# 5starts

> 5starts is a VC fund in Vienna backing Advertising and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2018
- Lead investor: 89%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- Website: https://x.com/5startsCEE
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/5starts

5starts is an incubator program that offers tailor-made workshops, weekend-long hackathons, and pitch trainings. It supports primarily technology oriented companies, mainly web-based or other software companies as well as startups. 5starts was launched by Floor Drees in 2016. It is based in Vienna, Wien.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for 5starts. Shizune tracks 5 team members at 5starts. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/5starts?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 3 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Big Data | 2 | 22% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Austria | 7 | 78% |
| Sweden | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Eberharter | PR & Communication | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-eberharter |
| Floor Drees | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floor-drees |
| Nikolaus Graf | Programme Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikolaus-graf |
| Philipp Kanape | Programme Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philipp-kanape |
| Yves Schulz | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yves-schulz |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GoElis | GoElis helps amateur sport tournament organizers hold awesome tournaments. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| Footprint Project | Footprint Project provide sustainability services to humanitarian organizations. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| handcheque | handcheque produces superior products for payment and loyalty and helps its clients to understand their customers and stick them to their brands. By providing state-of-the-art payment devices, offline wallets and a data-driven payment ecosystem, handcheque's clients get tools to strengthen their market position and brand awareness, get fullsets of data about their customers and new sales channels to drive sales. > simplify your wallet.> payment and loyalty. one step further. |  | Seed | Apr 02, 2018 |  |
| GoSepp | Ich bin SEPP, dein virtueller Einkaufsassistent für flexible Bezahlung... |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2017 |  |
| Folyo GmbH | Folyo is an outdoor campaign advertising platform for tracking and advertising ridesharing cars. Its features include real-time impressions, real-time tracking and control, payment by impressions, campaign analytics, data-driven campaign planning, and creative cross-media integration. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2017 |  |
| Yamzu | Yamzu is the only automated Esports tournament platform where gamers of every skill level can create or participate in events for free or to compete for cash prizes. It is made for gamers by gamers. Yamzu is unique due to its user interface and its simplicity of use.● Registration is simple and free, players only pay for tournaments that havean entry fee set by the organizer of that tournament.● Gamers can create or participate in events of their choice, no matter if it is a 1vs1 game or a tournament with 16 teams. ● The platform will keep track of the winners, advancements in tournaments, and automatically update the progress on the leaderboard.● It enables amateur players in popular games to compete in tournaments for money and prizes.● Yamzu is a powerful tool for the streamers, YouTubers and celebrities within the gaming community. |  | Seed | May 17, 2017 |  |
| ChillBill | ChillBill is an online Software-as-a-Service company which offers automatic bookkeeping for SME and a white label solutions for audit firms. The company's automatic bookkeeping software receives the user's invoices and receipts via e-mail, extracts all relevant invoicing features, automatically sorts them and then passes them on to thetax adviser, enabling users to get tax advice automatically.The company was established in 2015, based in Vienna, Austria. |  | Seed | Mar 26, 2017 |  |
| pagestrip | pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones. |  | Seed | Mar 17, 2016 |  |
| ExtraSauber | ExtraSauber is a privately held online marketplace for cleaning whether apartment or office you will find a professional cleaning company. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2015 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does 5starts invest in?

5starts invests primarily in Advertising, FinTech and Big Data startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Austria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact 5starts?

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### Who are the partners at 5starts?

The team at 5starts includes Daniel Eberharter (PR & Communication), Floor Drees (Managing Director) and Nikolaus Graf (Programme Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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