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Top 25 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 25 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 25 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2025

Investor	Education Austria investments
Speedinvest	3
Calm/Storm Ventures	3
Hansmen Group	2
Pioneers Ventures	2
Left Lane Capital	2
DN Capital	2
HOWZAT Partners	1
European Super Angels Club	1
Klett Group	1
Tiny VC	1
GoBeyond	1
Econnoa	1
Silicon Gardens	1
Fund F	1
PUSH VC	1
CapitalT	1
NFQ Capital	1
Cusp Capital	1
QC·VENTURES	1
Sparkmind.vc	1
eQventure	1
startup300	1
Tiny VC	1
APEX Ventures	1
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	1

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Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sugar — Sugar a digital halth and fitness paltform.
ginkgo — ginkgo is the digital platform for holistic compensation packages starting with company pension plans (bAV).
Everyman Health — Everyman Health ist Spezialist für Männergesundheit und bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte Lösungen für Männer aller Altersgruppen. In Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Partnern, bieten wir dir ein umfassendes Portfolio von digitalen, medikamentösen und nicht-medikamentösen Therapien für unterschiedliche Männerprobleme.Über unsere Plattform wirst du inwenigen Minuten mit einem Schweizer Facharzt verbunden und erhältst eine persönliche Diagnose und gegebenenfalls ein Rezept.Auf Wunsch wird deine persönliche Behandlung von einer lizenzierten Schweizer Apotheke diskret verpackt und dir kostenlos bis vor die Haustür geliefert.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

fabbric — FABBRIC is an online fashion marketplace through which consumers can directly purchase clothing products and accessories directly from fashion manufacturers. The company focuses on dis-intermediating the fashion value chain, to create a new, which has a more sustainable business model that allows consumers to have access to quality garments,without having to pay more.
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.
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 ..."

Pioneers Ventures is a EUR 10M early-stage VC fund empowering outstanding startups with its global network of corporates, industry experts, and entrepreneurs. Besides the financial component it provides startups with an extensive support program.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Onfly — Corporate travel plataform
Brellium — Clinical teams use Brellium to audit every patient visit against their clinical and payor requirements.
Pro Padel League — The Pro Padel League is a professional padel league that offers a national platform for the sport, simultaneously fostering nationwide recognition and enthusiasm for Padel. The Pro Padel League stands as North America's inaugural professional league for Padel teams.

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).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Napo — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 5% multi-pet discount.
Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.

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. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classiﬁcation system which allows users to select accommodation based on their diﬀerent levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
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.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
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.

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.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Primary Education
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

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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.
Maiven — We make climate policy simple, so you can act with confidence.
Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats

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.

Investment focus

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

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.
AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
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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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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bible Chat — Bible Chat is the best Christian AI app that lets you talk to the Bible, ask faith questions, request prayers, and study Scripture. Try now for free!
Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
Sirius — Sirius is an online music platform. They offer digital space for music teaching with sound and data protection, enabling musicians to create their virtual music classrooms. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Senvo — Centralized last mile data analytics for optimization, automation, and financial transparency.
KOA Biotech — Detecta enfermedades a tiempo y maximiza tus resultados.
Willow Stories — Preserve your legacy and honor loved ones by creating lasting memorials.

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Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Podero — Podero's aim is to create software that controls energy devices, such as batteries, electric cars, and heat pumps, in order to lower CO2 emissions, create new revenue streams for utilities, and lower consumer electricity bills.Podero's objective is to make it possible to coordinate the largest fleet of devices in the world by utilizingtrade algorithms, software automation, and machine learning forecasts to move energy use to the most economical and sustainable times.
enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry
Chapter — Chapter provides purpose-built AI solutions that streamline workflows and increase efficiency for renewable energy enterprises.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Raus — Book restful space in nature, near your city and outside your daily routine. Contemporary cabins around Berlin and across Germany. Book now at the official raus.life website.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Spain, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Meight — Run your cargo on budget and on time with a few simple clicks, from your laptop. Forget phone calls, driver headaches, hardware and tech nightmares, forever.
Hero Software — Hero Software offers cloud software solutions.
LIBEEN Smart Housing — LIBEEN is a rent-to-buy PropTech dedicated to making homeownership affordable, easy and flexible to all millennials! —Awarded “Best Fintech Startup” in 2020 by the most-read economic newspaper in Spain- El Periódico Expansión.Libeen is a Proptech that gives Millennials access to homeownership in a simple, flexible and user-friendly process calledthe #SmartHousing. Nowadays Millennials can’t afford buying their home as they don’t have the capacity to save money. Because of this, we’ve developed the #SmartHousing. A completely digital and user friendly process to buy a home using only the monthly rent and a 5% downpayment.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
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.

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.

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.

Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Finmatics — Finmatics is a self-learning, artificial intelligence system that automates the activities of accounting service providers. It adapts itself to the unique bookkeeping requirements of companies, industries, and countries by analyzing the activities of human accountants.
Teragon — Laser Metrology for Steel Rolling Mills. Engineered in Graz, Austria.
Autonoma Technologies — Autonoma Technologies is an information technology company that specializes in the digitalization of customer platforms.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
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.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
Outcome — TeamOS makes team dependencies visible, speeds up blocker resolution, and offers actionable insights into bottlenecks

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
Robeaute — Redesigning the future of neurosurgery by creating the new standard device that will provide surgeons with seamless access to delicate areas of the brain parenchyma and with real-time data.
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Synaps — The collaborative architectural platform where you can draw plans, delegate tasks and gather real-time feedback, all in one place. Join the waitlist.
SOMAREALITY — SOMAREALITY provides eye tracking solutions for diverse industries. Improve healthcare, automotive, research & aviation with real-time cognitive insights.
Cycuria Therapeutics — While new therapies, such as FLT3 inhibitors and venetoclax-based regimens, have improved initial response rates, durable remissions and long-term survival

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