Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Hardware VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in December 2024

Investor	Hardware Austria investments
tecnet equity	25
Speedinvest	21
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)	12
aws Gründungsfonds	11
eQventure	8
Gamma Capital Partners	6
i4g Investment	4
Smartworks Innovation	3
xista science ventures	3
Inventure Partners	3
VENTA GROUP	3
xista science ventures	3
QC·VENTURES	3
SOSV	3
WhatAVenture	2
Point72 Ventures	2
PONTIS Venture Partners Management	2
Mauthner Bio	2
All Iron Ventures	2
Conor Venture Partners	2
Nina Capital	2
ASKUR Invest	2
Bonsai Partners	2
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund	2
Michael Grabner Media GmbH	2
Pioneers Ventures	2
Aquis Sanitär	2
Gaingels	2
BayWa Venture	2
APEX Ventures	2
Vivida	2
Energie360°	2
Lansdowne Investment Company Cyprus	1
Innovacom	1
Cipio Partners	1
High Tech Private Equity	1
Croton Capital	1
Axilium Holding	1
Isai	1
Allegion	1
ISAI Cap Venture	1
Saber	1
Huasheng Capital	1
Flamingo DAO	1
NÖBEG	1
CNB Capital	1
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	1
Collab+Currency	1
OpAmp Capital	1
RWA Invest	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

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.

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

Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

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, Biotechnology
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.
revitalyze — Digital sales and cost-saving solutions for aggregates with a white label customer portal.

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

Tree.ly — Tree.ly does climate protection through the projects in European forests through its SaaS platform and hyperlocal CO2-credits.
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.
Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.

Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Finmatics — Finmatics is a self-learning, artificial intelligence system that automates the activities of accounting service providers. It adapts itself to the unique bookkeeping requirements of companies, industries, and countries by analyzing the activities of human accountants.
Greenwood-Power — Greenwood-Power is the leading innovator for non-conventional transformers. Let's talk about your individual requirements - CONTACT US TODAY!
Autonoma Technologies — Autonoma Technologies is an information technology company that specializes in the digitalization of customer platforms.

GCP Gamma Capital Partners is a private Venture Capital investment and Equity consulting firm established in 2002 (GCP Presentation 2020). We focus on dynamic technology and growth companies in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and CEE countries bordering Austria. We aim for value creation and value realization to generate superior returns for our investors and clients.

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 AG — 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.

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.

Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
IONATE — IONATE Ltd. is a technology company developing next-generation Hybrid Intelligent Transformers.
triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility 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, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria, France, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

Syntropic — 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.

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

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.
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.

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.

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 — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.

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.

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 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 — GLEAM offers a modular light electric vehicle fleet. It all started in 2010 when a Viennese messenger was searching for the perfect vehicle for his daily commute. GLEAM was founded by Mario Eibl and Stefan Perkmann-Berger.

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, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ladder — Get stronger & workout more. Free 7 day trial, no credit card needed!
Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
Starfish Space — Starfish Space: We're developing the first on-demand fleet of versatile and efficient space tugs prepared to service on-orbit satellites. --- Active life extension, debris removal, autonomous transportation

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.

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.

All Iron Ventures partners up with bold founders promoting innovative startups. We mainly invest in the early stages of European companies that aspire to reshape the future of both consumers and enterprises through technology. We at All Iron Ventures have been and continue to be entrepreneurs. We know what it is to be a founder and empathize withthe challenges our partner founders face. We put our resources and experience creating, scaling and selling companies at their disposal to help them take their projects to the next level. Based in Bilbao, Spain, and with approximately €110Mn under management, All Iron Ventures was promoted by the founders of Ticketbis, a global marketplace sold to eBay in 2016, in what is one of the main success stories in Spain’s startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Manglai — Manglai is a user-friendly platform that simplifies, speeds up, and ensures the accuracy of carbon footprint measurement, reduction, and certification.
Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

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

TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Noah Labs — Noah Labs is a compant that creates AI-powered software solutions for medical care and research that help diagnose, manage illnesses, and guide interventions.
Rivia — Integrated Clinical Trial Intelligence. Drive therapeutic evaluation and trial management with real-time insights.
Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.

