Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Austria (October 2026)
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austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)
VC Fund
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7 | Austria, Belgium | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $61k–$2.7M |
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aws Gründungsfonds
VC Fund
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5 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.1M–$11M |
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Johann Hansmann
Angel
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5 | Austria, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Fitness | $300k–$3.4M |
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Alfred Luger
Angel
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4 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, E-Learning | $650k–$3.6M |
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CNB Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology | $1.1M–$30M |
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Christian Kaar
Angel
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4 | Austria, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Apps, Software, Information Technology | $650k–$3.6M |
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PUSH VC
VC Fund
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4 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Health Care | $650k–$31M |
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Arax Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Austria, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $271k–$10M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $411k–$33M |
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XISTA Science Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Austria, Germany, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Medical, Software | $552k–$20M |
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European Super Angels Club
VC Fund
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3 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $700k–$9.9M |
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Statkraft Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Norway, France, Germany | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Renewable Energy, Big Data | $2.1M–$115M |
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SET Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Energy, Renewable Energy, Software | $1.1M–$28M |
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SmartEnergy Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Renewable Energy, Battery | $1.5M–$12M |
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The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
VC Fund
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3 | Austria, United States, Belgium | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Medical | $67k–$2.8M |
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Marcus Ihlenfeld
Angel
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2 | Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering | |
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AWS Double Equity
VC Fund
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2 | Austria | Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, B2B, Pet | $145k–$1.5M |
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Michael Grabner
Angel
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2 | Austria | Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, AgTech, Internet | $54k–$113k |
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Peak Pride
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical, Health Diagnostics | $165k–$6.5M |
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xista science ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Slovenia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Medical, Software | $552k–$20M |
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Daniel Zach
Angel
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2 | Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech | |
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Smartworks Innovation
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, Car Sharing, Smart Cities | $1M–$8.3M |
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Silence VC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Marketplace, Online Portals | $1.1M–$21M |
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Heinz Hahn
Angel
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2 | Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech | |
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Symbia VC
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Germany, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Hardware, Software, Automotive | $2.3M–$16M |
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Triple Impact Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology | $1.3M–$5.9M |
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Christian Bezdeka
Angel
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2 | Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering | |
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Conor Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, United States, Sweden | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Analytics, Semiconductor | $1.1M–$18M |
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Energie360°
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Energy Storage, Software | $1.6M–$26M |
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Susanne Porsche
Angel
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2 | Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech | |
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First Climate
VC Fund
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2 | Austria | Seed | Information Technology, Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering | |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.2M–$65M |
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Christian Trummer
Angel
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2 | Austria, Germany, Czech Republic | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Developer APIs, B2B | $1.1M–$1.2M |
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Dr. Cornelius Boersch
Angel
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $112k–$45M |
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Felix Porsche
Angel
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2 | Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech | $2.8M–$13M |
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Founders Future
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$25M |
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Frank Dopheide
Angel
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1 | Austria | Seed | Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering | |
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Wellness, Software | $478k–$18M |
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Anja Blacha
Angel
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1 | Austria | Seed | Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering | |
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Henrik Herr
Angel
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1 | Austria | Angel, Pre-Seed | Training, E-Learning, Human Resources | |
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Christoph Ostermann
Angel
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1 | Germany, Austria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy | |
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Stefan Scherer
Angel
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1 | Austria | Series A | AgTech, Agriculture, Sustainability | |
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Pente Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Wine and Spirits, Biotechnology | |
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VERBUND
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Series A | Sensor, Parking, Internet | |
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Ottakringer Getraenke
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | Food and Beverage, Water Purification | |
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Markus Ertler
Angel
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1 | Austria | Pre-Seed, Seed | Parking, Software, Sensor | |
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Kirkside Management
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Pre-Seed | Music, Marketplace, Music Venues | |
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Voltares
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | Solar, Software, Analytics | |
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Die Wirtschaftskammer
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Music, mHealth | |
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Bernhard Niesner
Angel
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1 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Learning, Apps | $650k–$7.4M |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $452k–$2.7M; Grant $61k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $195k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Repentium — We strive to create
- Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
- Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.2M; Series A $1.1M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $77M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- refinq — refinq scores every one of your locations for physical climate, nature and transition risk under IPCC scenarios, then links exposure to financial impact and adaptation actions.
