Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Austria in January 2026

Investor	Hardware Austria investments
tecnet equity	22
Speedinvest	18
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)	13
aws Gründungsfonds	11
eQventure	8
Gamma Capital Partners	6
Hermann Hauser	5
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	4
i4g Investment	4
Schnidar Harald	3
SOSV	3
xista science ventures	3
QC·VENTURES	3
xista science ventures	3
Smartworks Innovation	3
Inventure Partners	3
Point72 Ventures	2
Energie360°	2
APEX Ventures	2
Markus Ertler	2
Pioneers Ventures	2
Conor Venture Partners	2
Michael Ströck	2
Suvi Haimi	2
Acurio Ventures	2
Ingo Drexler	2
Gernot Singer	2
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	2
ASKUR Invest	2
BayWa Venture	2
Gaingels	2
Mauthner Bio	2
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund	2
PONTIS Venture Partners Management	2
APEX Ventures	2
Nikolaus Futter	2
Nina Capital	2
VENTA GROUP	2
Michael Grabner Media GmbH	2
Vivida	2
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund	2
Aquis Sanitär	2
Bonsai Partners	2
WhatAVenture	2
floud ventures	1
Christian Loidl	1
NÖBEG	1
Geoff Renaud	1
CNB Capital	1
Deutsche Effecten -und Wechsel Beteiligungsgesellschaft	1

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 — 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.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.

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.

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 — Medical images detect tumors. What if they helped clinicians look ahead too, for guided therapy selection? Meet the GenAI companion Cancer4D.

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

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 ..."

Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Respory — Respory provides real-time people-tracking using proprietary radar sensors, all without capturing personal data. Our scalable sensor network, powered by AI-driven algorithms, delivers precise customer journey insights, critical for in-store performance in retail.
2nd Cycle — 2nd Cycle creating a cost-effective, fully automated, and scalable solution for modules for a second life cycle.
aTension.life — aTension.life is a company focused on advancing the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension through precision medicine. It employs cutting-edge mass spectrometry technology to identify the underlying causes of uncontrolled hypertension using a single blood sample. aTension.life aims to provide personalized diagnostic solutions that enhance patientcare and support laboratories with accurate and reliable tools. The company's mission is to improve the quality of life for hypertensive patients by making advanced diagnostics widely accessible and enabling more effective, individualized therapies.

gcp gamma capital partners is an independent Venture Capital investment firm, focused on financing dynamic technology companies in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and CEE countries.They seek to achieve superior returns by finding assets with substantial potential in their regional and sectoral focus areas, before they appear on the radar screenof mainstream players in terms of stage and/or initial investment size.

Investment focus

Mobile, iOS, Mobile Apps
Series A, Seed, Series C
Austria, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wikitude — Wikitude Augmented Reality empowers your iOS, Android & Smart Glasses apps with Image & Object Tracking, Instant tracking (SLAM), Geo AR, and more.
42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
Organica Water — Organica Water is a global provider of innovative solutions for the treatment and recycling of wastewater. Over the past two decades Organica has developed a truly unique approach, enabling customers all over the world to build and operate space and energy efficient biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) that blend harmoniously into urbanand residential population centers, ultimately lowering infrastructure costs and facilitating reuse and recycling of treated wastewater. Established in 1998, Organica began as a traditional wastewater design-build company focused exclusively on the Hungarian market. During the first nine years of its life the company built over 75 municipal, commercial, and industrial WWTPs using a variety of different technologies, while continually investing into R&D to futher develop its own IFAS-type solution for biological wastewater treatment. In 2007 Organica sold it's design-build business to focus exclusively on the commercialization of its own biological wastewater treatment solution on a global basis. Today, Organica is an international company operating on three different continents, and the world leader in Fixed-Bed Biofilm Activated Sludge (FBAS) technology,with more than 25 operating references all over the world, and nearly a dozen additional Organica-powered WWTPs currently under construction.

Hermann Hauser is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Austria, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.

