# Top 15 Fitness Startup Investors in Austria in June 2026 ## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Fitness 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. ## PUSH VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Health Care | Investments that move industries ## Frank Westermann - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: iOS, News, Sports - 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 ## aws Gründungsfonds - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## Dieter Rappold - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Video 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). ## Skywood Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Clara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Virtual Reality, Water 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 ## XLHEALTH - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes 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. ## XL Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hamilton, Hamilton, Bermuda - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes XLG, partenaire de confiance depuis 40 ans en Belgique, France et Luxembourg, propose des solutions sur mesure : nettoyage, maintenance et facility management. ## Anton Kittelberger - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: iOS, Sports, Android Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health ## iSeed Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Fitness 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. ## Johannes Moser - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Developer Tools Johannes Moser ## Speedinvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More. ## Bryan Clark - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness Bryan Clark is a VP of Product at Neon. ## Roche Venture Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics We are the corporate venture fund of Roche, a global leader in bringing medicines and in vitro diagnostics to the benefit of patients. ## Biogena - Type: VC Fund - Location: Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Fitness, Health Care Biogena develops, produces & markets high-quality dietary supplements.