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Top 50 Proptech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Proptech startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Proptech companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Proptech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in February 2025

Investor	Proptech Austria investments
aws Gründungsfonds	11
Speedinvest	4
VENTA GROUP	3
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)	3
Segnalita	3
Redstone.VC	3
Invisible Hand Ventures	2
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund	2
Aquis Sanitär	2
Flashpoint	2
Lemonade Stand	2
Peak Pride	2
Wecken & Cie.	2
Point72 Ventures	2
Smartworks Innovation	2
Onsight Ventures	2
High Rise Ventures	2
Energie360°	2
Matterwave Ventures	2
eQventure	2
Michael Grabner Media GmbH	2
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund	2
Berliner Volksbank Ventures	2
Martin Global AG	2
Cavalry Ventures	2
Yabeo	1
Bosch Ventures	1
SmartEnergy Innovation Fund	1
Maxar Technologies	1
Allegion	1
Dr. Georg Hoblik	1
ISAI Cap Venture	1
Hansmen Group	1
Headline	1
OurCrowd	1
VERBUND AG	1
Verbund X Ventures	1
Cipio Partners	1
Arax Capital Partners	1
b2venture	1
Loric Ventures	1
OpAmp Capital	1
SOSV	1
PwC	1
Safran Corporate Ventures	1
EIT Urban Mobility	1
Manta Ray Ventures	1
ABB	1
Calm/Storm Ventures	1
Axeleo Capital	1

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aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tree.ly — Tree.ly enables forest owners to generate additional income. Companies can buy high-quality carbon credits.
Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
HelloBello — HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..."

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

We, the VENTA Real Estate Group are your competent and ambitious partner in the field of real estate. We develop condominiums, rental apartments, offices and commercial space that are sustainable, productive and liveable. We gladly consider your individual wishes.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Android
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.

The Austrian Economic Service mbH (aws) is the promotional bank of the Federal Government.The aws SME fund is the largest Austrian Fund for silent corporate investments, but also providers of equity. Founded in late 2009 by the Austrian Economic Service mbH (aws) - the Development Bank of the Federal - he has a term until 31/12/2025.The fund is currently endowed with EUR 80 million and participates in medium-sized companies and brings with it a fresh capital to develop new products or processes, for sales development to international expansion.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Austria, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

HD Immune — HD Immune develops an antibody to target the mutated protein and remove it from the body. HDI has a lead antibody mAB C6-17 which lowers mtHTT in the blood and organs.
Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
revitalyze — revitalyze - AI Assistant for Construction

Segnalita is very proud of working together with passionate entrepreneurs and promising companies. With a focus on the future and the ongoing expansion of their portfolio they are continuously looking for enthusiastic founders and their ideas.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

klaep — klaep is an app-based social network for musicians and singers, in which every user can record, edit and publish their own musical ideas and collaborate time-shifted with other users worldwide in split-screen videos (ReJam). All published compositions can be viewed, commented on and rated, so that pure music listeners also enjoy added value.
Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
Instagrid — Instagrid creates software-defined battery systems for advanced portable power supplies.

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Nature has its own ways which we are only able to understand and control to a marginal extent. We believe that working in balance with our environment (both natural and societal) will yield the most continuous returns while automatically benefiting our first- and second-tier stakeholders. Therefore, we investment in sustainable business, cultureand anything that may have a positive effect on our communities and our environment.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Real Estate, Residential
Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Keyone — Keyone is a tech-driven vacation rental management company assisting home owners in buying, managing, and selling their assets with ease.

M12 are a venture capital fund, by Microsoft. Our investment teams are based globally to support your business from start up funding to Series C investment.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RAAPID INC — RAAPID INC's Neuro-Symbolic AI revolutionizes risk adjustment. Improve accuracy, reduce costs, and stay ahead of the curve in healthcare.
Nuon — Deploy your app into customer cloud accounts and make it feel like SaaS. Unlock sensitive customers and integrate with customer data, networks and LLMs in minutes.
Innovaccer — Innovaccer is a healthcare data activation company focused on delivering effective healthcare through the use of pioneering analytics and transparent data.Innovaccer aims to make full use of all the data healthcare has worked so hard to collect. Its Gartner and KLAS-recognized data activation platform and artificial intelligence products havebeen deployed all over the US across more than 500 locations, enabling over 10,000 providers to transform care delivery and work as one. Innovaccer's Data Activation Platform (DAP) TM has been successfully implemented for several institutions, governmental organizations, and several corporate enterprises such as Mercy ACO, Orlando Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, StratiFi Health, UniNet Healthcare Network, Catalyst Health Network, Hartford Healthcare, and Osler Health Network. Innovaccer is based in San Francisco and has 5 offices across the United States and Asia.

