Elevator Ventures
VC Fund
Vienna, Austria
Elevator Ventures is a VC fund in Vienna focused on FinTech and Software. Elevator Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital entity of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) headquartered in Vienna. Its primary focus is on early stage and growth investments in Fintech and related enabling technologies in Central and Eastern Europe. In the role of a leading growth partner for Fintechs in CEE, Elevator Ventures leverages RBIGroup`s expertise, network and corporate strength in order to help promising scaleups expand across this dynamic region and beyond.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
- Fund size:
- $76M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Elevator Ventures invests in
Stages Elevator Ventures invests in
Countries Elevator Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$8M
- Series A
- $5M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 8 (26%)
- Software 7 (23%)
- SaaS 6 (19%)
- Information Technology 6 (19%)
- Finance 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (29%)
- Seed 5 (16%)
- Funding Round 5 (16%)
- Series B 2 (6%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
Country
- Germany 4 (13%)
- Austria 3 (10%)
- Switzerland 2 (6%)
- United States 2 (6%)
- Czech Republic 2 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Maximilian Schausberger
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Yuliya Kvetko
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Magdalena Chałas
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Suleiman Arabiat
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Thomas Muchar
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wultra provides easy-to-deploy post-quantum authentication solutions for financial institutions, ensuring secure and seamless access to digital services. Our developer-friendly technology, powered by NIST-endorsed quantum-resistant cryptography, delivers bulletproof security, a passwordless user experience, and compliance with global regulations —all deployable in just 8 weeks. Trusted by financial institutions worldwide, Wultra’s solutions meet stringent standards like PSD3/PSR1 and eIDAS 2.0 while offering cutting-edge protection against evolving cyber threats. | $7.8M / Series A / Jun 29, 2026 | ||
| Founded in February 2020, QuoIntelligence is a spinoff of QuoScient’s Intelligence Team QuoINT, with an established presence in the EU and US markets. We are a cyber intelligence startup committed to informing decision makers of current and prospected cyber and geopolitical threats by providing Finished Intelligence, tailor-made for yourorganization. We use the term Finished Intelligence because we are not another data or information feed provider.Our multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team provide full contextual analyses to produce Intelligence and better enable decision makers with prioritization and mitigation. By prioritizing customer requirements, we ensure our products are customer-centric, close real security gaps, support risk management, facilitate early detection, answer regulators, and more.Headquartered in the geographic center of the European Union, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, we are successfully integrated and servicing several verticals across the region. Also Incorporated in the US, we are supporting international and regional organizations, with remote analysts located on both coasts. Likewise, this geographical footprint enables us to follow the sun global workflow.Since our early days at QuoScient and now at QuoIntelligence, we are trusted by our clients to consistently deliver cybersecurity solutions, tailored to their environment. | $8.6M / Series A / Apr 27, 2026 | ||
| Exnaton is the software for the transition to renewable energy. | Series A / Oct 23, 2025 | ||
| Tangany provides a custody Wallet as a Service for businesses to easily integrate blockchain technology into legacy and new systems via an API. The provided infrastructure comes with the ability to create and store private keys safely in a FIPS140-2 certified HSM environment, to sign transactions and to send those transactions via connectors to thechosen blockchain. The connectors (Meta Blockchain API) enable clients to connect to different public (like Ethereum or Bitcoin) and private blockchains (like Hyperledger or Privat Ethereum instances). | $11.6M / Series A / Sep 02, 2025 | ||
| Alternative credit scoring for the digital world | $7M / Seed / Jul 26, 2025 | ||
| Wultra provides easy-to-deploy post-quantum authentication solutions for financial institutions, ensuring secure and seamless access to digital services. Our developer-friendly technology, powered by NIST-endorsed quantum-resistant cryptography, delivers bulletproof security, a passwordless user experience, and compliance with global regulations —all deployable in just 8 weeks. Trusted by financial institutions worldwide, Wultra’s solutions meet stringent standards like PSD3/PSR1 and eIDAS 2.0 while offering cutting-edge protection against evolving cyber threats. | $3.1M / Seed / Jan 15, 2025 | ||
| Klim makes farmland more resilient, then turns that resilience into value across the food chain. Our digital regenerative agronomist guides each farm through the switch to regenerative practices, lifting yield and soil health while cutting input costs. Food companies, banks, and insurers fund and verify that progress across their supply chains.Because we sell no seeds, fertiliser, or chemicals, every side trusts us as the neutral engine for soil regeneration. | $22M / Series A / Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| GoUrban is an operating system for the mobility of the present & future. Operators can now manage cars, scooters, moped-sharing systems & more, focusing directly on operations, optimizing units, and cutting irrelevant costs. | $3.3M / Mar 18, 2024 | ||
| SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.Its team builds analytics and investment signals by analyzing billions of web articles and messages using natural language processing and machine learning. With its NLP platform TextReveal and its quantitative data science platform SignalReveal,SESAMm addresses the entire value chain of alpha research. SESAMm’s 90 people team in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Tunis, UK, and Metz, works with major hedge funds, banks, and asset management clients around the world for both fundamental and quantitative use cases. | $37.3M / Series B / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Bob W is a technology-driven hospitality provider that provides an alternative to hotels and short-stay apartments. Its exceptionally cool apartments cater to the 21st-century traveler who wants it all: the consistent quality of a hotel and the authentic flair and affordability of a short-stay rental. It combines both worlds in sustainably operatedproperties, which are currently available in Finland and Estonia but are expanding across Europe and beyond. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. | $20.9M / Series A / Oct 25, 2022 | ||
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FAQ
What does Elevator Ventures invest in?
Elevator Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Elevator Ventures's check size?
Elevator Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$8M at Seed and $5M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Elevator Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Elevator Ventures?
The team at Elevator Ventures includes Maximilian Schausberger (Managing Director), Yuliya Kvetko (Analyst) and Magdalena Chałas (Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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