Top 10 Big Data Angel Investors in Austria (September 2026)

Alexander Zrost

Investment focus

Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

506.ai — 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.

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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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Siegfried Milly

Investment focus

Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

506.ai — 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.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

506.ai — 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.

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Markus Grund

Investment focus

Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
Stage:Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

506.ai — 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.

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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

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United Kingdom, Austria, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 102
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $1.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$23M
Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.

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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

Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
Stage:Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

506.ai — 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.

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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: 73
Round size: Seed $300k–$3.4M; Angel $350k–$630k; Pre-Seed $439k–$2.8M
Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% 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 — We customize reconciliation automation to your ecosystem, so every line item is reconciled in real time.

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Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $213k–$3.3M; Series A $12M–$15M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Terra One — Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems.
Calibre — Diagnostic testing, clinicians, and AI working together to help you deeply understand your health and how to improve it.
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

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