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Top 35 Gaming Startup Investors in Austria

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 35 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Gaming startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Gaming Startup Investors in Austria

Investor	Gaming Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	4
Speedinvest	3
Peak Pride	3
tecnet equity	3
Companion Fund	2
AltaIR Capital	2
Hardlymountain	2
aws Gründerfonds (aws Founders Fund)	2
KaPa Ventures	2
Tet Ventures	1
seed + speed Ventures	1
Square One Foods	1
Hazelpond Capital	1
Ralf Reichert	1
Visionplus	1
Ralf Reichert	1
Synthesis Capital	1
ReGen Ventures	1
Fiedler Capital	1
Wargaming	1
Falkensteiner Ventures	1
Jens Schumann	1
Biogena	1
Steep Ventures	1
EIC Fund	1
Eva Sommer	1
Ottakringer Getraenke	1
Michael Hurnaus	1
HackCapital	1
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	1
Friends2Grow	1
ICL Planet Startup Hub	1
RKP InnoInvest	1
Bootstrapped Debt Financing	1
Michael Ströck	1

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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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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.
reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.

Multi family office investing in proptech, digital health & sustainability

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

contextflow — Improve your radiology workflows with our clinical decision support system, clinical applications and deep learning-based tools.
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.

tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth.

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 — Orderlion is aiming to become the gold standard for online ordering of restaurants & hotels from all their suppliers. Orderlion is already available in more than 20 cities in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and France with over 1.000 restaurants and hundreds of suppliers.Orderlion was designed for all types of hospitalitybusinesses (café, restaurant, hotel, chain). The order platform combines all suppliers and products in one app and enables customer-specific pricing. With little effort, the entire inventory of restaurants can be recorded and activated for automatic ordering processes. Orderlion counts numerous prominent restaurants among its customers. Orderlion was founded by Stefan Strohmer and Patrick Schubert in 2018 and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
VALANX Biotech — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.

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.

Investment focus

Pet, Health Care, Animal Feed
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
Native Pet — Native Pet crafts organic supplements for dogs and cats that harness the nutritional power of whole food ingredients
Bundle x Joy — Bundle x Joy is a consumer goods company that delivers curation, community and connection to pet parents. It was founded by Jessica Berger in 2021 and is based in Glendale, Arizona.

We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Stayf — Cultivating a Healthy Corporate Culture through Sport and Wellness in One App
Substrata — Substrata.me | #1 AI Real-Time Sales Email Coach | Designed by data scientists, psychologists and linguists to help you book more meetings and close more deals
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

Hardlymountain Capital invests venture capital in ambitious teams with scalable products and great growth potential.

Investment focus

Pet, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
Talentir — Content Monetization
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food

KaPa Ventures offers venture capital to businesses.

Investment focus

Video, E-Commerce, Employment
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

StreamTV Media — STREAM.TV is one of the world's top media brands in live streaming and offers major products in all live streaming areas.
Talto — Entdecke Unternehmen, die aktiv Studenten und junge Talente suchen. Arbeitgeber berichten. Finde Firmen, die wirklich zu dir passen.
Logoshuffle — Logoshuffle is a powerful automated logo builder which allows anyone to generate infinite logo designs customized to your preferred brand name, tagline, font and color scheme. You only have to enter brand name, tagline and preferred color scheme. Within seconds, the site generates a set of logos for the user to choose from. Designs that suit can bedirectly bought to use for your business or your project.

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
RevivBio — RevivBio is a biotechnology company that focuses on microbial innovation. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Frederick, Maryland.
Chef Robotics — Chef Robotics is a robotics and artificial intelligence company serving the food industry. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

happyhotel — The happyhotel revenue and yield management system has a simple dashboard that supports the hotelier in the data analysis of the most important hotel KPI’s. happyhotel is a cloud-based hotel software specially designed for small and medium-sized hotels. Hoteliers can achieve more revenue without a great deal of prior knowledge. The hotelier getpast, current and future values of RevPar, Occupancy, ADR and Revenue. Through the booking pace graph and the on the books evaluation the hotelier can react to the current market conditions. Furthermore the hotelier can review every day the important reports and get an alert if the values do not correspond with the budget. happyhotel use a special formula and an algorithm who gives the hotelier the best price recommendation for his hotel or each of your hotel segments and room types. With an interface to the hotel pms happyhotel get all data to analyze the hotel. happyhotel facilitates the hotelier's life through automatic processes so that he can concentrate on other things.
Helio — Carbon Aware Cloud Computing.
Tokenize.it — Tokenize.it are developing non-custodial token-based fundraising methods.