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

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.
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.

Private owned Investment Company

Investment focus

SaaS, Sensor, Software
Series A, Series B
Austria

Portfolio highlights

eyeson — eyeson is a leader in cloud-based video conferencing with managed multipoint video processing technology at a scale. Based on its patented single stream technology, eyeson provides API video services to easily integrate video collaboration in business workflows for full customer engagement. eyeson is managing the cloud capacity, scalable videocoding performance and data management for the customer. Based on WebRTC technology, eyeson provides browser-based video meeting integrations on all desktop and mobile devices. eyeson offers B2B focused products used by Forbes 500 companies and named by Gartner as "cool vendor in unified communications."
SensorDynamics — SensorDynamics was a European semiconductor and MEMS company specialized in developing and manufacturing high-volume micro- and wireless semiconductor sensor products for applications in automotive, industry and high-end consumer sectors. The company was acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2011 for $164 million. SensorDynamics developed and producedcustom-made designs and standard components for use in vehicle stabilization, occupant protection, navigation systems, keyless go systems and autonomous energy generators for wireless and battery free controllers for industrial, automotive and high-end consumer application.[5] With its headquarters in Graz, Austria, SensorDynamics had offices in Italy and Germany and a worldwide sales and distribution network. The company employed about 130 people in 2011.

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor

Investment focus

mHealth, Software, Biopharma
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

SCARLETRED — SCARLETRED is an international Digital Health Scaleup revolutionising the global skin care market by the AI powered SCARLETRED®VISION platform system. The problem we solved is subjective skin assessment and lacking standardization in Dermatology. Our medical device certified platform is fully mobile, runs via mobile App on smartphones and connectsto our web platform, which enables to generate smart imaging data and novel AI decision support applications in Dermatology and Telemedicine. The multi award winning technology is supplied international via SaaS to Biopharma and Cosmetics Industry, Hospitals and Medical Experts. Protected via worldwide patents it facilitates standardized skin documentation and remote tracking of skin changes and therapeutic effects via mobile App. Images can be uploaded in a cloud based platform and objectively analysed for visual skin changes over time, such as for allergic reactions, pigmentation changes, acne, psoriasis, disease or wound healing. SCARLETRED provides services on a broad range of dermatologic conditions ranging from B2B to B2B2C applications.

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.

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.

We invest in deep tech startups and academic spin-offs with a strong innovation based on science, engineering and technology. We invest as lead investor in pre-seed and seed stages and have the ability to follow on in later rounds. We understand the needs of science and tech based startups and offer tailored support for entrepreneurs. We areembedded in the venture capital scene, yet understand the language of science and the world of research. Thanks to our diverse team, our expertise and experience in technology, entrepreneurship, finance, legal, IP, and strategic consulting will support your startup right from the start.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

subdron — subdron focuses on data processing in underwater inspections and autonomous underwater navigation.
infrared.city — Redefine environmental simulations. Our bespoke AI models revolutionise performative design, slashing time, cost, and complexity. Access cutting-edge services effortlessly because innovation should be for everyone
VALANX Biotech — VALANX Biotech is a site-specific protein conjugation platform to enable fast and cost efficient protein-drug-conjugates development.

QC·VENTURES is a Venture Capital investment platform of Q·ADVISERS that builds ad hoc investor syndicates around ideas and around a core team of experienced corporate finance professionals. We invest in companies that have potential for growth, disruption and ambition to scale internationally. Our focus is general tech and consumer products.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

BestEx Research — Our award-winning execution algorithms for equities, futures, and FX help institutional traders reduce transaction costs. Schedule a demo now.
Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.
TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.

