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Top 25 Payments Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Payments Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025

Investor	Payments Austria investments
Roderik van Kessenich	2
Speedinvest	2
European Super Angels Club	2
Peter Schicho	2
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)	2
Ledger Capital	1
Tioga Capital	1
Anton Kittelberger	1
Frank Westermann	1
FiveT Fintech (formerly Avaloq Ventures)	1
Hardlymountain	1
Blockchain.com	1
Valar Ventures	1
Fabric Ventures	1
Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Bayern Mitte eG	1
Venionaire Capital	1
Tioga Capital Partners	1
Force Over Mass Capital	1
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	1
High-Tech Gruenderfonds	1
Wicklow Capital	1
coinIX	1
Michael Steiner	1
NYDIG	1
Middlegame Ventures	1

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Roderik van Kessenich

Investment focus

SaaS, Billing, Payments
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

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Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Monkee — Monkee combines Personal Finance and Cashback in one unique product. We help our users to save more money for what's important to them and actively support them in growing their savings while consciously shopping the things they need. At the same time we help our retail partners to connect with consumers in a relevant and rewarding way. Thecompany 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.

Peter Schicho

Investment focus

SaaS, Billing, Payments
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Austria, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

HD Immune — HD Immune develops an antibody to target the mutated protein and remove it from the body. HDI has a lead antibody mAB C6-17 which lowers mtHTT in the blood and organs.
Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
Aileen Health — Next frame predictions for medical images.

Ledger Capital is a financial services and investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
China, Canada, Austria

Portfolio highlights

NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
Zulu Network — Zulu Network is the first DePin-focused Bitcoin Layer 2 to achieve the tokenization of computing power, allowing anyone to power DePIN innovation and earn Bitcoin.

Tioga's primary investment objective is to identify or create real estate investment opportunities with asymmetric risk/reward profiles. Learn more here.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A
United States, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

X10 — X10 operates as a hybrid crypto exchange provider.
Architect — Architect gives traders customizable infrastructure that reimagines access to international markets for digital assets. Building institutional-grade infrastructure to link different crypto venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges is one of the project's goals.
Union Labs — The Modular ZK Interoperability Layer

Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health

Investment focus

iOS, Sports, Android
Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

myClubs — One membership. Unlimited sports.We provide digital access to the best gyms and fitness classes in Austria and Switzerland. Our network of more than 800 exclusive partner studios guarantees choice, flexibility and quality. Thousands of customers use our product as well as more and more companies and insurances. By digitalizing the growingfitness market we are following our mission: Rethinking sports.
Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.

- 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

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.

VC focused on fintech

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Rulematch — RULEMATCH is a spot crypto trading venue based in Switzerland, built with Nasdaq technology - for financial institutions only.
Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

Hardlymountain Capital invests venture capital in ambitious teams with scalable products and great growth potential.

Investment focus

Pet, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
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.
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 ..."

Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Bitcoin
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bitcoin.com — The world's gateway to Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. Buy, sell, spend, swap, and invest in BTC, ETH, BCH, AVAX, MATIC & hundreds more digital assets. Stay informed about crypto, DeFi, and Web3.
Gnosis — Safe is the most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum
Fabric Systems — At Fabric, AI supercomputing and crypto natives have come together for the first time to deliver the next revolution in computing and break free of the hardware barriers of this era.

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

XWeave — Xweave enables real time & competitive cross-border payments with no pre-funding
Codex — Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
Tapestry — Tapestry enables anyone to create and deploy social applications using simple prompts.

Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Bayern Mitte eG is a cooperative bank.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Financial Services
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

21bitcoin — 'bitcoin', '21bitcoin'

Venionaire Capital is an Entrepreneurial Partner for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Corporates in Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Homeppl — Homeppl reveals consumer's real transactional ability. We leverage open banking, risk and financial algorithms, and unique fraud detection tests to allow consumers inclusive financial access to all financial or risk products in the world.Clients use Homeppl to increase revenue, prevent fraud, and eliminate transactional friction. Homepplhas reviewed hundreds of thousands of transactions and approved millions of pounds of revenue for clients in the UK.We are a Techstars company. Our team is comprised of ambitious, international, and passionate individuals. We are from 24 nationalities and speak over 17 languages!
Blockpit — Make bold decisions: Track crypto investments, capitalize on opportunities, outsmart your taxes. Get started for free!
Unmanned Life — Autonomous Agnostic Robotics Technology - The Software Platform For Seamless Orchestration Of Autonomous Robotics. Our latest deployments...

