Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Austria in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Austria in February 2025
Investor | Media (entertainment) Austria investments |
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 5 |
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 5 |
Hermann Hauser | 4 |
Hermann Hauser | 4 |
Philipp Kinsky | 2 |
Michael Kamleitner | 2 |
Michael Kamleitner | 2 |
Philipp Kinsky | 2 |
Michael Grabner | 1 |
Ralf Reichert | 1 |
Lukas Scherzenlehner | 1 |
Rene Giretzlehner | 1 |
Christian Reber | 1 |
Mark Kaslatter | 1 |
Jakob Kattner | 1 |
Ralf Reichert | 1 |
Frank Westermann | 1 |
Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt | 1 |
Georg Bauer | 1 |
Florian Ristl | 1 |
Eugen Prosquill | 1 |
Christian Kaar | 1 |
Gabriel Grabner | 1 |
Christian Reber | 1 |
Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt | 1 |
Marcel Beemsterboer | 1 |
Bernhard Lehner | 1 |
Dieter Rappold | 1 |
Louis Pfitzner | 1 |
Gabriel Grabner | 1 |
Christian Kaar | 1 |
Alfred Luger | 1 |
Peter Steinberger | 1 |
Michael Grabner | 1 |
Stephan Zöchling | 1 |
Georg Bauer | 1 |
Ralph Harreiter | 1 |
Heike Thiele | 1 |
Eugen Prosquill | 1 |
Klaus Hofbauer | 1 |
Marcin Kurek | 1 |
Dieter Rappold | 1 |
Louis Pfitzner | 1 |
Ralf Reichert | 1 |
Ralf Reichert | 1 |
Peter Steinberger | 1 |
Mark Kaslatter | 1 |
Rene Giretzlehner | 1 |
Mariusz Gralewski | 1 |
Bernhard Lehner | 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- 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 building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- 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 building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale.
Philipp Kinsky
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Video
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
- Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Video
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
- Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
Philipp Kinsky
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Michael Grabner - Partner & Managing Director @ Michael Grabner Media GmbH
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Marketing
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Totoy — The Totoy AI API explains, classifies and creates knowledge bases from documents. No prior training or datasets required.
- 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.
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Investment focus
- Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
- Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Lukas Scherzenlehner - General Manager @ Cleen Energy
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Investment focus
- Music, Digital Media, Music Streaming
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Record Bird — Record Bird offers an application that enables its users to find news and information about new releases of music. It enables its users to follow artists and obtain news and information about them. Record Bird was founded by Arnold Graf, Christoph Kregl, Alexander Baumann, Thomas Patterer, and Andreas Mahringer.
Rene Giretzlehner
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Dating
- Angel, Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
- FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
- VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.
Informationsdienste Fachkraft
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Investment focus
- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Jakob Kattner
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Investment focus
- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Investment focus
- Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
- Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health
- Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017)
- Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech
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Investment focus
- iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
- Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
- not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.
Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt is the Purchasing & Accounting at AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH. Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketplace, Service Industry
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Quork — Quork - Quick Work is the marketplace for services. With Quork professional service providers can find, acquire and manage their customers. With innovative features like an in app messenger, an Kanban board to organize your tasks and easy and well-designed statistics, Quork can offer its service provider an all in one solution for their dailybusiness. On the same side private individuals can easily find the right service provider for their task. With posting a Task through an questionnaire Quork makes sure that no detail is missing so a Poster really finds the right person for the job. With the convenient payment system "QUORK PAY" it is easy to pay automatically within the platform. Booking services was never so easy. Also with using Quork you can give something back to the nature as we plant a tree for every completed task.
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Georg Bauer ist Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH und hat sich durch Beteiligungen an weiteren Firmen in der Chemischen Industrie einen Namen gemacht.
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Investment focus
- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Florian Ristl
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Investment focus
- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Eugen Prosquill is the CEO and Founder of Warda Network. He previously worked at Formfinder Software GmbH as a Trainee. Eugen Prosquill attended Federal Technical College for IT and Mechatronics, Vienna 3.