Aquis Sanitär is supply sanitary equipment with infrared sensor operated electronic faucets in workd wide.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Android
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
Crowded — Banking for Greek Life that allows you to seamlessly pay dues, P2P transfers, deposits, and make payments with your virtual debit card. Tailored tools for events, ticketing, chat organizational management and more.

Lemonade Stand is a VC fund that focuses on early stage B2B investments in Baltic and East European founders no matter the HQ location. Investing €25-300K in strong teams, technology or traction.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Estonia, India, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Esgrid — Manage your value chain ESG data on autopilot, and save hundreds of working hours on legal analysis, ESG data collection and creating improvement guidelines. Become CSRD compliant with Esgrid.
Ligence — AI Automated Echocardiography - Artificial intelligence-powered automated heart ultrasound echo lab system.
Black Swan — Black Swan offers autonomous space robotics software solution

Multi family office investing in proptech, digital health & sustainability

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
HelloBello — HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..."

Wecken & Cie. is an early-stage venture capital investor, focused on European fast-growing, disruptive technology companies, with expertise in FinTech and PropTech. Wecken & Cie. invests across other sectors and stages opportunistically.Having invested in more than 40 companies since 2007 and thereof successfully exited e.g. Delivery Heroand EcoIntense, Wecken & Cie. typically participates together with other institutional investors in Series A investment rounds with €500k to €3m initially, with the ability to provide additionally capital over the life of the investment. Wecken & Cie. is backed by Klaus Wecken, co-founder of multiple startups in the technology and real-estate sector, most prominently KHK Software which he sold to SAGE Group in 1997.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

KUGU — KUGU - The platform for digital building management. We digitalize processes for property managers, energy companies and housing companies.
iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
Meisterwerk — B2B SaaS Operating System for SMB field service and craftsman companies

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Netradyne — At NetraDyne, they are creating a unique end-to-end IoT solution pushing Deep Learning processing to the edge. They are well-positioned to leverage the growing trend where the video is driving advanced analytics and business intelligence. Through processing visual and sensory inputs, they are targeting industries where the timeliness of actionabledata is a key differentiator of performance.There is a continuing technology movement that is driving rapid improvements in camera technology together with reductions in the cost of sensors, processing, and connectivity. These improvements, along with advancements in deep learning technology, have created a perfect opportunity to deliver vision-based solutions across multiple industries.
Applied Labs AI — Best-in-class AI automation for growing businesses, global enterprises, and everyone in between
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Data Center
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
IONATE — IONATE Ltd. is a technology company developing next-generation Hybrid Intelligent Transformers.
triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.

Pan-european early-stage deep-tech VC

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing, 3D Printing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Synthara — Synthara is a Swiss semiconductor startup revolutionizing the compute performance of embedded chips by orders of magnitude. We are working on a new breed of energy-efficient computational AI chips that are hand-crafted for smart sensor applications such as hearing aids, wearables, biomedical monitoring, and AR/VR. Our flagship product,ComputeRAM, is a drop-in replacement for conventional SRAM that performs complex calculations directly in memory. This drastically reduces CPU workload, boosting system performance and delivering exceptional efficiency, especially for AI workloads. With ComputeRAM, we help chipmakers and device manufacturers lower costs, shorten time to market, and unlock new opportunities for innovation.
Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

High Rise Ventures is a Prop Tech company builder. We help early stage tech start-ups with a great team and a convincing technology to strive in the B2B space.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Commercial Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.
Hum Systems — Hum Systems offer all-in-one products that are designed with IoT.
Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.

One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Storage, Battery
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
Planeteers — We capture CO2 in water and unleash the potential of the oceans as the largest carbon sink on our planet.

