Top 5 Finance Angel Investors in Austria in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 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 July 2025

Investor	Finance Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	4
Rainer Diera	1
Michael Altrichter	1
Maciej Kranz	1
Joerg Floeck	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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Rainer Diera

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

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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
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Michael Altrichter - Managing Director and Director @ Paysafecard

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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Maciej Kranz is the EVP and CTO, Member of the Executive Board at KONE Corporation . Maciej Kranz attended Texas Christian University.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Banking, FinTech
Seed
United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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Joerg is a global citizen and has travelled about 60 countries and lived in six of them. His early passion for investing and technology opened the door to an international career in Financial Services. As a swimmer and basketball player, Joerg developed the competitive spirit which ultimately led him into the Executive Committee of Thomson Reutersin New York. He built his C-Level network socializing with global leaders at the World Economic Forum (Davos), advising the Mayor of Rome and meeting Barack Obama at the White House Press dinner in Washington. As an enthusiastic fan and corporate sponsor of Formula 1, he will never forget co-driving a Porsche GT3 with Nico Rosberg.Today, Joerg is eager to bridge the cultural gap between the corporate and start-up world. He is an active business angel and corporate non-executive board director. After many years on the FinTech Investment Committee he became Chairman of Speedinvest in October 2017.