Top 15 Fitness Startup Investors in Austria in January 2026
A list of 15 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 15 Fitness Startup Investors in Austria in January 2026
| Investor | Fitness Austria investments |
|---|---|
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 7 |
| Frank Westermann | 2 |
| PUSH VC | 2 |
| aws Gründungsfonds | 2 |
| Bryan Clark | 1 |
| Roche Venture Fund | 1 |
| Anton Kittelberger | 1 |
| Dieter Rappold | 1 |
| iSeed Ventures | 1 |
| Skywood Capital | 1 |
| XLHEALTH | 1 |
| Speedinvest | 1 |
| Biogena | 1 |
| XL Group | 1 |
| Johannes Moser | 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.
- Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.
- 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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Podero — Podero energy flexibility software helps utilities steer devices, trade their flexibility on spot and balancing markets and launch new energy products.
- UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
- Circonomit — Building the world's environmental data infrastructure - We are the sustainability counterpart to what Excel, Sheets and Datev are to financial planning and accounting. Our mission is to create the first decision intelligence platform to bridge sustainability and finance by building the global standard for the collection and aggregation ofcorporate environmental data.
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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- OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
- Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
- 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 ..."
Bryan Clark is a VP of Product at Neon.
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- Fitness, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Boxbase — Boxbase gym management software.
We are the corporate venture fund of Roche, a global leader in bringing medicines and in vitro diagnostics to the benefit of patients.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
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- DiogenX — Welcome to DiogenX. Explore our pioneering research and innovative therapies aimed at transforming diabetes treatment
- 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
Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health
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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.
- Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
Dieter Rappold is the current CEO of tubics. He previously worked at Virtual Identity as a Founder. Dieter Rappold attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
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- Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
- Boxbase — Boxbase gym management software.
- Smint.io — Smint.io offers a Content Experience Platform for stakeholder needs. It helps companies create unique content experiences and optimize their digital touchpoints. The platform lets companies build sites that sit on top of Digital Asset Management Systems, Cloud Storage or Enterprise Content Management Systems. It helps nontechnical owners orfounders to get their content assets online in a simple and appealing way for different types of stakeholders, enabling businesses to build branded, stakeholder-friendly content portals and boosts up brand experience and content usage.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Philippines, Austria
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- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- Revision Dojo — Thousands of practice questions, study notes, and flashcards, all in one place. Supercharged with Jojo AI.
- Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.
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.
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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Investment focus
- 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.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
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- Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
- Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
- Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.
Biogena develops, produces & markets high-quality dietary supplements.
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Investment focus
- 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 — 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.
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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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.
Johannes Moser
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Investment focus
- Developer Tools, Developer Platform
- Angel
- Austria
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- Boxbase — Boxbase gym management software.
- ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.
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