Top 5 Social Media Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social media startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Social Media Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025
Investor | Social Media Austria investments |
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 2 |
Speedinvest | 2 |
Calm/Storm Ventures | 2 |
Michael Grabner Media GmbH | 1 |
A Round Capital | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
- Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
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, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Sugar — Sugar a digital halth and fitness paltform.
- ginkgo — ginkgo is the digital platform for holistic compensation packages starting with company pension plans (bAV).
- Everyman Health — Everyman Health ist Spezialist für Männergesundheit und bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte Lösungen für Männer aller Altersgruppen. In Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Partnern, bieten wir dir ein umfassendes Portfolio von digitalen, medikamentösen und nicht-medikamentösen Therapien für unterschiedliche Männerprobleme.Über unsere Plattform wirst du inwenigen Minuten mit einem Schweizer Facharzt verbunden und erhältst eine persönliche Diagnose und gegebenenfalls ein Rezept.Auf Wunsch wird deine persönliche Behandlung von einer lizenzierten Schweizer Apotheke diskret verpackt und dir kostenlos bis vor die Haustür geliefert.
MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups
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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.
A Round Capital
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Investment focus
- Health Care, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- SQIN — Die Zukunft der Hautgesundheit
- Kaiko Systems — Kaiko Systems empowers shipping companies to make smarter, safer, and more collaborative operational and safety decisions through advanced data analysis and intelligent decision support.
- Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
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