Matterwave Ventures invests in early-stage industrial hardware and software companies, empowering them to become global leaders. The company's solutions are those that will influence how value will be created in industry in the future. Matterwave Ventures, as sector-neutral investors, is on the lookout for ground-breaking hardware and softwaresolutions, including materials, components, systems, and software. With a sincere interest in their products, extensive market knowledge, solid connections in the industry, and unmatched investment expertise in the field, Matterwave Ventures supports the companies in its portfolio.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Ventory — Ventory is an affordable, intuitive, and easy-to-use platform that gives field professionals full visibility and real-time control over remote inventory.
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Innatera — Innatera is a Dutch nanotech company and an offspring of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Finmatics — Finmatics is a self-learning, artificial intelligence system that automates the activities of accounting service providers. It adapts itself to the unique bookkeeping requirements of companies, industries, and countries by analyzing the activities of human accountants.
Greenwood-Power — Greenwood-Power is the leading innovator for non-conventional transformers. Let's talk about your individual requirements - CONTACT US TODAY!
Autonoma Technologies — Autonoma Technologies is an information technology company that specializes in the digitalization of customer platforms.

MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Sanubi — Sanubi is nursing aids, incontinence care and more.
Storyclash — Storyclash is your Influencer Marketing Platform to discover brand-fit creators based on their content, not on vanity metrics. Track and analyze their work on any platform, including Stories.
CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.

M12 is Microsoft's venture capital fund. We invest in early-stage technology companies disrupting the enterprise.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RAAPID INC — RAAPID INC's Neuro-Symbolic AI revolutionizes risk adjustment. Improve accuracy, reduce costs, and stay ahead of the curve in healthcare.
Nuon — Deploy your app into customer cloud accounts and make it feel like SaaS. Unlock sensitive customers and integrate with customer data, networks and LLMs in minutes.
Innovaccer — Innovaccer is a healthcare data activation company focused on delivering effective healthcare through the use of pioneering analytics and transparent data.Innovaccer aims to make full use of all the data healthcare has worked so hard to collect. Its Gartner and KLAS-recognized data activation platform and artificial intelligence products havebeen deployed all over the US across more than 500 locations, enabling over 10,000 providers to transform care delivery and work as one. Innovaccer's Data Activation Platform (DAP) TM has been successfully implemented for several institutions, governmental organizations, and several corporate enterprises such as Mercy ACO, Orlando Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, StratiFi Health, UniNet Healthcare Network, Catalyst Health Network, Hartford Healthcare, and Osler Health Network. Innovaccer is based in San Francisco and has 5 offices across the United States and Asia.

Berliner Volksbank Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Berliner Volksbank. They support young, innovative companies in implementing their growth strategy. They stand for stability, reliability, community and partnership at eye level. These values accompany us throughout the investment process and shape the cooperation with theirportfolio companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Thermondo — Thermondo promote the energy transition with innovative heat solutions.Directly to the customer, providing superior energy products. Thermondo is a an integrated energy company offering state-of-the-art energy efficiency services. Thermondo became the largest installer of heating solution in Germany applying digital process excellence and qualitymanagement. They believe in deep vertical integration in order to achieve market disrupting quality and an outstanding customer experience.
PlanRadar — PlanRadar offers a SaaS solution for documentation and communication in construction and real estate projects (e.g. construction documentation, task and defect management. due diligence, etc.).Today, there are in each real estate project on average 1-2 issues per 100ft². PlanRadar's solution with web access and native apps for all kinds ofmobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows) supports the user in recording, documentation, communication, and tracking of any kind of information.Project & site managers, architects & planners, specialists, technicians, property &facility managers or investors and owners can record any kind of information (e.g. tasks, defects, ec.) in a cost & time-saving way directly on the site with their tablet or smartphone and assign them in real-time to responsible project stakeholders.PlanRadar has already more than 7,000 customers and more than 60,000 users from 45 different countries worldwide. Thousands of our users save already 7 working hours every single week.
TP24 — Tradeplus24 is a provider of SME Lending using receivables as security. Operational in Europe and APAC.

Martin Global AG are some of the factors by which our experienced team, actively performs a variety of industries, good ideas and product.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Austria, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Gardenize — Say hi to Gardenize, the gardening app that helps you remember everything you planted in your garden, searchable and with you at all times!
Instagrid — Instagrid creates software-defined battery systems for advanced portable power supplies.
ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!

We are an early-stage investor that believes in flexible Evergreen funding without the limitations of traditional funds.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
WithLess — Apps multiply, costs grow, admin spirals. We get it. The tools your team needs WithLess time, money, and admin.
Rabot Charge — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.

Invented for life: we want our products to spark enthusiasm, improve quality of life, and help conserve natural resources.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Claroty — Claroty provides the leading industrial cybersecurity platform to drive visibility, continuity, and resiliency in the industrial economy.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.

