Top 10 Fitness Startup Investors in Austria in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fitness startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Fitness Startup Investors in Austria in February 2025

Investor	Fitness Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	7
PUSH VC	2
aws Gründungsfonds	2
Frank Westermann	2
XL Group	1
Skywood Capital	1
XLHEALTH	1
Biogena	1
Roche Venture Fund	1
iSeed Ventures	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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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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Investment focus

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

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.
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.
FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.

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

Tree.ly — Tree.ly enables forest owners to generate additional income. Companies can buy high-quality carbon credits.
Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
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 ..."

- 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.
not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.

XL Group, through its subsidiaries, creates extranets for management of communication and direct marketing campaigns. The company is based in Saint Etienne, France.

Investment focus

Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

mySugr — mySugr is a digital health company that simplifies life with diabetes. The mySugr App, in combination with integrated medical devices, empowers people with diabetes through a comprehensive self-management package: it includes the mySugr App (Logbook, Insulin Calculator, Diabetes Coach, Doctor Reports) and a connected blood sugar meter withhome-delivered unlimited test strips. A large part of the company lives with diabetes, many since childhood.

Skywood Capital(天木资本) is a cross-border VC fund with both fund and team based in Silicon Valley and China to support and accelerate global team's innovation in US, China and global market. The fund invest primarily in early stage and growth stage companies with excellent team and vision, disruptive technology or business model, targetingscalable and big market. Skywood Capital has a strong team of experts with extensive cross-border experiences in industry for investment, fund management, product design and engineering, technology innovation, company growth strategy, global marketing and business development (especially in US and China), human resources and recruiting, incubator setup and operation. Skywood Capital not just offers the funding for startup but also supports the startup to grow fast and healthy along the journey, with successful exit. The fund helps to enhance the global entrepreneur ecosystem and, it is considered the first choice for global startup to get into China market.天木资本，是基于全球革命性技术创新和新兴科技行业的发展趋势，整合硅谷、全球其他创新城市和国内优势资源，以资本和专业经验服务全球创新者，根据产业需求精准定位，专注于投资海外最具颠覆性和影响力的科技成果和商业创新。基金特色：● 专注中美跨境投资及并购● 对接中美欧资源● 偏重技术创新取向● 优质资产管理，运营咨询和项目合作服务

Investment focus

Health Care, Virtual Reality, Water
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

ecomo — Lack of a simple yet effective pollution detector has been a major issue in this battle with water contamination. We developed the first portable and affordable device that is capable of detecting a number of water quality characteristics, including Total Organic Carbon (TOC), turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), heavy metals, and bacteria etc.This solves the problem of potential pollution factors before reaching to the end users by detecting/ remove contaminants in the water. It’s perfect for both outdoor (hiking, camping) and indoor (kitchen, office) use.Smart – Able to measure key water quality characteristics with LED indicatorSimple – Button-less design; Smartphone APP readingsPortable – Solar panel powered for outdoor useExtendible – Support filter/detector add-ons
zGlue — zGlue is a Silicon Valley company offering a platform and process for building custom chips on demand. As businesses in the hardware space face increasingly intense time-to-market challenges, zGlue provides an innovative solution through their ChipBuilder software platform, proprietary Smart Fabric interposer, and manufacturing partnerships withworld-renowned TSMC and ASE. zGlue’s approach to accelerated product development delivers top-quality chips at an exceptional speed, offering a significant improvement in miniaturization, affordability, and scalability for custom ICs.
SimpliFlow — SimpliFlow offers innovative and modern software solutions in the fields of top-class sport, personal training and corporate health management.

XLHEALTH is a Venture Capital investor in startups of the IT healthcare industry. Following the mission statement "Digital Health – Made in Germany" XLHEALTH invests in selected companies that make a sustainable impact to preserve and improve human health. XLHEALTH offers startups a network of mentors and access to 400,000 providers,organizations, industry partners and patented health technologies.

Investment focus

Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

mySugr — mySugr is a digital health company that simplifies life with diabetes. The mySugr App, in combination with integrated medical devices, empowers people with diabetes through a comprehensive self-management package: it includes the mySugr App (Logbook, Insulin Calculator, Diabetes Coach, Doctor Reports) and a connected blood sugar meter withhome-delivered unlimited test strips. A large part of the company lives with diabetes, many since childhood.

Biogena develops, produces & markets high-quality dietary supplements.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Fitness, Health Care
Seed
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

NEOH USA — NEOH USA is a fast growing new food brand from Kirkland, WA and the leader in Crossbars. It satisfies your sweet tooth without the guilt. Crossbars taste as great as a candy bars but are protein bars.
Saturo — Saturo is Europe’s first meal replacement product in a bottle, offering balanced and healthy nutrition.
Luminous Labs GmbH — Welcome to Luminous Labs - we are one of the leading photobiomodulation and red light therapy companies in Europe. With a strong focus on research and development we are expanding the human health-span with our non-invasive technology. One photon at a time, starting with female fertility and longevity.

The Roche Venture Fund is the name given to the corporate venture fund of the healthcare company Roche. Roche has allocated CHF 500 million to invest in and develop commercially successful innovative life science companies. Roche has been investing in early stage companies as part of collaborations since the early-1990s and independent ofcollaborations since 2002. All equity investments made by Roche in biotech and diagnostics companies (including collaboration investments) are negotiated and managed by the Roche Venture Fund. In the past 20 years, the Roche Venture Fund has invested in over 60 companies globally. Currently, Roche Venture Fund has a portfolio of around 30 companies located in 10 countries across Europe, North America and the Pacific Region. The fund is an evergreen fund with CHF 500 million available of which approximately 40% is currently invested.The Roche Venture Fund is a committed long-term stable investor with sufficient money reserved in their fund for follow-on financing rounds. As part of a multinational healthcare company, the Roche Venture Fund has access to considerable expertise both internally and externally. We co-invest with leading venture funds, including other corporate venture funds, on a regular basis.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

DiogenX — We incorporated DiogenX with the objective to provide new therapeutic solutions for diabetic patients. With Patrick Collombat and the team, we are focused on developing a first-in-class regenerative treatment for type 1 diabetes. Benjamin Charles CEO See the team Latest News See more Our Work OUR APPROACH ABOUT DIABETES
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iSeed is an early-stage investment company. They focus on consumer mobile technology with a keen interest in healthcare. iSeed is committed to partnering with the next generation of technology startups to grow a lasting and impactful company.