Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Austria (October 2026)
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Johann Hansmann
Angel
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6 | Austria, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Fitness | $300k–$3.4M |
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DN Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $1M–$82M |
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2.5M–$100M |
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eQventure
VC Fund
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4 | Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$6.3M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $411k–$32M |
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austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)
VC Fund
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4 | Austria, Belgium | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $61k–$2.7M |
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Pioneers Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Austria, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, E-Commerce, Apps | $182k–$3.2M |
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Wellness, Software | $538k–$18M |
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Hansmann Family Office
VC Fund
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3 | Spain, Austria, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Lifestyle | $433k–$5.8M |
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Alfred Luger
Angel
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3 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, E-Learning | $650k–$3.6M |
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CADFEM International
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Austria, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Medical, Railroad, Software | $954k–$3.9M |
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Arkley - The Accelerator VC
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Finland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Wearables, Consumer Electronics, Apps | |
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Jürgen Habichler
Angel
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2 | Austria | Seed, Series A | Toys, Sports, Fitness | $329k–$500k |
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Gateway Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, Italy | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.5M–$11M |
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Hermann Hauser
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Austria, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $1.1M–$40M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $50k–$5M |
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The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, United States, Belgium | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Medical | $67k–$2.8M |
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Oliver Sonnleithner
Angel
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2 | Austria | Seed | E-Learning, Music, Music Education | $682k–$1.2M |
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Fund F
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Sustainability, AgTech | $768k–$5M |
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Philipp Kinsky
Angel
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1 | Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Recipes, Software | |
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Joerg Floeck
Angel
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1 | Austria, United States | Angel, Series A | Apps, SaaS, EdTech | $500k–$771k |
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Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, Germany, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Education, E-Learning, Software | $793k–$10M |
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Bernhard Niesner
Angel
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1 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Learning, Apps | $650k–$7.4M |
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AD Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | Education, Publishing | |
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European Social Innovation and Impact Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | Education, Publishing | |
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Kirkside Management
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Pre-Seed | Audio, Music, Marketplace | |
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APEX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $552k–$28M |
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FASE Finanzierungsagentur für Social Entrepreneurship
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany | Seed | Education, Recycling, Publishing | |
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GoBeyond
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $495k–$5.1M |
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Econnoa
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Angel | EdTech, Tutoring, Education | |
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Remote Control Productions, Inc
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Angel | Audio, Music, Marketplace | |
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Travel, E-Commerce, Software | $393k–$11M |
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CapitalT
VC Fund
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1 | The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $585k–$11M |
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Rene Giretzlehner
Angel
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1 | Austria, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, B2B, Apps | |
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Tiny VC
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $750k–$27M |
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Christian Kaar
Angel
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1 | Austria, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Apps, Software, Information Technology | $650k–$3.6M |
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NFQ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism | $1.3M–$12M |
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Henrik Herr
Angel
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1 | Austria | Angel, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Training, E-Learning, Human Resources | |
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startup300
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $55k–$13M |
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PUSH VC
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Health Care | $650k–$31M |
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aws Gründungsfonds
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.1M–$11M |
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Cusp Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Spain, France | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.5M–$22M |
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Bernhard Lehner
Angel
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1 | Austria | Angel | Internet, Software, Training | |
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European Super Angels Club
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $700k–$9.9M |
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Heike Thiele
Angel
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1 | Austria | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, E-Learning | |
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Solo Crest Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Uganda | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $4M–$8M |
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Wolfgang Platz
Angel
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1 | Austria | Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Railroad, Education | |
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Johannes Woithon
Angel
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1 | Austria | Seed | Education, Publishing | |
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Siegfried Stepke
Angel
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1 | Austria | Seed | Education, Publishing | |
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Klett Group
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | EdTech, Education, Primary Education | |
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Johann Hansmann is based out of Vienna, Vienna and currently works as a Chairman for Hansmann Family Office. Johann previously worked at tractive as a Partner and Advisor. Johann Hansmann attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).
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- 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 — Donnerstag automates finance operations with AI: AR, AP and bank reconciliation at line-item level, exception handling and a full audit trail.
