Top 50 Biotech Startup Investors in Austria in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotech startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotech companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Biotech Startup Investors in Austria in February 2025
We invest in deep tech startups and academic spin-offs with a strong innovation based on science, engineering and technology. We invest as lead investor in pre-seed and seed stages and have the ability to follow on in later rounds. We understand the needs of science and tech based startups and offer tailored support for entrepreneurs. We areembedded in the venture capital scene, yet understand the language of science and the world of research. Thanks to our diverse team, our expertise and experience in technology, entrepreneurship, finance, legal, IP, and strategic consulting will support your startup right from the start.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Austria, France, Slovenia
Portfolio highlights
- Syntropic — Syntropic is a medical device company that develops novel technologies that helps for the treatment of psychiatric diseases and the improvement of cognitive abilities.
- G.ST Antivirals — G.ST Antivirals focuses on the development of antiviral drugs. G.ST Antivirals utilizes the viral dependency on the host cell metabolism and exploits this to design specific interventions counteracting viral nutrient supply.
- HEPHAISTOS-Pharma — Hephaistos Pharma is a developing weapons firm. They provide services for oncology, immunotherapy, and cancer. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
We invest in deep tech startups and academic spin-offs with a strong innovation based on science, engineering and technology. We invest as lead investor in pre-seed and seed stages and have the ability to follow on in later rounds. We understand the needs of science and tech based startups and offer tailored support for entrepreneurs. We areembedded in the venture capital scene, yet understand the language of science and the world of research. Thanks to our diverse team, our expertise and experience in technology, entrepreneurship, finance, legal, IP, and strategic consulting will support your startup right from the start.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Austria, Slovenia
Portfolio highlights
- subdron — subdron focuses on data processing in underwater inspections and autonomous underwater navigation.
- infrared.city — Redefine environmental simulations. Our bespoke AI models revolutionise performative design, slashing time, cost, and complexity. Access cutting-edge services effortlessly because innovation should be for everyone
- VALANX Biotech — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.
tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
- Orderlion — Orderlion is aiming to become the gold standard for online ordering of restaurants & hotels from all their suppliers. Orderlion is already available in more than 20 cities in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and France with over 1.000 restaurants and hundreds of suppliers.Orderlion was designed for all types of hospitalitybusinesses (café, restaurant, hotel, chain). The order platform combines all suppliers and products in one app and enables customer-specific pricing. With little effort, the entire inventory of restaurants can be recorded and activated for automatic ordering processes. Orderlion counts numerous prominent restaurants among its customers. Orderlion was founded by Stefan Strohmer and Patrick Schubert in 2018 and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
- VALANX Biotech — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- HD Immune — HD Immune develops an antibody to target the mutated protein and remove it from the body. HDI has a lead antibody mAB C6-17 which lowers mtHTT in the blood and organs.
- Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
- revitalyze — revitalyze - AI Assistant for Construction
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Zusammen gestalten wir die Unternehmen von morgen.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Germany, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
- SciRhom — SciRhom GmbH is a biotech company that translates science into the preclinical and early clinical development of novel biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of life-threatening autoimmune diseases. Based on longstanding academic research and a well-established network of experts, SciRhom was founded in 2016 through a collaboration between academicand industry scientists with profound experience in antibody development.
- Innatera — Innatera is a Dutch nanotech company and an offspring of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
ARAX Capital Partners is an Austrian bio-tech and high-tech early stage investor with an exclusive focus on Austrian ventures. Companies need to be young, innovative (if possible with patentable technology) and must have already secured pre-seed funding to qualify for an investment
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- AFFiRiS — AFFiRiS AG, a Vienna, Austria-based developer of tailor-made peptide vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and several other conditions.
- Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
- Calyxha Biotechnologies GmbH — A new perspective on inflammation
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor
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Investment focus
- mHealth, Software, Biopharma
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- SCARLETRED — SCARLETRED is an international Digital Health Scaleup revolutionising the global skin care market by the AI powered SCARLETRED®VISION platform system. The problem we solved is subjective skin assessment and lacking standardization in Dermatology. Our medical device certified platform is fully mobile, runs via mobile App on smartphones and connectsto our web platform, which enables to generate smart imaging data and novel AI decision support applications in Dermatology and Telemedicine. The multi award winning technology is supplied international via SaaS to Biopharma and Cosmetics Industry, Hospitals and Medical Experts. Protected via worldwide patents it facilitates standardized skin documentation and remote tracking of skin changes and therapeutic effects via mobile App. Images can be uploaded in a cloud based platform and objectively analysed for visual skin changes over time, such as for allergic reactions, pigmentation changes, acne, psoriasis, disease or wound healing. SCARLETRED provides services on a broad range of dermatologic conditions ranging from B2B to B2B2C applications.
