# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Austria in June 2026 ## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 31 - 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: 7 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology 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: 6 - 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: 6 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, E-Learning Alfred Luger ## 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. ## 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 Kamleitner - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Video Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna. ## Gernot Singer - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Retail Gernot Singer is a business angel ## Nikolaus Futter - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Sensor, Parking Nikolaus Futter - Chairman @ PSI Alliance ## Christopher Mueller - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## Stefan Lederer - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: 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. ## Zaid Al-Aifari - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Audio Zaid Al-Aifari ## Domagoj Dolinsek - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement Domagoj Dolinsek is the founder of PlanRadar. ## Frank Westermann - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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 ## Bernhard Niesner - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Ignaz Forstmeier - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps Ignaz Forstmeier is based out of Vienna, Wien and is the Co-Founder of Personio. Ignaz previously worked at Y42 as a Marketing & Management Advisor. Ignaz Forstmeier attended the Center for Digital Technology and Management, CDTM. ## Kai Romberg - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Legal Tech Kai Romberg is co-head of HgCapital’s Munich office and responsible for TMT and Mercury investments in DACH. He sits on HgCapital’s Investment Committee and led several investments, including those in Eucon, STP, P&I and Lumesse, where he is currently a board member. Kai joined HgCapital in 2004 from The Boston Consulting Group. ## Rene Giretzlehner - Type: Angel - Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Dating Rene Giretzlehner ## 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. ## Hermann Futter - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Consulting, Information Technology Hermann Futter is a individual investor. ## Andreas Burike - Type: Angel - Location: Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Human Resources Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk. ## 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) ## Ferdinand Dietrich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Ferdinand Dietrich - CCO & Co-founder @ Storebox ## 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 ## 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). ## 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 ## Peter Schicho - Type: Angel - Location: Villach, Karnten, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Billing, Payments Peter Schicho ## Roderik van Kessenich - Type: Angel - Location: Villach, Karnten, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Billing, Payments Roderik van Kessenich ## Jürgen Rauch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Sales, Software Jürgen Rauch ## Stefan Speiser - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Legal Tech Stefan Speiser is a Founder at LATIDO Health Tech. ## Hansi Hansmann - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Cooking Hansi Hansmann ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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). ## Rene Schneider - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics Rene Schneider ## 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. ## Michael Grabner - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Marketing Michael Grabner - Partner & Managing Director @ Michael Grabner Media GmbH ## 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. ## Moritz Thiele - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Drones Moritz Thiele ## 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. ## Thomas Blaschke - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics Thomas Blaschke ## Bootstrapped Debt Financing - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Bootstrapped Debt Financing ## Felix Porsche - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech Felix Porsche ## Thomas Rosenmayr - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Developer APIs Founder at Speedinvest Pirates as well as founder and chairman of nexxar. ## Axel Kühner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning Axel Kühner is the CEO of Greiner. He attended VWA Stuttgart | Academy of Administration and Economics.