Top 30 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2026

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• 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 ..."

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• 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 — VALANX Biotech is a site-specific protein conjugation platform to enable fast and cost efficient protein-drug-conjugates development.

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• 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 ..."

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• Vedi — Building a better future for vets and pets through trusted data. Vedi provides smart verification, automated recording tools and a globally accessible health record system. Supporting vets, pets and owners.
• Smalls — Smalls is a direct-to-consumer pet food company that produces human-grade and fresh food for cats.The company's cat food is prepared with human-grade ingredients and offers customized kits as per the cat's nutrition needs, enabling pet owners to get healthy and fresh food directly at their doorstep. It offers variants such as chickenand beef; freeze-dried chicken, and turkey and duck.In 2017, co-founders and best friends Matt Michaelson and Calvin headquartered the company in New York, New York.
• 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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• 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 ..."

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• iPNOTE — The iPNOTE AI paralegal manages the entire IP registration workflow: answers attorney questions, reviews deliverables, summarizes documents, tracks deadlines, sends follow-ups to providers, monitors progress from filing to grant, and processes payments. Your team interacts with one intelligent agent that smoothly coordinates with patent attorneysworldwide - turning weeks of manual work into automated efficiency.
• Command Code — Langbase helps developers ship composable AI agents with hyper-personalized memory (RAG).Langbase is the composable AI infrastructure and developer experience to build, collaborate, and deploy any AI agents (AI features). Our mission is to make AI accessible to everyone, any developer not just AI/ML experts. We are the only composable AIinfrastructure. That's all we do.
• Sensi AI — Clanz Technologies offers an audio-based system designed to support security in human interactions. The system works by connecting to devices that record audio. It analyzes audio data to find unusual sounds or patterns that may indicate incidents. When an anomaly is detected, the system sends alerts in real time. The service also providesinformation about conditions that can affect care quality, such as stress levels or lack of training. It can be used in places where monitoring human interaction is important for safety. The company offers a demo for organizations that want to use the system.

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

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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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• 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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• Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
• 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!
• Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.

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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 — Eine Flasche Saturo = eine vollwertige Mahlzeit mit 36 g Protein und 26 Vitaminen & Mineralstoffen. Ohne zugesetzten Zucker. Jetzt probieren.
• 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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• 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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• Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.

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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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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.
• Hyfé — Hyfé Foods is a biotech company producing ingredients by leveraging fungal fermentation to upcycle water byproducts from food manufacturers.

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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 — 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.

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• 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.

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• Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
• 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.
• 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.

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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.
• Prewave — Prewave and stems from five years of advanced machine learning research.
• 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.

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

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• 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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• 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.

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• Brusli — Brusli provides solutions and strategies for the reduction of food waste.

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• BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
• Skyld — Skyld create AI-powered security solutions The goal of our endeavor is to prevent reverse engineering and model theft. It is not possible to solve these issues with patents. A true "anti-theft" solution for AI models is what we are creating.
• Manukai — Our AI models turn your production history into scalable automation. It runs fully on-premise, secure, and integrates seamlessly into your CAM software or NC code workflow.

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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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• Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.