# Erste Group

> Erste Group is a VC fund in Vienna backing Finance and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/erste-group-bank-ag
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ErsteGroupIR
- Website: http://erstegroup.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Erstebanka/

Erste Group is a VC fund in Vienna focused on Finance and Financial Services. Erste Group provides a range of banking and other financial services in Austria, Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $20M–$454M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 3 | 30% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 30% |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |
| Real Estate Investment | 2 | 20% |
| Energy | 1 | 10% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 7 | 70% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Serbia | 1 | 10% |
| Austria | 1 | 10% |
| Belgium | 1 | 10% |
| Denmark | 1 | 10% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Birte Quitt | Head of Group Retail Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/birte-quitt |
| Robert Semethy | Chief Procurement Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-semethy |
| Sasa Skrgic | Group Retail Strategy - Cards & Payments Projects | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sasa-skrgic |
| Willibald Cernko | Chief Risk Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/willibald-cernko |
| Andreas Treichl | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-treichl |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Summus Capital | 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 | Qivalis is a financial technology company designed for payments, settlements, and financial services. |  |  | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Čibuk 2 | 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 | 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 |  |
| First Looks Solutions | First Looks Solutions | $312.5M | Debt Financing | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Mitiska REIM | Mitiska REIM is a real estate investment fund manager and advisor. | $20.4M | Debt Financing | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Eurowind Energy | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ceska Sporitelna](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceska-sporitelna) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DZ BANK](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dz-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intesa Sanpaolo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intesa-sanpaolo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Raiffeisen Bank International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raiffeisen-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Seed Starter ČS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-starter-%C4%8Ds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UniCredit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unicredit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Erste Group invest in?

Erste Group invests primarily in Finance, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Erste Group's check size?

Erste Group typically joins rounds of $20M–$454M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Erste Group participates 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?

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