Top 40 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Austria (August 2026)

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• 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.
• Ribbon Bio — Making The Impossible Possible
• Greenwood-Power — Greenwood-Power is the leading innovator for non-conventional transformers. Let's talk about your individual requirements - CONTACT US TODAY!

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• Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
• Shopstory — Shopstory provides AI-based marketing software that makes online shops more profitable. Shopstory replaces marketing agencies, reduces costs, improves online store Google Ads & SEO performance, and automates keyword research. Shopstory aims to boost sales, cut costs, and save 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 ..."

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• Greenpass — Greenpass is an all-in-one SaaS for climate-resilient urban planning & architecture platform that enables livable cities.
• 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 ..."

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• Napo Pet Insurance — UK pet insurance with dental cover, direct vet payments and free 24/7 video vet calls. Get a 5% multi-pet discount!
• Tuft + Paw — Beautiful modern cat furniture that both cats and humans will love. Shop our collection of cat beds, cat trees, scratching posts, litterboxes, and more. Flat rate shipping and 30 day returns.
• 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 ..."

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• 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.
• TerraSpark — TerraSpark Energy specializing in software solutions for renewable energy asset management. The product, TerraSpark Hub, provides comprehensive oversight of commercial and technical data for green energy assets like solar and wind projects.
• The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions — Pain-free, low-cost, sensitive, radiation-free device to detect breast cancer in urine

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• 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 ..."

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• MEND — MEND is a life sciences company with a mission to help people heal and live their healthiest. The company is currently researching and developing targeted clinical nutrition and medical food interventions to enhance patient outcomes, from injury and surgery to aging and physical performance. MEND has been adopted by numerous hospitals, healthsystems, professional sports teams across all major leagues, and the elite forces of the US Military. The company is headquartered in New York City.
• Healthycell — Healthycell is based on the simple idea that nutrients need to be absorbed into the bloodstream and then into cells where they work to improve health. But most supplements use the same pill-form delivery technologies that were around in the 1930's, back when we were using rotary phones! Our nutrient delivery technologies have not kept pacewith the innovation of other industries. Decades of lab work show that most pills (and even powders) have low absorption. These older delivery systems compress dehydrated, large, dense, insoluble particles that are 10x to 100x too big for absorption through the small intestine where the human body absorbs most nutrients. That's why we forced the evolution of nutrition supplements with MICROGEL™.
• BioCraft Pet Nutrition — All-natural, organic pet foods for dogs and cats. Made without animals.

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• Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
• Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.
• CampusLogic — Fill prospective student pipeline and accelerate financial aid packages with clear cost transparency, AI-powered virtual advising, and matched scholarships.

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• refinq — Our platform helps companies transform climate and biodiversity risks into opportunities to reduce costs, future-proof operations, and stay competitive.
• vitrealab — Enlighten. Your perspective. Light Engines for AR glasses.
• Invisible-Light Labs — Invisible Light Labs uses Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and nanoelectromechanical sensing technologies to enable chemical analysis of materials and nanomaterials that are available in minuscule amounts in a variety of industries, from environmental monitoring to pharmaceuticals.

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• Orderlion — Streamline your wholesale business with Orderlion's ordering app. Automate orders, boost sales, and enhance customer loyalty. Find out more!
• Talkie.ai — Enhance patient access with an AI medical receptionist. Over 300,000 unique patients served monthly. Specialized for US medical practices.
• MetaMatrix — MetaMatrix is an U.S.-based technology company that created the first true Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software product.

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• Agrematch — Agrematch is a data driven small molecules product discovery, development and marketing company, catering to the agricultural industry. Our novel Ag products discovery engine utilizes big-data science, biology, chemistry, and ag know-how to bring new crop protection products to market.
• 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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• 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 ..."

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• Pluvo — Financial forecasts calling for dry, complicated spreadsheets? Reclaim your time - no broken formulas, no duplication, no problems. Pluvo centralizes your data for dynamic scenario planning and unlimited forecasting!
• Noodle Tomato — earn on youtube with ai
• Plurio — Full-Funnel Dashboards
with Advanced Attribution Built Just for You

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• Saturo — Eine Flasche Saturo = eine vollwertige Mahlzeit mit 36 g Protein und 26 Vitaminen & Mineralstoffen. Ohne zugesetzten Zucker. Jetzt probieren.
• Mucki Protein — Ready to drink protein mit den hochwertigsten Rohstoffen, hergestellt in den Alpen!
• 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.