Founded in 2010, TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) is proud to be a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- eBots — EBots is a collaborative robotics startup devoted to the development and manufacturing of intelligent robotics for industrial applications. They develop autonomous robotics designed for use in industrial applications and their platform combines machine learning with physical models, enabling users to realize intuitive human-machine interface,dexterous manipulation, and precise assembly. The company's platform combines machine learning with physical models, enabling users to realize an intuitive-human machine interface, dexterous manipulation, and precise assembly.EBots was founded in 2016 and is based in Fremont, CA, USA.
- Forta — Forta delivers personalized, in-home ABA therapy so your child can thrive. Get connected with our therapy team and start your family's learning journey today.
- Ridge Security — Ridge Security helps improve efficiency of security operations by risk-based vulnerability management with AI-powered automated security validation.
We deploy early stage capital to fuel the growth of need-driven health technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Noah Labs — Noah Labs is a compant that creates AI-powered software solutions for medical care and research that help diagnose, manage illnesses, and guide interventions.
- Rivia — Integrated Clinical Trial Intelligence. Drive therapeutic evaluation and trial management with real-time insights.
- Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.
APEX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in start-ups grounded in unique and protectable technology. They provide support and resources and aims to develop their start-ups in their respective field. Their initial focus areas include digital media, business intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, and the future of work.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
- Robeaute — Redesigning the future of neurosurgery by creating the new standard device that will provide surgeons with seamless access to delicate areas of the brain parenchyma and with real-time data.
- HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
Cutting-edge venture capital firm supporting the early-stage entrepreneurs building global businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- iGent — iGent AI focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities into the software development process.
- Beyond Presence — Beyond Presence creates hyper-realistic digital twins and AI-driven Conversational Avatars that save you time and money. Elevate customer experiences with Beyond Presence: offer 24/7 multilingual customer support, guide your customers in their online journeys, and provide sales training or coaching. The possibilities are endless!
Fundamental Equity Investing, since 1998
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Finance
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nattergal — Nattergal is a company with a mission to deliver nature recovery at scale, to provide vital benefits for society and sustainable financial returns.
- G.ST Antivirals — G.ST Antivirals focuses on the development of antiviral drugs. G.ST Antivirals utilizes the viral dependency on the host cell metabolism and exploits this to design specific interventions counteracting viral nutrient supply.
- Oxford Quantum Circuits — We deliver Enterprise ready quantum solutions that are hybrid workload ready
Investing globally in technologies extending healthy lifespans
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Personal Health
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Yuva Biosciences — Using cutting edge mitochondrial science to develop cosmeceuticals and pharmaceuticals.
- MitoRx Therapeutics — Developing revolutionary mitochondrial-protective therapeutics which reverse mitochondrial dysfunction to arrest decline in muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration. MitoRx Therapeutics' first-in-class first-in-target platform has potential to arrest the progression of some of the most challenging diseases.
- Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
BackBone Ventures' focus are early-stage investments, primarly in the area of innovative ICT, FoodTech and disruptive technologies in DACH & Israel.
Committed to achieve a positive impact for the next generation by empowering access to proficient ventures investments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudsquid — is an an artificial intelligence based revenue orchestration company intended for companies with usage-based pricing models.
- CROWN — CROWN is modernizing procurement negotiations through ethical eAuctions.
- 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.
We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Marathon Fusion — The fuel cycle for fusion energy.
- Companion.energy — Companion.energy provides energy management, forecasting and flexibility software to bridge the gap between energy procurement and operations.
- Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
red-stars.com is an operative holding company that invests in and manages companies that provide mission-critical products and offerings to enable DIGITALIZATION and LIFE SCIENCES.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Telecommunications
- Funding Round, Seed
- Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Txture — Txture is an end-to-end cloud transformation platform for planning transformations, migration management and cloud infrastructure optimization.
- a:head bio — a:head aims to develop new therapeutics for the treatment of brain disorders based on human cerebral organoids
- HeartBeat.bio — HeartBeat.bio is a privately funded drug discovery company focusing on the development of a high-throughput 3D screening platform for heart failure and cardiomyopathies.
