Top 5 Organic Food VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2026

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• Lavie bio — LaVie Bio develops bacterial compositions that are sprayed on plants, used to coat seeds, or are integrated in the soil around the plant in order to improve the crop or the plant's features.
• Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon converts CO2 into resources to power tomorrow's industries.

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• OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
• Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
• 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 ..."

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• Triplebar — Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research.
• Savor — Savor makes delightfully rich foods without animals, farmland, fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics.
• Hyfé — Hyfé Foods is a biotech company producing ingredients by leveraging fungal fermentation to upcycle water byproducts from food manufacturers.

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• Afterlife Ag — Eliminate organic waste from going into landfills. Peat upcycles your food waste into fresh, sustainable, and delicious mushrooms.
• FORAY bioscience — FORAY bioscience is a biotechnology company that uses biomanufacturing techniques to produce wood products.
• Prolific Machines — Difficult protein production made simple. A next-generation expression system for next-generation therapeutics.

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• Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
• Asterix Foods — Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company designed to build protein production using plant-cell culture techniques. The company's platform is developing and growing bioactive proteins for food that are scalable, functional, and complex, enabling users with plant cell-cultured and animal-free proteins.It was founded in 2022 and is located inTel Aviv, Israel.
• Differential Bio — Differential Bio is integrating scale-down experiments with AI-based modeling to optimize how industry-relevant microbes grow ("biomass fermentation") and produce ("precision fermentation"). By optimizing bioprocesses and growth conditions, the company is not only increasing their clients' R&D efficiency but alsodramatically improving bioproduction outcomes such as yield, cost efficiency, and product quality.