Top 10 Fitness Startup Investors in Austria in October 2024
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 October 2024
Investor | Fitness Austria investments |
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 7 |
Frank Westermann | 2 |
aws Gründungsfonds | 2 |
PUSH VC | 2 |
iSeed Ventures | 1 |
Skywood Capital | 1 |
Biogena | 1 |
XLHEALTH | 1 |
XL Group | 1 |
Roche Venture Fund | 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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- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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- iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Austria, United States
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- Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
- 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.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
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- 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.
- 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.
- Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food
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- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, United States
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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.
- 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.
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.
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- Health Care, Software, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Philippines, Austria
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- GroupUltra — GroupUltra is a platform that allows users to program their groups and design their communities.
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.
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
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- Health Care, Virtual Reality, Water
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Austria
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- 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.
Biogena develops, produces & markets high-quality dietary supplements.
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- Food and Beverage, Fitness, Health Care
- Seed
- Austria, United States
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- 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 — Home - LuminousRed Red Light
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.
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- Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes
- Series A
- Austria
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- 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.
XL Group, through its subsidiaries, creates extranets for management of communication and direct marketing campaigns. The company is based in Saint Etienne, France.
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- Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes
- Seed
- Austria
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- 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.
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.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
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- 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
- Mironid — Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of www.mironid.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
- MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas
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