Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Platforms startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Platforms companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025
Investor | Platforms Austria investments |
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aws Gründungsfonds | 4 |
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 3 |
Redstone.VC | 3 |
VENTA GROUP | 2 |
Berliner Volksbank Ventures | 2 |
Aquis Sanitär | 2 |
Speedinvest | 2 |
PUSH VC | 2 |
Frank Westermann | 2 |
NAP | 2 |
Fortuna Group | 1 |
Cipio Partners | 1 |
Allegion | 1 |
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) | 1 |
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) | 1 |
aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tree.ly — Tree.ly does climate protection through the projects in European forests through its SaaS platform and hyperlocal CO2-credits.
- Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
- 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 ..."
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.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
- Ochy — Ochy is an app that uses AI to analyse running form and gait to identify weak points and provide recommendations on what to do to improve.
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
We, the VENTA Real Estate Group are your competent and ambitious partner in the field of real estate. We develop condominiums, rental apartments, offices and commercial space that are sustainable, productive and liveable. We gladly consider your individual wishes.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Android
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.
Berliner Volksbank Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Berliner Volksbank. They support young, innovative companies in implementing their growth strategy. They stand for stability, reliability, community and partnership at eye level. These values accompany us throughout the investment process and shape the cooperation with theirportfolio companies.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Thermondo — Thermondo promote the energy transition with innovative heat solutions.Directly to the customer, providing superior energy products. Thermondo is a an integrated energy company offering state-of-the-art energy efficiency services. Thermondo became the largest installer of heating solution in Germany applying digital process excellence and qualitymanagement. They believe in deep vertical integration in order to achieve market disrupting quality and an outstanding customer experience.
- PlanRadar — PlanRadar offers a SaaS solution for documentation and communication in construction and real estate projects (e.g. construction documentation, task and defect management. due diligence, etc.).Today, there are in each real estate project on average 1-2 issues per 100ft². PlanRadar's solution with web access and native apps for all kinds ofmobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows) supports the user in recording, documentation, communication, and tracking of any kind of information.Project & site managers, architects & planners, specialists, technicians, property &facility managers or investors and owners can record any kind of information (e.g. tasks, defects, ec.) in a cost & time-saving way directly on the site with their tablet or smartphone and assign them in real-time to responsible project stakeholders.PlanRadar has already more than 7,000 customers and more than 60,000 users from 45 different countries worldwide. Thousands of our users save already 7 working hours every single week.
- TP24 — Tradeplus24 is a provider of SME Lending using receivables as security. Operational in Europe and APAC.
Aquis Sanitär is supply sanitary equipment with infrared sensor operated electronic faucets in workd wide.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Android
- Seed, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.
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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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
| Investments that move industries
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Podero — Podero's aim is to create software that controls energy devices, such as batteries, electric cars, and heat pumps, in order to lower CO2 emissions, create new revenue streams for utilities, and lower consumer electricity bills.Podero's objective is to make it possible to coordinate the largest fleet of devices in the world by utilizingtrade algorithms, software automation, and machine learning forecasts to move energy use to the most economical and sustainable times.
- enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
- UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
- 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.
Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
- Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Fortuna Group is a long term investment firm seeking both direct and indirect investments.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Android
- Funding Round
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.
Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.
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Investment focus
- Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Wire — Always-on end-to-end encrypted instant messaging, voice- and videoconferencing with up to 100 participants - future proof with MLS integration
- Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
- Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career
Allegion plc is a global provider of security products and solutions. The company offers a portfolio of mechanical and electronic security products across a range of brands. It operates in three geographic regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), and Asia Pacific. As of November 15, 2013, the Company was selling itssecurity products and solutions under 23 brands in 120 countries, including Schlage, Von Duprin, LCN, CISA, and Interflex. It sells a range of security products and solutions for end-users in commercial, institutional, and residential facilities worldwide, including into the education, healthcare, government, commercial office, and single- and multi-family residential markets.In April 2014, the Company acquired Fire & Security Hardware.
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Investment focus
- Internet of Things, Smart Home, iOS
- Series A
- Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Yonomi — Yonomi is the easiest way to integrate with connected home products to build residential IoT solutions. The Yonomi Platform provides the tools and frameworks needed to easily connect, control, and automate smart home devices.
- Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.
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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Investment focus
- 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.
- 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.
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) is an investment fund manager whose funds focus on early-stage businesses from pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds of investment.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
- Magic Forest — Magic Forest is a biotech firm that democratizes the forestry sector by permitting public investment. Their online trading platform enables private investors to invest in forests and offset their carbon footprint.
- Native Teams — With the Native Teams platform, you can easily hire anyone, anywhere as an employer or get an employed status if you're working as a freelancer. Explore our international EOR and PEO services and start working remotely with full compliance.
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