SmartEnergy Innovation Fund

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Sensor, Machinery Manufacturing
Series A, Series B
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

suena — We are revolutionizing the way energy storage and renewables are integrated into power trading. By using cutting-edge forecasting, optimization and algorithmic trading techniques, we're able to reduce risks, maximize as well as stabilize profits on electricity and balancing markets.
Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.

Integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence capabilities that make global change visible, information actionable and space accessible.

Investment focus

Geospatial, Government, Simulation
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

blackshark.ai — Blackshark.ai hi-frequency mapping provides cutting-edge geospatial AI and 3D visualization for object detection, training and simulation.

Allegion plc is a global provider of security products and solutions. The company offers a portfolio of mechanical and electronic security products across a range of brands. It operates in three geographic regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), and Asia Pacific. As of November 15, 2013, the Company was selling itssecurity products and solutions under 23 brands in 120 countries, including Schlage, Von Duprin, LCN, CISA, and Interflex. It sells a range of security products and solutions for end-users in commercial, institutional, and residential facilities worldwide, including into the education, healthcare, government, commercial office, and single- and multi-family residential markets.In April 2014, the Company acquired Fire & Security Hardware.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Smart Home, iOS
Series A
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yonomi — Yonomi is the easiest way to integrate with connected home products to build residential IoT solutions. The Yonomi Platform provides the tools and frameworks needed to easily connect, control, and automate smart home devices.
Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.

Dr. Georg Hoblik

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Construction
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".

ISAI Cap Venture is a technology and digital investment vehicle that makes VC, growth & LBO, and growth financing investments.

Investment focus

Geospatial, Government, Simulation
Series A
Austria

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blackshark.ai — Blackshark.ai hi-frequency mapping provides cutting-edge geospatial AI and 3D visualization for object detection, training and simulation.

The hansmengroup is a bunch of startups, that share common values, similar goals and the same Business Angel. A group with an incredible performance.

Investment focus

Software, Lifestyle, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

fabbric — FABBRIC is an online fashion marketplace through which consumers can directly purchase clothing products and accessories directly from fashion manufacturers. The company focuses on dis-intermediating the fashion value chain, to create a new, which has a more sustainable business model that allows consumers to have access to quality garments,without having to pay more.
PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
HelloBello — HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..."

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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Air — Do you like your marketing and brand collateral scattered everywhere? Neither do we. Send productivity soaring with a flexible and powerful creative ops system.
Closinglock — Closinglock is modernizing the real estate world’s way of transferring information to eliminate wire fraud & protect buyers.
Cycles Nutrition — Cycles Nutrition provides science-backed, accessible nutritional strategies that empower health-conscious individuals to optimize longevity and enhance quality of life.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Seed
Israel, United States, New Zealand

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Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
Kando — Kando is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
Blue Tree Technologies Ltd. — Blue Tree’s mission is to develop a sugar reduction platform for industrial applications in the drinks industry.

Austria's largest electricity provider

Investment focus

Sensor, Parking, Internet
Series A
Austria

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Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.

Verbund X Ventures is a venture capital firm

Investment focus

Sensor, Parking, Internet
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
SPiNE — SPiNE is a startup that provides safe, clean, and inexpensive energy to all end users. It is focused on smart meter rollout and, as a result, digitalization in metering and control of charging infrastructure, heat pumps, and battery storage.

Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.

Investment focus

Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, France

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Wire — Always-on end-to-end encrypted instant messaging, voice- and videoconferencing with up to 100 participants - future proof with MLS integration
Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.
Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
Calyxha Biotechnologies GmbH — A new perspective on inflammation

B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
1Komma5° — KOMMA5 ° offers all owners of electric vehicles free electricity, which we refinance through trading with so-called GHG quotas. 1KOMMA5 ° encourages to lead a self-determined and CO2-neutral life.
assemblean — assemblean goal is to construct the digital manufacturing infrastructure of the future. We want to make it possible for everyone to build physical items as readily as software.

Technology is transforming the way we live, work and play. Loric Ventures invests in innovative and disruptive solutions globally, with a focus on fin- and urbantech and impact.

Investment focus

Real Estate, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
SKYSEED — Mit Drohnen und Saatpellets
Lun — Your all-in-one heat pump platform. Streamline system design, lead qualification, scheduling, quoting and much more.

OpAmp Capital is a pre to seed-stage VC fund with global reach. We invest in creative founders producing disruptive technologies and support them beyond their capital needs.

