Top 25 Payments Startup Investors in Austria
A list of 25 angel investors and VC 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
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.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
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- Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Austria, Germany, United States
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- 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 all-in-one platform for creating and obtaining legally valid signatures. The cloud solution saves companies in all industries measurable time, costs and paper.
- 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
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- SaaS, Billing, Payments
- Seed, Series A
- Austria
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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.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Belgium
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- 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.
- revitalyze — revitalyze is an award-winning greentech platform that enables a circular construction industry through a unique approach to the reuse of building elements.
- Lightning Company — The Lightning Company is the first EU-based bitcoin and lightning payment gateway. We want to make bitcoin payments as easy and attractive as possible, ensuring that customers have no additional costs, whilst merchants receive attractive processing fees.
Roderik van Kessenich
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- SaaS, Billing, Payments
- Seed, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
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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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
- CustomSurg — RETHINKING TRAUMA SURGERY At CustomSurg we are changing the treatment of complex bone fractures from a subjective to an objective approach, through personalized solutions.
- Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and
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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 AG — Make bold decisions: Track crypto investments, capitalize on opportunities, outsmart your taxes. Get started for free!
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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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Seed, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Greenidge — 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.
- Argo Blockchain — Argo Blockchain (NASD:ARBK), is the First Climate Positive Bitcoin Mining Company. A Pioneer in Using Renewable Power & Innovation in Blockchain Technology
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.
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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.
- CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
- SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Israel, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- asvin.io — asvin provides IoT lifecycle management for Software Supply Chains. We comply UNECE W.P29, UNECE R156 and UNECE R155. Contact us!
- Cadeia — Cadeia provides a digital platform for the structuring, issuance and settlement of complex financial products. In addition to enhanced servicing functionalities and a rule-based cash-flow distribution solution, the platform offers reporting, compliance and analytics tools for issuers and investors.
- XVA Blockchain — XVA Blockchain offers B2B data reporting for brokerage, asset management, and custody.
Ledger Capital is a financial services and investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain enablement of the real economy.They provide capital, expertise, and managed services to exceptional teams, corporations, and government-backed initiatives that are looking to tackle problems in large mature markets and verticals with blockchaintechnology. Their core team consists of seasoned tech entrepreneurs, leaders of blockchain technology projects, and executives of top investment firms.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- China, Canada, Austria
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- DeBank — The real Web3-native messenger and the best web3 portfolio tracker that covers all your tokens, DeFi protocols, NFTs across all EVM chains.
- 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.
Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health
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- 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
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- albo — albo is the leading mexican challenger bank which helps you manage your money, and it can adapt to your lifestyle bringing you an honest service that cares about you. albo offers you a mobile banking app, a banking account, and a Mastercard card, allowing you to easily spend, save and invest your money. You can open your account in 60 secondsfrom your phone, having at your disposal personalized financing tools to help assist you in making better financial decisions. You can also be able to make free money transfers to whichever bank 24/7. albo includes many other innovating functions besides the ones mentioned above.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- Panacea Financial — Whether you're transitioning to residency, refinancing your student loans, or funding a new practice - Panacea Financial can help.
We back world-class fintech entrepreneurs creating transformative companies that will rearchitect financial services for decades to come
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Outmin — Outmin is automated accounting for hospitality. One solution that monitors and manages your financial operation, so you can run a more profitable business.
- Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Austria, United Kingdom
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- Anoma — A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties.
- Sparx — Our risk experts guarantee no-compromise business insurance: fast, comprehensive, and at the best rate across our 150 partner carriers.
- Hydra Ventures — Hydra Ventures is the first dedicated investment DAO focused on backing and incubate other investment DAOs across the web3 ecosystem.
Hardlymountain Capital invests venture capital in ambitious teams with scalable products and great growth potential.
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- Pet, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Austria
Tioga's primary investment objective is to identify or create real estate investment opportunities with asymmetric risk/reward profiles. Learn more here.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Security
- Seed, Series A
- France, Austria, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- JellyFi — Crypto Loans Without Collateral. Trusted borrowing & Lending by Atlendis: Capital Efficient DeFi Lending Protocol.
- Architect — Fast, flexible, and secure financial infrastructure for exchanges, trading firms, hedge funds, and professional investors
- Union Labs — The Sovereign Interoperability Layer
Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- BLNG — BLNG is a Generative AI company providing design software and data products for the jewelry industry.
- Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
- Superfluid Finance — Streaming salaries and rewards for DAOs and crypto-natives.
VC focused on fintech
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, Germany
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- yeekatee — yeekatee is an independent investing-based networking connecting people and investing for the whole investment journey.
- Rulematch — RULEMATCH is a spot crypto trading venue based in Switzerland, built with Nasdaq technology - for financial institutions only.
- SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Bayern Mitte eG is a cooperative bank.
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- Bitcoin, Financial Services
- Seed
- Austria
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- 21bitcoin — 'bitcoin', '21bitcoin'
Dr. Michael Steiner, executive board member of porsche AG,
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Investment focus
- Fuel, Energy, Bitcoin
- Seed, Private Equity
- Chile, Austria
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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.
Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.
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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.
Avaloq Ventures is a Venture Capital Firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Blockpit AG — Make bold decisions: Track crypto investments, capitalize on opportunities, outsmart your taxes. Get started for free!
- Coinfirm — Coinfirm is the recognized global leader in blockchain regtech. Their mission is to provide technology for regulatory compliance, bringing new levels of transparency and trust to the world of digital currencies. Their aim is to serve as a foundation for the safe adoption of blockchain by all actors in the economy, including traditional financialinstitutions, governments, regulators as well as ordinary citizens. They do that by applying regulatory technology for blockchain that solves a variety of compliance challenges. Their proprietary solutions streamline compliance to near-automation. Taking anti money laundering effectiveness form around 1% as it is in the current traditional system and take it to over 90% effectiveness. They provide anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) services for virtual currencies and blockchain actors. They enable traditional financial institutions and regulators to safely engage with the crypto world.Their Trudatum product gives users the ability to register and authenticate any type of data, providing instant, secure online confirmation of the authenticity of documents and other files.
- OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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
- Health Care, Software, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
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- 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.
- reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
- 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.
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