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Investment focus
- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
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.
Gabriel Grabner - Venture Partner @ DvH Ventures
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Marketing
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
- FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
- VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.
Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt is the Purchasing & Accounting at AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH. Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketplace, Service Industry
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Quork — Quork - Quick Work is the marketplace for services. With Quork professional service providers can find, acquire and manage their customers. With innovative features like an in app messenger, an Kanban board to organize your tasks and easy and well-designed statistics, Quork can offer its service provider an all in one solution for their dailybusiness. On the same side private individuals can easily find the right service provider for their task. With posting a Task through an questionnaire Quork makes sure that no detail is missing so a Poster really finds the right person for the job. With the convenient payment system "QUORK PAY" it is easy to pay automatically within the platform. Booking services was never so easy. Also with using Quork you can give something back to the nature as we plant a tree for every completed task.
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Marcel Beemsterboer - Owner @ Zeeburg Ventures
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, 3D Printing
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- The Netherlands, Spain, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Hubs — Hubs, formerly 3D Hubs, is an online platform for custom part manufacturing, providing access to a global network of manufacturing services, including CNC machining, 3D printing, injection molding and sheet metal fabrication. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, Hubs was acquired by Protolabs in January 2021 and has produced 7 million parts.
- Eversports — Eversports vision is to simplify the access to sport facilities in your environment. They thrive to build a unique community of sporters and to share their passion around the globe. Eversports connects its members directly with sport venues, helps them to book courts or courses and to meet sport partners. With Eversports you know exactly where andwhen to practice your favourite sport. Find all the information you need in one single interface. Eversports is the marketplace where sport providers and sporters get easily connected.
- Deskbookers — Deskbookers is an online platform for businesses and individuals to find flexible space... offices, meeting and training rooms and flex desks. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The site is currently available in Dutch, German, and English.
Bernhard Lehner is a communication professional through and through. His work with and for the media has always been the centre of his professional life. During his communication studies in Vienna he gathered work experiences as a journalist for print and online media. By the End of the 90ies he had changed the site and worked successfully as a PRadvisor for agencies but also for in house relations. His references from the last few years include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Ikea and Cisco. i5invest appreciates Bernhard’s expertise for strategic communication development measurements and their realisation for old and new media with a focus on Europe.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Training
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
Dieter Rappold is the current CEO of tubics. He previously worked at Virtual Identity as a Founder. Dieter Rappold attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Along — Join our waitlist and try it first!
- tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
- Smint.io — Smint.io offers a Content Experience Platform for stakeholder needs. It helps companies create unique content experiences and optimize their digital touchpoints. The platform lets companies build sites that sit on top of Digital Asset Management Systems, Cloud Storage or Enterprise Content Management Systems. It helps nontechnical owners orfounders to get their content assets online in a simple and appealing way for different types of stakeholders, enabling businesses to build branded, stakeholder-friendly content portals and boosts up brand experience and content usage.
Co-CEO at CleanHub, entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS), especially when it's in the SMB space.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Photography, E-Commerce Platforms
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Greece, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Gabriel Grabner - Venture Partner @ DvH Ventures
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Marketing
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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.
- Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.
- 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
Founder of PSPDFKit
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- reebuild — reebuild is the developer of an online application for construction companies designed to automate material procurement and logistics. Their digital infrastructure platform connects construction companies, industry, and trade, enabling clients to build their invoices and environmental data in a secure cloud and take over administrative processes inthe background.
- ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.
- 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
Michael Grabner - Partner & Managing Director @ Michael Grabner Media GmbH
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Marketing
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
CEO
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- Cooking, Recipes, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Austria
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- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Georg Bauer ist Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH und hat sich durch Beteiligungen an weiteren Firmen in der Chemischen Industrie einen Namen gemacht.
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- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
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- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Ralph Harreiter
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- SaaS, Video, Software
- Seed
- Austria
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- tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
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- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
Eugen Prosquill is the CEO and Founder of Warda Network. He previously worked at Formfinder Software GmbH as a Trainee. Eugen Prosquill attended Federal Technical College for IT and Mechatronics, Vienna 3.