We invest in deep tech startups and academic spin-offs with a strong innovation based on science, engineering and technology. We invest as lead investor in pre-seed and seed stages and have the ability to follow on in later rounds. We understand the needs of science and tech based startups and offer tailored support for entrepreneurs. We areembedded in the venture capital scene, yet understand the language of science and the world of research. Thanks to our diverse team, our expertise and experience in technology, entrepreneurship, finance, legal, IP, and strategic consulting will support your startup right from the start.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria, France, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

Syntropic Medical GmbH — Syntropic is a medical device company that develops novel technologies that helps for the treatment of psychiatric diseases and the improvement of cognitive abilities.
G.ST Antivirals — G.ST Antivirals focuses on the development of antiviral drugs. G.ST Antivirals utilizes the viral dependency on the host cell metabolism and exploits this to design specific interventions counteracting viral nutrient supply.
HEPHAISTOS-Pharma — Hephaistos Pharma is a developing weapons firm. They provide services for oncology, immunotherapy, and cancer. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Data Center
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Necture — NECTURE empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced dataanalytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future. NECTURE is building a world where electric fleets are not only possible, but thrive.
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.
triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.

Inventure Partners is an innovative investment fund focused on funding disruptive technology startups. The fund looks for teams with a novel approach to business models, and companies that are able to solve real problems and remove inefficiencies in the market. Inventure Partners backs a wide range of ventures across the technology industry, andthe fund’s portfolio currently includes on-demand service Gett (GetTaxi), leader in US telehealth American Well, long-distance bus tickets platform Busfor, and others.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
Russian Federation, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

2can — 2can (ZAO Smartfin) mobile terminal is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Square service; this is a special application for smartphones (based on iOS and Android platform ) and a card reader, which turns a smartphone into a terminal for accepting Visa and MasterCard payment cards. 2can is a Russian startup created specifically for the development,implementation and operation of the payment service via smartphones. 2can Service was launched on the Russian market at the end of September 2012 and became the first Russian mobile acquiring service to comply with the relevant security requirements for card payments imposed by Visa and MasterCard international payment systems.2can is the first Russian mPOS-service that sertified dual card reader (EMV+Magstripe) with VisaReady and PCI-DSS.
Amwell — Telehealth services for health systems, health plans, employers, and physicians. Improving patient experiences with virtual doctor video visits.
Squirrel Province — Squirrel is a full-scenario living service platform that combines "clothing, food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment. It creates a shared value network and a closed loop between customers, platforms, and merchants by deeply integrating digital twin technology with the Internet of Things (IoT). system to continuouslycreate societal value.

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
Abound — Abound is a suite of APIs powering the 1099 economy. Abound automates withholdings and other tax services for self-employed earners. We offer a W9 API, 1099 APIs, tax calculation APIs and tax payment APIs.
Pagos Solutions — Get real-time payment data detecting issues, trends, and opportunities plus intelligent payment solutions for optimizing payment performance.

One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Storage, Battery
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Necture — NECTURE empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced dataanalytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future. NECTURE is building a world where electric fleets are not only possible, but thrive.
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.
Planeteers — We capture CO2 in water and unleash the potential of the oceans as the largest carbon sink on our planet.

APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical-focused venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is building a cutting-edge, all-electric heating solution designed to reach temperatures of up to 2,000°C. Using renewable electricity HyperHeat is providing an efficient alternative to fossil fuel combustion. With an efficiency rate of up to 98%, HyperHeat is ideal for retrofitting industrial processes, enabling significant CO2reductions across industries like steel, cement, and chemicals. The scalable technology offers a cost-efficient approach to decarbonizing thermal processes, with a potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 4.5 gigatons annually.
TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.

Markus Ertler - Investor @ Necture

Investment focus

Parking, Software, Sensor
Pre-Seed, Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Repark — Repark relies on its own access module, which the firm claims can be put on the garage door in a matter of hours. Following installation, residents and Repark users can use a smartphone app to open the garage.
Necture — NECTURE empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced dataanalytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future. NECTURE is building a world where electric fleets are not only possible, but thrive.
Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.

