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Top 40 Education Startup Investors in Austria in May 2026

A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 40 Education Startup Investors in Austria in May 2026

Investor Education Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann 6
Calm/Storm VC 3
Alfred Luger 3
Speedinvest 3
Pioneers Ventures 2
eQventure 2
Left Lane Capital 2
Hansmen Group 2
DN Capital 2
CapitalT 1
Econnoa 1
PUSH VC 1
Josef Kogler 1
QC·VENTURES 1
Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company 1
Silicon Gardens 1
Christian Kaar 1
Wolfgang Platz 1
startup300 1
Franz Fuchsberger 1
NFQ Capital 1
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) 1
Bernhard Niesner 1
Philipp Kinsky 1
Heike Thiele 1
Zaid Al-Aifari 1
Rene Giretzlehner 1
GoBeyond 1
Klett Group 1
Tiny VC 1
APEX Ventures 1
Hermann Hauser 1
APEX Ventures 1
Bernhard Lehner 1
Fund F 1
Joerg Floeck 1
European Super Angels Club 1
Sparkmind.vc 1
Cusp Capital 1
Henrik Herr 1

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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria

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, Germany

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.
  • Donnerstag.ai — Build, run and scale financial reconciliations across your core financial data and systems.
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

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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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Wellness, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • CertHub — CertHub offers AI-powered software solutions for Technical Documentation, QMS and Design Control - tailored to the MedTech industry.
  • 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.
  • Circle Health — Circle Health is developing an integrated preventive care platform, Circle OS, that combines in-person diagnostics, AI-enabled clinical support, and consumer-facing digital health tools.
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Alfred Luger
Angel · Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines

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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.
  • 123-Transporter — Transporter mieten ab nur 45€ Volle 24h | Unlimitierte KM | digitale Vignette inkl. Einfach. Flächendeckend. Kundenzentriert: https://de.trustpilot.com/review/123-transporter.at
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

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, andtop-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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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
  • 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!
  • Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.
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Pioneers Ventures
VC Fund · Linz, Oberosterreich, Austria

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Music
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Austria, Germany

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 — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
  • triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.
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eQventure
VC Fund · Graz, Steiermark, Austria

Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • aTension.life — aTension.life is a company focused on advancing the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension through precision medicine. It employs cutting-edge mass spectrometry technology to identify the underlying causes of uncontrolled hypertension using a single blood sample. aTension.life aims to provide personalized diagnostic solutions that enhance patientcare and support laboratories with accurate and reliable tools. The company's mission is to improve the quality of life for hypertensive patients by making advanced diagnostics widely accessible and enabling more effective, individualized therapies.
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States

Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Smalls — Smalls is a direct-to-consumer pet food company that produces human-grade and fresh food for cats.The company's cat food is prepared with human-grade ingredients and offers customized kits as per the cat's nutrition needs, enabling pet owners to get healthy and fresh food directly at their doorstep. It offers variants such as chickenand beef; freeze-dried chicken, and turkey and duck.In 2017, co-founders and best friends Matt Michaelson and Calvin headquartered the company in New York, New York.
  • KAST — Kast Finance provides open access, financial freedom, and rapid gratification services.
  • Diamond Standard — Invest in diamonds. Each Diamond Standard Coin and Bar contains an equivalent scarcity of carat, cut, color, and clarity. Diversify your portfolio.
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Hansmen Group
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

The hansmengroup is a bunch of startups, that share common values, similar goals and the same Business Angel. A group with an incredible performance.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Lifestyle, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Spain, Austria, Germany

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.
  • 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.
  • HelloBello — HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..."
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States

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’sprevious 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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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
  • Remitly — Send money online faster and more securely with Remitly, and discover our great exchange rates and low money transfer fees.
  • 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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CapitalT
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Northsea — Northsea is an AI-native research platform that helps consultants, investors, and strategy teams generate deeper customer insights with a fraction of the effort.
  • Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
  • Balthazar — Balthazar is a SaaS platform for hardware R&D that automates experiment tracking in the lab. It facilitates collaboration, ensures knowledge retention, and serves as the backbone of AI-driven research.
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Econnoa
VC Fund

Econnoa

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Tutoring, Education
  • Angel
  • Austria

