Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in Austria (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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tecnet equity
VC Fund
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2 | Austria | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Biotechnology | $400k–$6M |
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Michael Brehm
Angel
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2 | Germany, Italy, Austria | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Finance, Education | $197k–$12M |
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Apic Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Austria, Belgium | Series A, Seed | Real Estate, Software, Big Data | $3.8M–$15M |
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Thomas Bittinger
Angel
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1 | Austria | Seed | Retail, Analytics, Internet of Things | |
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The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, United States, Belgium | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Medical | $67k–$3.5M |
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Axel Kühner
Angel
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1 | Austria | Seed | SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning | |
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austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Belgium | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $44k–$2.2M |
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Reventura
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning | |
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Heissam Hartmann
Angel
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1 | Germany, Austria, Ukraine | Angel, Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Shopping | |
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Max Schnoedl
Angel
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1 | Austria, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Corporate Round | SaaS, Software, Art | |
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Vogel Media
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Angel | Mobile, Retail, Internet | |
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Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS)
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Medical, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $499k–$2.3M |
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Michael Grabner Media GmbH
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $439k–$2.7M |
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UNIQA Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Insurance, Health Care | $439k–$125M |
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ARIANE
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | Retail, Wholesale | |
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tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M; Series A $583k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
- Orderlion — Streamline your wholesale business with Orderlion's ordering app. Automate orders, boost sales, and enhance customer loyalty. Find out more!
- VALANX Biotech — VALANX Biotech is a site-specific protein conjugation platform to enable fast and cost efficient protein-drug-conjugates development.
Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Finance, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Angel $197k–$932k; Series A $580k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bonagora — Bonagora is the online wholesale marketplace for the Home & Living industry. Bonagora streamlines the procurement process between wholesalers and retailers by creating a virtual showroom. Bonagora enables retailers to have real-time access to new vendors and products from around the world, and it empowers them to control their entire buyingprocess from one easy-to-use platform.
- meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
- Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
Apic Investments is an early-stage focused Venture Capital, investing in PropTech and RetailTech companies. Apic Investments' goal is to help build start-ups and to accelerate their business models with capital, industry expertise, and a network.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, Big Data
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $3.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Evernest — Evernest has developed a technology platform for real estate agents to make the entire process of residential real estate transactions more efficient. With the help of its full-service brokerage platform, smart marketing services and digitized support processes, Evernest offers a transparent and personalized experience for agents as well asproperty buyers and sellers. Founded in late 2019, currently more than 100 people are working for Evernest in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.
- Storebox — Storebox is the first fully digitized self-storage solution in Europe, with more than 140 locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. We offer storage spaces for private and business purposes, which are automatically accessible at any time. With our successful and recently awarded franchise system, we manage to grow and will continueto expand within Europe.Storebox is more than just a self-storage system. FULL-SERVICE CLICK & COLLECT Click & Collect directly in your neighbourhood? Storebox allows you to quickly and easily expand the Click & Collect offer for your customers to new districts, cities and countries. We coordinate the transport and customer communication for you.MICRO-HUBS FOR THE LAST MILE Use central warehouse locations in urban areas as a starting point for the last mile. Storebox as a micro-depot offers you the fastest way to your customers, allowing you to save time, money and emissions. Customer proximity and responsiveness through local storage: Benefit from our strategically positioned storage units and serve the needs of your customers as quickly as possible. At the same time, you can reduce unnecessarily driven kilometres by your employees in the field and thus save time and money.SPARE PARTS WAREHOUSE FOR SERVICE TECHNICIANS With Storebox you can store spare parts and goods directly where they will be used. In this way, you are in close proximity to the customer and save yourself long travel times for collecting the materials from a central warehouse. Create more efficiency by receiving deliveries of goods 24/7 directly to the Storebox and returning them if necessary.
- realxdata — Making the asset class commercial real estate transparent and globally accessible for every investor by building the leading data driven analysis solution for commercial real estate through integrating proprietary data, utilising crowdsourced data and structuring valuable public data. #BigData #Machine Learning
Thomas Bittinger
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- Industry: Retail, Analytics, Internet of Things
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Respory — Respory provides real-time people-tracking using proprietary radar sensors, all without capturing personal data. Our scalable sensor network, powered by AI-driven algorithms, delivers precise customer journey insights, critical for in-store performance in retail.
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria. As a "one-stop shop" offering a diversified and targeted programme portfolio, the FFG gives Austrian businesses and research facilities quick and uncomplicated access to research funding.The FFG was foundedon 1 September 2004 (pursuant to the FFG Act on establishing a research promotion agency, Federal Law Gazette I No. 73/2004). The FFG is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria, represented by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). As a provider of funding services, however, the FFG also works for other national and international institutions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.2M; Grant $67k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $480k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
- OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
- Another Earth — Another Earth is building an AI-powered simulation and synthetic data platform for Earth Observation. As our planet changes, AI models need scalable, high-quality training data to keep pace. Another Earth provides synthetic data, scenario simulations and predictions required to accelerate AI development, and enable faster, smarterdecision-making—enabling smarter decisions for a more resilient world.