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- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at
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- Marketplace, Apps, Music
- Seed, Series A
- Austria
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- markta — Digital farmers market
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.
Entrepreneur and Investor in E-business and Tech sector.Managing Partner and Co-founder at Market One Capital, a marketplace first VC fund based in Warsaw and Barcelona.
Managing Partner and Co-founder in Protos Venture Capital, an early stage VC fund.
Co-founder of Pomocni.pl group including niania.pl, remontuj.pl, pomocedomowe.pl
Investor andsupporter in +20 companies, i.e.
Docplanner.com (Znanylekarz.pl), Brainly.com, Unamo.com, Allani.pl, Restaumatic.com, Shoplo.com, Starofservice.com, Depilacja.pl, Pushpushgo.com.Main focus: marketing, product, business development
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- Wellness, Health Care, Ride Sharing
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Poland, Austria, Germany
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- Ovoko — Ovoko functions as an internet marketplace, uniting sellers of car parts, auto dismantlers, and recyclers with car dealers, mechanics, and avid enthusiasts.
- Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.
- Eversports — Eversports vision is to simplify the access to sport facilities in your environment. They thrive to build a unique community of sporters and to share their passion around the globe. Eversports connects its members directly with sport venues, helps them to book courts or courses and to meet sport partners. With Eversports you know exactly where andwhen to practice your favourite sport. Find all the information you need in one single interface. Eversports is the marketplace where sport providers and sporters get easily connected.
Dieter Rappold is the current CEO of tubics. He previously worked at Virtual Identity as a Founder. Dieter Rappold attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).
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- Software, SaaS, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
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- Along — Join our waitlist and try it first!
- tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
- Smint.io — Smint.io offers a Content Experience Platform for stakeholder needs. It helps companies create unique content experiences and optimize their digital touchpoints. The platform lets companies build sites that sit on top of Digital Asset Management Systems, Cloud Storage or Enterprise Content Management Systems. It helps nontechnical owners orfounders to get their content assets online in a simple and appealing way for different types of stakeholders, enabling businesses to build branded, stakeholder-friendly content portals and boosts up brand experience and content usage.
Co-CEO at CleanHub, entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS), especially when it's in the SMB space.
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- Marketplace, Photography, E-Commerce Platforms
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Greece, Austria
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- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
- Sirius — Sirius is an online music platform. They offer digital space for music teaching with sound and data protection, enabling musicians to create their virtual music classrooms. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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- Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
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- ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
- Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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- Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
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- ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
- Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Founder of PSPDFKit
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- SaaS, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
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- reebuild — reebuild is the developer of an online application for construction companies designed to automate material procurement and logistics. Their digital infrastructure platform connects construction companies, industry, and trade, enabling clients to build their invoices and environmental data in a secure cloud and take over administrative processes inthe background.
- ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.
- 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
Informationsdienste Fachkraft
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- Art, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Seed
- Austria
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- Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
Rene Giretzlehner
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- Software, Apps, Dating
- Angel, Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- 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.
Mariusz Gralewski is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of ZnanyLekarz. Mariusz Gralewski attended the Warsaw University of Technology.
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- Internet, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- Poland, Spain, France
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- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- AlohaCamp — AlohaCamp is an online booking portal for adventure travel. They offer tent, campervan, glamping, and cottage sites. It provides a referral program.
- StarOfService — Tous les professionnels, au meilleur prix.
Bernhard Lehner is a communication professional through and through. His work with and for the media has always been the centre of his professional life. During his communication studies in Vienna he gathered work experiences as a journalist for print and online media. By the End of the 90ies he had changed the site and worked successfully as a PRadvisor for agencies but also for in house relations. His references from the last few years include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Ikea and Cisco. i5invest appreciates Bernhard’s expertise for strategic communication development measurements and their realisation for old and new media with a focus on Europe.
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- Internet, Software, Training
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
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