Square One Foods supports founders in building tomorrow's food brands and food tech startups...

Investment focus

Health Care, Pet, Food Delivery
Seed, Series A, 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 ..."

Hazelpond Capital is an investment company.

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.

Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Investment focus

Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
Dealflow — Dealflow is an invoicing platform for global companies, and it is the only platform that combines free global transfers, instant payouts and payment flow automation in one place.
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers

Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Investment focus

Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
Dealflow — Dealflow is an invoicing platform for global companies, and it is the only platform that combines free global transfers, instant payouts and payment flow automation in one place.
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

We are The Future Food Investors. Alternative Proteins Pioneers, we combine Smart Capital, Deep Expertise and Food Tech Startups!

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Organic Food
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
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.

Investing in the ReGeneration

Investment focus

Farming, Hardware, Robotics
Seed, Series A
United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

BurnBot — Burnbot is a tech forward provider of wildfire mitigation, vegetation management, and prescribed fire operations. We offer force-multiplying solutions that reduce the risk of wildfire damage for critical infrastructure, firefighting agencies, agriculture, private enterprise, public lands, conservati
Arch — Arch is a vertical SaaS company that leverages AI to optimize and finance sustainable HVAC systems.
Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food

We are a first check investor helping overlooked founders from peripheral European ecosystems defy the odds and create breakout companies.

Investment focus

Software, iOS, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hungary, Serbia, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
Munch - (B)eat food waste! — Munch operates a marketplace for restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and cafes to sell their surplus food to consumers at a discounted price.

A catalogue of games produced by the leading game developer in the CIS. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Apps
Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed
United States, Austria, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

RAWG — RAWG.io is a video game discovery platform that converts your skills into goods and services.
Donut Lab — Donut Punks is a MOBA game that offers a unique blend of fun, action, and strategy. It is designed for players who want to team up and take on the challenge of fighting against hordes of zombies in a thrilling online environment.
Polystream — Polystream is completely rethinking and realising new ways of how to use the visual cloud, from server to client, from network to edge as we build the 3D Internet. Powered by our breakthrough command streaming technology, you can now instantly engage, grow, and monetise audiences of all shapes and sizes wherever they are in the world; whether it’splayers, streamers, or viewers. Our synchronous spectator engine Fantom enables cloud native games and experiences to be cost-effectively streamed with unrivalled reach, and unprecedented scale.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Adtriba — Data-driven marketing analytics, unbiased, cross-channel and easy to use multi-touch attribution, unified marketing measurement and marketing mix modelling
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.

Biogena develops, produces & markets high-quality dietary supplements.

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.

Steep Ventures is an investment platform that helps tech founders to start building global businesses.

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.

start-ups, SMEs, technology, co-investment

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 — Due to its spatiotemporal resolution, penetration depth, sensitivity and specificity, optoacoustic imaging (OAI) can be used for a multitude of applications.

Eva Sommer Advising, BA Investments & 🦄 in progress.

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.

Ottakringer Getraenke is a food & beverage manufacturer that manufactures beer, mineral water and other soft drinks.In 2009 Ottakringer Getränke AG is created through the merger of Ottakringer Brauerei AG and Vöslauer Mineralwasser AG. It is Austria's only listed beverage manufacturer. Most of the shares are held indirectly by the twoAustrian families Wenckheim and Menz through Ottakringer Holding AG

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Water Purification
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

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

Michael Hurnaus is a Co-Founder & CEO at Tractive.

Investment focus

Pet, Wellness, Veterinary
Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
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 ..."

Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Grant, Seed, Angel
Austria, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Impact AI — Impact AI is the platform for delivering impactful human-centric AI technology and products.
Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
simplify.art — simplify.art is building a safe admin and communication platform for artists and collectors. It is the first tool with a fully unlimited free basic version. The first service with data sharing between users. And the first to integrate an ecosystem of others working tools (insurance coming summer 2023). In fall 2023 simplify.art will launch a thefirst AI-curated market place that can suggest artworks based on their context and meaning.

Friends2Grow is a venture investment firm. It invests in seed and early growth.

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.

ICL Startup Accelerator focuses on foodtech and crop nutrition startups, innovative products, and accelerates their market penetration

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Agriculture, Organic Food
Seed
Israel, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Lavie bio — Improve food quality, agricultural sustainability and productivity through the introduction of microbiome based ag-biological products.
Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food

RKP InnoInvest provides Investment capital and strategic services support progressive and dynamic start-ups and companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Hakuma — Belebender Boost aus der Natur | Premium Zutaten | Bio Matcha-Tee | 100% vegan
Econutri — Recycling CO2 for sustainable protein production

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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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