Top 40 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Austria in July 2025
A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Austria in July 2025
Investor | Food and Beverage Austria investments |
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Peak Pride | 4 |
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 4 |
Companion Fund | 3 |
Hardlymountain | 3 |
tecnet equity | 3 |
aws Gründungsfonds | 2 |
Hornet Ventures | 2 |
Square One Foods | 2 |
Hansmen Group | 2 |
AltaIR Capital | 2 |
Primwest | 1 |
seed + speed | 1 |
Michael Hurnaus | 1 |
Steep Ventures | 1 |
Speedinvest | 1 |
Falkensteiner Ventures | 1 |
Synthesis Capital | 1 |
Michael Kamleitner | 1 |
Bloomhaus Ventures | 1 |
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) | 1 |
Eva Sommer | 1 |
SQUER | 1 |
Jens Schumann | 1 |
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) | 1 |
Friends2Grow | 1 |
Fiedler Capital | 1 |
Tet Ventures | 1 |
Biogena | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
EIC Fund | 1 |
RKP InnoInvest | 1 |
Hazelpond Capital | 1 |
Philipp Kinsky | 1 |
Jens Schumann | 1 |
Michael Ströck | 1 |
Stephan Zöchling | 1 |
Bootstrapped Debt Financing | 1 |
HackCapital | 1 |
ReGen Ventures | 1 |
ICL Planet Startup Hub | 1 |
Multi family office investing in proptech, digital health & sustainability
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
- 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 ..."
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.
- 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.
DV Investments provides venture capital to early-stage companies across life sciences, health technology & services, and animal health with the goal of supporting our portfolio companies throughout their development.
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Investment focus
- Pet, Health Care, Veterinary
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- Napo — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 5% multi-pet discount.
- Mirna — Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology.
- 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 ..."
Hardlymountain Capital invests venture capital in ambitious teams with scalable products and great growth potential.
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Investment focus
- Pet, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
- 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.
- 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 ..."
tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
- Orderlion — Streamline your wholesale business with Orderlion's ordering app. Automate orders, boost sales, and enhance customer loyalty. Find out more!
- VALANX Biotech — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tree.ly — Tree.ly does climate protection through the projects in European forests through its SaaS platform and hyperlocal CO2-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 ..."
Hornet Ventures invest in seed-stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Pet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- PetPair — Discover your new furry friend, connect with foster parents, and adopt available dogs from across the country.
- 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 ..."
Square One Foods supports founders in building tomorrow's food brands and food tech startups...
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pet, Food Delivery
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
- Epigenics — Epigenics supports health with the latest findings from Longevity research.
- 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 ..."
The hansmengroup is a bunch of startups, that share common values, similar goals and the same Business Angel. A group with an incredible performance.
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Investment focus
- Software, Lifestyle, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- fabbric — FABBRIC is an online fashion marketplace through which consumers can directly purchase clothing products and accessories directly from fashion manufacturers. The company focuses on dis-intermediating the fashion value chain, to create a new, which has a more sustainable business model that allows consumers to have access to quality garments,without having to pay more.
- PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
- 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 ..."
We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Global Work — We help freelancers find remote jobs and gigs faster with AI. Unlock the latest job search strategies with our AI-powered platform.
- Cloud Retail — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
- Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.
Switzerland-based single family office
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Investment focus
- Pet, Food Delivery, Subscription Service
- Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 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 ..."
Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
- Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
- Eleven Dynamics — Eleven Dynamics is a developer of software technology designed to automate industry quality control. The technology software provides solutions for designing and simulating. The processes include automatically programming measurement paths at optimal process time without the need for being a robotic expert, connecting all hardware in real time, andexecuting the measurement process. The software is used to create custom robotic solutions for clients.
Michael Hurnaus is a Co-Founder & CEO at Tractive.
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Investment focus
- Pet, Wellness, Veterinary
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
- KARRI — KARRI is a data and GPS enabled, screen-free device for easy communication between you and your kids. A KARRI for your child and a smartphone app for you - it's as simple as that.
- 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 ..."
Steep Ventures is an investment platform that helps tech founders to start building global businesses.
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Investment focus
- Food Processing, Waste Management, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Brusli — Brusli provides solutions and strategies for the reduction of food waste.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
- ORUS — ORUS specializes in high-resolution hyperspectral spatial data and associated analytical services.
- Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.
We support selected founders in hotel, lodging, leisure and elderly care from the concept-, early stage-, pre-seed or seed-phase with specific know how, professional network, investment and infrastructure. Our geographical focus for traction in the first acceleration phase is German speaking Europe - and where you are.
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, SaaS, Travel
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Austria, Finland, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- AVISIO — AVISIO brings digital inventory and procurement management to independent hotels and restaurants with a highly integrated and user friendly SaaS solution. AVISIO integrates the used POS and PMS systems to automate inventory processes and give smart order quantity suggestions based on booking data.
- JetCamp — Camping & holiday park search engine & booking platform. 22.000 campings and parks across Europe. Multilingual site. PMS & channel manager connectivity. Set up in 2019 by ex-Thomas Cook managers Erwin Hoevenaar and Roderik Verburg. Together they share +40 years of digital marketing, online sales and management of travel-sellingcompanies
- MeetingPackage — Intuitive, automated venue sales management for all venues. Use smart automation to boost efficiency, grow revenue, and improve the guest experience.
We are The Future Food Investors. Alternative Proteins Pioneers, we combine Smart Capital, Deep Expertise and Food Tech Startups!
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Organic Food
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Israel, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Triplebar — Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research.
- Savor — Savor makes delightfully rich foods without animals, farmland, fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics.
- Hyfé — Hyfé Foods is a biotech company producing ingredients by leveraging fungal fermentation to upcycle water byproducts from food manufacturers.
Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Video
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
- Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
We are a pioneering Swiss venture capital firm dedicated to empowering game-changing tech startups in Central Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Manukai — At Manukai, our mission is to bridge the gap between design and production.
- Limatica — Limatica is a BatteryTech/DeepTech startup founded in Chemnitz. Through the founder's deep understanding of battery diagnosis it was possible to develop a novel measurement method to qualify cells in battery production - faster and more cost-efficient than ever before.
- Eleven Dynamics — Eleven Dynamics is a developer of software technology designed to automate industry quality control. The technology software provides solutions for designing and simulating. The processes include automatically programming measurement paths at optimal process time without the need for being a robotic expert, connecting all hardware in real time, andexecuting the measurement process. The software is used to create custom robotic solutions for clients.
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria. As a "one-stop shop" offering a diversified and targeted programme portfolio, the FFG gives Austrian businesses and research facilities quick and uncomplicated access to research funding.The FFG was foundedon 1 September 2004 (pursuant to the FFG Act on establishing a research promotion agency, Federal Law Gazette I No. 73/2004). The FFG is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria, represented by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). As a provider of funding services, however, the FFG also works for other national and international institutions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Synaps — The collaborative architectural platform where you can draw plans, delegate tasks and gather real-time feedback, all in one place. Join the waitlist.
- SOMAREALITY — SOMAREALITY provides eye tracking solutions for diverse industries. Improve healthcare, automotive, research & aviation with real-time cognitive insights.
- Cycuria Therapeutics — While new therapies, such as FLT3 inhibitors and venetoclax-based regimens, have improved initial response rates, durable remissions and long-term survival
Eva Sommer Advising, BA Investments & 🦄 in progress.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Education
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.
- Vevolution — Vevolution is an investment platform providing data and intelligence for the AgriFoodTech ecosystems. Dedicated to removing animals from our supply chain.
Experts in Technology Boost, Realizing Agile, Sustainable Delivery, and Upskilling.
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Investment focus
- Cooking, Recipes, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Germany, Austria, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
- Tryp.com — Find the best travel deals with artificial intelligence. Our algorithm connects flights, trains, and buses for perfect trips with matching hotels.
- aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
The Austrian Economic Service mbH (aws) is the promotional bank of the Federal Government.The aws SME fund is the largest Austrian Fund for silent corporate investments, but also providers of equity. Founded in late 2009 by the Austrian Economic Service mbH (aws) - the Development Bank of the Federal - he has a term until 31/12/2025.The fund is currently endowed with EUR 80 million and participates in medium-sized companies and brings with it a fresh capital to develop new products or processes, for sales development to international expansion.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- HD Immune — HD Immune develops an antibody to target the mutated protein and remove it from the body. HDI has a lead antibody mAB C6-17 which lowers mtHTT in the blood and organs.
- Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
- Aileen Health — Next frame predictions for medical images.
Friends2Grow is a venture investment firm. It invests in seed and early growth.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.
We are a first check investor helping overlooked founders from peripheral European ecosystems defy the odds and create breakout companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Hungary, Latvia, Serbia
Portfolio highlights
- AgroSync — Uncover hidden profits. Use field data to boost returns this season
- RivalSense — Monitor competitors of your startup. Receive curated weekly updates.
- Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
Tet Ventures is one of the most active global food-tech investors. We work with and invest in technology that can improve the food system.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Afterlife Ag — Eliminate organic waste from going into landfills. Peat upcycles your food waste into fresh, sustainable, and delicious mushrooms.
- FORAY bioscience — FORAY bioscience is a biotechnology company that uses biomanufacturing techniques to produce wood products.
- Prolific Machines — Difficult protein production made simple. A next-generation expression system for next-generation therapeutics.
Biogena develops, produces & markets high-quality dietary supplements.
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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.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
start-ups, SMEs, technology, co-investment
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, The Netherlands, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Filuta AI — Operationalized Composite Artificial Intelligence
- Resistell AG — Resistell is a antibiotic resistance test.
- iThera Medical — Explore optoacoustic imaging technology for non-invasive in vivo visualization and quantification of disease-related tissue biomarkers.
RKP InnoInvest provides Investment capital and strategic services support progressive and dynamic start-ups and companies.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Austria
Hazelpond Capital is an investment company.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.
Philipp Kinsky
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Adtriba — Adtriba allows businesses to track, control and optimize their customer’s journeys, offsite and onsite, through AI and user journey analysis. Adtriba integrates user journey data across all channels - including TV ads and offline marketing campaigns - and applies machine learning to all user journey events. The results are optimizationsuggestions and actionable insights, allowing for cross-channel optimization of marketing ROI.
- aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
- Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.
Founding partner and investor at Calm/Storm Ventures. Previously founded companies in consumer e-commerce (KochAbo; exit to Marley Spoon in 2015) and enterprise SaaS (Gustav; YC S17). Launched and grew successful open source projects (Vienna RSS; over 10 million downloads), as well as various community and charity projects (FounderTalks.org,Chancen:reich).I‘m especially passionate about the very early stages of company-building and have a track-record of early stage investments in my own companies, as well as healthcare and health-tech startups like Mediclass, hi.health and Probably Genetic (YC W19). Other notable investments include Flaviar (YC S14), Joblocal.de (Exit 2015), Kiko, Biloba and an investment as one of the first limited partners in Austrian venture fund Speedinvest.
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- Health Care, Medical, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Catch — Set aside for taxes and retirement. Save thousands on health insurance. Free personal payroll and benefits for freelancers, contractors, and the self-employed.
- Flaviar — Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentarybottles every month.Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.
- Glidian — Glidian understand the trouble of finding forms, tracking multiple authorization requests, and faxing out documents. Glidian is designed to solve all of your prior authorization needs.
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- Cooking, Recipes, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Austria
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- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Bootstrapped Debt Financing
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
- SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
- Tactii — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
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- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
- Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence
- UNCAGED Innovations — What if we could make leather without the animal? We are a biomaterials company combining the power of nature and technology to reimagine leather.
Investing in the ReGeneration
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- Agriculture, Biotechnology, Farming
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Austria, United Kingdom
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- Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
- Differential Bio — Differential Bio is integrating scale-down experiments with AI-based modeling to optimize how industry-relevant microbes grow ("biomass fermentation") and produce ("precision fermentation"). By optimizing bioprocesses and growth conditions, the company is not only increasing their clients' R&D efficiency but alsodramatically improving bioproduction outcomes such as yield, cost efficiency, and product quality.
- Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering — Ulysses rewild the ocean and remove gigatons of carbon, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change and restore marine ecosystems.
ICL Startup Accelerator focuses on foodtech and crop nutrition startups, innovative products, and accelerates their market penetration
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- Biotechnology, Agriculture, Organic Food
- Seed
- Israel, Austria
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- Lavie bio — LaVie Bio develops bacterial compositions that are sprayed on plants, used to coat seeds, or are integrated in the soil around the plant in order to improve the crop or the plant's features.
- Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon converts CO2 into resources to power tomorrow's industries.
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