- profitize — profitize is an AI‑powered financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform built specifically for hotels and other hospitality businesses.The platform uses AI to generate forecasts, highlight risks, and provide actionable insights, positioning itself as an “FP&A co‑pilot” for hotel profitability rather than just a reporting tool.
- Invisible-Light Labs — Invisible Light Labs uses Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and nanoelectromechanical sensing technologies to enable chemical analysis of materials and nanomaterials that are available in minuscule amounts in a variety of industries, from environmental monitoring to pharmaceuticals.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3.4M; Angel $350k–$630k; Pre-Seed $439k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- 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.
- Donnerstag.ai — Donnerstag automates finance operations with AI: AR, AP and bank reconciliation at line-item level, exception handling and a full audit trail.
Alfred Luger
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- Industry: Software, Apps, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $650k–$3.6M; Angel $684k–$1M; Pre-Seed $771k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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.
- 123-Transporter — Transporter mieten ab nur 45€ Volle 24h | Unlimitierte KM | digitale Vignette inkl. Einfach. Flächendeckend. Kundenzentriert: https://de.trustpilot.com/review/123-transporter.at
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.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $3M–$3.2M; Series A $1.1M–$20M; Series B $13M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Apps, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $650k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
We are an early-stage Venture Capital Firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $650k–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Voltrac — Building electric autonomous vehicles for farming & frontline logistics
- enspired — Revolutionize battery storage with AI-powered BESS optimization. Our energy trading platform ensures smart, real-time market access. Contact us today!
- Aitiologic — A precision medicine startup providing multi-modal liquid biopsy solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
ARAX Capital Partners is an Austrian bio-tech and high-tech early stage investor with an exclusive focus on Austrian ventures. Companies need to be young, innovative (if possible with patentable technology) and must have already secured pre-seed funding to qualify for an investment
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $687k–$1.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $271k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $88M in 2008
Portfolio highlights
- Greenpass — Greenpass is an all-in-one SaaS for climate-resilient urban planning & architecture platform that enables livable cities.
- Calyxha Biotechnologies — A new perspective on inflammation
- EveliQure Biotechnologies GmbH — EveliQure was founded in 2012 with headquarters in Vienna and developed for the first time a combined vaccine, which is intended to protect against Shigella as well as against ETEC bacteria. Both bacterial strains cause various types of diarrheal diseases, and all attempts at development of vaccines have so far only aimed to protect against one ofthe two bacterial strains. The team led by Managing Director Gábor Somogyi has succeeded for the first time in producing a combined swallow vaccine that simultaneously protects against both bacterial strains.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 674
- Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $552k–$1.8M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PureSurf — PureSurf is a green chemistry company that develops bio-based surfactants and antimicrobial solutions for consumer and industrial markets.
- Rivus Batteries — Rivus is a start-up that serves as the commercialization platform for the aqueous organic flow battery technology.
- Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3.2M; Series A $1.7M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monkee — Monkee is building the infrastructure for the next generation of commerce through Save Now Buy Later (SNBL) — an alternative to debt-based purchasing models like BNPL. The platform empowers consumers to save purposefully toward meaningful purchases, while enabling brands and retailers to engage the 1 in 3 consumers who want to buy, but refuse touse credit. With over 140,000 users, €230M+ in savings goals, and 600+ retail partners, Monkee turns early intent into action — driving loyalty, conversion, and incremental revenue without financial risk. After validating its model in B2C, Monkee is now scaling through embedded SNBL integrations at the point of intent across e-commerce and physical retail.Monkee aims to establish 'Save now Buy Later' as a responsible alternative to 'Buy now Pay later'.The company was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
- sproof — Sproof is an online document signing solution that allows users to sign documents with a digital signature. The company is based in Puch Bei Hallein, Austria.
- ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
Statkraft Ventures is a long-term partner for entrepreneurs disrupting the energy sector.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Big Data
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Norway, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Series A $3.1M–$17M; Series B $8.8M–$115M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Hydrosat — Hydrosat provides daily, high-resolution thermal and multispectral infrared imagery of the entire Earth. Leveraging our first-in-history thermal capabilities, we also provide analytics solutions to solve climate and agriculture issues.
- Electra.aero — Electra is a next-gen aerospace company devoted to sustainable urban & regional air mobility led by industry pioneer Dr. John Langford.
- Alva Industries — Serving industries from aerospace to marine, we deliver high-performance, sustainable motors to drive a cleaner, more efficient future.