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’s previous funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 452
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
- unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
- sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
Founded in 2019, Left Lane Capital is a New York and London-based venture capital and growth equity firm investing in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses globally. The foundation of Left Lane’s strategy is built on four main elements: specialization in internet-first businesses, proprietary sourcing at every level, deep data rigor and best practices, and a genuine philosophy around partnering with founders. Across our network and portfolio, our mission is to help support and scale category-defining companies that support long-term customer relationships.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$20M; Series A $9.4M–$37M; Series B $23M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Brellium — Brellium is an AI-powered clinical note auditor that conducts note audits according to clients' clinical and billing standards, resulting in cost savings.
- HIFI — HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increasevisibility, and combat fraud.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.
- Rising Tide — Rising Tide is an intelligent automation platform designed to optimise complex, time-critical logistics and dispatch operations. The company develops dynamic streaming routing software that continuously ingests real-time operational data to adjust schedules and route sequences without manual intervention. Built for parcel delivery fleets, field services, and contractors, Rising Tide automates compliance, reduces driven mileage, and improves gross operating margins.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $549k–$1.2M; Series A $768k–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Diamens — Diamens is a company focused on femtech that develops a non-invasive menstrual blood-based molecular diagnostic to detect women-specific diseases like endometriosis.
- 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.
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, and top-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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 678
- Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $452k–$2.7M; Grant $61k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $195k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
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- Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
- Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Austria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $344k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $182k–$771k
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Fretello — Made by guitarists, for guitarists, Fretello started as a simple app that our CEO, Florian, created as a companion to help him improve his skills. Seven years and many iterations later, we’re now the app of choice for guitar players of all levels who have a genuine thirst to improve.Driven by a belief that anyone can learn guitar, but noteveryone is taught well, we cut through the noise to give guitarists a comprehensive education that actually sticks. We know that proper learning takes time. We’re not here to simply teach you a few riffs and the odd song. We’re here to teach you how to really play your instrument. For us, the goal is mastery but with continual improvement. So, we’ve combined the insights of educational experts and professional musicians with advanced AI technology to create a truly innovative learning tool. That’s why we offer a structured Learn Path alongside tailored practice plans, daily guitar workouts, a large song library, and interactive jam sessions. We tackle playing guitar from every angle because that’s how confident, versatile guitarists are made. As passionate musicians, we count being able to express ourselves through music as one of life’s greatest joys. Whether with or without us, we hope you find a way to experience some of that too.
- Shopstory — Shopstory provides AI-based marketing software that makes online shops more profitable. Shopstory replaces marketing agencies, reduces costs, improves online store Google Ads & SEO performance, and automates keyword research. Shopstory aims to boost sales, cut costs, and save time.
- triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.
Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $538k–$2.6M; Series A $7.6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
- aeon.life — Preventive healthcare platform that equips people with personalized insights and expert guidance for proactive whole-body health
- Health Force — Health Force develops AI agents that automate administrative and operational workflows for hospitals and clinics. The company focuses on back-office tasks such as scheduling, billing, procurement, and insurance verification. Its AI agents integrate with existing hospital systems to handle repetitive digital work and reduce manual data entry. Health Force offers its agents on a subscription basis, allowing healthcare providers to adopt automation without major software changes. The service includes an AI readiness assessment, implementation support, and continuous optimization based on observed performance. By shifting routine logistics to AI, Health Force enables healthcare staff to spend more time on direct patient-related activities.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, Austria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $433k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $457k–$5.8M; Series A $4.1M–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
- reebuild — reebuild is the developer of an online application for construction companies designed to automate material procurement and logistics. Their digital infrastructure platform connects construction companies, industry, and trade, enabling clients to build their invoices and environmental data in a secure cloud and take over administrative processes inthe background.
- TerraSpark — TerraSpark Energy specializing in software solutions for renewable energy asset management. The product, TerraSpark Hub, provides comprehensive oversight of commercial and technical data for green energy assets like solar and wind projects.