Pioneers Ventures is a EUR 10M early-stage VC fund empowering outstanding startups with its global network of corporates, industry experts, and entrepreneurs. Besides the financial component it provides startups with an extensive support program.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fretello — Made by guitarists, for guitarists, Fretello started as a simple app that our CEO, Florian, created as a companion to help him improve his skills. Seven years and many iterations later, we’re now the app of choice for guitar players of all levels who have a genuine thirst to improve.Driven by a belief that anyone can learn guitar, but noteveryone is taught well, we cut through the noise to give guitarists a comprehensive education that actually sticks. We know that proper learning takes time. We’re not here to simply teach you a few riffs and the odd song. We’re here to teach you how to really play your instrument. For us, the goal is mastery but with continual improvement. So, we’ve combined the insights of educational experts and professional musicians with advanced AI technology to create a truly innovative learning tool. That’s why we offer a structured Learn Path alongside tailored practice plans, daily guitar workouts, a large song library, and interactive jam sessions. We tackle playing guitar from every angle because that’s how confident, versatile guitarists are made. As passionate musicians, we count being able to express ourselves through music as one of life’s greatest joys. Whether with or without us, we hope you find a way to experience some of that too.
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.
triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.

Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Neo4j — Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.
Blackwood Seven — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

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.

Suvi Haimi is the founder and CEO Sulapac, a company that develops fully biodegradable packaging material innovation made out of wood. Most recently, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki (Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine).

Investment focus

Apps, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Acurio Ventures partners with visionary founders to make history happen. Acurio Ventures is a European early-stage VC that invests across sectors and business models and that relies on its entrepreneurial DNA, flexible approach and proven value add to partner with the best founders out there.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
TandemTrace — Augment your SecOps team with intelligent AI agents that hunt threats, investigate incidents, and protect your network 24/7.
Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.

Gernot Singer is a business angel

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Retail
Pre-Seed, Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Respory — Respory provides real-time people-tracking using proprietary radar sensors, all without capturing personal data. Our scalable sensor network, powered by AI-driven algorithms, delivers precise customer journey insights, critical for in-store performance in retail.
Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
Proofcheck — Proofcheck is a multilingual AI proofreading platform and a collaborative in-browser workspace for PDFs and epubs. Their next-generation AI workflow and collaboration tool helps content creators quickly catch costly mistakes before they reach audiences. Proofcheck is headquartered in Vienna, Wien and was founded in 2022.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

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.
Cycuria Therapeutics — While new therapies, such as FLT3 inhibitors and venetoclax-based regimens, have improved initial response rates, durable remissions and long-term survival

ASKUR Invest is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Computer, Electronics, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Evologic Technologies — Evologic is working as hub between problem focused users and technology oriented experts. By forging high tech approaches into user-friendly applications Evologic provides sustainable solutions for everyday problems of the industrial and private sector.

BayWa Venture is the venture capital unit of BayWa.

Investment focus

Computer, Electronics, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
Austria, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Greenforce — Greenforce offers meat alternatives for a sustainable future with the power of plants and proteins.
Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Paxton — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
Viridian Space — Viridian Space develops a propulsion technology intended to use oxygen to stay in ultra-low earth orbit. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Culver City, California.

Mauthner Bio, die Spezialabteilung der Fritz Mauthner Handelsges.m.b.H & CoKG, ist Experte zur Vermarktung Von Biogetreide und Bio-Rohprodukten!

Investment focus

Computer, Electronics, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Evologic Technologies — Evologic is working as hub between problem focused users and technology oriented experts. By forging high tech approaches into user-friendly applications Evologic provides sustainable solutions for everyday problems of the industrial and private sector.