SET propels founders from early growth to European scale. We invest in and grow the solutions powering the digital energy economy.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$26M; Series A $3.9M–$12M; Series B $8.1M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $211M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- GALVANY — GALVANY is a climate-tech company focused on end-to-end heat pump and energy-management solutions for homes and buildings.
- Fuchs & Eule — VALYRIA is an expert in buying and selling apartment buildings.
- Luxexcel — Luxexcel is the only company in the world with the technology to 3D print lenses. Luxexcel is on a path to open a new era in eyewear with custom quality prescription lenses. And opening up a new vision on smart eyewear by enabling technology partners to develop unique lenses. Luxexcel has developed and owns all components necessary to enable ourcustomers to 3D print optics: hardware, software, process and materials
Smart Energy Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund managed by Smart Energy Innovation Fonds. The company invests in the energy equipment and cleantech industries.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Battery
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.4M; Series A $1.6M–$11M; Series B $9.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
Portfolio highlights
- suena — We are revolutionizing the way energy storage and renewables are integrated into power trading. By using cutting-edge forecasting, optimization and algorithmic trading techniques, we're able to reduce risks, maximize as well as stabilize profits on electricity and balancing markets.
- Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
- SPiNE — SPiNE is a startup that provides safe, clean, and inexpensive energy to all end users. It is focused on smart meter rollout and, as a result, digitalization in metering and control of charging infrastructure, heat pumps, and battery storage.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $745k–$2.8M; Grant $67k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $480k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Another Earth — Synthetic Earth observation data that trains AI models to simulate environmental change and predict risk before it happens. Vienna-based, founded 2024.
- Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
- Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.
Marcus Ihlenfeld is the advisory board member and founder at WOOM GmbH. Marcus Ihlenfeld attended University of Louisiana Monroe.
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- Industry: Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
AWS Double Equity
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- Industry: Information Technology, B2B, Pet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Debt Financing $145k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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.
- kompany — kompany is the RegTech platform for Global Business Verification and Business KYC providing the audit-proof, primary source, and time-stamped company information from 150+ jurisdictions in real-time. It is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has offices in Singapore and the UK. Since being founded in 2012, kompany has attracted a unique pool oftop developers, regulatory experts, and product managers from around the world. It is a government licensed clearing house and official distributor for commercial and business registers in multiple countries worldwide.
- 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 ..."
Michael Grabner - Partner & Managing Director @ Michael Grabner Media GmbH
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- Industry: Software, AgTech, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Angel $54k–$113k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Totoy — Totoy is a developer of an AI-based document management platform. The company's platform explains and translates a document's contents in plain language and automates workflows by categorizing documents.
- Everleaf — Everleaf is a startup focused on making sustainable, home-based agriculture accessible to everyone, even those without outdoor space or gardening experience.
- pagestrip — pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Multi family office investing in proptech, digital health & sustainability
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Health Diagnostics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $165k–$658k; Series A $2.4M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Greenpass — Greenpass is an all-in-one SaaS for climate-resilient urban planning & architecture platform that enables livable cities.
- Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
- 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 ..."
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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Slovenia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $552k–$1.5M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- subdron — subdron turns the seabed from a blind spot into a monitored domain.
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Daniel Zech is the Advisor & Investor in seed & growth companies for private wealth management / family office.
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- Industry: Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together.
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- Industry: Software, Car Sharing, Smart Cities
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
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.
Silence VC is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Software, Marketplace, Online Portals
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $6.8M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prenew — Prenew is a platform, which allows to sell and buy used gaming computers with an ease.
- BuyWander — BuyWander is a platform connecting consumers with returned products. The company appears to operate across various categories, including automotive, beauty & health, clothing, electronics, food & grocery, and home & kitchen.
- Enzo — Enzo is a Heidelberg based InsurTech startup offering modern and smart insurance coverage for homeowners. Instead of just reacting to claims, Enzo takes a proactive customer-focused approach to prevent damages from happening at all. Thus, Enzo is leading a paradigm shift in a €100+ billion market that has barely improved customer experience forover 100 years. Our Goal is to become Europe's smartest homeowners insurance.
Heinz Hahn is an Angel Investor .
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- Industry: Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
SymbiaVC is a dynamic venture capital firm and sparring partner for innovative startups and companies operating along the wood value chain.
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Austria, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.4M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- refinq — refinq scores every one of your locations for physical climate, nature and transition risk under IPCC scenarios, then links exposure to financial impact and adaptation actions.
