Erste Group
VC Fund
Vienna, Austria
Erste Group is a VC fund in Vienna focused on FinTech and Finance. Erste Group provides a range of banking and other financial services in Austria, Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Erste Group invests in
Stages Erste Group invests in
Countries Erste Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Debt Financing
- $20M–$454M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (27%)
- Finance 3 (27%)
- Financial Services 3 (27%)
- Real Estate Investment 2 (18%)
- Energy 1 (9%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 7 (64%)
- Seed 1 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
- Secondary Market 1 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (9%)
Country
- Czech Republic 2 (18%)
- Canada 1 (9%)
- Serbia 1 (9%)
- Austria 1 (9%)
- Belgium 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Birte Quitt
Head of Group Retail Strategy
|
Head of Group Retail Strategy | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Robert Semethy
Chief Procurement Officer
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Chief Procurement Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sasa Skrgic
Group Retail Strategy - Cards & Payments Projects
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Group Retail Strategy - Cards & Payments Projects | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Willibald Cernko
Chief Risk Officer
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Chief Risk Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andreas Treichl
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summus Capital acquires and manages commercial properties across the retail, office, logistics, and medical sectors. Its core business model centers on a buy-and-hold strategy to generate stable, long-term cash flows from these assets. The firm secures value by indexing lease contracts to inflation and maintaining a highly diversified portfolio tominimize vacancy risks. | Debt Financing / Jun 01, 2026 | ||
| Qivalis is a financial technology company designed for payments, settlements, and financial services. | Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| Čibuk 2 Wind Energy supports local community initiatives, education, and charitable programs through its Social Investment Plan activities. Čibuk 2 has been developed by Masdar and Taaleri Energia | $160M / Debt Financing / Sep 23, 2024 | ||
| Slate Asset Management is a financial service that provides real-estate focused alternative investment services. Its private and publicly-traded investment vehicles are based on a careful and selective investment approach that creates long-term value with an emphasis on capital preservation and outsized returns that enable investors to meet theirunique goals and objectives.The company was established in 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. | $454.4M / Debt Financing / Jun 21, 2024 | ||
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First Looks Solutions
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First Looks Solutions | $312.5M / Debt Financing / Jun 13, 2024 | |
| Mitiska REIM is a real estate investment fund manager and advisor. | $20.4M / Debt Financing / Jun 13, 2024 | ||
| Eurowind Energy has grown rapidly since then and has evolved into a developer and operator of wind and solar projects over the years. | $69.9M / Debt Financing / Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Born Digital added all channels such as calls, email, and chat. It is digitalizing overall customer care, experience, and interaction by covering all channels using AI. They help companies with the digital transformation of contact centers. Born Digital's AI omnichannel platform assists businesses with the digital transformation of contactcenters, allowing them to handle many times more clients - quickly, easily, and stress-free. | $2.2M / Seed / Dec 07, 2023 | ||
| Gerald Group is a metal trading company that specializes in the sale of nonferrous, ferrous, and precious metals, as well as related concentrates and raw materials.Additionally, Gerald Group provides commodity trading and product development services. It also offers merchant banking services, including project financing, lending, metal leasingand consigning, and marketing strategy and inventory management advisory. Gerald Group caters to the metal producing, refining, smelting, fabrication, and banking sectors. It has a strategic partnership with Pengxin International Mining Company. | $180M / Debt Financing / Jan 27, 2023 | ||
| Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 25, 2023 | ||
| See all 11 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Erste Group invest in?
Erste Group invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Financial Services startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Erste Group invest in?
Erste Group typically joins rounds of $20M–$454M at Debt Financing. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Erste Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Erste Group took part in.
How do I contact Erste Group?
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Who are the partners at Erste Group?
The team at Erste Group includes Birte Quitt (Head of Group Retail Strategy), Robert Semethy (Chief Procurement Officer) and Sasa Skrgic (Group Retail Strategy - Cards & Payments Projects), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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