M12 are a venture capital fund, by Microsoft. Our investment teams are based globally to support your business from start up funding to Series C investment.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

nEYE Systems — NEye Systems develops programmable photonic integrated circuits that integrate high-radix optical circuit switching on silicon chips. These optical switches aim to address challenges in AI and machine learning systems by reducing power requirements and facilitating network expansion. The company's technology, based on over a decade of researchfrom Professor Ming Wu's lab at UC Berkeley, utilizes MEMS-based silicon photonics to create wafer-scale optical circuit switches. These switches are designed to provide direct optical connections among GPUs and memory units, potentially enhancing performance and scalability in data centers. NEye Systems has secured funding from investors, including CapitalG, M12, Micron Ventures, and NVIDIA.
Upscale — Upscale your brand with AI-powered video ads that generate, target, and optimize for real performance on TV and digital platforms.
Eventual — Eventual is tackling one of the hardest infrastructure problems in AI: making multimodal data (images, video, audio) as easy to process as SQL tables. While every company races to build AI applications, they're stuck forcing tools designed for bank transactions to handle petabytes of video and images. Our platform eliminates months ofinfrastructure work, letting developers query massive multimodal datasets with simple Python scripts that automatically scale. Built on our open-source Daft engine, we deliver 10x performance improvements and handle all the messy realities of production AI workloads—from out-of-memory errors to flaky API calls. We're already processing petabytes daily at companies like Amazon, Together AI, and CloudKitchens, powering everything from autonomous vehicles to foundation model training

PONTIS Capital manages two funds with total commitments of more than EUR 60 million, and is actively investing out of its second fund, PONTIS Growth Capital II (“PGC II”). The focus of PGC II is to invest in small and medium-sized growth companies with Established technology or other competitive advantage Existing proof-of-market in marketswith growth potential,Scalable business models, andHeadquarters in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

evidanza — evidanza GmbH is a software provider of business intelligence solutions for reporting, planification, OLAP-analysis, risk management, costs calculations, IFRS- and USGAAP-reporting. The company is headquartered in Salching, Germany.
SensorDynamics — SensorDynamics was a European semiconductor and MEMS company specialized in developing and manufacturing high-volume micro- and wireless semiconductor sensor products for applications in automotive, industry and high-end consumer sectors. The company was acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2011 for $164 million. SensorDynamics developed and producedcustom-made designs and standard components for use in vehicle stabilization, occupant protection, navigation systems, keyless go systems and autonomous energy generators for wireless and battery free controllers for industrial, automotive and high-end consumer application.[5] With its headquarters in Graz, Austria, SensorDynamics had offices in Italy and Germany and a worldwide sales and distribution network. The company employed about 130 people in 2011.
EUCODIS Bioscience — EUCODIS Bioscience is an experienced enzyme engineering company, providing industrial customers with high-performing enzymes. Their customers are leaders in the chemical, the pharmaceutical, the food and feed and cosmetics industries.

APEX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in start-ups grounded in unique and protectable technology. They provide support and resources and aims to develop their start-ups in their respective field. Their initial focus areas include digital media, business intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, and the future of work.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
Robeaute — Redesigning the future of neurosurgery by creating the new standard device that will provide surgeons with seamless access to delicate areas of the brain parenchyma and with real-time data.
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is building a cutting-edge, all-electric heating solution designed to reach temperatures of up to 2,000°C. Using renewable electricity HyperHeat is providing an efficient alternative to fossil fuel combustion. With an efficiency rate of up to 98%, HyperHeat is ideal for retrofitting industrial processes, enabling significant CO2reductions across industries like steel, cement, and chemicals. The scalable technology offers a cost-efficient approach to decarbonizing thermal processes, with a potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 4.5 gigatons annually.

Nikolaus Futter - Chairman @ PSI Alliance

Investment focus

Software, Sensor, Parking
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Ataleo — Ataleo provides digital solution to guide through and automate processes.
Necture — NECTURE empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced dataanalytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future. NECTURE is building a world where electric fleets are not only possible, but thrive.
WeAreDevelopers — Our vision is to become the world’s leading community for developers. Our mission is to provide developers with the things they need and love. We inspire, entertain, motivate and educate developers. We give developers a voice and we connect them with each other. We give developers visibility and attention. We provide them with opportunities andhelp them grow.

