Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together.
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.3M; Series A $1.6M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Necture — NECTURE empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced dataanalytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future. NECTURE is building a world where electric fleets are not only possible, but thrive.
- 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.
- triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.
Franz Fuchsberger is a Senior Partner at eQventure.
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- Industry: Railroad, Software, Education
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Co-Investor Partners is a private equity investor focused on mid-sized growth companies in German-speaking countries – with offices in Zurich, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. It has conducted direct investments for the last 21 years, supporting mid-sized companies in growth phases.Co-Investor Partner seeks to invest in companies ranking #1-3 ineach market with double-digit underlying company's growth, proven business models with at least EUR 10m in revenues and positive unit economics and energetic, visonary teams with proven managerial skills. Focused industries include Health-/Medtech/ Diagnostics, E-Commerce/ Retail Tech, SaaS/ Digital Services/ IT-Security, Advanced Materials/ Specialty Chemistry and Automation/ Robotics. The firms sweet spot are equity tickets between EUR 15-25 (including follow-on investments). Co-Investor Partners benefits from its highly professional investment team as well as its stable network of entrepreneurs that provide investment capital as shareholders of the group and co-investors for direct investments. Co-Investor Partners builds on a wealth of experience from more than 50 equity investments and has 11 active investments under management currently in various sectors. Among the successful investments are Mister Spex (partial exit through IPO), Fixatti (sold to listed chemical company Arkema), Euroimmun (sold to the US laboratory specialists PerkinElmer) and Casualfood (exit to Orior AG). The group consists of Co-Investor AG, Zürich, as well as its three wholly-owned subsidiaries of Co-Investor Deutschland GmbH, EVP Capital Management AG and Co-Investor Financial Services GmbH headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Restaurants
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Freaks 4U — Freaks 4U is a marketing agency that offers corporate communications, in-house media, and productions for gaming and esports.
- Mister Spex — Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.
- Keller Sports — Clothing, shoes, equipment ➤⭐ over 150 premium brands for your sport ➤10% KELLER Premium-discount*✨ ➤Free shipping from 150 €✅
aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.2M; Series A $1.1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Upnano — Upnano engages in the manufacture and commercialization of 3D printing systems.
- OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
- vitrealab — Enlighten. Your perspective. Light Engines for AR glasses.
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