# Top 10 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in June 2026 ## eQventure - Type: VC Fund - Location: Graz, Steiermark, Austria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs ## SET Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy SET propels founders from early growth to European scale. We invest in and grow the solutions powering the digital energy economy. ## Elevator Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, SaaS 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! ## Smartworks Innovation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round - Focus: Software, Energy, Mobile Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together. ## EnBW New Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid 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. ## SMAPE Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency blockchain, crypto fund, DeFi, bitcoin, investment, VC, Europe, NFT, token economies, network effects, infrastructure, AI, IoT, industry 4.0, Web 3.0, polkadot, ethereum, Kusama, Germany, legitimate, Tier 1, T1, Berlin, London, Global focus, investor, fund, venture capital, pure token fund ## aws Gründungsfonds - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## UNIQA Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Health Care 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. ## Speedinvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## COI Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Restaurants 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.