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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.
• Cosaic — 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.

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• Monkee — Monkee is building the infrastructure for the next generation of commerce through Save Now Buy Later (SNBL) — an alternative to debt-based purchasing models like BNPL. The platform empowers consumers to save purposefully toward meaningful purchases, while enabling brands and retailers to engage the 1 in 3 consumers who want to buy, but refuse touse credit. With over 140,000 users, €230M+ in savings goals, and 600+ retail partners, Monkee turns early intent into action — driving loyalty, conversion, and incremental revenue without financial risk. After validating its model in B2C, Monkee is now scaling through embedded SNBL integrations at the point of intent across e-commerce and physical retail.Monkee aims to establish 'Save now Buy Later' as a responsible alternative to 'Buy now Pay later'.The company was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
• Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.

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• Hakuma — Hakuma is the full load of Matcha to which mango, lemon, ginger, agave and Baobab join.
• Econutri — Recycling CO2 for sustainable protein production

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• Afterlife Ag — Eliminate organic waste from going into landfills. Peat upcycles your food waste into fresh, sustainable, and delicious mushrooms.
• FORAY bioscience — The future of plant production starts at the origin of life. Foray uses plant cells and AI-powered plant biology to grow materials, molecules, and seeds at scales never before possible.
• Prolific Machines — Difficult protein production made simple. A next-generation expression system for next-generation therapeutics.

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• Recheck — Recheck is the verification platform for the residential solar industry.
• Asterix Foods — Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company designed to build protein production using plant-cell culture techniques. The company's platform is developing and growing bioactive proteins for food that are scalable, functional, and complex, enabling users with plant cell-cultured and animal-free proteins.It was founded in 2022 and is located inTel Aviv, Israel.
• Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering — autonomous systems Ecosystem Engineering by @jamedderburn

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• MyAcker — MyAcker is an online garden that maintains digitally operated gardens with real organic food harvests without a garden of their own.

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• Covalo — Covalo™ is disrupting how formulation-driven products are developed in the 3 trillion euro consumer goods industry so brands can reduce time to market by scouting ingredients and packaging, collaborating on projects, and purchasing -- all from one place. . Today it's one of the largest beauty ingredient search platforms that connects beautybrands with suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and services such as contract manufacturing, formulation, regulatory, compliance and testing. It also arms suppliers with the tools and real-time industry insights needed to effectively market products. Covalo launched in 2021 and is based in Switzerland.
• SOUS — One easy-to-use tool to grow traffic, make online sales, seamlessly handle orders and drive retention. Built for food entrepreneurs, built with taste.
• Promptwatch — PromptWatch is a platform designed for SEO professionals and digital marketers who want to stay ahead in the age of AI-driven search. As Generative AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity increasingly influence how users discover information, PromptWatch helps businesses ensure their brand is visible and relevant within these AI-generatedanswers. Our tool enables users to monitor mentions of their brand across leading AI engines, uncover where and how their business is referenced, and identify optimization opportunities to improve visibility. By tapping into Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), PromptWatch empowers marketers to adapt their strategies beyond traditional search engines—ensuring their content gets surfaced in the conversations and answers that matter most. PromptWatch is your essential toolkit for thriving in the next wave of search.

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• Triplebar — Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research.
• Savor — Savor makes delightfully rich foods without animals, farmland, fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics.
• Culture Biosciences — Culture Biosciences provides a platform of cloud-connected bioreactors, software tools, and process development services that support upstream bioprocess development for biotech and biopharma applications. The company’s offerings include remote experiment design, monitoring, and data analysis through an integrated cloud software interface pairedwith single-use bioreactors for microbial fermentation and cell culture experimentation. Its services encompass clone and strain screening, process optimization, characterization, and bioprocess modeling to help scientific teams refine and scale their workflows. Clients access real-time data and analytics to inform decisions and collaborate across teams using the platform’s tools. Culture Biosciences’s technology is used to advance development of therapeutics, synthetic biology products, and related bioprocesses. Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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• Numanac — Numanac is a software company that offers artificial intelligence, crop scouting, agritech, recordkeeping, data logging, insurance reports, mobile, and web application services for the agriculture sector.
• CREW Carbon — CREW provides wastewater treatment facilities with a process intensification solution that improves performance, lowers costs, and permanently removes greenhouse gasses.
• Dalan Animal Health — Dalan Animal Health is a vaccine platform with the potential to combat a variety of devastating bee diseases. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Athens, Georgia, United States.

