Top 10 Recruiting VC Funds & Investors in Austria (August 2026)

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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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• Homeppl — Homeppl reveals consumer's real transactional ability. We leverage open banking, risk and financial algorithms, and unique fraud detection tests to allow consumers inclusive financial access to all financial or risk products in the world.Clients use Homeppl to increase revenue, prevent fraud, and eliminate transactional friction. Homepplhas reviewed hundreds of thousands of transactions and approved millions of pounds of revenue for clients in the UK.We are a Techstars company. Our team is comprised of ambitious, international, and passionate individuals. We are from 24 nationalities and speak over 17 languages!
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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 — GUURU's Community Solution enables trustworthy and authentic live conversations between shoppers and your customer community.
• 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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• 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 a data-driven resource company that accelerates the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals.

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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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• 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 — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.

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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 — IMMO builds and operates aggregated portfolios of granular residential assets for institutional investors.

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• Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
• Talentlobby — Talentlobby specializes in people consultants for the hospitality and catering sectors who rely on cutting-edge hiring practices.
• HR Autopilot — HR-Autopilot offers workforce management services. The company provides a software solution that links several HR systems, automates workflows, and eliminates manual chores to help reduce errors. Large firms and organizations, for example, benefit from its strong HR system integration and process automation.