# Arax Capital Partners

> Arax Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arax-capital-partners-gmbh
- Website: http://www.arax.at

ARAX Capital Partners is an Austrian bio-tech and high-tech early stage investor with an exclusive focus on Austrian ventures. Companies need to be young, innovative (if possible with patentable technology) and must have already secured pre-seed funding to qualify for an investment

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$1.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 50% |
| Health Care | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Medical | 1 | 17% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 17% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Tiringer | Partner and Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-tiringer |
| Daniel Cesky | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-cesky |
| Lena Skaper | Office Management | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lena-skaper |
| Michael Stranz | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-stranz |
| Rumman Syed | Managing Director - Smart Capital GmbH | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rumman-syed |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greenpass | Greenpass is an all-in-one SaaS for climate-resilient urban planning & architecture platform that enables livable cities. |  | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Calyxha Biotechnologies | Calyxha is developing novel therapies targeting tissue degeneration that is the fundamental underlying cause of major human diseases. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 28, 2020 |  |
| Calyxha Biotechnologies | Calyxha is developing novel therapies targeting tissue degeneration that is the fundamental underlying cause of major human diseases. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 28, 2020 |  |
| AFFiRiS | AFFiRiS AG, a Vienna, Austria-based developer of tailor-made peptide vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and several other conditions. | $10M |  | Jun 28, 2016 |  |
| Panoptes Pharma | Panoptes is a privately held biotech company focused on developing small molecule based therapies for the treatment of severe eye diseases with high unmet medical need. Panoptes is located in the city center of Vienna, Austria.The development of Panoptes´ clinical candidate PP-001 focuses on a new treatment for autoimmune uveitis, a disease whichis one of the major causes of blindness. As a second indication, adenoviral conjunctivitis will be pursued, a disease for which to date, no treatment is available. Due to its unique mode of action, PP-001 has therapeutic potential for additional inflammatory and viral indications.Panoptes has an experienced team of development experts with a proven track record of developing and commercializing innovative products. The team is developing a focused portfolio of high-performance small molecule products, with its lead clinical candidate PP-001 in preclinical development. |  | Seed | Nov 02, 2015 |  |
| Biocrates Life Sciences | Biocrates is a developer of a metabolomics platform designed to support the discovery and validation of biomarkers for complex diseases. The company's metabolomics platform comprises an automated sample preparation workflow integrated with sensitive mass-spectrometric methods and software that controls sample management, data collection, andanalysis to identify hundreds of metabolites, enabling physicians to acquire comprehensive metabolic information quickly and reliably. | $1.6M |  | Mar 25, 2010 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

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- [aws Gründungsfonds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aws-grnderfonds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Arax Capital Partners invest in?

Arax Capital Partners invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Austria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Arax Capital Partners's check size?

Arax Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$1.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arax Capital Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Arax Capital Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Arax Capital Partners?

The team at Arax Capital Partners includes Christian Tiringer (Partner and Founder), Daniel Cesky (Partner) and Lena Skaper (Office Management). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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