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tree.ly — Tree.ly enables forest owners to generate additional income. Companies can buy high-quality carbon credits.
- Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
- 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 ..."
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
- enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
- FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
R42 Group is a venture fund and an institute which invents, invests and informs covering AI, deep science, 5G mobile, biotech and fintech.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
- xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
- Senisca — Developing a new generation of senotherapeutic interventions to target the diseases and aesthetic signs of ageing.
bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin.
Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Livil — Livil provides a toolkit for designing and delivering flexible employee benefits, including lifestyle, dental, and vision plans.
- RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
- XenoPatch GmbH — First-ever portable device for pain management, seamlessly combines heat, cold and vibration treatment with an intuitive smartphone app.
APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical-focused venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
- HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
- TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.
The Aescap funds invest in highly innovative publicly traded biotech/life sciences companies. We're able to select the promising companies
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Chemical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Orphazyme — Orphazyme develops innovative new therapies for the treatment of a family of serious genetic disordes called lysosomal storage diseases, and is based on discoveries emerging from the academic laboratory of its scientific founders: Professor Marja Jäättela and Thomas Kirkegaard Jensen from the Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse).Orphazyme is based in Copenhagen and has established collaborations with top-tier academic institutions in Europe and USA.
- Avantium — Build a sustainable future with Avantium. Leading the change in green chemistry and innovative solutions.
- F-Star Therapeutics — F-star is a clinical stage biotech developing next generation immunotherapies to transform the lives of patients with cancer. We are developing transformational cancer immunotherapies for patients who have few remaining options.
Impacting the future of medicine.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Aiolos Bio — Long Description: Aiolos Bio is a biotech company focused on developing therapies for respiratory diseases like asthma as well as other immune conditions. The company is initially focused on advancing AIO-001, a monoclonal antibody therapy for moderate-to-severe asthma that only requires dosing every 6 months. Aiolos Bio was founded by anaccomplished team with decades of drug development experience and leadership in the biotech industry.
- Tessellate BIO — Tessellate BIO is redefining synthetic lethality in cancer beyond homologous recombination deficiency, turning cancer patients into cancer surivivors.
- Rampart Bioscience — Rampart Bioscience develops gene medicines to provide long-lasting treatments for a wide range of diseases. It also offers proprietary development and delivery platforms, which together, create optimized therapeutics in a revocable, non-viral format. It also assists patients with genetically driven diseases by integrating capabilities from avariety of key scientific disciplines including gene delivery, protein sciences, and clinical translation.
ICL Startup Accelerator focuses on foodtech and crop nutrition startups, innovative products, and accelerates their market penetration
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Agriculture, Organic Food
- Seed
- Israel, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Lavie bio — Improve food quality, agricultural sustainability and productivity through the introduction of microbiome based ag-biological products.
- Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon converts CO2 into resources to power tomorrow's industries.
Santo Holding is a Zurich-based investment firm funding biotechnology, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and healthcare companies.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Energy, Medical
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- AFFiRiS — AFFiRiS AG, a Vienna, Austria-based developer of tailor-made peptide vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and several other conditions.
- SuppreMol — SuppreMol is a privately held biotechnology company that pioneers a novel approach for the treatment of autoimmune diseases which could lead to the cure of these disorders instead of merely treating their symptoms.
- Efficient Energy — Efficient Energy GmbH is an innovative manufacturer and system supplier of environmentally friendly refrigeration technology, based in Feldkirchen near Munich, Germany. The company developed the Bluezero-technology, which uses water as a refrigerant and and thereby entirely avoids fluorinated refrigerants (HFCs). Efficient Energy helps itscustomers overcome the increasing regulatory challenges of refrigeration technology, and offers them long-term, sustainable solutions with its eChiller model range. The eChiller chilled water units are ideally suited for process cooling, machine cooling and the cooling of technical equipment and data centres and provide cooling capacities from 35 kW to 120 kW, depending on the model. With its outstanding cost efficiency and low CO2 footprint, companies benefit on many fronts. The pioneering technology has also been noticed by politics and the media, and has received multiple awards for the eChiller. These include among others the European Business Award for the Environment 2018/2019 from the European Comission and the Red Herring Europe Top 100 in 2020.
Valnon Holding is an investment firm that invest in early-stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Lignovations — Lignovations develops high-performance ingredients from biomass. Accelerating the transition to a sustainable society.