- ColibrITD — ColibriTD leader of Simulation solutions using Quantum computing
- One.Five — Grow your strategic edge with AI-generated solutions that deliver the ultimate packaging performance, affordability & sustainability
Backing impact-driven founders
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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ark Climate — Ark Climate is a climate-tech company that develops software to support municipal climate protection planning and execution.
- Ki 13 — Creating the world's most affordable green hydrogen and biogenic carbon.
- Cotierra — Biochar made from agricultural residues in the tropics can become a gamechanger for farmers and climate change mitigation
Christian Bezdeka is the Founder at Woom GmbH. Christian attended the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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- Industry: Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.3M; Series A $3.9M–$8.8M; Series B $2.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- crystalsol — COLOKSGP hadir sebagai platform agen slot online terpercaya di Indonesia yang mengutamakan kenyamanan, kepraktisan, dan keamanan para penggunanya. Dengan tampilan website yang ringan dan ultra-responsif, kamu bisa menikmati seluruh permainan dengan mulus dari ponsel maupun komputer.
- 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.
- Aito Technologies — We are a world leader in Customer Experience Analytics for mobile operators. Aito provides better understanding and management the entire customer life cycle helping them identify key relationships and the context between business drivers, customer segments, networks, services, and devices, throughout the customer life cycle.
One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies
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- Industry: Energy, Energy Storage, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8M; Series A $1.6M–$9.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- suena — We are revolutionizing the way energy storage and renewables are integrated into power trading. By using cutting-edge forecasting, optimization and algorithmic trading techniques, we're able to reduce risks, maximize as well as stabilize profits on electricity and balancing markets.
- Brineworks — Industry leading costs through cutting edge electrochemistry, and renewably powered intermittent operation
- Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.
Susanne Porsche
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- Industry: Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!First Climate provides a carbon emissions and water management services.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
- VIRIDAD — VIRIDAD provides a compliance, process and data management software solution in the EU Taxonomy for financial and non-financial companies covered by the NFRD or CSRD as well as Funds covered by the SFDR.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1792
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
Christian Trummer is based out of Vienna, Vienna and is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Bitpanda. Christian previously worked at MRM Systems GmbH as a Lead Software Engineer.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Developer APIs, B2B
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Bavest — Bavest is a Fintech company from Germany, democratizing financial data insights for retail investors and other companies. The platform provides powerful tools and comprehensive data to help retail investors make smarter investment decisions. Bavest also provides APIs and Whitelabel Solutions for other companies that want to enable their customersor clients investment intelligence.
- ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
- Tatum — Tatum is a blockchain development platform designed to assist developers in building applications on the blockchain.The company is a platform for building blockchain infrastructure that offers developers an easy-to-use application programming interface (API), allowing them to incorporate blockchain into their products quickly and effortlessly.Tatum was established on June 4, 2018 by Jiri Kobelka and Samuel Šramko in London, England.
Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $112k–$10M; Series A $1.6M–$28M; Series B $2.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Lingoda — Lingoda offers online live language classes in English, German, Spanish, French with qualified, native-speaking teachers. Their mission is to empower even the busiest people to master a language and unlock their potential – anytime, anywhere.
- Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Felix Porsche
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- Industry: Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
- Swisspod — Swisspod develops energy-efficient Hyperloop systems using high-quality Swiss engineering. Swisspod's mission is to ensure high-speed transportation is sustainable and efficient using fully-electric Hyperloop pods, a breakthrough technology that allows for the scalable and fast travel between distant cities. The company is currently safelybuilding the most affordable and energy-efficient pods, and bringing together a strong team of multidisciplinary experts passionate about disrupting high-speed travel.
Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Marc Menasé, Founders Future is a transatlantic tech investment platform supporting a new generation of AI-first entrepreneurs driving major transformations. Backed by entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the platform manages nearly $400 million and ranks among the most activeearly-stage players in Europe.As part of its expansion into the United States, Founders Future strengthened its shareholder base in 2025 with long-term partners such as MACSF, the Dassault family, and the CMA CGM Group. With over 120 investments, Founders Future is actively supporting companies like Databricks, Perplexity, Function Health, Waterdrop, Veesion, Riot, Conduktor and Raidium.Its strategy focuses on high-impact sectors - AI, fintech, SaaS, and healthcare - with a clear ambition: to empower the most ambitious entrepreneurs in scaling breakthrough technologies on a global scale.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $6.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Complir — Complir's AI agents map product data, analyse compliance risks, generate documentation and track regulations across every market you sell in.
