Top 25 Recruiting Startup Investors in Austria (September 2026)

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• handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
• Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
• Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.

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• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.

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• traide AI — Remaining international customs processes with state-of-the-art deep learning technology
• Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
• CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.

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• Cefetra Group — @Cefetra is a strong, alternative partner with a Co-op ethos that believes in working with customers (processors & farmers) on a long-term relationship basis.
• REPLOID Group — REPLOID Group develops insect-based circular economy systems that upcycle organic residues into proteins, fats and organic fertilisers. The company uses black soldier fly larvae and modular ReFarmUnit installations to convert agricultural and food industry side streams into marketable feed and fertiliser products. REPLOID designs and deliverscontainer-based insect farming plants, including project engineering, automation, data analysis and ongoing service. Its offerings address the needs of feed producers, fertiliser manufacturers and operators of biogas or agricultural facilities seeking to reduce disposal costs. Cloud-based data platforms and process control systems support predictive maintenance and optimisation of biological and technical processes. REPLOID focuses on standardised, decentralised solutions that enable partners to operate local waste-to-value production units.
• Sunotec Group — Founded in 2012, Sunotec Group is an innovative, internationally expanding company in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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• Cellvie — Cellvie develops cell-derived medicines, leveraging the therapeutic potential of mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell.Mitochondria are at the heart of complex life's origin. Likely a bacterium at the time, the would-be-organelle merged with a simple organism, entering into a symbiotic relationship: The mitochondria began supplying theenergy for elaborate cellular functions to evolve, while the organism provided the mitochondria with an environment to thrive. Today, mitochondria are found in all human cells, except for red blood cells. They take on a pivotal role in cellular fate, as they produce most of the energy (ATP) and are involved in a large number of cellular and metabolic processes. The density of the organelles is particularly high in cells requiring a lot of cellular energy - e.g. cardiomyocytes or brain cells.Mitochondria function, and hence energy supply to the cell, may be impaired due to acute insults (e.g. ischemia) or genetic disorders (e.g. LOHN).Researchers at Harvard University developed an approach for mitochondria augmentation and replacement to ameliorate the damages from ischemia-reperfusion injury. Ischemia is a lack of blood flow leading to an undersupply of oxygen and an impairment of mitochondria function. Reperfusion describes the re-introduction of blood flow, inducing an oversupply of oxygen. Both, ischemia and reperfusion, damage cells, with the mitochondria dysfunction being at the heart of the injury. The cascade of events, from ischemia to reperfusion, will eventually lead to cell death. The most prominent acute conditions associated with ischemia-reperfusion injury are heart attacks. At Cellvie, we are developing a means to transplant viable mitochondria into the compromised cells, to interrupt the said cascade of events, re-enabling the cells to turn oxygen into energy via the mitochondria.
• Mogling Bio — Mogling Bio is developing novel pharmacological approaches to rejuvenate old stem cells.
• Reservoir Neuroscience — Reservoir Neuroscience is a biopharma company that develops novel therapeutics to repair dysfunctional blood vessels in the brain. Reservoir Neuroscience was founded in 2019 and is based in Emeryville, California.

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• Monkee — Monkee is building the infrastructure for the next generation of commerce through Save Now Buy Later (SNBL) — an alternative to debt-based purchasing models like BNPL. The platform empowers consumers to save purposefully toward meaningful purchases, while enabling brands and retailers to engage the 1 in 3 consumers who want to buy, but refuse touse credit. With over 140,000 users, €230M+ in savings goals, and 600+ retail partners, Monkee turns early intent into action — driving loyalty, conversion, and incremental revenue without financial risk. After validating its model in B2C, Monkee is now scaling through embedded SNBL integrations at the point of intent across e-commerce and physical retail.Monkee aims to establish 'Save now Buy Later' as a responsible alternative to 'Buy now Pay later'.The company was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
• sproof — Sproof is an online document signing solution that allows users to sign documents with a digital signature. The company is based in Puch Bei Hallein, Austria.
• ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.

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• Firstbird — Firstbird, the digital employee referral program, connects people with jobs and companies worldwide with suitable candidates. With Firstbird, employees become brand ambassadors, and referrals become a company’s most successful recruiting channel. Firstbird integrates easily with your ATS to make your life easier.

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• Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
• Teneo Protocol — Teneo Protocol is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) initiative.
• Unmanned Life — Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics. It is changing the way autonomous robotics is being deployed by large corporations thanks to its autonomy-as-a-service orchestration platform powered by AI and 5G. Unmanned Life software platform is capable of integrating different technologies, suchas AI, 5G and Edge computing with multiple robots such as drones and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and variety of capabilities to enable autonomous operations across multiple industries, in particular Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities.

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• Axelera AI — Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.
• Aylight — Aylight develops semiconductor laser and photonics platforms designed to improve optical connectivity in AI datacenters and related infrastructure. The company focuses on frequency modulated comb laser technology that generates multiple stable wavelengths from a single InP-based laser cavity. Its architecture produces an equidistant, RF-lockedwavelength grid that aligns with dense wavelength-division multiplexing requirements and reduces control complexity and power consumption. Aylight targets use cases in AI datacenter interconnects, quantum computing hardware, precision metrology, and communication equipment. Its products aim to integrate with terabit optical links and wavelength-division multiplexing systems while remaining compatible with existing fabrication processes.
• Atana Elements — Atana is accelerating the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals and industrial gases. Atana uses a proprietary tech stack to identify and mature mineral resources quickly and effectively.

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• Return on Art — Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.
• WeAreDevelopers — Hands-on talks, live shows, and practical guides from top engineers.

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• JobRocker International — Ytmp3 is the fastest YouTube to MP3 converter & downloader, offering best quality MP3s. Convert and download your favorite videos instantly, free and secure.

