Top 15 Education Angel Investors in Austria in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Education Angel Investors in Austria in May 2025
Investor | Education Austria investments |
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 6 |
Alfred Luger | 3 |
Joerg Floeck | 1 |
Wolfgang Platz | 1 |
Hermann Hauser | 1 |
Henrik Herr | 1 |
Rene Giretzlehner | 1 |
Christian Kaar | 1 |
Bernhard Niesner | 1 |
Philipp Kinsky | 1 |
Heike Thiele | 1 |
Bernhard Lehner | 1 |
Franz Fuchsberger | 1 |
Josef Kogler | 1 |
Zaid Al-Aifari | 1 |
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- 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.
- Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
Alfred Luger
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Learning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
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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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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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, EdTech
- Angel, Series A
- Austria, United States
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.
Wolfgang Platz is currently working at VIPASO, Katharo Ventures, and eQventure.
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Investment focus
- Software, Railroad, Education
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Austria
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, Austria, Italy
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 building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale.
25 years experience in banking industry and private banking.
Building visions and strategies in changing environments.
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Investment focus
- Training, E-Learning, Human Resources
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Austria
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.
Rene Giretzlehner
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Dating
- Angel, Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- Austria, United Kingdom
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Energy Management
- Seed, Angel
- Austria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
- Shadowmap — Your interface to the Sun: See the sunpath over your house. Visualize and analyze solar, architectural & real estate projects on our interactive 3D map.
- notarity — notarity is the most user-friendly platform for fully digital collaboration with notaries. Notarize documents online from anywhere at anytime.
Philipp Kinsky
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
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.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
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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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Training
- Angel
- Austria
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.
Franz Fuchsberger is a Senior Partner at eQventure.
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Investment focus
- Railroad, Software, Education
- Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
Josef Kogler
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
Zaid Al-Aifari
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Education, Audio
- Seed, Funding Round
- Austria, Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Monkee — Monkee combines Personal Finance and Cashback in one unique product. We help our users to save more money for what's important to them and actively support them in growing their savings while consciously shopping the things they need. At the same time we help our retail partners to connect with consumers in a relevant and rewarding way. Thecompany was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
- ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
- QuickSpeech — QuickSpeech is a completely individual software solution that trains employees from all industries effectively. Based on gamification, QuickSpeech offers an easily accessible app for its users. With less than 60 seconds learning effort per day, it playfully expands relevant knowledge. Micro & mobile learning for your employee onboardings, skillbuilding, talent management and executive coaching! If you are interested to collaborate, please contact me or visit: https://www.quickspeech.info/
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