Top 10 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2026
Top 10 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2026
| Investor | Automotive Austria investments |
|---|---|
| eQventure | 4 |
| COI Partners | 1 |
| SET Ventures | 1 |
| aws Gründungsfonds | 1 |
| UNIQA Ventures | 1 |
| Elevator Ventures | 1 |
| Smartworks Innovation | 1 |
| Speedinvest | 1 |
| EnBW New Ventures | 1 |
| austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) | 1 |
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- aTension.life — aTension.life is a company focused on advancing the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension through precision medicine. It employs cutting-edge mass spectrometry technology to identify the underlying causes of uncontrolled hypertension using a single blood sample. aTension.life aims to provide personalized diagnostic solutions that enhance patientcare and support laboratories with accurate and reliable tools. The company's mission is to improve the quality of life for hypertensive patients by making advanced diagnostics widely accessible and enabling more effective, individualized therapies.
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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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Restaurants
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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 €✅
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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- Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
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- Fuchs & Eule — VALYRIA is an expert in buying and selling apartment buildings.
- ETPA — Etpa, the energy trading platform driving the sustainability transition. Join us for transparent trades, innovative solutions, and the fastest platform.
- Frequenz — Frequenz empowers developers with innovative tools to orchestrate Decentralized Energy Resources (DERs) efficiently. Join us revolutionizing the way the world manages power.
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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
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- 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.
- Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
- HelloBello — HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..."
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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- FinTech, Insurance, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Elevator Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital Entity of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). Its focus is on early stage and growth investments in fintechs, enabling technologies in Central/Eastern Europe. Discover more!
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- FinTech, SaaS, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Austria, Germany, United States
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- Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
- Wultra — Wultra helps the leading banks and fintech companies to secure their digital systems and bring trust to the customer journeys. Our security-related software technologies cover the whole digital banking application stack, be it on the web or mobile platforms.
- Exnaton — Exnaton offers a flexible SaaS platform for the decarbonized, decentralized and digital energy future. We move ahead with energy communities. Exnaton offers software for energy communities and dynamic energy tariffs. With our SaaS solution, utilities can easily build a digital customer channel, offer new renewable energy products, and reduce manual effort for managing distributed resources. We enable energy communities according to REDII, models for shared investments in photovoltaic, batteries and more, collective self-consumption billing, self-consumption communities and participation models for tomorrow's energy market.
Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together.
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- Software, Energy, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Austria, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
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- Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.
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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- Software, Power Grid, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Austria, France
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- vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
- Hololight — Leading XR streaming technology platform, support for all XR Devices and an immersive AR and VR experience.
- Validaitor — Validaitor is the one-stop-shop that brings together AI red-teaming, governance, risk management and compliance management in a single environment.
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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Belgium
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- Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
- Aileen Health — Medical images detect tumors. What if they helped clinicians look ahead too, for guided therapy selection? Meet the GenAI companion Cancer4D.
- 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.
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