Axilium Holding
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Investment focus
- Life Science, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Sarcura — Sarcura GmbH is an Austrian deep-tech startup developing an instrument platform for the industrial manufacturing of advanced cell therapies. Our platform combines silicon chip technology and microfluidic processing to enable real-time process control and manipulation on a cellular level, enabling a fully automated and modular manufacturing system..
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Sweden, India
Portfolio highlights
- Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
- The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
- Cultimate Foods — Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company. It develops cultivated fat for hybrid alt-meat products. It's cultivated fat replicates the structure of animal fat tissue and it uses a "unique technological approach to 3D cultivation that creates the structure of their ingredient and reduces production costs."
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria. As a "one-stop shop" offering a diversified and targeted programme portfolio, the FFG gives Austrian businesses and research facilities quick and uncomplicated access to research funding.The FFG was foundedon 1 September 2004 (pursuant to the FFG Act on establishing a research promotion agency, Federal Law Gazette I No. 73/2004). The FFG is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria, represented by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). As a provider of funding services, however, the FFG also works for other national and international institutions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Grant, Seed, Angel
- Austria, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Impact AI — Impact AI is the platform for delivering impactful human-centric AI technology and products.
- Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
- simplify.art — simplify.art is building a safe admin and communication platform for artists and collectors. It is the first tool with a fully unlimited free basic version. The first service with data sharing between users. And the first to integrate an ecosystem of others working tools (insurance coming summer 2023). In fall 2023 simplify.art will launch a thefirst AI-curated market place that can suggest artworks based on their context and meaning.
Crédit Agricole CIB specialises in the businesses of capital markets and investment and corporate banking.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ShowYou — They are developing the first digital solution dedicated to real estate developers for the management of acquisition modifying works (TMA). They created the first configurator in interactive plans allowing the customer to study his own modifications under the control of the promoter. With SHOW YOU: - save time - clarify and make the work morereliable - improve the satisfaction of your customers
- Reden Solar — Reden Solar develops, finances, builds, and operates solar photovoltaic power plants in Europe and Latin America with an installed portfolio of 762MW and a portfolio under development of 15GW. France and Spain are its main markets, and it has recently expanded its presence in Greece and Italy.
- Vestiaire Collective — Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items.The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future bypromoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day.Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.
Techno Venture Management is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on healthcare industry.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Streaming21 — Checkout the full domain details of Streaming21.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
- Revolt Technology — ReVolt Technology is a technology company, which is developing a rechargeable zinc-air battery. ReVolt's batteries may enable more high-power consumer devices, electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The technology is a result of six years of intense research and development at SINTEF (the largest independent research institute inScandinavia). Research on material combinations has solved issues historically related to the metal-air technology; power, lifetime and rechargeability.
- Helomics — Helomics® is a comprehensive personalized healthcare company, bringing the next generation of diagnostics to the oncology field. Helomics is dedicated to improving patient outcomes by providing a personalized comprehensive tumor profile utilizing a proprietary set of laboratory platforms that leverage both tissue-based live and fixed cellular basedanalysis allowing physicians to characterize malignant tumors on a personalized basis. Helomics’ novel molecular and cellular markers and bioinformatics services support treatment decisions by providing vital information based on the specific biological processes of each individual’s cancer.
Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm on a mission to invest in planet-positive startups building the Future of Earth.
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Investment focus
- Electronics, B2B, Biotechnology
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
- NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
- Brineworks — Brineworks is making sustainble CO2 and H2 production afforable. The building blocks for green fuels - from seawater.
Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
- HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
- Hippos Exoskeleton — Hippos Exoskeleton created an auto-inflating knee brace to avoid tears in the ACL and other injuries.
FCPG Affi
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Investment focus
- Medical, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- Funding Round
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- AFFiRiS — AFFiRiS AG, a Vienna, Austria-based developer of tailor-made peptide vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and several other conditions.
4SC discovers and develops targeted, small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases in indications with high unmet medical needs. These drugs are intended to provide innovative treatment options that are more tolerable and efficacious, and provide a better quality of life.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Panoptes Pharma — Panoptes is a privately held biotech company focused on developing small molecule based therapies for the treatment of severe eye diseases with high unmet medical need. Panoptes is located in the city center of Vienna, Austria.The development of Panoptes´ clinical candidate PP-001 focuses on a new treatment for autoimmune uveitis, a disease whichis one of the major causes of blindness. As a second indication, adenoviral conjunctivitis will be pursued, a disease for which to date, no treatment is available. Due to its unique mode of action, PP-001 has therapeutic potential for additional inflammatory and viral indications.Panoptes has an experienced team of development experts with a proven track record of developing and commercializing innovative products. The team is developing a focused portfolio of high-performance small molecule products, with its lead clinical candidate PP-001 in preclinical development.