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.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Spain, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dubme — 5 billion people can not consume audiovisual content available to them due to language barriers. We believe that those barriers can be overcome thanks to disruptive technologies such as AI and Cloud Computing. Our mission is to level the playing field so that every human can benefit from all the content in the world,regardless of language barriers.
WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.

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

Relyance AI — Full visibility and proactive data protection. Know how data moves through your code base, infrastructure, and third-party vendors. Learn more.
Moondream — Vision AI that runs everywhere.
Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.

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.

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.

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.

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MealMe — MealMe: We compare services for delivery pickup and groceries to ensure that we are the fastest food delivery app, the cheapest food delivery app, and the food delivery app with the largest selection.
OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
Further — Further is on a mission to empower first-time home buyers to achieve their dream of homeownership with confidence and ease. We simplify the complex home buying process through innovative tools and personalized guidance, ensuring that buyers are well-prepared every step of the way. Our platform offers financial planning, tailored insights, andresources designed to make homeownership more accessible. At Further, we believe that with the right support, anyone can realize their goal of owning a home. Join us as we help make the path to homeownership clear and attainable for all.

BayWa Venture is the venture capital unit of BayWa.

Investment focus

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

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.
Kern Tec — For the first time, the finest oils, snacks, proteins and confectionery are produced from raw materials previously considered waste. Delicious & sustainable.
Amai Proteins — With our Pro3 Platform technology, we develop tasty, healthy, sustainable, and cost-effective designer platforms for food and beverage applications.

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

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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 a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
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.

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.

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 — 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.
ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
Planeteers — We capture CO2 in water and unleash the potential of the oceans as the largest carbon sink on our planet.

Lansdowne Investment Company Cyprus

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Sarcura — Sarcura develops a machine platform for the large scale, GMP manufacturing of personalized cell therapies. Our target is to scale global manufacturing capacity for these life saving, patient specific cancer treatments, cost effective and safe for a all patients. We will transform existing manufacturing paradigms by using semiconductor technologyto bring bioprocess control to cellular level.

Innovacom provides new technologies, hardware, and software products. They focus on the creation of financial and strategic value through support, networking, and the search for the best industrial partners for our startups in a context of open innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo is a deeptech company designing and assembling collaborative robots. We focus deliver affordable and intuitive 6 axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial market. Discover our latest technologies through NED2 robot and an entire ecosystem to discover robotics, AI, industry 4.0 and more
Quobly — Universal Quantum Computing leveraging European Semiconductor Industry.
SustainCERT — SustainCERT is the leading global carbon emissions accounting and verification platform for carbon markets and corporate value chains.

Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Wire — Secure messaging, voice and videoconferences, file exchange end-to-end encrypted by design. For cloud, private cloud, and on-premises.
NavVis — NavVis next-generation technology for the built environment enables accurate mobile mapping of indoor spaces and enterprise-ready digital twin solutions.
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.

High Tech Private Equity provide entrepreneurs and investors with new possibilities. They offer long-term oriented investment concepts, a strong and multi-layered network and the industrial knowledge of their team.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, DSP, Industrial
Series A, Series C, Funding Round
China, Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SJ Semi — SJ Semi is a MEOL (Middle-End of Line) foundry which implements front-end wafer manufacturing and quality systems to MEOL operations. SJSemi's main business is providing bumping, Cu pillar, RDL, and testing services for 12" wafers. The company also places heavy R&D emphasis on fan-out, TSV, interposer, and 3D technologies.
CoreOptics — Cisco Announces Completion of CoreOptics Acquisition
ON DEMAND Microelectronics — ON DEMAND Microelectronics AG, a fabless semiconductor company, provides integrated semiconductor solutions for the portable multimedia, mobile digital television, and home entertainment markets. It offers video/audio processing products for mobile applications, such as smart phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, portable games consoles, andvideo conferencing systems; and high definition television and video processing devices, including video and image processing for mobile digital television and home entertainment systems, as well as multimedia streaming devices. The company operates in Europe, the United States, and APAC, as well as in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea. ON DEMAND Microelectronics AG was founded in 2003 and is based in Vienna, Austria. The company has corporate, research, and development offices in Silicon Valley and Austin, as well as in Bangalore, India.

