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Top 25 Finance Startup Investors in Austria

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds 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 25 Finance Startup Investors in Austria

Investor	Finance Austria investments
Speedinvest	5
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	4
DvH Ventures	3
Lang & Schwarz	2
UNIQA Ventures	2
Michael Altrichter	1
Joerg Floeck	1
Maxfield Capital	1
Volkswagen Group	1
Hardlymountain	1
VENPACE	1
NYDIG	1
Lansdowne Partners	1
Frank Westermann	1
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	1
Rainer Diera	1
aws Gründerfonds (aws Founders Fund)	1
Neulogy Ventures	1
Blockchain.com	1
Michael Steiner	1
CCAP Investments & Advisory	1
Michael Grabner Media GmbH	1
Wicklow Capital	1
Maciej Kranz	1
Anton Kittelberger	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
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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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

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
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Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OneTwenty — OneTwenty is an early-stage health tech start-up that develops multiple Machine Learning based solutions for people with diabetes as well as Medtech companies for sensor optimization, biomarker prediction, glucoregulatory models, and iAGC (interoperable automated glycemic controller). Our solution demonstrates unprecedented precision in bloodglucose prediction 120 minutes in advance. OneTwenty revolutionizes the life of people with Type 1 diabetes.
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Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.

The Lang & Schwarz Trade Center is considered the leading platform for OTC trading in Germany. Additional services range from traditional brokerage on advice and support in going and being public - including the IPO and Corporate Finance Advice - to the development of structured products. In addition, market-making belongs in securities andderivative financial instruments on our divisions, we work across the Group, with around 50 employees since 1996.We or our subsidiaries are listed on the Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Stuttgart, Vienna (Austria) and approved on XETRA and EUREX to participate in trading, market makers are on Quotrix and have access to international markets.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Online Portals
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

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UNIQA Ventures GmbH is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, a leading insurance carrier in Central & Eastern Europe and a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Austria and CEE. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future ofkey industries. Investment areas are the future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and FinTech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.

Investment focus

Insurance, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Austria, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
Insly — Insly provides insurance software solutions that help you manage and automate your insurance business operations and increase the efficiency of your processes.
Abi Global Health — Abi Global Health is an information technology company that focuses on the hospital and healthcare industry and offers an online-based platform that connects people to doctors online to get medical advice. Its platform enables its users to get access to trusted advice from doctors, its virtual health assistant, Abi, connects people to a globalnetwork of doctors for quick answers or in-depth consultations.

Michael Altrichter - Managing Director and Director @ Paysafecard

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Diagnosia — Making medicine simple.
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Joerg Floeck - Managing Partner @ Speedinvest

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Travel
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.
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Venture fund investing in global information technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NFWare — The World's Fastest Network Functions Virtualization. High-Performance NFV applications for carriers, data centers and enterprises
3S Money — Collect, send and exchange high-value payments in 190+ countries, with 3S Money's global business accounts built for SMEs. Open an account today.
viisights — viisights is a leading innovator of behavioral recognition systems for real-time video intelligence. The company provides AI-powered behavioral recognition systems for safe and smart cities, enterprises, campuses, banks, financial institutions, critical infrastructures, transportation hubs, and for shared and autonomous mobility. viisights’ missionis to leverage artificial intelligence technologies that facilitate human-like pattern prediction to create fully autonomous video intelligence systems. To achieve success, the company relies on a seasoned management, a knowledgeable tech team, cutting-edge technological expertise and a far-reaching vision.

Volkswagen Group is an automotive company, it designs, manufactures, and distributes passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines, and turbomachinery and offers related services including financing, leasing, and fleet management.

Investment focus

Transportation, Automotive, Manufacturing
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
United States, China, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Northvolt — Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.
EIT InnoEnergy — Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors.
Xpeng Motors — Xiaopeng Motors is an electric vehicle and technology company that designs and manufactures smart cars.

Hardlymountain Capital invests venture capital in ambitious teams with scalable products and great growth potential.

Investment focus

Pet, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
Talentir — Content Monetization
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.

Rethinking insurance. VENPACE develops digital business models for the insurance industry and invests in trailblazing ideas on the market. We support innovative solutions and help startup teams to grow.Through our unique ecosystem, we rethink insurance. We implement and support digital business models with know-how and passion - either asstrategic investor or as initiator.Company Building - Together with our partners and investors, we identify the insurance industry’s challenges and chances of tomorrow, develop innovative business models and found them as startups from scratch.Venture Investment - We look for passionate founding teams that create value through their creative ideas and digital solutions. Our investment sweet spot: pre-seed and seed.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ucura Deutschland GmbH — With it's brand DeinePflege, ucura is on the forefront of digitizing the ambulatory care system in Germany
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.