Investment focus

Battery, Hardware, CleanTech
Series A, Convertible Note
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

SeerAI — Spatiotemporal analytics and data fusion
ReJoule — ReJoule recognized how a lack of battery health information could lead to huge waste across the ecosystem, particularly at a battery’s end-of-life. ReJoule's goal is to enable repurposing, which extends batteries’ useful lives and allows them to store energy again and again.
blackshark.ai — Blackshark.ai hi-frequency mapping provides cutting-edge geospatial AI and 3D visualization for object detection, training and simulation.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

We are a community of solvers combining human ingenuity, experience and technology innovation to help organisations build trust and deliver sustained outcomes.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Grant, Series A
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
Cycle Momentum — Cycle Momentum is a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to the cleantech startups. Founded by Cycle Capital, the accelerator works with entrepreneurs that develop and commercialize clean technologies to help build globally competitive companies. Cycle Momentum offers entrepreneurs a specialized and personalized program of trainingworkshops, networking sessions, experienced mentors and gives access to the investors to some of the most promising Canadian cleantech ventures.
Xiansheng Yecai — Xiansheng Yecai is the first domestic data intelligence service provider focusing on the integration of business and finance. With an enterprise-level data management platform centered on user digital assets and algorithm models, it has successively launched a number of SaaS products in the fields of [Business Finance], [Operation Finance], and[Strategic Finance]. At present, it has served more than 100 domestic large and medium-sized enterprises, including well-known enterprises such as Starbucks, McDonald's, Master Kong, Ziru Renting, and Pacific Insurance. The core team consists of a number of executives and IT enterprise-level experts from the Big Four accounting firms, Oracle, SAP, and Accenture.

Established in 2015, Safran Corporate Ventures is the Group's corporate venture capital arm. It funds startups that have developed breakthrough or disruptive technologies or business models which will help Safran to address the challenges of the aerospace, defense or security markets. Safran Corporate Ventures will help agile,innovation-driven companies by funding their growth. These companies will also benefit from: • Access to an international network of leading technology experts in Safran's business sectors.• The global commercial and industrial reach of Safran companies.• Commercial and development agreements to be implemented between such startups and Safran's own entities.

Investment focus

Software, Aerospace, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
GREENERWAVE — We shape electromagnetic wavesHaving its roots in deep wave physics, Greenerwave develops revolutionary solutions to solve connectivity and mobility toughest challenges.
blackshark.ai — Blackshark.ai hi-frequency mapping provides cutting-edge geospatial AI and 3D visualization for object detection, training and simulation.

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Spain, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Aqtual — Clinically-Actionable Insights From Circulating DNA In Blood
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.

ABB is a pioneering technology leader that works closely with utility, industry, transportation and infrastructure customers to write the future of industrial digitalization and realize value.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
PAYUCA — PAYUCA equips for the future. In cooperation with Wien Energie, the location Wilhelminenstraße 12-16, 1160 Vienna was equipped with an e-charging station. Via our app you can now easily access the e-charging station and test it for a short time for free.
Ndustrial — Ndustrial delivers a real-time industrial intelligence platform that enables companies to gain new levels of insight into their business processes and energy intensity and then optimize and transform them for sustained competitive advantage.

Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

ginkgo — ginkgo is the digital platform for holistic compensation packages starting with company pension plans (bAV).
Little Journey — Little Journey supports children and their families before, during and after healthcare interactions, reducing anxiety and improving health outcomes
Everyman Health — Everyman Health ist Spezialist für Männergesundheit und bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte Lösungen für Männer aller Altersgruppen. In Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Partnern, bieten wir dir ein umfassendes Portfolio von digitalen, medikamentösen und nicht-medikamentösen Therapien für unterschiedliche Männerprobleme.Über unsere Plattform wirst du inwenigen Minuten mit einem Schweizer Facharzt verbunden und erhältst eine persönliche Diagnose und gegebenenfalls ein Rezept.Auf Wunsch wird deine persönliche Behandlung von einer lizenzierten Schweizer Apotheke diskret verpackt und dir kostenlos bis vor die Haustür geliefert.

AXC is a European Venture Capital Fund, supported by a large community of tech entrepreneurs. We back startups from pre-seed / seed.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Oxyle — Destroy PFAS to below detection limits - permanently, sustainably and at scale. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
OFFROAD — OFFROAD is a French company specializing in road maintenance and public space management.

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