Top 5 Social Media Startup Investors in Austria

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Social Media Austria investments
Michael Grabner Media GmbH	2
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	2
Speedinvest	2
aws Gründerfonds (aws Founders Fund)	1
Calm/Storm Ventures	1

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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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.