NYDIG is a technology and financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin for institutions, private clients, and banks. The firm offers asset management, derivatives, financing, custody, and execution services. NYDIG's platform satisfies the highest regulatory, audit, and governance standards.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
Seed, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Greenidge — Greenidge is a 106MW natural gas power plant and blockchain mining facility. Greenidge Generation has been transformed into a power plant for the twenty-first century. In January 2020, Greenidge launched the first phase of a data center for blockchain mining. Greenidge was established in 1937 and is based in Dresden, New York, United States.
Unchained — Unchained is a bitcoin native financial services company offering collaborative custody multisignature vaults and loans for bitcoin holders.
Argo Blockchain — Argo Blockchain (NASD:ARBK), is the First Climate Positive Bitcoin Mining Company. A Pioneer in Using Renewable Power & Innovation in Blockchain Technology

Fundamental Equity Investing, since 1998

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Tungsten West — Tungsten West plc producing hemerdon mine. With demand for strategic metals, including tungsten and tin increasing rapidly, due to their heavy use in new technology, Tungsten West is concentrated on meeting this demand by restarting production at Hemerdon in the next 12 months at a low cost due to existing infrastructure.
TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
Oxford Quantum Circuits — Oxford Quantum Circuits developing technology using the power of quantum to do things which have never been achieved before, from enabling life-changing drug discoveries to developing new battery technologies.

- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health - Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017) - Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech

Investment focus

iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
Seed, Series A, Angel
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

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Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
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The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
CustomSurg — RETHINKING TRAUMA SURGERY At CustomSurg we are changing the treatment of complex bone fractures from a subjective to an objective approach, through personalized solutions.
Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

Rainer Diera

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

teamecho — Mitarbeiterbefragung neu gedacht: Wie zufrieden, engagiert und motiviert ist dein Team wirklich? Frag einfach. Mit dem intelligenten Stimmungsbarometer von teamecho.
Gateway Ventures — primeCROWD is Austria's biggest network of startup investors with currently over 1000 active investors, including the likes of high-profile business angels such as Johannes Siller, Markus Ertler and Heinrich Prokop. We foster the Austrian and European startup eco-system by connecting investors and startups. Our startup portfolio coversFinTech, CleanTech, HeathTech, IT & Software, Big Data & Social Impact. We have run 19 successful campaigns with seed fundings over € 9M+, including:::. iDWELL ::. Farmdok ::. MOVEEFFECT ::. Carbon Recovery ::. STRATACT ::. Orderlion ::. Domonda ::. CorpLife ::. Wanderwatch ::. myVeeta ::. goUrban ::. Liimtec | PocketDefi ::. FRUX ::. FOEX ::. Fitapp ::. thesocialbet | herosphere ::. viRaTechnologies | viRaCube ::. BiotanprimeCROWD 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.prime-crowd.com/
weffect (a brand of STRATACT) —

aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food

We help entrepreneurs build great companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Collaboration
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
Slovakia (Slovak Republic), United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GA Drilling — GA Drilling is the solution for a local, independent source of electricity, heating, clean water and food production in the unstable world.
GroupSolver — GroupSolver's market research software gets you insights delivered quickly from an intelligent survey platform and helps you learn more about your audience.
MultiplexDX Inc. — MultiplexDX is one of the most innovative biotech corporations, created to bring its revolutionary technologies to the market of personalized molecular diagnostics. The company has representation in both U.S. and European markets. Find out more about MultiplexDX on our official website.

Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Bitcoin
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bitcoin.com — The world's gateway to Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. Buy, sell, spend, swap, and invest in BTC, ETH, BCH, AVAX, MATIC & hundreds more digital assets. Stay informed about crypto, DeFi, and Web3.
Gnosis — Safe is the most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum
Fabric Systems — At Fabric, AI supercomputing and crypto natives have come together for the first time to deliver the next revolution in computing and break free of the hardware barriers of this era.

Dr. Michael Steiner, executive board member of porsche AG,

Investment focus

Fuel, Energy, Bitcoin
Seed, Private Equity
Chile, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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HIF Global — HIF Global is an eFuel company engaged in the production of carbon neutral fuels.

CCAP Investments & Advisory is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Finance, Leasing, Payments
Series A
Norway, Austria

Portfolio highlights

linx4 - Pay-per-Use Financing — linx4 is an Austrian based financing company with a unique market USP in true Pay-per-Use Financing for industrial equipment, where linx4 takes over up to 75% usage risk.
Optio Incentives — Optio helps businesses incentivize employees, manage equity, stay compliant, and report costs with our software and advisory

MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Sanubi — Sanubi is nursing aids, incontinence care and more.
Storyclash — Storyclash is your Influencer Marketing Platform to discover brand-fit creators based on their content, not on vanity metrics. Track and analyze their work on any platform, including Stories.
CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.

Wicklow Capital, Inc. is a Chicago-based principal investment firm out of the family office of Dan Tierney, co-founder and board member of GETCO, Inc., once one of the world's leading market makers and financial innovators in financial and commodities markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Anoma — A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties.
Sparx — Our risk experts guarantee no-compromise business insurance: fast, comprehensive, and at the best rate across our 150 partner carriers.
Hydra Ventures — Hydra Ventures is the first dedicated investment DAO focused on backing and incubate other investment DAOs across the web3 ecosystem.

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

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 — Your Freelancer management system. Worksuite is a customizable solution to grow and organize your global freelancer and contractor network.

Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health

Investment focus

iOS, Sports, Android
Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

myClubs — One membership. Unlimited sports.We provide digital access to the best gyms and fitness classes in Austria and Switzerland. Our network of more than 800 exclusive partner studios guarantees choice, flexibility and quality. Thousands of customers use our product as well as more and more companies and insurances. By digitalizing the growingfitness market we are following our mission: Rethinking sports.
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