Top 20 Impact Angel Investors in Austria in January 2026
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Impact startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Impact Angel Investors in Austria in January 2026
| Investor | Impact Austria investments |
|---|---|
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 5 |
| Alfred Luger | 4 |
| Christian Kaar | 3 |
| Christian Bezdeka | 1 |
| Nikolaus Futter | 1 |
| Roman Scharf | 1 |
| Marcus Ihlenfeld | 1 |
| Michael Pötscher | 1 |
| Hanno Lippitsch | 1 |
| Stefan Scherer | 1 |
| Susanne Porsche | 1 |
| Daniel Zach | 1 |
| Romain Afflelou | 1 |
| Felix Porsche | 1 |
| Christoph Ostermann | 1 |
| Heinz Hahn | 1 |
| Anja Blacha | 1 |
| Frank Dopheide | 1 |
| Henrik Herr | 1 |
| Matthias Heimbeck | 1 |
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.
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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.
Alfred Luger
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Learning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Viora - visible through confidence — Ada Growth is on a mission to put a mentor in every woman's pocket. We combine AI with microlearning to provide professional growth and development tools for women in the workplace and help companies attract, retain, and grow female talent. Download the Ada App today!The Ada App is a microlearning app that provides 2 minute short formvideos, miniquizzes, action items, and summaries that lead to long-term behavioral changes in the workplace. It also contains a digital mentor that can provide dynamic coaching in the spirit of the Ada App library of content, so that Ada App users have access to casual lessons when they have a few minutes a day as well as immediate feedback for any upcoming situation.Ada Growth serves the B2B enterprise and SME space primarily to companies with over 400 employees. We sell a professional growth / EdTech / L&D solution to HR, Employee Training and DEI administrators. We are vertical agnostic and provide a growth experience for both white collar and blue collar workers. Most EdTech solutions tend to flow to the corporate office layer of an enterprise, where this is a saturation of resources available. Many of our users have not been given professional growth tools purposefully built for them before or made flexible for their lifestyle, unlocking value for both the employee as well as the employer.We are the first enterprise-ready professional EdTech solution built specifically for women.
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Christian Kaar is the VP of Finance and Business Analytics at Leaders21com. Christian Kaar attended University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- Austria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Inoqo — In a world of over, mis- or blurred information, inoqo wants to provide consumers with scientific-based data on the environmental, social and biodiversity impact of familiar grocery products. Our mission is to help all of us aligning our daily purchasing decisions to our key concerns so that we can actively contribute to a sustainableproduction-consumption cycle.The app uses a specific innovative technology that can passively and smartly track the user’s grocery basket for informing them about -for example- the CO2 impact of their purchase and how aligned it is to their environmental priorities or social valuesThe solution will actively recommend alternative products of lower impact and encourage them through personalized content, gamification and community challenges to further pursue a sustainable lifestyle.We strongly believe that our daily habits can change the world. Our vision is to enable millions of consumers around the globe to learn why and how their consumption decisions impact biodiversity, climate and their own well-being. We want to accelerate the change towards sustainable production: as users consume more responsibly, they create healthy competition between companies who start to produce responsibly.We have ten years left to cut our CO2 emissions by half. From now on, every action counts. Join inoqo.
- Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
- Mimo — Mimo is an app that teaches the computer science in a fun and interactive way. Mimo’s lessons are fun and interactive, fit into people’s everyday lives, and lead them to make a habit of self-improvement. Getting through to more than 1.5 million people and achieving completion numbers far above the industry average, Mimo is well on its way tobecoming the one-stop shop for education and entertainment on the go.
Christian Bezdeka is the Founder at Woom GmbH. Christian attended the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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Investment focus
- Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
Nikolaus Futter - Chairman @ PSI Alliance
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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.
General Partner at 3VC.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Video Editing, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- ZELF — Zelf is a neobank targeting Gen Z to bring financial services to where they live – in messengers. This is the lightest bank with the easiest onboarding process taking up to 60 sec to issue a card, receive and send money without leaving the messenger. We are uniquely offering AI-powered voice control over the most of financial operations, whichmakes us first voice-enabled banking for Gen Z who prefers voice interactions with their devices.
