Top 15 B2B Angel Investors in Austria (July 2026)

Russell co-founded kompany together with his long-time friends and business partners. He drives the direction of the business and loves finding business opportunities others might have overlooked. Prior to a short exec stint where he returned to the telco world in South Africa, Russell was the start-up CEO of the largest people-search engine withmore than 50 million monthly uniques, operating in 13 countries in 11 languages. He expanded the company from a garage operation to a profitable business within six months and oversaw the sale to a publishing company for EUR 15 million, generating up to a 5x return for private and the Austrian venture fund gamma capital partners within 18 months. For nearly six years Russell was a member of the senior management team at the online gaming company bwin. He led product management betting with more than EUR 2.5 billion in wagers, established strategic and media partnerships in 25 countries and was instrumental in establishing bwin as the dominant player in mobile gaming.Russell's mobile and telecommunications roots go back to 1998 when he joined Austria's third mobile operator ONE (which first became Orange Austria and then Hutchison 3 Austria) as head of product management data. There he oversaw several European firsts, such as mobile banking, SMS content services, SMS payment for vending machines and the first real-time multi-user gaming platform. Russell then joined Telefonica Movile's 3G Mobile AG in Zurich as Director of Products & Services where he defined and led the launch portfolio of the 3G green field mobile operator. Russell was born in New York City but lived in Austria for half of his childhood. He holds a BA in International Studies from Maryville College, a Master's in European Integration, and a dual MSc/MAS graduate degree in Telematics Management. Russell has enjoyed teaching several post-graduate courses on telecommunication and business modeling at his Alma Mater, Danube University Krems and other universities.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, B2B, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

sproof — Sproof is an online document signing solution that allows users to sign documents with a digital signature. The company is based in Puch Bei Hallein, Austria.
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.

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Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 226
Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $4.3M–$20M
Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance
Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions

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Stefan Schneider - CEO @ FLOOR13

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, FinTech, GovTech
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad is based out of Vienna, Wien, and is the CEO of Bitpanda. Lukas previously worked at Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien as a Head of Department Digitalization & Innovation. Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad attended WU Vienna. Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad has been Certified Product Owner.

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Analytics, Accounting
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!

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director

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Analytics, Accounting
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!

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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

Industry: Software, Health Care, Fitness
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 70
Round size: Seed $300k–$4.1M; Angel $329k–$603k; Pre-Seed $439k–$2.7M
Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.
Donnerstag.ai — Build, run and scale financial reconciliations across your core financial data and systems.

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Don brings extensive experience building and scaling companies, from early-stage ventures to public market leaders. He has held leadership roles at Revolut and Uber, and serves as a scout for Sequoia Capital, supporting high-growth startups across sectors. His work bridges technology, capital, and operational excellence to help businesses navigatecomplexity and deliver lasting impact.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Analytics, B2B
Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom, France, Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.3M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
Condukt — Scale compliance into growth and efficiency with real-time data and AI agents.
consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!

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technology investor

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Analytics, Accounting
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!

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David Chreng-Messembourg - Co-Founder and General Partner @ LeadBlock Partners

Investment focus

Industry: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
Geography: Austria, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Series B $11M–$30M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
Vinter — Making smarter indexes for crypto ETF issuers.
consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!

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Christophe Lassuyt co-founded Request Finance, the ultimate enterprise finance platform for crypto and fiat. The product helps Startups and Enterprises manage everything crypto and fiat: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accounting, Payroll, Employee Expenses, Crypto Payments, and Fiat Payments to 170+ countries.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, B2B
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: France, Austria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Seed $2M–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Focus Tree — Focus Tree is a web3 productivity software designed to combat social media addiction that pays users for putting down phones.
Rewardable — Turn your spare time into extra cash with simple online tasks and micro-jobs. Earn money whenever and wherever you like.
Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.

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Christian Trummer is based out of Vienna, Vienna and is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Bitpanda. Christian previously worked at MRM Systems GmbH as a Lead Software Engineer.

Investment focus

Industry: Big Data, Blockchain, Developer APIs
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geography: Austria, Germany, Czech Republic

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Bavest — Bavest is a Fintech company from Germany, democratizing financial data insights for retail investors and other companies. The platform provides powerful tools and comprehensive data to help retail investors make smarter investment decisions. Bavest also provides APIs and Whitelabel Solutions for other companies that want to enable their customersor clients investment intelligence.
ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
Tatum — Tatum is a blockchain development platform designed to assist developers in building applications on the blockchain.The company is a platform for building blockchain infrastructure that offers developers an easy-to-use application programming interface (API), allowing them to incorporate blockchain into their products quickly and effortlessly.Tatum was established on June 4, 2018 by Jiri Kobelka and Samuel Šramko in London, England.

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Alexander Brix - COO and Co-founder @ Accordium

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Software, Analytics
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.4M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!

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Paul Klanschek is based out of Austria and currently works as a Board of Directors for Bitpanda. Paul previously worked at Bitpanda as a Co-Founder,CEO. Paul Klanschek attended the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, PaaS, Banking
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: United Kingdom, Austria, Czech Republic

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.8M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

KAIKAKU — Creating the best restaurant experiences through vertically integrated hardware, software and AI.
Tatum — Tatum is a blockchain development platform designed to assist developers in building applications on the blockchain.The company is a platform for building blockchain infrastructure that offers developers an easy-to-use application programming interface (API), allowing them to incorporate blockchain into their products quickly and effortlessly.Tatum was established on June 4, 2018 by Jiri Kobelka and Samuel Šramko in London, England.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

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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

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 51
Round size: Seed $110k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$28M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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.

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