Headquartered in Belgium, we provide our investors with exposure to the growing European blockchain ecosystem, with a focus on early-stage opportunities.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Olas — Olas is an innovative platform designed to leverage autonomous AI agents in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. By employing specialized agents that collaborate, Olas aims to offer complex and comprehensive services tailored to the needs of users in the rapidly evolving world of digital currencies.
FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.
Chronicle Labs — Evolving from the Oracle Core Unit at MakerDAO, Chronicle Protocol was created by the unit’s development team. Although the Oracles that underpinned Chronicle Protocol had been securing MakerDAO’s $10B+ collateral since 2016, the technology and its unique innovations weren’t available outside of Maker’s portfolio.In 2021, the team receivedsupport from MakerDAO to spin out the proprietary technology and form a new entity and brand. Chronicle Protocol was born.Chronicle continues to service MakerDAO and now, for the first time, is rolling out its on-chain Oracle services to support the wider Web3 world.Chronicle Protocol has been developed to solve many of the current pain points of on-chain Oracles and DeFi. On-chain Oracles, particularly on computationally expensive blockchains such as Ethereum, are bottlenecking the development of DeFi with an exorbitant cost of service and a lack of feasible scalability. Through developing a proprietary solution called Scribe, the team at Chronicle has built a blockchain-agnostic, ubiquitously accessible, scalable, end-to-end verifiable, and decentralized Oracle. The protocol’s unique architecture enables an ecosystem that delivers 100% decentralization and transparency. Every byte of data can be traced back to each Feed’s original data source queries, and new Oracles can be deployed (and updated) with the click of a button on the Chronicle Dashboard.Inspired by Ancient Greece’s Herodotus (the Father of History), Chronicle Protocol aims to be the world’s first open and verifiable data chronicler. Transparency, democracy, and accessibility are the columns on which Chronicle has built its temple, and industry-leading scalability, integration, and security are the features that power the protocol.Verifiable data, accessible to all - delivered securely and affordably.

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
SentientSports — SentientSports is revolutionising the sports industry by unlocking the full potential of AI in sporting organisations.

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.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

mo:re GmbH — Mo:re is building the new gold standard for organoid-based drug development by offering a lab platform that industrialises cell culture workflows.
Eyeo — eyeo revolutionizes imaging with color splitter sensors. Capture sharper, brighter images in low light using optical waveguide innovation, discover how it works
AICA SA — AICA believes programming robots should be at everyone's reach. We combine Artificial Intelligence & an intuitive interface, to help you relocate your production.

Wicklow Capital, Inc. is a Chicago-based principal investment firm out of the family office of Dan Tierney, co-founder and board member of GETCO, Inc., once one of the world's leading market makers and financial innovators in financial and commodities markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Anoma — A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties.
Sparx — The foundational layer for value-based care providers.
Hydra Ventures — Hydra Ventures is the first dedicated investment DAO focused on backing and incubate other investment DAOs across the web3 ecosystem.

CoinIX manages a portfolio of cryptocurrencies and assets. The investment focus for venture investments is Europe and with a strong focus on companies using distributed ledger technologies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

PPKING — PPKING is a unique decentralized financial platform that specializes in beneficial liquidity and MEME token trading.
BTA Protocol — BTA Protocol is a decentralized ecosystem protocol based on BTC that includes applications such as staking, liquidity, range stability, launch pool, and lending protocols.
Nexus Network — Nexus Network brings secure yields for idle bridge assets. Nexus Network delivers utilises the latest staking technology to offer a non-custodial and transparent way to generate yields for rollups and EVM chains

Dr. Michael Steiner, executive board member of porsche AG,

Investment focus

Fuel, Energy, Bitcoin
Seed, Private Equity
Chile, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
HIF Global — HIF Global is an eFuel company engaged in the production of carbon neutral fuels.

NYDIG is a technology and financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin for institutions, private clients, and banks. The firm offers asset management, derivatives, financing, custody, and execution services. NYDIG's platform satisfies the highest regulatory, audit, and governance standards.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

JAN3 — JAN3 is a Bitcoin technology company focused on expanding access to Bitcoin and financial freedom around the world.
Greenidge Generation — Greenidge is a 106MW natural gas power plant and blockchain mining facility. Greenidge Generation has been transformed into a power plant for the twenty-first century. In January 2020, Greenidge launched the first phase of a data center for blockchain mining. Greenidge was established in 1937 and is based in Dresden, New York, United States.
Unchained — Unchained is a bitcoin native financial services company offering collaborative custody multisignature vaults and loans for bitcoin holders.

Middlegame Ventures is a fintech venture capital firm investing in early-stage growth businesses focused on Financial Innovation. The firm is seeking great entrepreneurial teams who are focusing on rearchitecting financial services infrastructure.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Fundcraft — fundcraft offers digital-native fund operations for the management of private equity, venture capital, funds of funds, and feeder funds.
One Trading — Discover an unrivalled trading experience with One Trading. We believe regulation powers user experience, not breaks it. Crypto - But regulated. Buy crypto now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOGE, Solana, Cardano and more.
Cloud Capital — CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML.

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