Top 10 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2025

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

Top 10 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2025

Investor	Retail Austria investments
tecnet equity	2
Vogel Media	1
aws Preseed	1
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	1
Reventura	1
Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS)	1
ARIANE	1
Michael Grabner Media GmbH	1
Apic Investments	1
UNIQA Ventures	1

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tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth.

Investment focus

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

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 — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.

Vogel Media is a specialized media publisher for all types of professionals.

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Internet
Angel
Austria

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.

investment firm

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed
Austria

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 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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Synaps — The collaborative architectural platform where you can draw plans, delegate tasks and gather real-time feedback, all in one place. Join the waitlist.
SOMAREALITY — SOMAREALITY provides eye tracking solutions for diverse industries. Improve healthcare, automotive, research & aviation with real-time cognitive insights.
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

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning
Seed
Austria

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!

Austria Wirtschaftsservice is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

S2data — Revolutioniere deine Lieferkette mit intelligenter Logistik. Effiziente Transporte durch bahnbrechende Algorithmen & einzigartige Software.
Syntropic Medical GmbH — 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

ARIANE is a venture capital firm that focuses on the development and production of advanced technologies and systems related to space launch vehicles.

Investment focus

Retail, Wholesale
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Bergardi — Bergardi stool is the first to allow extensive pelvic movements on the one hand and undisturbed work on the other.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Internet of Things
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Cosuno — Cosunos vision is to connect all players of the construction industry, transforming their collaboration to drive efficiency through software and best customer experience.Cosuno is evaluating how general contractors, property developers and architects can master the challenges posed by high process costs and a lack of transparency in theprocurement of subcontractors. And this is just the beginning. Cosuno is constantly driving change in the construction industry with innovative methods and digital processes by developing and continuously improving simple and transparent solutions.
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.

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.