Top 5 Social Impact Startup Investors in Austria in January 2026
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social impact startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Social Impact Startup Investors in Austria in January 2026
| Investor | Social Impact Austria investments |
|---|---|
| Calm/Storm Ventures | 2 |
| Hansmen Group | 2 |
| aws Fondsmanagement GmbH | 1 |
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 1 |
| Fund F | 1 |
Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Wellness, Medical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
- Bea Fertility — Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
- Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
The hansmengroup is a bunch of startups, that share common values, similar goals and the same Business Angel. A group with an incredible performance.
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- EdTech, Software, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Vitaance — Vitaance is a new insurtech start-up in the life insurance industry. We aim to improve people's quality of life through financial, emotional and physical wellbeing, by creating smart, fair and responsible insurance products enabled by technology. We want to democratize access to life insurance and to a healthier lifestyle.
- Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Belgium
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- Brusli — Brusli provides solutions and strategies for the reduction of food waste.
- revitalyze — revitalyze is an award-winning greentech platform that enables a circular construction industry through a unique approach to the reuse of building elements.
- Lightning Company — The Lightning Company is the first EU-based bitcoin and lightning payment gateway. We want to make bitcoin payments as easy and attractive as possible, ensuring that customers have no additional costs, whilst merchants receive attractive processing fees.
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.
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- Health Care, Fitness, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
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- reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
- 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.
- Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.
The European Venture Fund that backs gender-diverse founder teams.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Software, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
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- Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.
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