Simon Capital is an early-stage VC fund with €105M capital ready to invest in innovations that will improve our everyday lives, following the mission of investing “for the next generation”.
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- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Austria
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- Infinite Roots — Mushlabs is a biotech company using fermentation to create the next generation of sustainable foods from the roots of mushrooms.
- Neople — Every employee deserves an assistant. Meet the Neople, and increase your productivity simply by starting a conversation with them. Trained on your documents, available in your pocket.
- Pacifico Biolabs — Pacifico Biolabs offers fermentation biotechnology for development, production and distribution of sustainable and food alternatives.
Lansdowne Investment Company Cyprus
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- Life Science, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
- Seed
- Austria
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- Sarcura — Sarcura GmbH is an Austrian deep-tech startup developing an instrument platform for the industrial manufacturing of advanced cell therapies. Our platform combines silicon chip technology and microfluidic processing to enable real-time process control and manipulation on a cellular level, enabling a fully automated and modular manufacturing system..
Amino Collective is an institutional venture capital firm investing at seed stage in health and bio companies. They help bring life-changing ideas to life by backing, connecting, and advancing our collective of entrepreneurs and scientists. The firm intends to invest in the sectors of biology, biotech, health tech, science, digital health, lifescience, and synthetic biology.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Rivia — Integrated Clinical Trial Intelligence. Drive therapeutic evaluation and trial management with real-time insights.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
- Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.
NovaCapital invests in the union between entrepreneurs and innovation. It offers international and managerial experience, to transform innovative start-ups and already established companies into structured companies, with managerial skills and an international network.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Austria
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- Ekore — Miglioriamo la gestione degli edifici ottimizzando i consumi e la gestione delle manutenzioni tramite il concetto di Digital Twin.
- ISAAC — ISAAC is an innovative tech company at the forefront of enhancing structural resilience through advanced active mass damper systems. Specializing in seismic and wind protection, ISAAC's solutions dynamically improve the stability of existing buildings and infrastructure. Utilizing non-invasive retrofitting techniques, our active mass dampersenhance the safety and comfort of structures under dynamic loads without altering their original aesthetics. This approach not only safeguards buildings during natural events but also contributes to greener construction practices by avoiding extensive reconstruction, aligning with sustainable development goals in urban environments.
- Newarc srl — With the help of technology, we simplify and improve the home buying and selling process.
Investing at the intersection of climate and health.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, Austria
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- Clearly.Earth — Decarbonise your fleet whilst saving costs
- Turnover Labs — Turnover Labs strives to decarbonize the chemical production business and transform how the world generates petrochemicals.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
IPO Beteiligungs-Management is a private equity company specialized in early stage venture investments.
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- Sensor, Medical, Wireless
- Series B, Funding Round
- Austria
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- SensorDynamics — SensorDynamics was a European semiconductor and MEMS company specialized in developing and manufacturing high-volume micro- and wireless semiconductor sensor products for applications in automotive, industry and high-end consumer sectors. The company was acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2011 for $164 million. SensorDynamics developed and producedcustom-made designs and standard components for use in vehicle stabilization, occupant protection, navigation systems, keyless go systems and autonomous energy generators for wireless and battery free controllers for industrial, automotive and high-end consumer application.[5] With its headquarters in Graz, Austria, SensorDynamics had offices in Italy and Germany and a worldwide sales and distribution network. The company employed about 130 people in 2011.
- EUCODIS Bioscience — EUCODIS Bioscience is an experienced enzyme engineering company, providing industrial customers with high-performing enzymes. Their customers are leaders in the chemical, the pharmaceutical, the food and feed and cosmetics industries.
The European Venture Fund that backs gender-diverse founder teams.
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- AgTech, EdTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom
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- Senvo — Centralized last mile data analytics for optimization, automation, and financial transparency.
- Sirius — Sirius is an online music platform. They offer digital space for music teaching with sound and data protection, enabling musicians to create their virtual music classrooms. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
- Cordon Technologies — Cordon Technologies manufactures Cost-effective, environmentally sensitive, vineyard automation solutions.
