Top 40 Payments Startup Investors in Austria (October 2026)

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• PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
• aeon.life — Preventive healthcare platform that equips people with personalized insights and expert guidance for proactive whole-body health
• Health Force — Health Force develops AI agents that automate administrative and front-desk workflows for hospitals and clinics.

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• 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.

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• heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
• Cloverleaf Bio — Cloverleaf Bio | Developing a new class of RNA therapeutics to revolutionize cancer therapy.
• Poseidon Aerospace — Poseidon Aerospace is developing unmanned cargo aircraft for regional commercial air freight and contested defense logistics.

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• GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
• HyperHeat — HyperHeat is building a cutting-edge, all-electric heating solution designed to reach temperatures of up to 2,000°C. Using renewable electricity HyperHeat is providing an efficient alternative to fossil fuel combustion. With an efficiency rate of up to 98%, HyperHeat is ideal for retrofitting industrial processes, enabling significant CO2reductions across industries like steel, cement, and chemicals. The scalable technology offers a cost-efficient approach to decarbonizing thermal processes, with a potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 4.5 gigatons annually.
• TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.

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• 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.

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• Biobase — Biobase is the agentic system for clinical data, closing the gap between clinical data and better healthcare.
• Ladder Health — Ladder Health offers virtual pediatric therapy and support for early childhood developmental delays, including speech and physical therapy.
• Woodway Assurance — Woodway Assurance provides EviData, an AI-driven software for automated privacy assurance on de-identified and synthetic datasets.

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• FlexPoint — LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold.
• Coral Care — Coral Care is a technology company for in-person specialized pediatric developmental healthcare. It aims to improve access to pediatric developmental health services from infancy to adolescence. The platform serves as a marketplace, offering a simplified path to care by matching families with Coral Care’s team of trusted, local, in-networkpediatric specialists available for in-person and in-home sessions.Coral Care’s platform provides pediatric specialists with the infrastructure needed to grow their private practices and deliver quality in-person care. The company offers administrative support and tools, content, credentialing services, and marketing services, which enable pediatric specialists to focus on care, not managing their businesses.
• Spring Labs Holdings, Inc. — Spring Labs is building an AI-native operational risk and compliance platform for financial institutions. Zanko automates post-contact operations from intake through resolution across complaints, disputes, QA, issue management, and customer operations workflows. By combining conversational intelligence, AI agents, workflow automation, and embeddedcompliance guardrails, the platform helps institutions accelerate resolution times, reduce operational overhead, surface emerging risk earlier, and maintain audit-ready execution across every customer interaction.

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• Blee — Blee assists fast-growing enterprises in establishing and operating worldwide subsidiaries. Founded in 2022.
• cymphony.io — Cymphony provides a cybersecurity platform that connects workforce identity, access, behavior, data, and business context. Its platform supports insider risk posture, user behavior analytics, file risk management, collaboration risk management, identity risk management, and oversight of contractors and other extended-workforce users. Security teamsuse the platform to monitor exposure, investigate behavior-based threats, manage access risks, and address data-loss risks. Cymphony also provides integrations and a contextual investigation console for reviewing workforce-related security events.
• Luminary — Discover Luminary AI's cutting-edge estate planning software, powered by AI technology to seamlessly transform documents into dynamic digital records in minutes. Streamline visualization, what-if analysis, and reporting processes, to efficiently deliver personalized and powerful family office client solutions.Instantly summarize uploaded documents and convert information into digital records for ongoing modeling and reporting.

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• Esper — Esper is the first cloud-based platform to help governments proactively manage public policy with better data and transparency.
• Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
• Cornea Sense — CorneaSense is a medtech startup developing a non-invasive, eye-based sensing device that measures ocular surface hydration to enable early detection and monitoring of conditions such as dry eye disease and systemic health disorders. The technology aims to provide real-time, objective eye biomarkers for improved clinical diagnosis and patient care.

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• 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.

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• helloCash — Here you can find the login for your helloCash cash register. Just sign up and you can start collecting.

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• 21bitcoin — 'bitcoin', '21bitcoin'

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• helloCash — Here you can find the login for your helloCash cash register. Just sign up and you can start collecting.

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• Flam — Frontier AI research and product for interactive content. Video was the last big shift in content. Interactivity is the next one, and we're defining it.
• Ahead Health — Ahead Health is redefining preventive healthcare by making personalized health insights clear, actionable, and accessible anytime, anywhere
• Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!

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• NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
• PayGo — One request = one settlement. Pay-as-you-go payments for APIs, AI & agents. x402 on ENI
• 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.

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• Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
• Una Health — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
• not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.

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• Ospree — Ospree is a modular compliance platform for digital assets, enabling VASPs and financial institutions to meet global Travel Rule and AML/CTF requirements through automation, multi-chain support, and regulatory interoperability.
• Autowhale — Helping funds automate their trading, portfolio management & investment strategies while offering efficient execution in an agile & cost-efficient system.
• Tree — Radical Transparency for Fashion. Available for Shopify.

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• 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.

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• Extoll — EXTOLL, a leader in high-speed, ultra-low power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, offers semiconductor IP with the smallest footprints and highest PPA. Serving global ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet markets, our portfolio includes tailored NoC (Network-on-Chip) and Die-to-Die solutions. EXTOLL drives innovation, enabling successful migration into the Chiplet Age.
• BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
• CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.

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• 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.