Croton Capital is an international business angel syndicate invests in early-stage businesses.

Investment focus

Sensor, Electronics, Consumer Electronics
Seed, Funding Round
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pluria — Flexible offices in LATAM & Europe: hundreds of coworking spaces and meeting rooms for employees and teams. Hybrid work model for companies.
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.
RAKETENSTART — RAKETENSTART is the all-in-one-legal solution for SMEs.

Axilium Holding

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Sarcura — Sarcura develops a machine platform for the large scale, GMP manufacturing of personalized cell therapies. Our target is to scale global manufacturing capacity for these life saving, patient specific cancer treatments, cost effective and safe for a all patients. We will transform existing manufacturing paradigms by using semiconductor technologyto bring bioprocess control to cellular level.

Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Mercateam — Mercateam specializes in developing staff management software.
Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.

Allegion plc is a global provider of security products and solutions. The company offers a portfolio of mechanical and electronic security products across a range of brands. It operates in three geographic regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), and Asia Pacific. As of November 15, 2013, the Company was selling itssecurity products and solutions under 23 brands in 120 countries, including Schlage, Von Duprin, LCN, CISA, and Interflex. It sells a range of security products and solutions for end-users in commercial, institutional, and residential facilities worldwide, including into the education, healthcare, government, commercial office, and single- and multi-family residential markets.In April 2014, the Company acquired Fire & Security Hardware.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Smart Home, iOS
Series A
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yonomi — Yonomi is the easiest way to integrate with connected home products to build residential IoT solutions. The Yonomi Platform provides the tools and frameworks needed to easily connect, control, and automate smart home devices.
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.

ISAI Cap Venture is a technology and digital investment vehicle that makes VC, growth & LBO, and growth financing investments.

Investment focus

Geospatial, Government, Simulation
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

blackshark.ai — Blackshark.ai hi-frequency mapping provides cutting-edge geospatial AI and 3D visualization for object detection, training and simulation.

Venture Capital, Private Equity and Real Estate.

Investment focus

Navigation, Electronics
Pre-Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

subdron — subdron focuses on data processing in underwater inspections and autonomous underwater navigation.

Huasheng Capital is a Chinese venture capital firm that invests in real estate companies and is an investment arm of China Renaissance.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Software
Series B, Series C, Series D
China, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

AUTOST. — AUTOST. is a retail and used car auction platform.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
Lihe Weiwei — Lihe Weiwei is a food processing firm that produces and supplies condiments and prefabricated vegetables.

Flamingo DAO is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for ownable, blockchain-based assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Austria, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Namcon — Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
mmERCH — Fashion as hardware. Programmed for culture.

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 — The KINAMU Business Solutions AG was founded at the beginning of the year 2007 as SAP spin-off company by Christian Knoll, Alexander Simon, Michael Hubl and Marcus Riedler. All KINAMU founders have 10 to 20 years experience in the international IT business. Apropos names, the focus is on our company name - KINAMU.KINAMU is Kiswahili (an Africanlanguage) and means agility/flexibility. Certainly an unusual name for an IT company but quite adequate.

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.

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

Seasy.com — Making Sea Life Easy
triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.
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.

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Today — Today is a Web3 social simulation game, offering interactions with GenAI backed NPCs, and no-code tools for virtual world development.
Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

OpAmp Capital is a pre to seed-stage VC fund with global reach. We invest in creative founders producing disruptive technologies and support them beyond their capital needs.

Investment focus

Geospatial, Government, Simulation
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

ReJoule — ReJoule recognized how a lack of battery health information could lead to huge waste across the ecosystem, particularly at a battery’s end-of-life. ReJoule's goal is to enable repurposing, which extends batteries’ useful lives and allows them to store energy again and again.
blackshark.ai — Blackshark.ai hi-frequency mapping provides cutting-edge geospatial AI and 3D visualization for object detection, training and simulation.

RWA Invest is a corporate venture capital arm of Raiffeisen Ware Austria.

Investment focus

Computer, Electronics, Information Technology
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.

Investors by industry

Artificial intelligence