# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Austria in June 2026

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 39
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Fitness

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

## Hermann Hauser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Hermann Hauser is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.

## Patrick Poschl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Consulting

Patrick spent over 8 years in the financial service industry based in Vienna and London. Most recently before Scalable at Goldman Sachs in London, he was working in the team responsible for structuring of financial products and developments of electronic trading platforms. Patrick studied international business at the Vienna University of Economicsand Business. Additionally, during his studies, he was self-employed as an IT-specialist.

## Alfred Luger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Learning

Alfred Luger

## Michael Kamleitner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Video

Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna.

## Markus Ertler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Parking, Software, Sensor

Markus Ertler - Investor @ Necture

## Peter Steinberger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Art

Founder of PSPDFKit

## Christian Kaar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, Information Technology

Christian Kaar is the VP of Finance and Business Analytics at Leaders21com. Christian Kaar attended University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.

## Gernot Singer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Retail

Gernot Singer is a business angel

## Christopher Mueller
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Consulting, Information Technology

Christopher Mueller is CEO and Co-founder of bitmovin and Head of Technology. He received his M.Sc (Dipl. Ing.) in Computer Science from the Aplen-Adria University Klagenfurt with distinction. He gained practical expertise in various companies, notably Infineon Semiconductors and Dolby Laboratories Inc. Los Angeles, USA. His main researchinterests are multimedia streaming, networking, and multimedia adaptation. In his position as an Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.) at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC) he has published more than 20 papers in these areas and currently holds 2 U.S. patents. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization and is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash. He contributed several open source tools, notably MPEG-DASH VLC plugin and libdash, worked in various EC-funded projects, e.g., ALICANTE and SocialSensor, and he is the supervisor and main contributor of the MPEG-DASH ITEC blog (dash.itec.aau.at) with more than 100k views per year.

## Stefan Lederer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Consulting, Information Technology

Stefan Lederer is co-founder and Head of Business of bitmovinin 2012, a company which focuses on products, cloud services and consulting in the area of adaptive HTTP streaming. He received his B.Sc. (Bakk.) in Information Management in Aug’10, his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Science in Mar’12 and his M.Sc. (Mag.) in Marketing and InternationalManagement in Jun'13, all with distinction from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. He gained practical and international expertise in various companies (IBM, McKinsey&Company, Dolby, Hillside, Ilogs, etc.) and has a strong business focus in marketing and international management. He founded his first company in 2008 and led several IT projects in central and eastern Europe. In his position of an Assistant Professor at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group he participated in several EC-funded projects (ALICANTE, SocialSensor). His research topics include transport of modern/rich media, multimedia adaptation, QoS/QoE as well as future internet architectures and he has published more than 20 papers in these areas. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization, contributed several open source tools (DASHEncoder, DASHoverCCN VLC plugin) and datasets.

## Klaus Hofbauer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Linz, Oberosterreich, Austria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Apps, Music

Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at

## Nikolaus Futter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Car Sharing, Smart Cities

Nikolaus Futter is based out of Vienna, Wien, and is the Co-Founder of Angels United. Nikolaus previously worked at Austrian Angel Investors Association as a Board Member. Nikolaus Futter attended WU Vienna.

## Bernhard Niesner
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Learning, Apps

Bernhard Niesner is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu – the world´s largest social network for language learning with more than 35m users. busuu provides language courses in 12 different languages combined with direct interaction with native speakers from the community. The London-based start-up received several awards and was named “Best EducationStart-Up in 2011” by TechCrunch. busuu is backed by renown business angels like Martin Varsavsky and received investment from PRO-Founders Capital.Before founding busuu, Bernhard worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In addition to busuu, he is Associated Professor at IE Business School in the area of online marketing.Bernhard graduated summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA (with honors) from IE Business School. In 2009 he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the year” in Austria.