Axel Kühner is the CEO of Greiner. He attended VWA Stuttgart | Academy of Administration and Economics.
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Circly — Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further:Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to thecompany at any time.With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies.Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $439k–$2.2M; Grant $64k–$603k; Pre-Seed $44k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Repentium — Repentium serves industrial manufacturers seeking reproducible, cost-efficient 3D printing and engineering-grade plastic parts.
- Another Earth — Another Earth is building an AI-powered simulation and synthetic data platform for Earth Observation. As our planet changes, AI models need scalable, high-quality training data to keep pace. Another Earth provides synthetic data, scenario simulations and predictions required to accelerate AI development, and enable faster, smarterdecision-making—enabling smarter decisions for a more resilient world.
- Cycuria Therapeutics — While new therapies, such as FLT3 inhibitors and venetoclax-based regimens, have improved initial response rates, durable remissions and long-term survival
Reventura
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Circly — Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further:Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to thecompany at any time.With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies.Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!
Over 15 years experience in the Internet industry back Heissam Hartmann's solid knowledge about the online business.Prior to joining Rebate Networks as the Vice President of Eastern Europe, Heissam was Head of International Business Development at the largest German online fashion shopping club brands4friends. Before that, Heissam was CEOof the online postcard service AhaOho, which sent real postcards, and was soon successfully sold to Greetz.As the former Marketing & Business Development Director from the biggest German online video community MyVideo, Heissam, worked on new concepts for new media and video advertising within the online and media industry.He started his career as one of the first staff members at the German auction platform Alando.de, which was acquired by eBay in 1999. He grew with the company as Head of Entertainment on to the position of Senior Manager, helping to build up eBay Switzerland and Austria from the scratch.On an entrepreneurial level he co-founded various companies and, as a Business Angel, advises start-ups in building and growing their businesses. Following his passion he also co-founded fashion brands and personally supported motion pictures and music projects.As the founder of Passiontainment, he advises influential people from the entertainment & sports industries and celebrities on their internet strategies and by that, bridges the worlds between influential investors and up-and-coming startups.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Shopping
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Ukraine
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
- Inventorum — Inventorum’s software enables small retailers to manage their offline and online businesses by supporting daily processes such as point of sale and inventory management. Inventorum combines cash management, inventory management, customer support and e-commerce capability in one system.
- Rubina Real Estate — A full service real estate agency based in Berlin with offices in Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Washington and Singapore.
Max Schnoedl is an independent board director, advisor and investor.He currently serves as Chairman emeritus of Springbrook. Previously, Max was President/CEO of Springbrook and COO, CFO and CSO of Accela. In addition, he also served as Board Chair of BRZ, Deputy Board Chair of Österreichische Post and Investment Committee Member ofÖsterreichische Beteiligungs AG. Prior to that, Max served as the Vice President of Deutsche Bank in San Francisco and New York, and previously held positions in Moscow, Russia and Frankfurt, Germany. Max holds an MBA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Art
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Austria, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cohart — Cohart is a vertical marketplace for creators and their collectors. Creators build storefronts, meet collectors, and monetize/manage their communities – while next-gen consumers discover, collect, and re-sell. Starting with art and expanding to other creative collectible verticals in the future.
- Circly — Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further:Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to thecompany at any time.With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies.Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!
- medudoc — medudoc is a Berlin based digital health start-up that aims to digitalize the analog process of patient education prior to a medical intervention.
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- Industry: Mobile, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
Austria Wirtschaftsservice is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Medical, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Austria, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $751k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $499k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- S2data — Revolutioniere deine Lieferkette mit intelligenter Logistik. Effiziente Transporte durch bahnbrechende Algorithmen & einzigartige Software.
- Syntropic Medical — Syntropic is a medical device company that develops novel technologies that helps for the treatment of psychiatric diseases and the improvement of cognitive abilities.
- Cycuria Therapeutics — While new therapies, such as FLT3 inhibitors and venetoclax-based regimens, have improved initial response rates, durable remissions and long-term survival
MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $439k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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.
UNIQA Ventures GmbH is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, a leading insurance carrier in Central & Eastern Europe and a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Austria and CEE. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future ofkey industries. Investment areas are the future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and FinTech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $439k–$5.3M; Series A $5M–$13M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
- GoUrban — goUrban offers mobility solutions for sharing operators and B2B fleet management. The way of transportation and mobility is changing rapidly. For operating smarter and using the opportunities of the sharing economy we provide you our fleet management OS.
- doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.
ARIANE is a venture capital firm that focuses on the development and production of advanced technologies and systems related to space launch vehicles.
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- Industry: Retail, Wholesale
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bergardi — Bergardi stool is the first to allow extensive pelvic movements on the one hand and undisturbed work on the other.
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