Top 15 Sports Angel Investors in Austria in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Sports Angel Investors in Austria in January 2026
| Investor | Sports Austria investments |
|---|---|
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 7 |
| Frank Westermann | 2 |
| Mariusz Gralewski | 1 |
| Sjaak Fleer | 1 |
| Johannes Müller | 1 |
| Johannes Moser | 1 |
| Carsten Maschmeyer | 1 |
| Felix Ohswald | 1 |
| Martin Kreiger | 1 |
| Anton Kittelberger | 1 |
| Georg Kofler | 1 |
| Louis Pfitzner | 1 |
| Marcin Kurek | 1 |
| Marcel Beemsterboer | 1 |
| Christian Reber | 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.
- Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.
- 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
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Investment focus
- iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
- Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
- not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.
Mariusz Gralewski is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of ZnanyLekarz. Mariusz Gralewski attended the Warsaw University of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- Poland, Spain, France
Portfolio highlights
- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- AlohaCamp — AlohaCamp is an online booking portal for adventure travel. They offer tent, campervan, glamping, and cottage sites. It provides a referral program.
- StarOfService — Tous les professionnels, au meilleur prix.
Sjaak Fleer
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts
As Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer, Johannes leads the Workpath sales team and is responsible for international expansion and the strategic development of partnerships. He moreover is heavily involved in shaping the Workpath brand and regularly publishes on the topics of organization, leadership and the new working world.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts
Johannes Moser
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- Developer Tools, Developer Platform
- Angel
- Austria
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- Boxbase — Boxbase gym management software.
- ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
- theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
- JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.
I believe everybody has a hidden talent and it needs a trigger to develop the full potential. My trigger was my brother when we set the foundation for building GoStudent, the best funded K-12 EdTech startup in Europe. My vision is to scale GoStudent to become the No. 1 global school helping children to unlock their full potential.
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- EdTech, Travel, Leisure
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
Martin Kreiger
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- E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts
Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health
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- iOS, Sports, Android
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- myClubs — One membership. Unlimited sports.We provide digital access to the best gyms and fitness classes in Austria and Switzerland. Our network of more than 800 exclusive partner studios guarantees choice, flexibility and quality. Thousands of customers use our product as well as more and more companies and insurances. By digitalizing the growingfitness market we are following our mission: Rethinking sports.
- Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
Georg Kofler is an angel investor.
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- Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
- Angel, Seed
- Germany, Austria
Co-CEO at CleanHub, Entrepreneur (Salonmeister, Treatwell, CAYA, Lieferheld/Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about building companies (marketplaces & SaaS), especially in the SMB space.
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- B2B, Software, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, Greece
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- Unosecur — Unosecur is a cloud security platform that helps organizations detect, quantify, remediate and centrally manage identity and access risks across multi-clouds at all times.
- Mello — Looking to cut logistics costs? Mello empowers your business to harness the power of invoice data, automating workflows and uncovering actionable insights to help you save more. Schedule your demo today!
- Sirius — Sirius is an online music platform. They offer digital space for music teaching with sound and data protection, enabling musicians to create their virtual music classrooms. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
Entrepreneur and Investor in E-business and Tech sector.Managing Partner and Co-founder at Market One Capital, a marketplace first VC fund based in Warsaw and Barcelona.
Managing Partner and Co-founder in Protos Venture Capital, an early stage VC fund.
Co-founder of Pomocni.pl group including niania.pl, remontuj.pl, pomocedomowe.pl
Investor andsupporter in +20 companies, i.e.
Docplanner.com (Znanylekarz.pl), Brainly.com, Unamo.com, Allani.pl, Restaumatic.com, Shoplo.com, Starofservice.com, Depilacja.pl, Pushpushgo.com.Main focus: marketing, product, business development
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- Wellness, Health Care, Ride Sharing
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Poland, Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ovoko — Ovoko functions as an internet marketplace, uniting sellers of car parts, auto dismantlers, and recyclers with car dealers, mechanics, and avid enthusiasts.
- Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.
- Eversports — Eversports vision is to simplify the access to sport facilities in your environment. They thrive to build a unique community of sporters and to share their passion around the globe. Eversports connects its members directly with sport venues, helps them to book courts or courses and to meet sport partners. With Eversports you know exactly where andwhen to practice your favourite sport. Find all the information you need in one single interface. Eversports is the marketplace where sport providers and sporters get easily connected.
Marcel Beemsterboer - Owner @ Zeeburg Ventures
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, 3D Printing
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- The Netherlands, Spain, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Hubs — Hubs, formerly 3D Hubs, is an online platform for custom part manufacturing, providing access to a global network of manufacturing services, including CNC machining, 3D printing, injection molding and sheet metal fabrication. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, Hubs was acquired by Protolabs in January 2021 and has produced 7 million parts.
- Eversports — Eversports vision is to simplify the access to sport facilities in your environment. They thrive to build a unique community of sporters and to share their passion around the globe. Eversports connects its members directly with sport venues, helps them to book courts or courses and to meet sport partners. With Eversports you know exactly where andwhen to practice your favourite sport. Find all the information you need in one single interface. Eversports is the marketplace where sport providers and sporters get easily connected.
- Deskbookers — Deskbookers is an online platform for businesses and individuals to find flexible space... offices, meeting and training rooms and flex desks. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The site is currently available in Dutch, German, and English.
Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Canada
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- Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
- FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
- VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.
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