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• Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
• Shopstory — Shopstory provides AI-based marketing software that makes online shops more profitable. Shopstory replaces marketing agencies, reduces costs, improves online store Google Ads & SEO performance, and automates keyword research. Shopstory aims to boost sales, cut costs, and save time.
• 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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• 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.

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• Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
• Fundcraft — The fundcraft team has created a platform that centralizes, coordinates, and gradually automates all fund activities, including transfer agency, accounting, portfolio and risk management, and compliance, among others.
• ZeroRisk.io — https://t.co/Aukldsyhoy is the end-to-end merchant portfolio risk and compliance management system designed to make the payments ecosystem safer.

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• Arinna — We move humanity forward by building the lightest way to power space infrastructure at scale.
• Anvil Robotics — Train OpenARM and OpenYAM robots on day 1 with ready-to-run devkits. Anvil Robotics is building a hardware and software platform for Physical AI
• Parallax Worlds — Parallax Worlds is a software platform that robots in realistic simulations to detect and fix failures before real-world deployment.

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• Wyden — Wyden is an institutional trading platform for banks and brokers, unifying digital asset execution, treasury, settlement, accounting, and connectivity through a single platform.
• Storyline — Storyline is an Data Infrastructure and Analytics firm offering AI based transformation of raw data into content.
• Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

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• Blockpit — Make bold decisions: Track crypto investments, capitalize on opportunities, outsmart your taxes. Get started for free!
• Coinfirm — Get a demo of digital asset data with Lukka. Lukka helps institutions access reconciled digital asset data and audit-ready pricing.
• OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.

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• Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
• Artificial Labs — Artificial connects brokers and insurers across the specialty market. Underwriting technology and placement tools to move risk faster, with less in the way.
• Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.

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• Repodo — Repodo is an AI-native authorised audit firm.
• Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
• Heaviside Industries — Heaviside Industries is a defense technology company that develops autonomous precision munitions for land, air, and sea systems.

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• PPKING — PPKING is a unique decentralized financial platform that specializes in beneficial liquidity and MEME token trading.
• Turtle Club — Aggregated, diligenced, personalized onchain yield management.
• BTA Protocol — Decentralized ecosystem protocol BTA Protocol based on BTC offering applications such as Staking,Liquidity, RSP, Launchpool, and Lending protocols.

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• PatchAi — Improve patient engagement and experience in clinical trials and standard care. Discover Patchai solution.
• 1000Farmacie — 1000Farmacie is the leading Pharmacy Marketplace in Italy. Though a network of independent Pharmacies we deliver faster!
• Newel Health — Certified digital medical devices for chronic disease, built to the standard the problem deserves.

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• Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
• Teneo Protocol — Teneo Protocol is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) initiative.
• Unmanned Life — Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics. It is changing the way autonomous robotics is being deployed by large corporations thanks to its autonomy-as-a-service orchestration platform powered by AI and 5G. Unmanned Life software platform is capable of integrating different technologies, suchas AI, 5G and Edge computing with multiple robots such as drones and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and variety of capabilities to enable autonomous operations across multiple industries, in particular Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities.

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• Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
• Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.
• Panacea Financial — Whether you're transitioning to residency, refinancing your student loans, or funding a new practice - Panacea Financial can help.

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• 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.
• D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.

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• 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.

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• 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. The company uses renewable energy to produce green hydrogen via electrolysis and captures CO2 from the atmosphere, or from an industrial or biogenic source. It produces a carbon-neutral equivalent of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) with green methanol. HIF Global'smission is to accelerate decarbonization by producing carbon neutral eFuels, providing a solution today for a better tomorrow.

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• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• FrodoBots Lab — The development lab building robotic adventures on @bitrobotnetwork Explore our projects: https://t.co/FFzVZ5kptX
• Chronicle Labs — Chronicle Protocol brings data onchain via decentralized, cost-efficient, verifiable oracles, powering DeFi and RWAs with DeFi and Proof of Asset Oracles.

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• JAN3 — JAN3 provides technologies and solutions for individuals, enterprises, and nation-states to prepare for the future built on Bitcoin.
• Unblock — Unblock is a climate technology company that offers a solution to mitigate emissions.
• Rightbrain — Rightbrain gives service businesses the platform and team to build, run and improve AI agents for clients, under your own brand and production-ready from day one.

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• Klinic — Cutting-Edge Addiction, Mental Health & Psychiatry Treatment From a Specialist Near You
• Coolant — 3D Forest Vision turns aerial drone photographs into a 3D digital twin of your forest and cruises every tree. A full census, not a sample.
• Aristotle — Aristotle builds a voice first AI tutor that talks, listens, and uses Socratic methods to guide students instead of just giving answers.

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• Mio — Mio is a Slack-native AI employee that answers questions, prepares meetings, and ships work across your team's tools. Just @mio.
• Kash — trade or create social, 24-hour prediction markets directly from your feed
• Kulipa — Kulipa helps fintechs issue branded stablecoin-backed cards to their users

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• Fauna Bio — Fauna Bio is developing new ways to treat human diseases, such as heart disease and neurodegenerative disease, by adopting mechanisms animals have developed for traits such as hibernation and deep-diving. Founded by three scientists who have intimate knowledge of the best science and resources from the field of non-model organisms, Fauna Bioleverages data from hundreds of species in order to help develop pre-clinical and early clinical testing for new therapeutics targeting human diseases.
• BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
• Certainly Health — Learn how to glow up with personalized 1:1 coaching. Get expert facial analysis, custom skincare plans, and aesthetic recommendations from real providers - with no upsells.