A genetic medicines company developing first-in-class, non-viral, targeted nucleic acid therapeutics utilizing a proprietary gene monoclonal antibody (GMAB) platform technology.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Corporate Round, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- United States, Austria
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- Novan — Pelthos Therapeutics is a specialty bio-pharmaceutical organization committed to commercializing innovative, safe, and efficacious therapeutic products to help patients with unmet treatment burdens.
- Agenus — Our mission is to the power of the immune system to bring affordable, curative therapies to cancer patients
- invIOs — invIOs is a private biotechnology company that specializes in the discovery and development of next-generation cancer therapies that empower and educate the immune system to fight cancer.
GLS Ventures
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- Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Funding Round
- Austria
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- Nabriva Therapeutics — Nabriva Therapeutics is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative anti-infective agents to treat serious infections.
IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt is a venture capital firm makes investments in territories such as Germany and Denmark.
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- Electronics, Software, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria
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- Livil — Livil provides a toolkit for designing and delivering flexible employee benefits, including lifestyle, dental, and vision plans.
- Wingfield — Wingfield develops a system intended to transform any tennis court in the world into a smart court. The system is a combination of hardware and artificial intelligence and keeps track of the score, analyzes strokes and gives personal feedback right after matches or practice sessions and the system only costs a fraction of a professional system andis easily set up, enabling players to get the same game analytics as the professionals do.
- Baby Sweets — Baby Sweets provides Online shop for beautiful and unusual baby clothes and accessories.Sales of own brands made in EU as well as international brands.
PONTIS Capital manages two funds with total commitments of more than EUR 60 million, and is actively investing out of its second fund, PONTIS Growth Capital II (“PGC II”). The focus of PGC II is to invest in small and medium-sized growth companies with Established technology or other competitive advantage Existing proof-of-market in marketswith growth potential,Scalable business models, andHeadquarters in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Austria, Germany
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- evidanza — evidanza GmbH is a software provider of business intelligence solutions for reporting, planification, OLAP-analysis, risk management, costs calculations, IFRS- and USGAAP-reporting. The company is headquartered in Salching, Germany.
- SensorDynamics — SensorDynamics was a European semiconductor and MEMS company specialized in developing and manufacturing high-volume micro- and wireless semiconductor sensor products for applications in automotive, industry and high-end consumer sectors. The company was acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2011 for $164 million. SensorDynamics developed and producedcustom-made designs and standard components for use in vehicle stabilization, occupant protection, navigation systems, keyless go systems and autonomous energy generators for wireless and battery free controllers for industrial, automotive and high-end consumer application.[5] With its headquarters in Graz, Austria, SensorDynamics had offices in Italy and Germany and a worldwide sales and distribution network. The company employed about 130 people in 2011.
- EUCODIS Bioscience — EUCODIS Bioscience is an experienced enzyme engineering company, providing industrial customers with high-performing enzymes. Their customers are leaders in the chemical, the pharmaceutical, the food and feed and cosmetics industries.
Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health. It focuses on the fields of public engagement, investments, innovation, humanities, and social science.
It was founded in 1936 and headquartered in London, England.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Grant, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Vaxxas — Vaxxas develops and commercializes needle-free vaccine delivery system. Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.
- DataDotOrg — data.org brings together philanthropy, technology, academia, and social impact organizations to build the field of data science for social impact.
- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research — Feinstein Institute For Medical Research is the research arm of Northwell Health, the largest health care provider and private employer in New York State. Home to 50 research labs, 3,000 clinical research studies and 5,000 researchers and staff, the Feinstein Institutes raises the standard of medical innovation through its five institutes ofbehavioral science, bioelectronic medicine, cancer, health innovations and outcomes, and molecular medicine. We make breakthroughs in genetics, oncology, brain research, mental health, autoimmunity, and are the global scientific leader in bioelectronic medicine – a new field of science that has the potential to revolutionize medicine.
Air Street Capital invests in AI-first companies.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
- Odyssey — The next frontier of artificial intelligence: world models.
- Profluent Bio — Profluent Bio is an AI-first protein design company that designs novel, optimal proteins that bypass existing barriers in industry.
Tet Ventures is one of the most active global food-tech investors. We work with and invest in technology that can improve the food system.
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- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Afterlife Ag — Eliminate organic waste from going into landfills. Peat upcycles your food waste into fresh, sustainable, and delicious mushrooms.
- FORAY bioscience — FORAY bioscience is a biotechnology company that uses biomanufacturing techniques to produce wood products.
- Prolific Machines — Prolific Machines harnesses light to produce everyday essentials more efficiently, from food and lifesaving drugs to novel biosolutions.
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