We deploy early stage capital to fuel the growth of need-driven health technology companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Datamonk — AI-powered PACS migration platform that automates secure and fast transfers of medical imaging data. Migrate up to 10TB per day and use AI agents for data validation and quality assurance.
io Health — Io Health Technologies LLC provides AI-driven tools for home health documentation and workflow automation in healthcare.
Sober Sidekick — Gamified peer to peer support

We, the VENTA Real Estate Group are your competent and ambitious partner in the field of real estate. We develop condominiums, rental apartments, offices and commercial space that are sustainable, productive and liveable. We gladly consider your individual wishes.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Android
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.

MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Sanubi — Sanubi is nursing aids, incontinence care and more.
Storyclash — Storyclash is your Influencer Marketing Platform to discover brand-fit creators based on their content, not on vanity metrics. Track and analyze their work on any platform, including Stories.
CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.

Vivida is an internet company that offers innovative, non-intrusive solutions to increase the visibility and monetization of any website.The company's solutions aim to tackle the mobile engagement crisis by creating new communication channels (vivida spaces™) with the users, transforming all the users and visitors into potential customers,and monetizing. With the company's powerful, patented algorithms paired with a fully customizable interface, Vivida’s solutions inject rich media content over any web, grabbing the user’s attention.Vivida is headquartered in Roma, Lazio in 2012.

Investment focus

Computer, Electronics, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Evologic Technologies — Evologic is working as hub between problem focused users and technology oriented experts. By forging high tech approaches into user-friendly applications Evologic provides sustainable solutions for everyday problems of the industrial and private sector.

M12 is Microsoft's venture capital fund. We invest in early-stage technology companies disrupting the enterprise.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RegScale — RegScale is designed to digitize any regulatory requirement, deployable in any environment with tightly integrated modules and features built from the ground up to easily create compliance artifacts. RegScale’s API-centric approach automates the collection, compilation and reporting of data related to an organization’s compliance obligations,serving as the single source of compliance truth and bringing DevOps to Compliance (Regulatory Operations - RegOps). This approach ensures that companies are continually compliant, reducing risk and cost while simultaneously increasing productivity.The RegScale platform supports 70+ compliance frameworks for regulations including National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) (SP 800-53 Rev 4 & 5, Cyber Security Framework (CSF), 800-171, and OSCAL), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and more. It also includes frameworks for industry-specific regulations for the energy and financial services industries such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) as well as the Financial Services Sector Cybersecurity Profile (FSSCC). RegScale’s proprietary AI digitization engine is able to rapidly ingest new regulations and frameworks for clients in hours to support any new regulation.RegScale Community Edition (CE) is completely free, upconvertable to Enterprise Edition (EE) unlocking additional features. Learn more at www.RegScale.com and register for a free demo.
etalytics — Etalytics develops software solutions for the structuring and analysis of energy and data to reduce energy and CO2 emissions.
Pixvana, Inc. — Pixvana is a Seattle-based software startup building a Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) video processing and delivery platform for media and entertainment applications. Pixvana’s founders have proven startup success in media technology and hail from senior product and engineering leadership positions at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, andLucasfilm.

Aquis Sanitär is supply sanitary equipment with infrared sensor operated electronic faucets in workd wide.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Android
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.

Bonsai Partners is a Venture Capital investment company based in Madrid, Spain. We invest in both primary and secondary opportunities in Tech startups from Europe.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Spain, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
TaxDown — TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings.
Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.

We build the corporate ventures of tomorrow. Our team of hands-on entrepreneurs join forces with industry leaders to create successful ventures and new revenue streams.

Investment focus

Robotics, Logistics, Transportation
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

GLEAM — Highly customizable eBike with dynamic tilting technology for urban and smart mobility. Become the new superhero of urban mobility!

Investment company specializing in pre-seed and seed investements in the areas of SaaS & hardware.

Investment focus

Robotics, Logistics, Transportation
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

GLEAM — Highly customizable eBike with dynamic tilting technology for urban and smart mobility. Become the new superhero of urban mobility!