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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PUSH VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 1 investment in the past 12 months

| Investments that move industries

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Podero — Podero energy flexibility software helps utilities steer devices, trade their flexibility on spot and balancing markets and launch new energy products.
  • UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
  • Circonomit — Building the world's environmental data infrastructure - We are the sustainability counterpart to what Excel, Sheets and Datev are to financial planning and accounting. Our mission is to create the first decision intelligence platform to bridge sustainability and finance by building the global standard for the collection and aggregation ofcorporate environmental data.
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Josef Kogler
Angel

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.
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QC·VENTURES
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

QC·VENTURES is a Venture Capital investment platform of Q·ADVISERS that builds ad hoc investor syndicates around ideas and around a core team of experienced corporate finance professionals. We invest in companies that have potential for growth, disruption and ambition to scale internationally. Our focus is general tech and consumer products.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • BestEx Research — Our award-winning execution algorithms for equities, futures, and FX help institutional traders reduce transaction costs. Schedule a demo now.
  • Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.
  • TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

Backing great companies when they're tiny

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
  • YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
  • Genie Fertility — Our discovery platform unlocks new molecular biomarkers to better understand reproductive health.
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Silicon Gardens
VC Fund · Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia

Californians have their Silicon Valley, New Yorkers have Silicon Alley, Londoners the Silicon Roundabout, Berlin has the Silicon Alee and they're witnessing the rise of Silicon Savannah in Kenya. But what best describes Slovenia are the Silicon Gardens - small, efficient, highly cultivated patches of technology entrepreneurship. 500+ membersand growing rapidly.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • EVE — EVE is the first Inbox Revenue Engine for small and mid-sized B2B businesses — an AI platform that connects directly to email, documents, and calendars to uncover hidden revenue. By autonomously identifying overlooked leads, stalled deals, and buying signals, EVE helps companies recover 20–30% of revenue typically lost in daily communication gaps.EVE is building the default revenue operating system for the next generation of SMBs — turning ordinary inboxes into real-time revenue engines.Backed by leading investors, including Firsthand.VC, Founders Future, A16Z Scout Fund, and founders of Slack and Hugging Face, EVE is redefining CRM for SMBs by bringing automation and intelligence to where business actually happens — the inbox.
  • InsiderCX — Turn patient feedback into actionable insights to optimize processes, enhance engagement, and drive revenue while maintaining quality control.
  • Arkensight — Transform months of infrastructure inspection data into actionable insights in minutes. AI-powered visual analysis with human-in-the-loop verification.
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Christian Kaar
Angel · Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines

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.
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Wolfgang Platz
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
  • nista.io — gnista.io is a no code data clearing tool for energy managers.
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startup300
VC Fund · Linz, Oberosterreich, Austria

startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Austria, Germany, United States

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 — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
  • Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
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Franz Fuchsberger
Angel

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
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NFQ Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany

NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, Austria

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
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The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria. As a "one-stop shop" offering a diversified and targeted programme portfolio, the FFG gives Austrian businesses and research facilities quick and uncomplicated access to research funding.The FFG was foundedon 1 September 2004 (pursuant to the FFG Act on establishing a research promotion agency, Federal Law Gazette I No. 73/2004). The FFG is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria, represented by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). As a provider of funding services, however, the FFG also works for other national and international institutions.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
  • Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Austria, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

  • Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
  • OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
  • Another Earth — Another Earth is building an AI-powered simulation and synthetic data platform for Earth Observation. As our planet changes, AI models need scalable, high-quality training data to keep pace. Another Earth provides synthetic data, scenario simulations and predictions required to accelerate AI development, and enable faster, smarterdecision-making—enabling smarter decisions for a more resilient world.
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Bernhard Niesner
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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, E-Learning, Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • Austria, Germany, 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.
  • Anyline — Accurate, secure & integrated mobile data capture: Enhance business processes, speed up workflows and improve efficiency with mobile scanning
  • 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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Philipp Kinsky
Angel

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.
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Heike Thiele
Angel

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.
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Zaid Al-Aifari
Angel

Zaid Al-Aifari

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Investment focus

  • Education, Mobile Apps, 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 ist die intelligente Microlearning-Plattform, die Ihre Mitarbeiter automatisch in kurzen Wissensportionen spielerisch trainiert und motiviert.
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Rene Giretzlehner
Angel · Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines

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.
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GoBeyond
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