## Frank Westermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: iOS, News, Sports

- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health
- Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017)
- Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech

## Johannes Braith
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Pet, SaaS, Internet

Startup entrepreneur & enthusiastic leader building the world's largest completely digital self-storage solution, solving the problems of urbanisation & the struggles of last mile logistics. Storebox is the first completely digital self-storage solution in Europe. Instant - smart - 24/7. With +130 outlets in +35 cities Storebox isone of the fastest growing tech companies & franchise-systems in Europe tackling the problems of urbanisation & the struggles of last mile logistics.
www.yourstorebox.com

## Michael Altrichter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet

Michael Altrichter - Managing Director and Director @ Paysafecard

## Zaid Al-Aifari
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Audio

Zaid Al-Aifari

## Schnidar Harald
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Software, Biopharma

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor

## Joerg Floeck
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, EdTech

Joerg is a global citizen and has travelled about 60 countries and lived in six of them. His early passion for investing and technology opened the door to an international career in Financial Services. As a swimmer and basketball player, Joerg developed the competitive spirit which ultimately led him into the Executive Committee of Thomson Reutersin New York. He built his C-Level network socializing with global leaders at the World Economic Forum (Davos), advising the Mayor of Rome and meeting Barack Obama at the White House Press dinner in Washington. As an enthusiastic fan and corporate sponsor of Formula 1, he will never forget co-driving a Porsche GT3 with Nico Rosberg.Today, Joerg is eager to bridge the cultural gap between the corporate and start-up world. He is an active business angel and corporate non-executive board director. After many years on the FinTech Investment Committee he became Chairman of Speedinvest in October 2017.

## Ibrahim Imam
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software

Experienced in building, managing and scaling start-up companies in ICT- and other industries from ideation over planning and execution to exit. As an entrepreneur going the extra mile, I am exceptionally passionate about company strategy and innovation as well as growth.

## Domagoj Dolinsek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement

Domagoj Dolinsek is the founder of PlanRadar.

## Moritz Thiele
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Drones

Moritz Thiele

## Rene Schneider
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics

Rene Schneider

## Anton Kittelberger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Sports, Android

Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health

## Hansi Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Cooking

Hansi Hansmann

## Rene Giretzlehner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Dating

Rene Giretzlehner

## Michael Grabner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, AgTech, Internet

Michael Grabner - Partner & Managing Director @ Michael Grabner Media GmbH

## Ferdinand Dietrich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Ferdinand Dietrich - CCO & Co-founder @ Storebox

## Ariel Luedi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Augmented Reality, Enterprise Software

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

## Hermann Futter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Consulting, Information Technology

Hermann Futter is based out of Vienna, Wien, and  is the Co-Founder of Angels United.

## Jürgen Rauch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Sales, Software

Jürgen Rauch

## Dieter Rappold
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Video

Dieter Rappold is the current CEO of tubics. He previously worked at Virtual Identity as a Founder. Dieter Rappold attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

## Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Service Industry

Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt is the Purchasing & Accounting at AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH. Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Bernhard Lehner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Training

Bernhard Lehner is a communication professional through and through. His work with and for the media has always been the centre of his professional life. During his communication studies in Vienna he gathered work experiences as a journalist for print and online media. By the End of the 90ies he had changed the site and worked successfully as a PRadvisor for agencies but also for in house relations. His references from the last few years include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Ikea and Cisco. i5invest appreciates Bernhard’s expertise for strategic communication development measurements and their realisation for old and new media with a focus on Europe.

## Gunther Birkner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Services

Günther Birkner was appointed President, Food & Beverage Worldwide in November of 2011, broadening his scope as President of the Healthcare & Specialty Business in March of 2016.Birkner was one of the founding partners of Pachem AG, Austria building a successful business focused on the food and beverage markets entering into a jointventure with CCL in 2003 before the outright acquisition of Pachem in 2005.

## Ingo Drexler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

## Michael Brehm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Finance, Education

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.

## Philipp Kinsky
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Audio, Sales

Philipp Kinsky

## Suvi Haimi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, E-Commerce

Suvi Haimi is the founder and CEO Sulapac, a company that develops fully biodegradable packaging material innovation made out of wood. Most recently, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki (Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine).

## Eric Demuth
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Software

Co-founder & Co-CEO of Bitpanda

## Niki Stadler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation

Niki Stadler

## Ignaz Forstmeier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Apps

Ignaz Forstmeier - Co-Founder @ Personio

## Reinhard Manzl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation

Reinhard Manzl

## Sander van de Rijdt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Machine Learning

Sander van de Rijdt is based out of Vienna, Wien, and is the co-CEO and co-founder of PlanRadar. Sander previously worked at IV Consult GmbH as a co-founder. Sander van de Rijdt attended the University of Technology, Vienna. Sander van de Rijdt has been awarded Austria - Entrepreneur of the Year 2022.

## Stefan Speiser
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Legal Tech

Stefan Speiser is a Founder at LATIDO Health Tech.

## Alexander Brix
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Legal Tech

Alexander Brix - COO and Co-founder @ Accordium

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