- Kaia Health — Kaia Health is a digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of disorders including back pain and COPD. Working with experts in various medical fields, the company uses machine learning to deliver individualized app interventions that aim to empower and motivate patients to take control and self-manage theircondition with digital alternatives from their home using devices they already own (i.e. smartphones and tablets).The company has enrolled more than 400,000 users to date in its digital therapy program. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
- neoom — Humanity is finally saying goodbye to the energy generation from oil, gas, coal or nuclear fission, to renewable energy from wind, water, and sun. This energy transition is THE megatrend of our time! The challenges include the rapid increase in electric mobility and the increasing electricity demand for heating and cooling buildings. However, thegeneration of energy from renewable sources is characterized by certain volatility, i.e. fluctuations. We take on these challenges with our neoom battery storage and e-mobility charging solutions. With an innovative energy storage system, every private and commercial user can provide cheap, safe and above all clean energy on-site and react to the flexibility of the market. Our neoom hardware products are unique in design, functionality, and quality. Our intuitive, device-open software NTUITY represents the missing link in the field of energy management. Energy from renewable sources can be stored and used with maximum efficiency through our solutions. And best of all: we can deliver today! Take the first step into a sustainable life, visit our website, call us and now connect to neoom group.
Marcus Ihlenfeld is the advisory board member and founder at WOOM GmbH. Marcus Ihlenfeld attended University of Louisiana Monroe.
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Investment focus
- Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
Michael Pötscher
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Computer Vision, Sharing Economy
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Minimist — Minimist makes second-hand selling effortless
Hanno Lippitsch Founder and CEO at Eversport.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Marketplace, Manufacturing
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Heizma — Heizma make climate-neutral heating possible and easy for every family. It offers complete solutions that include not only heating systems, but also photovoltaic systems, power storage, e-charging stations, and intelligent energy management systems.
- Minimist — Minimist makes second-hand selling effortless
- Wictory.AI — Wictory.AI focus is on intelligent training for your best performance.
Stefan Scherer is the CEO and Shareholder of smaXtec. He previously worked at Alicona Imaging as a Founder and CEO. Stefan Scherer attended Graz University of Technology.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Sustainability
- Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- smaXtec — We offer professional dairy farmers the most technologically advanced health system, based on measuring inner body temperature, rumination and activity inside the cow's rumen. Farmers achieve stable high milk yields, reduce the use of antibiotics and significantly increase animal welfare. The 24/7 health monitoring system increases theeffectiveness of all work processes on professional dairy farms. smaXtec makes a decisive contribution to the stability and profitability of industrial dairy farming worldwide - while at the same time increasing sustainability.
Susanne Porsche
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Investment focus
- Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Inoqo — In a world of over, mis- or blurred information, inoqo wants to provide consumers with scientific-based data on the environmental, social and biodiversity impact of familiar grocery products. Our mission is to help all of us aligning our daily purchasing decisions to our key concerns so that we can actively contribute to a sustainableproduction-consumption cycle.The app uses a specific innovative technology that can passively and smartly track the user’s grocery basket for informing them about -for example- the CO2 impact of their purchase and how aligned it is to their environmental priorities or social valuesThe solution will actively recommend alternative products of lower impact and encourage them through personalized content, gamification and community challenges to further pursue a sustainable lifestyle.We strongly believe that our daily habits can change the world. Our vision is to enable millions of consumers around the globe to learn why and how their consumption decisions impact biodiversity, climate and their own well-being. We want to accelerate the change towards sustainable production: as users consume more responsibly, they create healthy competition between companies who start to produce responsibly.We have ten years left to cut our CO2 emissions by half. From now on, every action counts. Join inoqo.
Daniel Zech is the Advisor & Investor in seed & growth companies for private wealth management / family office.
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Investment focus
- Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Inoqo — In a world of over, mis- or blurred information, inoqo wants to provide consumers with scientific-based data on the environmental, social and biodiversity impact of familiar grocery products. Our mission is to help all of us aligning our daily purchasing decisions to our key concerns so that we can actively contribute to a sustainableproduction-consumption cycle.The app uses a specific innovative technology that can passively and smartly track the user’s grocery basket for informing them about -for example- the CO2 impact of their purchase and how aligned it is to their environmental priorities or social valuesThe solution will actively recommend alternative products of lower impact and encourage them through personalized content, gamification and community challenges to further pursue a sustainable lifestyle.We strongly believe that our daily habits can change the world. Our vision is to enable millions of consumers around the globe to learn why and how their consumption decisions impact biodiversity, climate and their own well-being. We want to accelerate the change towards sustainable production: as users consume more responsibly, they create healthy competition between companies who start to produce responsibly.We have ten years left to cut our CO2 emissions by half. From now on, every action counts. Join inoqo.
Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Kubo Labs — Kubo Labs provides a suite of products to simplify your experience with Kubernetes.
Felix Porsche
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Investment focus
- Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Inoqo — In a world of over, mis- or blurred information, inoqo wants to provide consumers with scientific-based data on the environmental, social and biodiversity impact of familiar grocery products. Our mission is to help all of us aligning our daily purchasing decisions to our key concerns so that we can actively contribute to a sustainableproduction-consumption cycle.The app uses a specific innovative technology that can passively and smartly track the user’s grocery basket for informing them about -for example- the CO2 impact of their purchase and how aligned it is to their environmental priorities or social valuesThe solution will actively recommend alternative products of lower impact and encourage them through personalized content, gamification and community challenges to further pursue a sustainable lifestyle.We strongly believe that our daily habits can change the world. Our vision is to enable millions of consumers around the globe to learn why and how their consumption decisions impact biodiversity, climate and their own well-being. We want to accelerate the change towards sustainable production: as users consume more responsibly, they create healthy competition between companies who start to produce responsibly.We have ten years left to cut our CO2 emissions by half. From now on, every action counts. Join inoqo.
- Heizma — Heizma make climate-neutral heating possible and easy for every family. It offers complete solutions that include not only heating systems, but also photovoltaic systems, power storage, e-charging stations, and intelligent energy management systems.
Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.
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Investment focus
- Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Numbat — Numbat is a clean-tech company from Kempten (Allgäu). The competence lies in the development and production, as well as the operation of High-Power charging solutions with integrated battery storage system. The goal is to establish Europe's densest High-Power charging infrastructure to support e-mobility and its challenges. The battery storagereduces electricity costs and eases the burden on grids, while the integrated fast charging station allows customers/visitors/employees to fully charge their electric vehicles within 15 minutes. Depending on the location, the Numbats can be provided free of charge in a platform model. With its patented climate protection technology and multi-lifecycle approach, the Numbat is the most sustainable solutions on the market.
- ESFORIN SE — ESFORIN SE is a fully digital energy company, offering modularly integrable energy solutions – for both, power and gas.
- Efficient Energy Technology — Efficient Energy Technology makes renewable energy simple, safe, and dependable for everyone. Efficient Energy Technology develops a small power plant consisting of photovoltaic and storage for complete self-installation.
Heinz Hahn is an Angel Investor .
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Investment focus
- Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Inoqo — In a world of over, mis- or blurred information, inoqo wants to provide consumers with scientific-based data on the environmental, social and biodiversity impact of familiar grocery products. Our mission is to help all of us aligning our daily purchasing decisions to our key concerns so that we can actively contribute to a sustainableproduction-consumption cycle.The app uses a specific innovative technology that can passively and smartly track the user’s grocery basket for informing them about -for example- the CO2 impact of their purchase and how aligned it is to their environmental priorities or social valuesThe solution will actively recommend alternative products of lower impact and encourage them through personalized content, gamification and community challenges to further pursue a sustainable lifestyle.We strongly believe that our daily habits can change the world. Our vision is to enable millions of consumers around the globe to learn why and how their consumption decisions impact biodiversity, climate and their own well-being. We want to accelerate the change towards sustainable production: as users consume more responsibly, they create healthy competition between companies who start to produce responsibly.We have ten years left to cut our CO2 emissions by half. From now on, every action counts. Join inoqo.
Set the world record for the longest solo and unsupported polar expedition by a woman
First German woman to have climbed K2 - the world's second-highest mountain - and 11th woman worldwide to have done so without bottled oxygen
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Investment focus
- Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
Frank Dopheide
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Investment focus
- Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
25 years experience in banking industry and private banking.
Building visions and strategies in changing environments.
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Investment focus
- Training, E-Learning, Human Resources
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
- Leaders21com — They offer our customers an exciting portfolio of practical training and services. Based on our many years of experience and our specially developed leadership approach. Flexibility and situational action are essential leadership qualities. That is why we also structure our cooperation with our customers in exactly the same way - flexible andadapted to individual requirements. Digital and analog.
- Speedinvest Heroes Consulting — Speedinvest Heroes Consulting GmbH is an Human Resource company.
Matthias Heimbeck is the Founder and CEO of Findologic.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Computer Vision, Sharing Economy
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Minimist — Minimist makes second-hand selling effortless
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