Top 5 Finance Angel Investors in Austria in May 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Finance Angel Investors in Austria in May 2025
Investor | Finance Austria investments |
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 4 |
Rainer Diera | 1 |
Michael Altrichter | 1 |
Maciej Kranz | 1 |
Joerg Floeck | 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.
Rainer Diera
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Austria
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- teamecho — Mitarbeiterbefragung neu gedacht: Wie zufrieden, engagiert und motiviert ist dein Team wirklich? Frag einfach. Mit dem intelligenten Stimmungsbarometer von teamecho.
- Gateway Ventures — Gateway Ventures is Austria's biggest network of startup investors with currently over 4000 investors. We foster the Austrian and European startup eco-system by connecting investors and startups. Our startup portfolio covers FinTech, CleanTech, HeathTech, IT & Software, Big Data & Social Impact. We have financed >40 startups withseed fundings over € 30M+Gateway Ventures was founded in December 2015. Over 1000 investors and 200 partners are currently participating in the network, including European incubators, accelerators and VCs.https://www.gateway.ventures
- weffect (a brand of STRATACT) —
Michael Altrichter - Managing Director and Director @ Paysafecard
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Diagnosia — Making medicine simple.
- 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.
- App Radar — Grow your apps with our App Store Optimization and App Advertising tools. We provide services when you want more Create a free account and contact us today!
Maciej Kranz is the EVP and CTO, Member of the Executive Board at KONE Corporation . Maciej Kranz attended Texas Christian University.
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Investment focus
- Human Resources, Banking, FinTech
- Seed
- United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Finabro — FINABRO is your consultant for saving & investing! Proper saving and sensible investing is important for many parts of life. Saving money can be difficult - investing money wisely has become almost impossible. The savings account gives zero interest rates and the different alternative investment forms are risky, intransparent and expensive.
- Visage — Visage automates candidate discovery and engagement while enabling teams to increase productivity by building predictable candidate pipelines, increasing hiring efficiency, and simplifying team-based work management. With AI and human-powered sourcing capabilities, Visage is able to identify the most relevant skills and experience and deliver largebatches of high quality candidates who can be moved through the pipeline with automated engagement tools that fully integrate with top ATS systems.
- Worksuite — Worksuite is a customizable freelance management solution to grow and organize your global freelancer and contractor network.
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.
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