Christian Loidl

Investment focus

Sensor, Electronics, Consumer Electronics
Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Sendance — Sendance develops and sells electronics and sensors on permeable, stretchable, and structurally adapted substrates. Permeability and structural adaptation enable the integration of sensors in areas where this was previously not possible.

NÖBEG is a company that offers financing and dynamic corporate development services.

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Information Technology
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

KINAMU Business Solutions — This is the homepage of the website

Geoff Renaud

Investment focus

Music, 3D Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
Kintsu — Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems.

CNB Capital believes in the power of technology-driven entrepreneurship. We understand real innovation creates moat and defensibility. We provide long-term commitment, building an enduring partnership without the usual exit pressure.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
watttron — Watttron invents a revolutionary heating system that can heat up surfaces heterogeneously.Watttron develops an innovative heating technology that can be used in various industrial processes. It is superior to current heating systems in many ways and offers a number of advantages. On the following pages, you will find information about possibleapplications and opportunities.The company is located in the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Freital – a technology and start-up center on the outskirts of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.

As a listed private equity company DEWB provides support for strong growth, medium capitalized technology companies in the form of equity capital, expertise in corporate development and its sector network. The focus of the investment, which concentrates on the German-speaking countries (D / A / CH), lies in the areas of photonics andsensor systems which offer promising prospects for the future. Investors in the DEWB share gain access to the significant potential for added value offered by these key technologies of the 21st Century: Discover the light.Since 1997 we have invested over 350 million Euros in 55 companies and realized more than 420 million Euros through 36 exits, eight of which were IPOs. DEWB's current investment portfolio covers 11 companies with a total value of more than 40 million Euros from the areas of photonics and sensor systems, as well as biotechnology and IT.Focus on photonics - key industry of the 21st century. Photonics and sensor systems are amongst the most promising growth areas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.Optical technologies utilise light (photons) as a "tool," information or energy medium. They cover the full range of technologies for light* generation, e.g. lasers, bulbs,* manipulation, e.g. lenses, gratings, * transfer, e.g. optical fibre,* conversion, e.g. solar cells, LED,* storage, e.g. CD, DVD, holograms,* visualization, e.g. displays and * exploitation, e.g. water sterilization using UV rays.As a result of their superior physical properties, optical processes and technologies are increasingly replacing the previously established processes and applications. Examples of this are the use of lasers in material processing, new display technologies and optical storage media. As cross sectional technologies, optical technologies provide a wide range of industries with various applications. This creates a reduced dependency upon the cycles of individual sectors.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Biotechnology, Wireless
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Cashlink — The financial technology start-up (Fintech) Cashlink has developed one of Europe's leading Tokenization-as-a-Service solutions. A modular, technological infrastructure enables the legally compliant issuance and management of digital securities for banks and investment platforms as an all-in-one solution. Compared to a traditional security,tokenized financial instruments create significant cost reductions and opportunities for opening up new markets and products, giving issuing companies, banks and investment platforms a sustainable competitive advantage. Renowned companies such as the Frankfurt securities specialist Bankhaus Scheich are already successfully using the Cashlink solution today. Cashlink is an official partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network and completes its comprehensive range of digital securities by cooperating with experienced and specialized partners such as the globally operating law firm Ashurst. Renowned European investment companies such as the listed FinLab AG and the seed + speed-VC of the Maschmeyer Group are invested in the Fintech. As a founding member of the European forum "International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications" (INATBA), the Hesse regional group of the Blockchain Bundesverband and the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), Cashlink is already shaping tomorrow's capital market today.
Nanda Technologies — Nanda Technologies was founded in 2006 in Munich. They are an international team of experienced engineers and managers from the semiconductor/high-tech industry. They are in the process of bringing their new product to the market by working together with selected lead customers.
Sloning BioTechnology — Sloning BioTechnology has developed a unique and patented technology platform to build DNA molecules with exceptional features regarding sequence limitations, reliability and production cost on an industrial scale robotic system the Slonomics technology platform.