- Reecall — Regardless of call volume, Reecall's virtual agent provides rapid responses. A competitive advantage that ensures the growth of a business and the delight of its customers. Reecall boosts sales teams' productivity by automating the administration of incoming calls. Request pre-qualification, estimates, and partnership requests may all beprocessed automatically, allowing your personnel to focus on client connections.
- Delos — The French flair striking hard in AI
Frank Dopheide
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- Industry: Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
- NutriUnited —
Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $478k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- ThinkSono — ThinkSono Guidance enables any non-ultrasound trained healthcare professional to scan for blood clots (DVT). It reduces waiting times, negative DVT cases and can be used at the point of care.
- Univa Health — Eating disorders care for children, teens and adults. Support for parents and carers to strengthen recovery
- Bea Fertility — Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
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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- Industry: Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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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- Industry: Training, E-Learning, Human Resources
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.
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- Industry: Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Sustainability
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
At Pente, we invest in entrepreneurs and operators who aim to build great businesses. The teams we partner with are true builders, whether they work with wireframes, code, physical products or ideas.We see the emergence of a kinder and more sustainable world, powered by a new generation of businesses. A world where life's luxuries areredefined as design being the central determinator of quality. We are working with the most promising founders and businesses to catalyze change with radical, empathetic visions for a better future.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Wine and Spirits, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- WatchHouse — Cosy, unique coffee spots & eateries in London. We make great coffee and exceptional food within beautifully bespoke environments tailored around our local community. It is as simple as that. | Never worry about running out of coffee supplies again. The Modern Coffee experience from the comfort of your own home.
- Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
- Mytos — The Infrastructure for Cell Manufacturing
Austria's largest electricity provider
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- Industry: Sensor, Parking, Internet
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
- Ogre AI — Ogre AI is a data science company specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions
- 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.
Ottakringer Getraenke is a food & beverage manufacturer that manufactures beer, mineral water and other soft drinks.In 2009 Ottakringer Getränke AG is created through the merger of Ottakringer Brauerei AG and Vöslauer Mineralwasser AG. It is Austria's only listed beverage manufacturer. Most of the shares are held indirectly by the twoAustrian families Wenckheim and Menz through Ottakringer Holding AG
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Water Purification
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Add to Water — Add to Water provides healthy and nutritious flavours to drinking water.
Markus Ertler - Investor @ Necture
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- Industry: Parking, Software, Sensor
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Private Investment Company
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- Industry: Music, Marketplace, Music Venues
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Music Traveler — Music Traveler is a rapidly growing aggregator and marketplace, bringing a highly fragmented B2B and B2BC environment to the sharing economy. Music Traveler centralises practice/rehearsal/performing spaces, equipment, and instruction for the performing arts – its mission is to promote the creation, appreciation and interest in music byy reducing barriers, facilitating new interactions.
Voltare is dedicated to supporting programs that have a genuine impact on our planet.
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- Industry: Solar, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- raicoon — SaaS solution for autonomous operations of renewable energy
The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber functions as the federal parent organization for the nine State Chambers and 110 trade associations for different industries within Austria's system of economy.
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- Industry: Software, Music, mHealth
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Music Traveler — Music Traveler is a rapidly growing aggregator and marketplace, bringing a highly fragmented B2B and B2BC environment to the sharing economy. Music Traveler centralises practice/rehearsal/performing spaces, equipment, and instruction for the performing arts – its mission is to promote the creation, appreciation and interest in music byy reducing barriers, facilitating new interactions.
- The Apollinaire Group (TAG) — Intelligent supply chain management company.
- 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.
Bernhard Niesner is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu – the world´s largest social network for language learning with more than 35m users. busuu provides language courses in 12 different languages combined with direct interaction with native speakers from the community. The London-based start-up received several awards and was named “Best EducationStart-Up in 2011” by TechCrunch. busuu is backed by renown business angels like Martin Varsavsky and received investment from PRO-Founders Capital.Before founding busuu, Bernhard worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In addition to busuu, he is Associated Professor at IE Business School in the area of online marketing.Bernhard graduated summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA (with honors) from IE Business School. In 2009 he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the year” in Austria.
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- Industry: Software, E-Learning, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $650k–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Anyline — Accurate, secure & integrated mobile data capture: Enhance business processes, speed up workflows and improve efficiency with mobile scanning
- 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.
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