Alfred Luger
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- Industry: Software, Apps, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $650k–$3.6M; Angel $684k–$1M; Pre-Seed $771k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Viora - visible through confidence — Ada Growth is on a mission to put a mentor in every woman's pocket. We combine AI with microlearning to provide professional growth and development tools for women in the workplace and help companies attract, retain, and grow female talent. Download the Ada App today!The Ada App is a microlearning app that provides 2 minute short formvideos, miniquizzes, action items, and summaries that lead to long-term behavioral changes in the workplace. It also contains a digital mentor that can provide dynamic coaching in the spirit of the Ada App library of content, so that Ada App users have access to casual lessons when they have a few minutes a day as well as immediate feedback for any upcoming situation.Ada Growth serves the B2B enterprise and SME space primarily to companies with over 400 employees. We sell a professional growth / EdTech / L&D solution to HR, Employee Training and DEI administrators. We are vertical agnostic and provide a growth experience for both white collar and blue collar workers. Most EdTech solutions tend to flow to the corporate office layer of an enterprise, where this is a saturation of resources available. Many of our users have not been given professional growth tools purposefully built for them before or made flexible for their lifestyle, unlocking value for both the employee as well as the employer.We are the first enterprise-ready professional EdTech solution built specifically for women.
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- Industry: Medical, Railroad, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Austria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $954k–$3.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BOONIAN — BOONIAN is a food and beverage company that creates plant-based products for professional kitchens.
- NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
- EarlySight — EarlySight start-up company is founded in order to accelerate the development and to bring the technology to clinics.
Arkley - The Accelerator VC offers a decade of experience in launching and scaling startups. We focus on early-stage hardware startups
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- Industry: Wearables, Consumer Electronics, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Robo Wunderkind — Get creative with technology and solve real-life problems, in the classroom or at home. For 5 to 14-year-old children. Order now.
- Tespack — Tespack focuses on Smart Mobile Energy.We combine Hardware & Software Energy solutions for rescue personnel, governments and extreme athletes around the world.Our formula is simple. Design, innovate, manufacture and patent #FutureOfEnergy devices to create #EnergyThatMatters.Tespack has won more than 30+ International awards, creatingdisruptive energy technology. From modular power banks and solar panels to non-combustible battery tech.
- Lovely — Lovely learns what a given couple enjoys in bed and helps them to enjoy each other even more. Lovely & Lovely App were created in cooperation with renowned sexologists from US & EU.
Jürgen Habichler
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- Industry: Toys, Sports, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $329k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Robo Wunderkind — Get creative with technology and solve real-life problems, in the classroom or at home. For 5 to 14-year-old children. Order now.
- Fittrack — Fittrack provides a sensor solution for existing gym equipment, allowing its users to automatically track and monitor their fitness workouts. It also enables its users to visualize, share, and optimize their training goals through its online platform.Fittrack develops add-on technologies which can be attached to existing gym equipment to enablethe fully-automatic tracking of fitness workouts. Its sensor solution measures all relevant training parameters and displays them on the online platform.Fittrack was founded in 2016 and is based in Vienna, Austria.
- GBTEC Austria GmbH — Value-based governance, risk and compliance management for your company's successA professional GRC strategy builds the foundation for successful business management. BIC supports you with a unique combination of the latest technology, an intuitive user interface and fast implementation. That makes working with BIC GRC so easy - in all GRCareas.We believe that the success of innovative organizations can be sustainably increased with our BIC GRC Solutions. GRC processes can be digitized quickly and extensively with the help of our GRC software suite BIC GRC. Depending on customer requirements, we offer flexible custom solutions or standard solutions that can be implemented with minimal effort:BIC Enterprise Risk BIC Business Continuity BIC Data Protection BIC Information Security BIC BSI Grundschutz BIC Internal Control We would be happy to show you in an exclusive free live demo how BIC GRC can support you in your project.
Gateway Ventures is Austria's biggest network of startup investors with currently over 4000 investors. We foster the Austrian and European startup eco-system by connecting investors and startups. Our startup portfolio covers FinTech, CleanTech, HeathTech, IT & Software, Big Data & Social Impact. We have financed >40 startups with seed fundings over € 30M+ Gateway Ventures was founded in December 2015. Over 1000 investors and 200 partners are currently participating in the network, including European incubators, accelerators and VCs. https://www.gateway.ventures
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Series A $3.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Serwas — Serwas Technologies is an innovative GreenTech startup that transforms server and data centre waste heat into sustainable energy. By deploying direct to liquid cooling systems, the company captures exhaust heat that would otherwise be wasted and redirects it to provide cost-effective, eco-friendly heating for buildings like hotels and public pools.
- hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
- SOMAREALITY — SOMAREALITY provides eye tracking solutions for diverse industries. Improve healthcare, automotive, research & aviation with real-time cognitive insights.
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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Austria, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $1.3M–$22M; Series B $10M–$40M
- 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.
SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3729
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
- Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
- Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $745k–$2.8M; Grant $67k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $480k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Another Earth — Synthetic Earth observation data that trains AI models to simulate environmental change and predict risk before it happens. Vienna-based, founded 2024.
- Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
- Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.
Founder & MD of karriere.at, Austria’s #1 job board.
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- Industry: E-Learning, Music, Music Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $682k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OKTAV — Your #1 platform for piano. Any level, every style. Play, learn & improve with sheet music you love.
- Codeversity — Codeversity is corporate education platform for digital competence development.
Fund F is a European venture capital firm that invests in teams (co-) founded by female entrepreneurs. The focus is on pre-seed and seed investment in digital-first business models.
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- Industry: Software, Sustainability, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $774k–$5M; Pre-Seed $768k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- refinq — refinq scores every one of your locations for physical climate, nature and transition risk under IPCC scenarios, then links exposure to financial impact and adaptation actions.
- Tellia — Talk as you walk, drive, scout. Tellia turns real conversations into clean, structured records that sync to your databases.
- Invisible-Light Labs — Invisible Light Labs uses Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and nanoelectromechanical sensing technologies to enable chemical analysis of materials and nanomaterials that are available in minuscule amounts in a variety of industries, from environmental monitoring to pharmaceuticals.
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- Industry: SaaS, Recipes, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
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Browse database — It's Free!Joerg is a global citizen and has travelled about 60 countries and lived in six of them. His early passion for investing and technology opened the door to an international career in Financial Services. As a swimmer and basketball player, Joerg developed the competitive spirit which ultimately led him into the Executive Committee of Thomson Reutersin New York. He built his C-Level network socializing with global leaders at the World Economic Forum (Davos), advising the Mayor of Rome and meeting Barack Obama at the White House Press dinner in Washington. As an enthusiastic fan and corporate sponsor of Formula 1, he will never forget co-driving a Porsche GT3 with Nico Rosberg.Today, Joerg is eager to bridge the cultural gap between the corporate and start-up world. He is an active business angel and corporate non-executive board director. After many years on the FinTech Investment Committee he became Chairman of Speedinvest in October 2017.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, EdTech
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Austria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Angel $500k–$771k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gustav — Modern staffing teams use Gustav's VMS to source talent from trusted sub-vendors. Fast, secure, and compliant!
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
- wikifolio — wikifolio.com enables traders to turn their portfolios into fully-fledged financial products (“wikifolios”), listed on Europe’s leading exchange for structured products. Thousands of different trading strategies have already been built on the varied investment universe of more than 100,000 stocks, funds, exchange-traded-products (ETFs, ETCs andETNs) as well structured products (incl. investment certificates and leveraged products).With wikifolio.com, investors can easily invest in the best suited trading strategies by ordering wikifolio-certificates via a brokerage account of their choice. Every trade can be viewed in real-time on wikifolio.com alongside with all relevant key figures for a strategy as well as comments by traders. The FinTech company aims to set new standards for radical transparency and provides a fair fee-model.
Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments upto €5m.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $793k–$3.2M; Series A $3.9M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Tiney — Tiney are on a mission to reimagine at-home childcare & unlock the potential of every child. For parents, this means easy access to an exceptional and affordable childcare community that’s built around busy modern lives. For children, this means high quality and thoughtful play-based learning in safe settings that goes beyond nationalrequirements for early education. For childcare providers, this means allowing them to focus on the children in their care, relieving the burden of running a small business and ensuring maximum job satisfaction.
- AUTOVIO — Autovio offers digital concepts for driving schools.
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
Bernhard Niesner is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu – the world´s largest social network for language learning with more than 35m users. busuu provides language courses in 12 different languages combined with direct interaction with native speakers from the community. The London-based start-up received several awards and was named “Best EducationStart-Up in 2011” by TechCrunch. busuu is backed by renown business angels like Martin Varsavsky and received investment from PRO-Founders Capital.Before founding busuu, Bernhard worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In addition to busuu, he is Associated Professor at IE Business School in the area of online marketing.Bernhard graduated summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA (with honors) from IE Business School. In 2009 he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the year” in Austria.
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- Industry: Software, E-Learning, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $650k–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heizma — Heizma make climate-neutral heating possible and easy for every family. It offers complete solutions that include not only heating systems, but also photovoltaic systems, power storage, e-charging stations, and intelligent energy management systems.
- encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!
- Shadowmap — Discover The Sun for Everyone with Shadowmap: your global 3D map for sunpath visualization, shadow analysis and solar planning for homes and projects.
AD Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Education, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- SchuBu — SchuBu uses interesting digital educational content to enhance children's learning in the classroom.
European Social Innovation and Impact Fund is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Education, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SchuBu — SchuBu uses interesting digital educational content to enhance children's learning in the classroom.
Private Investment Company
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- Industry: Audio, Music, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Music Traveler — Music Traveler is a marketplace that centralises spaces with musical instruments and equipment for the creative industry. Via gathering spaces for all levels of prices, types, sizes, and activities, the company’s platform expands its services by providing a booking system for the venues and spaces. The platform has earned the endorsement ofrenowned artists, partners, corporations and the community. Founded by Julia Rhee and Aleksey Igudesman, world-renowned ambassadors include Billy Joel, Hans Zimmer, Sean Lennon, Yuja Wang, Adrien Brody, and John Malkovich, to mention a few.
APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical focused venture capital firm, run by founders with complimentary backgrounds driven by the same mission.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $552k–$9.1M; Series A $5.7M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Quibim — Quibim builds AI tools that turn MRI, CT and PET data into actionable predictions for hospitals and biopharma. Trusted in 470+ centers worldwide.
- iPremom — iPremom is a healthcare technology company that develops molecular diagnostic solutions for the early detection and prediction of pregnancy complications, particularly preeclampsia.
- Jago Coffee — Jago Coffee serves freshly brewed coffee beverages wherever you are through a fleet of fully electric mobile cafes.
FASE Finanzierungsagentur für Social Entrepreneurship offers growth of social innovations, finding investors, and funding.
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- Industry: Education, Recycling, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SchuBu — SchuBu uses interesting digital educational content to enhance children's learning in the classroom.
- Everwave — Everwave is a social enterprise that focuses on preventing plastic pollution in rivers and oceans.
GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders. Its clients are individuals, family offices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 198
- Round size: Seed $495k–$5M; Series A $1.2M–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $681k–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
- LockStyler — LockStyler is providing a revolutionary, professional hair highlighting system which is much simpler, cleaner and quicker by 50% than anything existing
- Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.
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- Industry: EdTech, Tutoring, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
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Browse database — It's Free!Remote Control Productions, Inc. is a film score company run by Steve Kofsky and composer Hans Zimmer.
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- Industry: Audio, Music, Marketplace
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Music Traveler — Music Traveler is a marketplace that centralises spaces with musical instruments and equipment for the creative industry. Via gathering spaces for all levels of prices, types, sizes, and activities, the company’s platform expands its services by providing a booking system for the venues and spaces. The platform has earned the endorsement ofrenowned artists, partners, corporations and the community. Founded by Julia Rhee and Aleksey Igudesman, world-renowned ambassadors include Billy Joel, Hans Zimmer, Sean Lennon, Yuja Wang, Adrien Brody, and John Malkovich, to mention a few.
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. Howzat Partners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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- Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $393k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$9.8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
- Quoroom — A single intelligent platform to manage capital raising,equity, debt and employee options
- Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $585k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $58M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- Overstory — Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.
- New Dawn Bio — New Dawn Bio is a biotechnology research firm that specializes in wood production.
Rene Giretzlehner is a Head of Engineering at Leaders21com.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, Apps
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
- signteq — signteq provides an identity and onboarding platform for businesses. Its services include identity verification, document processing, biometric checks, KYC and KYB workflows, AML screening, sanctions and politically exposed person screening, fraud prevention, and electronic signatures. The platform also supports open banking, national electronic identity schemes, age verification, mobile identity checks, and reusable identity services. Businesses access these capabilities through a platform and API to manage customer, business, and compliance verification processes.
- Mimo — Mimo is an app that teaches the computer science in a fun and interactive way. Mimo’s lessons are fun and interactive, fit into people’s everyday lives, and lead them to make a habit of self-improvement. Getting through to more than 1.5 million people and achieving completion numbers far above the industry average, Mimo is well on its way tobecoming the one-stop shop for education and entertainment on the go.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.3M; Series A $9.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Genie — Genie is a provider of a Shopify inventory management solution for fast-growing merchants.
- Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
- Massive Dynamic — Deploy specialized AI agents for paid media operations (analysis, bidding, reporting, creative workflows and more) while your experts stay in control.
Christian Kaar is the VP of Finance and Business Analytics at Leaders21com. Christian Kaar attended University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $650k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inoqo — In a world of over, mis- or blurred information, inoqo wants to provide consumers with scientific-based data on the environmental, social and biodiversity impact of familiar grocery products. Our mission is to help all of us aligning our daily purchasing decisions to our key concerns so that we can actively contribute to a sustainableproduction-consumption cycle.The app uses a specific innovative technology that can passively and smartly track the user’s grocery basket for informing them about -for example- the CO2 impact of their purchase and how aligned it is to their environmental priorities or social valuesThe solution will actively recommend alternative products of lower impact and encourage them through personalized content, gamification and community challenges to further pursue a sustainable lifestyle.We strongly believe that our daily habits can change the world. Our vision is to enable millions of consumers around the globe to learn why and how their consumption decisions impact biodiversity, climate and their own well-being. We want to accelerate the change towards sustainable production: as users consume more responsibly, they create healthy competition between companies who start to produce responsibly.We have ten years left to cut our CO2 emissions by half. From now on, every action counts. Join inoqo.
- Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
- Mimo — Mimo is an app that teaches the computer science in a fun and interactive way. Mimo’s lessons are fun and interactive, fit into people’s everyday lives, and lead them to make a habit of self-improvement. Getting through to more than 1.5 million people and achieving completion numbers far above the industry average, Mimo is well on its way tobecoming the one-stop shop for education and entertainment on the go.
NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $2.4M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
- Productpine — Discover, experience, and buy emerging brands and products from all over the world, at Productpine. Shop online through a personalized journey and be inspired!
- The Naked Market — The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands.
25 years experience in banking industry and private banking. Building visions and strategies in changing environments.
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- Industry: Training, E-Learning, Human Resources
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
- Leaders21com — They offer our customers an exciting portfolio of practical training and services. Based on our many years of experience and our specially developed leadership approach. Flexibility and situational action are essential leadership qualities. That is why we also structure our cooperation with our customers in exactly the same way - flexible andadapted to individual requirements. Digital and analog.
- Speedinvest Heroes Consulting — Speedinvest Heroes Consulting GmbH is an Human Resource company.
startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $55k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $232k–$370k; Series A $1.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fretello — Made by guitarists, for guitarists, Fretello started as a simple app that our CEO, Florian, created as a companion to help him improve his skills. Seven years and many iterations later, we’re now the app of choice for guitar players of all levels who have a genuine thirst to improve.Driven by a belief that anyone can learn guitar, but noteveryone is taught well, we cut through the noise to give guitarists a comprehensive education that actually sticks. We know that proper learning takes time. We’re not here to simply teach you a few riffs and the odd song. We’re here to teach you how to really play your instrument. For us, the goal is mastery but with continual improvement. So, we’ve combined the insights of educational experts and professional musicians with advanced AI technology to create a truly innovative learning tool. That’s why we offer a structured Learn Path alongside tailored practice plans, daily guitar workouts, a large song library, and interactive jam sessions. We tackle playing guitar from every angle because that’s how confident, versatile guitarists are made. As passionate musicians, we count being able to express ourselves through music as one of life’s greatest joys. Whether with or without us, we hope you find a way to experience some of that too.
- Shopstory — Shopstory provides AI-based marketing software that makes online shops more profitable. Shopstory replaces marketing agencies, reduces costs, improves online store Google Ads & SEO performance, and automates keyword research. Shopstory aims to boost sales, cut costs, and save time.
- Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
Early-stage VC. Pre-Seed and Seed stage. We are investing in Health- & Green Tech start-ups with singificant impact and outstanding teams.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $650k–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Voltrac — To Secure Our Borders and Food Supply.
- enspired — Revolutionize battery storage with AI-powered BESS optimization. Our energy trading platform ensures smart, real-time market access. Contact us today!
- Aitiologic — A precision medicine startup providing multi-modal liquid biopsy solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.2M; Series A $1.1M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $77M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- refinq — refinq scores every one of your locations for physical climate, nature and transition risk under IPCC scenarios, then links exposure to financial impact and adaptation actions.