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, familyoffices, 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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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Medical, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Stylect — Stylect is a mobile app to to help women discover their perfect shoe. They aggregate products from multiple websites and based on users' preferences (that they gather through a hot-or-not interface), they recommend better products. Their users are able to keep track of and buy the products they like and receive notifications whenever a productthey love goes on sale. Finally, They use geolocation to let their users know when a shoe is selling in a store nearby.
  • Fastree3D — Fastree3D imaging sensors help recognize and measure distance to fast moving objects in real-time, enabling driving assistance or autonomous navigation. Fastree3D SA is a fabless semiconductor company, spin-off from EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland founded in September 2013 (UID CHE-291.330.490). The company subsidiary Fastree3D B.V. performs researchwith TU-Delft, Netherlands (KvK 58866973).
  • Prestodiag — Prestodiag develops, manufactures and sells innovative solutions for rapid detection of bacteria. Their analytical solutions are based on an innovative optics technology called Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging and allow detection and identification of pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, Listeria or E.coli. They provide users with a result injust a few hours instead of 1 to several days. Their market is primarily the food safety sector, and also on medical and environmental applications.
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Klett Group
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Education, Primary Education
  • Seed
  • Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Teachino — Teachino is an EdTech startup helps teachers to plan and organize lessons.
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Tiny VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Backing great companies when they're tiny

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States

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 — Specialized AI to orchestrate complex cross-channel advertising
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APEX Ventures
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

APEX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in start-ups grounded in unique and protectable technology. They provide support and resources and aims to develop their start-ups in their respective field. Their initial focus areas include digital media, business intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, and the future of work.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Quibim — Quibim builds AI tools that turn MRI, CT and PET data into actionable predictions for hospitals and biopharma. Trusted in 230+ centers worldwide.
  • Robeaute — Redesigning the future of neurosurgery by creating the new standard device that will provide surgeons with seamless access to delicate areas of the brain parenchyma and with real-time data.
  • HyperHeat — HyperHeat is building a cutting-edge, all-electric heating solution designed to reach temperatures of up to 2,000°C. Using renewable electricity HyperHeat is providing an efficient alternative to fossil fuel combustion. With an efficiency rate of up to 98%, HyperHeat is ideal for retrofitting industrial processes, enabling significant CO2reductions across industries like steel, cement, and chemicals. The scalable technology offers a cost-efficient approach to decarbonizing thermal processes, with a potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 4.5 gigatons annually.
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Hermann Hauser
Angel · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • 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 designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
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APEX Ventures
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical-focused venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
  • HyperHeat — HyperHeat is building a cutting-edge, all-electric heating solution designed to reach temperatures of up to 2,000°C. Using renewable electricity HyperHeat is providing an efficient alternative to fossil fuel combustion. With an efficiency rate of up to 98%, HyperHeat is ideal for retrofitting industrial processes, enabling significant CO2reductions across industries like steel, cement, and chemicals. The scalable technology offers a cost-efficient approach to decarbonizing thermal processes, with a potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 4.5 gigatons annually.
  • TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.
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Bernhard Lehner
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria

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.
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Fund F
VC Fund

The European Venture Fund that backs gender-diverse founder teams.

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Investment focus

  • AgTech, EdTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Fermify — We are here to domesticate microorganisms and build simple and fully automated production platform to address the issue of large-scale milk protein production
  • Scholé — AI-native personalized learning
  • beSirius — beSirius transforms ESG chaos into clarity - connecting your data to spot trends, reveal revenue signals, and answer any stakeholder in minutes. Smarter decisions, faster deals, zero admin drain.
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Joerg Floeck
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria

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!
  • TourRadar — TourRadar is the world's most trusted online marketplace for multi-day tours. Compare, read reviews, meet guides & travelers, book with confidence.
  • 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.
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European Super Angels Club
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Austria, Germany, United States

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.
  • 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.
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Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • AUTOVIO — Autovio offers digital concepts for driving schools.
  • Swap Language — Swap Language is a language learning platform that delivers Danish lessons to companies and international employees.
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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Cusp Capital
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

  • 2501.ai — 2501.ai enables you to deploy powerful AI agents with just two lines of code across any infrastructure—whether cloud-based, on-premises, or hybrid—allowing seamless integration, rapid scalability, and unmatched operational flexibility for a wide range of enterprise and developer use cases.
  • CertHub — CertHub offers AI-powered software solutions for Technical Documentation, QMS and Design Control - tailored to the MedTech industry.
  • Delta Labs — Elaiia by Delta Labs is an AI customer simulation platform that creates an artificial customer intelligence layer, predicting how customers respond to your decisions before you act.
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Henrik Herr
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

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.
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