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• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.

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• Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
• GUURU Solutions — Discover how community-powered advice can turn your PDPs into trusted, high-converting content and get cited in AI search.
• Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.

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• PRODA — PRODA is focuses on solving core data processing pain points in real estate. They are combining real estate expertise with data science to develop machine leaning-enabled software, with the aim of truly automating many analysis and reporting tasks for real estate professionals.Automation is a key driver of digital transformation in everyindustry, underpinned by advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Automation holds huge potential to improve speed, accuracy and productivity. The real estate industry is no exception, but so far limited progress has been made towards digitalisation. Many companies are still running on traditional workflows, for instance using spreadsheets to organise, process and share their data. This data comes in unlimited different formats, and is often stored across unstructured, disparate filing systems, creating data silos.
• quantilope — quantilope is The Insights Automation Platform, automating advanced research methodologies to deliver impactful results in just 1 - 5 business days.
• IMMO — The AI-native operating partner for institutional residential capital. We aggregate, build and operate granular portfolios at scale.

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• EPTI — All-in-One AI platform with 150+ models for chat, documents, voice, video, images, agents, avatars and workflow automation, unified through one API.
• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.
• Vinivia AG — Experience live streaming like never before - combining cutting-edge technology and continuous innovation with a creator-centric approach. Get early access now.

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• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.

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• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.

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• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.

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• Clypp — Clypp is the process intelligence layer for the industrial frontline. Workers record processes on video, and Clypp turns the footage into a unique dataset of industrial process knowledge — driving productivity, quality, and ultimately automation across manufacturing, logistics, consumer goods, and chemicals.
• Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
• Senior Connect — An AI-driven career platform that matches senior professionals with companies seeking expertise, aligning their skills and personality with employers' needs.

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• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.

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• Ataleo — Ataleo provides digital solution to guide through and automate processes.
• mypaperwork.ai — Mypaperwork.ai reforms how global migration works through cutting-edge artificial intelligence. The company aims to make migration easy, understandable, and transparent through AI and a deep understanding of bureaucratic processes.
• WeAreDevelopers — Hands-on talks, live shows, and practical guides from top engineers.

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• Resmio — Resmio brings the whole restaurant customer journey online, with one easy-to-use software. Resmio provides a free online reservation tool to directly acquire guests via their own website and empowers restaurants on everything that comes next in the customer journey - from acquiring new guests, managing dining experience and reputation todata-driven guest retention.
• WeAreDevelopers — Hands-on talks, live shows, and practical guides from top engineers.

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• Gateway Ventures — Gateway Ventures is Austria's biggest network of startup investors with currently over 4000 investors. We foster the Austrian and European startup eco-system by connecting investors and startups. Our startup portfolio covers FinTech, CleanTech, HeathTech, IT & Software, Big Data & Social Impact. We have financed >40 startups withseed fundings over € 30M+Gateway Ventures was founded in December 2015. Over 1000 investors and 200 partners are currently participating in the network, including European incubators, accelerators and VCs.https://www.gateway.ventures
• Masterplan.com — Masterplan.com is a developer of a SaaS platform for corporate education. Its platform offers practical lessons on varied content, short learning sessions, and e-learning videos with a hands-on knowledge review that helps users integrate digital learning simply and effectively into their work routines.
• WeAreDevelopers — Hands-on talks, live shows, and practical guides from top engineers.

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• Honeypot — Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform, on a mission to get every developer a great job. We believe developers should have all the information they need to choose a job they love: whether that’s based on a cutting-edge tech stack, an inspiring team or just good old-fashioned salary. In our world, that means no more spam and empty promisesfrom headhunters, no more sending the same application to multiple companies - just one profile and the choice to receive honest offers related to your job preferences direct from companies.
• Prescreen — Prescreen is a cloud-based applicant tracking system that enables you to publish job vacancies online and offline and give candidates the opportunity to apply for jobs directly. Prescreen gathers all applications collectively, analyses the data and helps you with your evaluation. This makes time and labour-intensive processes more efficient.
• Makersite — AI, data and apps for procurement, product design and expert teams to make faster sustainable product and supply chain decisions, at scale.

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• Repark — Repark relies on its own access module, which the firm claims can be put on the garage door in a matter of hours. Following installation, residents and Repark users can use a smartphone app to open the garage.
• deepentix — Deepentix provides a graph-as-a-service platform that converts unstructured documents into verifiable claim graphs. Its software extracts semantic claims, qualifiers, constraints, and confidence information, then links entities to domain ontologies. The Claim Graph API supports natural-language and API-based queries with paragraph-level citations,conflict flags, policy checks, and provenance paths. Private extractors use domain-tuned small language models for organization-specific templates and terminology. Deepentix also offers hosted and on-premises graph deployments that can integrate with systems such as electronic laboratory notebooks, laboratory information management systems, claims systems, and chat copilots. The platform is intended for regulated workflows in life sciences, insurance, legal and regulatory work, and climate and ESG analysis where document-based decisions require traceability and audit records.
• Klarsicht.online — Klarsicht.online is an innovative digital marketplace that supports regional, owner-operated optical businesses in going digital. Klarsicht.online has achieved remarkable growth with a 17x MRR increase, disrupting traditional eyewear retail models and saving customers an impressive 107x time compared to conventional methods.With a B2B2C revenuemodel, Klarsicht.online offers subscription-based services to opticians, creating a mutually beneficial ecosystem. As the first and only platform of its kind worldwide, Klarsicht.online holds a unique position in the market.klarsicht.online has secured a remarkable position in the '100 Startups to Watch' list from Austria, impressively ranking within the top 10. With a current score of 67, it undoubtedly stands as one of the prominent startups poised for success. The present juncture presents an ideal opportunity for investment, given its promising trajectory and substantial potential.