- profitize — profitize is an AI‑powered financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform built specifically for hotels and other hospitality businesses.The platform uses AI to generate forecasts, highlight risks, and provide actionable insights, positioning itself as an “FP&A co‑pilot” for hotel profitability rather than just a reporting tool.
- Invisible-Light Labs — Invisible Light Labs uses Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and nanoelectromechanical sensing technologies to enable chemical analysis of materials and nanomaterials that are available in minuscule amounts in a variety of industries, from environmental monitoring to pharmaceuticals.
Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Spain, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Series A $6.8M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $361M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ahron.ai — Ahron.ai is an AI-powered HR technology company that provides an agentic HR platform to connect HR systems, automate workflows.
- Laborai — Laborai is a fiscal and financial advisory platform.
- Delta Labs — Delta Labs operates as an AI-based platform for forecasting consumer behaviour.
Bernhard Lehner is a communication professional through and through. His work with and for the media has always been the centre of his professional life. During his communication studies in Vienna he gathered work experiences as a journalist for print and online media. By the End of the 90ies he had changed the site and worked successfully as a PRadvisor for agencies but also for in house relations. His references from the last few years include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Ikea and Cisco. i5invest appreciates Bernhard’s expertise for strategic communication development measurements and their realisation for old and new media with a focus on Europe.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Training
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- pagestrip — pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones.
- Leaders21com — They offer our customers an exciting portfolio of practical training and services. Based on our many years of experience and our specially developed leadership approach. Flexibility and situational action are essential leadership qualities. That is why we also structure our cooperation with our customers in exactly the same way - flexible andadapted to individual requirements. Digital and analog.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3.2M; Series A $1.7M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monkee — Monkee is building the infrastructure for the next generation of commerce through Save Now Buy Later (SNBL) — an alternative to debt-based purchasing models like BNPL. The platform empowers consumers to save purposefully toward meaningful purchases, while enabling brands and retailers to engage the 1 in 3 consumers who want to buy, but refuse touse credit. With over 140,000 users, €230M+ in savings goals, and 600+ retail partners, Monkee turns early intent into action — driving loyalty, conversion, and incremental revenue without financial risk. After validating its model in B2C, Monkee is now scaling through embedded SNBL integrations at the point of intent across e-commerce and physical retail.Monkee aims to establish 'Save now Buy Later' as a responsible alternative to 'Buy now Pay later'.The company was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
- 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.
- ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
Heike Thiele
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
Solo Crest Capital is a venture capital firm focused on backing early-stage startups with bold ideas and scalable business models. The firm invests in founders building innovative solutions across technology, digital platforms, and emerging industries, providing not only capital but also strategic guidance to help companies grow and scale globally.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $4M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biostock — Biostock is a technology-driven company that focuses on decarbonization, resource circulation, and digital transformation.
- Frostbite — Frostbite is a game engine that offers developers with software development5 toolsets to build games of any size, genre, or platform. It offers workflows, pipelines, and runtime solutions that cover several aspects of development, including audio, animation, cinematics, scripting, Artificial Intelligence, physics, destruction, rendering, visualeffects, and more.The Frostbite titles include Battlefield, Need For Speed, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect.Frostbite was launched in July 2004 and its operations are based in Stockholm, Sweden.
- LeasePlan — Headquartered in the Netherlands, LeasePlan Corporation (“LeasePlan”) is the world’s fleet management and driver mobility company. Since its inception in 1963, LeasePlan has been at the forefront of market developments and the company now employs over 7,300 staff in operations across 33 countries.
Wolfgang Platz is currently working at VIPASO, Katharo Ventures, and eQventure.
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- Industry: Software, Railroad, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
- nista.io — gnista.io is a no code data clearing tool for energy managers.
Johannes Woithon is the Founder & Managing Director at orgavision GmbH.
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- Industry: Education, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SchuBu — SchuBu uses interesting digital educational content to enhance children's learning in the classroom.
CEO at e-dialog.
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- Industry: Education, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SchuBu — SchuBu uses interesting digital educational content to enhance children's learning in the classroom.
Klett Group is operates as a private provider of education services. It provides learning and teaching tools, as well as educational services for people of any age paired with science and cultural media. Klett Group also offers publishing services. Klett Group serves customers worldwide.
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Primary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Teachino — Teachino is an EdTech startup helps teachers to plan and organize lessons.
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