Top 10 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Austria (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Belgium, Philippines | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $61k–$2.7M |
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tecnet equity
VC Fund
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2 | Austria | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $208k–$20M |
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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 | $448k–$2.8M |
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Reventura
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning | |
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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–$2.8M |
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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 | $510k–$2.3M |
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Vogel Media
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Angel | Mobile, Retail, Internet | |
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UNIQA Ventures GmbH
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Insurance, Health Care | $435k–$125M |
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ARIANE
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed | Retail, Wholesale | |
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aws Preseed
VC Fund
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1 | Austria | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Retail, Manufacturing | |
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Belgium, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $452k–$2.7M; Grant $61k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $195k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- DiLT Analytics — DiLT Analytics develops AI-based software and analytics solutions for intelligent building operations and energy systems. The company focuses on using monitoring data, machine learning, and logic-based diagnosis to reduce energy consumption and improve building performance. Its offerings include tools for fault detection, anomaly detection, and control strategy optimization in complex heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. DiLT Analytics also participates in collaborative research projects on causal AI, physics-informed machine learning, predictive maintenance, and smart energy services. These activities support building owners, operators, and industry partners in implementing data-driven building management and energy-efficient operation strategies.
- Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
- Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.
Tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in new technology enterprises as well as companies with innovative business ideas through venture capital. As an early-stage investor, tecnet plays an active part in the Austrian start-up landscape for many years. The support tecnet provides goes far beyond a financial investment. With personal commitment, an international business network and many years of experience, tecnet support you in making your business successful. Active in the areas of information and communication technologies (ICT), life sciences, industrial technologies, material sciences and environmental technologies, tecnet equity is providing venture capital during seed and early stages. tecnet equity further supports the management teams of its portfolio companies in developing businesses that are fit for high and sustainable growth. Tecnet also offers comprehensive support to research centres and universities in the analysis, development and marketing of research results as well as patent protection. Inventions that are of value to society are offered to companies for implementation in new products generating additional business opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M; Series A $557k–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $208k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $33M in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
- 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.
- VALANX Biotech — VALANX Biotech is a site-specific protein conjugation platform to enable fast and cost efficient protein-drug-conjugates development.
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 $448k–$2.8M
- 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 — 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.
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!
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 founded on 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: 75
- Round size: Seed $745k–$2.8M; Grant $67k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $480k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Another Earth — Synthetic Earth observation data that trains AI models to simulate environmental change and predict risk before it happens. Vienna-based, founded 2024.
- Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
- Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.
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 $510k–$1.6M
- 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
The Vogel Communications Group offers comprehensive, sustainable communication solutions. Trade media, agencies, and events drive visibility and success in B2B communication.
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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.
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: 41
- Round size: Seed $435k–$10M; Series A $5M–$50M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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 health tech company that offers a cloud-based practice management platform for doctors. The company has 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 and workflowsdirectly with our doctors & patients.Doctorly is 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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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- 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!
- surgebright — surgebright is a tissue bank based in Upper Austria.
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