Top 15 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Austria in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Austria in September 2025

Investor	Manufacturing Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	5
Bernhard Niesner	2
Hermann Hauser	2
Sebastian Becker	1
Ignaz Forstmeier	1
Fiona Macintyre	1
Felix Porsche	1
Henry Murray	1
Alexander Weber	1
Henrik Piroth	1
Anne Lemcke	1
Stefan Lemcke	1
Yoobin Jung	1
Laura Warnier	1
Hanno Lippitsch	1

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Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

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.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

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.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel
Austria, Germany, United Kingdom

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.
Shadowmap — Your interface to the Sun: See the sunpath over your house. Visualize and analyze solar, architectural & real estate projects on our interactive 3D map.
notarity — notarity is the most user-friendly platform for fully digital collaboration with notaries. Notarize documents online from anywhere at anytime.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Sebastian Becker is a Partner at Redalpine.

Investment focus

Legal, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Series A
Germany, Belgium

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.
Lyceum — Introducing the smartest way to train your models in the cloud. The electricity socket for your infrastructure needs.
LEGALFLY — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.

Ignaz Forstmeier - Co-Founder @ Personio

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
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.
Equipme — The platform for modern IT departments that want to transparently manage all company resources, digitize processes, and automate workflows.

Fiona Macintyre is the Founder and CEO of Forming Impact and a thought leader in sustainable development and strategic partnerships. She leads a network of CEOs, entrepreneurs, creatives and investors, together driving solutions to the challenges of our lifetimes. With flagship initiatives and events such as Necker Island and the United NationsSustainable Development Goal Week, Macintyre is an expert in bringing global players from the private sector to the impact world, consulting for ventures in sectors including investment, innovation and tech. She is a respected investor focusing on the sustainable impact sector.