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• Knodd — With Knodd you get to meet experienced child nurses free of charge .
• Eden Brew — Eden Brew is a ground-breaking new way to enjoy dairy products sustainably and nutritiously.
• BioCraft Pet Nutrition — All-natural, organic pet foods for dogs and cats. Made without animals.

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• Supaso Gmbh — SUPASO develops paper-based insulated packaging systems for temperature- and shock-sensitive goods. The company designs cardboard shipping boxes with integrated cellulose insulation to keep contents cooled or frozen for extended periods. Its solutions are made from recycled paper and are fully recyclable within established paper waste streams.SUPASO serves sectors such as food, pet food, pharmaceuticals and other special applications that require controlled temperature and impact protection during transport. It also provides consulting services, including individual needs analysis, system design and tailored offers. The packaging is configured to match product dimensions, logistics processes and budget requirements, with a focus on integrating into existing supply chains and supporting circular material use.

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• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
• Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.

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• Add to Water — Add to Water provides healthy and nutritious flavours to drinking water.

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• 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.

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• Repentium — We strive to create
• Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
• Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Brusli — Brusli provides solutions and strategies for the reduction of food waste. It specializes in turning stale bread into muesli. A crispy cereal created from surplus bread is the company's initial product.
• Proptee — Combine the freedom of the stock market with the stability of real estate investment. Get paid monthly. Trade commission-free. #NoLandlordProblems
• Hyakki NFT — Friendly and helpful customer support that goes above and beyond. We help you get the perfect domain name.

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• Tentris — Tentris is a deep tech startup and university spinout developing high performance graph database software. Their core product, Tentris DB, utilizes a proprietary compressed data structure called a hypertrie.
• Sodex Innovations — Unlocking embedded power at any shape
• Ex Nunc Intelligence — Ex Nunc Intelligence provides professionals with thorough summaries of legal information, credible responses to legal issues, and automated legal document preparation features.

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• Yflavour — Yflavour is an food-tech startup that produces natural, vegan, and sustainable flavor powders designed to significantly improve the taste and nutritional profile of plant-based meat alternatives.
• 2nd Cycle — 2nd Cycle creating a cost-effective, fully automated, and scalable solution for modules for a second life cycle.
• GuardAero — GuardAero is a defense‑technology startup that develops modular, autonomous active‑protection systems for military vehicles, primarily aimed at detecting, tracking, and neutralizing drones in real time.

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• Yenmo — Unlock instant funds with India's best loan against mutual funds starting from 9.89% interest rate. Quick online approval, zero hidden charges, and no foreclosure fees.
• Olio Labs — Olio Labs utilizes AI for combo therapeutics, optimizing and minimizing side effects through automated discovery of protein interactions.
• Creasallis — The creative antibody solutions company

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• FaceUp — Whistleblowing System for companies and schools. FaceUp is an anonymous reporting channel for those who care.
• Shen.AI — Discover how Shen AI turns your smartphone into a health companion - no wearables, just powerful, camera-based health insights.
• Delta Green — Aggregating household assets in large controllable block of flexibility.

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• Mucki Protein — Ready to drink protein mit den hochwertigsten Rohstoffen, hergestellt in den Alpen!

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• Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.

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• WeBuild Ventures — We create fast growing technology ventures for Swiss next generations, with a sharp focus on insurance, financial services and real estate. #startupstudio
• 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 ..."

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• Another Earth — Another Earth is building an AI-powered simulation and synthetic data platform for Earth Observation. As our planet changes, AI models need scalable, high-quality training data to keep pace. Another Earth provides synthetic data, scenario simulations and predictions required to accelerate AI development, and enable faster, smarterdecision-making—enabling smarter decisions for a more resilient world.
• Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
• Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.