Top 10 Publishing Startup Investors in Austria in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Publishing Startup Investors in Austria in September 2025

Investor	Publishing Austria investments
Rene Giretzlehner	1
SQUER	1
Stephan Zöchling	1
Michael Grabner	1
Michael Kamleitner	1
Philipp Kinsky	1
Bernhard Lehner	1
Gabriel Grabner	1
Christian Kaar	1
Alfred Luger	1

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Rene Giretzlehner

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Dating
Angel, Seed
Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
Mimo — Mimo is an app that teaches the computer science in a fun and interactive way. Mimo’s lessons are fun and interactive, fit into people’s everyday lives, and lead them to make a habit of self-improvement. Getting through to more than 1.5 million people and achieving completion numbers far above the industry average, Mimo is well on its way tobecoming the one-stop shop for education and entertainment on the go.
pagestrip — pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones.

Experts in Technology Boost, Realizing Agile, Sustainable Delivery, and Upskilling.

Investment focus

Cooking, Recipes, E-Commerce
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.

CEO

Investment focus

Cooking, Recipes, E-Commerce
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.

Michael Grabner - Partner & Managing Director @ Michael Grabner Media GmbH

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Marketing
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Totoy — Totoy is a developer of an AI-based document management platform. The company's platform explains and translates a document's contents in plain language and automates workflows by categorizing documents.
pagestrip — pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones.

Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep

Philipp Kinsky

Investment focus

SaaS, Audio, Sales
Pre-Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.

Bernhard Lehner is a communication professional through and through. His work with and for the media has always been the centre of his professional life. During his communication studies in Vienna he gathered work experiences as a journalist for print and online media. By the End of the 90ies he had changed the site and worked successfully as a PRadvisor for agencies but also for in house relations. His references from the last few years include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Ikea and Cisco. i5invest appreciates Bernhard’s expertise for strategic communication development measurements and their realisation for old and new media with a focus on Europe.