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Top 45 Sports Startup Investors in Austria in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 45 Sports Startup Investors in Austria in November 2024

Investor	Sports Austria investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	7
Speedinvest	5
aws Gründungsfonds	4
Dolby Family Ventures	3
UNIQA Ventures	3
Levensohn Venture Partners	3
Susman Ventures	3
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	2
Frank Westermann	2
PUSH VC	2
Elevator Ventures	2
Marcin Kurek	1
iSeed Ventures	1
Emir Selimovic	1
Russmedia Equity Partners	1
KAYA	1
Skywood Capital	1
RFI	1
Kai Hansen	1
Sharp Alpha Advisors	1
Wargaming	1
Mariusz Gralewski	1
Nabtesco Technology Ventures	1
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)	1
Louis Pfitzner	1
Emerald Technology Ventures	1
XL Group	1
Felix Ohswald	1
Sjaak Fleer	1
PULSAR	1
Point Nine	1
Carsten Maschmeyer	1
Marcel Beemsterboer	1
Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen	1
Biogena	1
Christian Reber	1
Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures	1
Johannes Müller	1
Martin Kreiger	1
Roche Venture Fund	1
startup300	1
RTA.vc	1
Ponooc	1
Market One Capital	1
XLHEALTH	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

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
Greenpass — Greenpass is a ClimateTech company providing the official greenpass for climate proof real estate. Build resilience and manage climate-proof assets and portfolios in line with ESG regulations while maximizing return on invest and value with ease.
Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food

Investing in early-stage companies solving the biggest science and engineering challenges since 2014.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Austria, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Montara Therapeutics — Montara Therapeutics is a precision-medicine neuroscience biotech startup improving safety and efficacy of therapies for people with neurological diseases
Progentos Therapeutics — Progentos Therapeutics develops an approach to treat multiple sclerosis that stimulates the body's natural repair mechanisms.
Esper Satellite Imagery — Welcome to Esper Satellite Imagery. Enjoy your Stay.

UNIQA Ventures GmbH is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, a leading insurance carrier in Central & Eastern Europe and a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Austria and CEE. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future ofkey industries. Investment areas are the future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and FinTech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.

Investment focus

Insurance, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Austria, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
goUrban — goUrban offers mobility solutions for sharing operators and B2B fleet management. The way of transportation and mobility is changing rapidly. For operating smarter and using the opportunities of the sharing economy we provide you our fleet management OS.
doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.

Levensohn Venture Partners has invested and managed six funds since 1996 and currently oversees a portfolio of over 60 active companies. Total AUM since inception exceeds $500 million.

Investment focus

Software, Web Hosting, Telecommunications
Funding Round, Series C, Series A
United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Modsy — Modsy combines advanced 3D graphics, computer vision, and creative curation to provide its customers with home design guidance and plans. It allows its customers to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of their own home and shows ideas for their space before making any changes. Modsy helps new homeowners, remodelers, and renterscreate an ideal, personalized design.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Kuprion — Kuprion’s™ revolutionary, copper based nanotechnology is a highly electrically conductive material enabling a new generation of printable electronics and integrated circuit chips. Connections between chip-to-chip or chip-to-board are up to 10 times the electrical and thermal conductivity of existing materials - perfect for smaller and more powerfulproducts from phones to electric cars.Our nanoCopper technology is based on work that began at Lockheed Martin in 2008. They were researching ways to replace traditional solder with a high-performance, RoHS- compliant alternative for high-power, high-reliability applications. With widespread interest from the commercial sector, all rights and patents were transferred to Kuprion in 2019 to commercialize the family of pastes and inks. Since then, Kuprion has garnered Fortune 100 customers, 20 patents, and VC funding with offices and manufacturing in San Jose, CA
NativeWaves — Deliver personalised, and immersive event watching experiences to your viewers, and explore new opportunities to monetise your content.

Susman Ventures

Investment focus

Events, eSports, Genetics
Series A, Seed
Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

GenomSys — Keep your genomic data safe and run analyses whenever you like. Discover how GenomSys is democratizing genomic analysis.
NativeWaves — Deliver personalised, and immersive event watching experiences to your viewers, and explore new opportunities to monetise your content.

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria. As a "one-stop shop" offering a diversified and targeted programme portfolio, the FFG gives Austrian businesses and research facilities quick and uncomplicated access to research funding.The FFG was foundedon 1 September 2004 (pursuant to the FFG Act on establishing a research promotion agency, Federal Law Gazette I No. 73/2004). The FFG is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria, represented by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). As a provider of funding services, however, the FFG also works for other national and international institutions.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.

- 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

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.

| Investments that move industries

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.

Elevator Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital Entity of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). Its focus is on early stage and growth investments in fintechs, enabling technologies in Central/Eastern Europe. Discover more!

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bob W — Book the smartest alternative to hotels and random rentals. Climate-neutral and locally designed apartments in handpicked districts. Stay days, weeks or months.
SESAMm — SESAMm is the leading provider of natural language processing and machine learning solutions and analytics for Investment firms and corporations.
goUrban — goUrban offers mobility solutions for sharing operators and B2B fleet management. The way of transportation and mobility is changing rapidly. For operating smarter and using the opportunities of the sharing economy we provide you our fleet management OS.

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

Investment focus

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.

iSeed is an early-stage investment company. They focus on consumer mobile technology with a keen interest in healthcare. iSeed is committed to partnering with the next generation of technology startups to grow a lasting and impactful company.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Philippines, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GroupUltra — GroupUltra is a platform that allows users to program their groups and design their communities.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.

Emir Selimovic

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

We are the investment arm of a 100 year+ Austrian family business and specialise in acquiring, managing, and operating profitable niche businesses in Online Marketplaces, Consumer Apps and SaaS.

Investment focus

Travel, Rental, iOS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PaulCamper — Hire out a private motorhome with insurance. Hire and hire out campers & caravans with PaulCamper. Personal, easy & safe.
PlanRadar — PlanRadar offers a SaaS solution for documentation and communication in construction and real estate projects (e.g. construction documentation, task and defect management. due diligence, etc.).Today, there are in each real estate project on average 1-2 issues per 100ft². PlanRadar's solution with web access and native apps for all kinds ofmobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows) supports the user in recording, documentation, communication, and tracking of any kind of information.Project & site managers, architects & planners, specialists, technicians, property &facility managers or investors and owners can record any kind of information (e.g. tasks, defects, ec.) in a cost & time-saving way directly on the site with their tablet or smartphone and assign them in real-time to responsible project stakeholders.PlanRadar has already more than 7,000 customers and more than 60,000 users from 45 different countries worldwide. Thousands of our users save already 7 working hours every single week.
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.

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

E2B — Add code interpreting in your AI apps and AI agents
Zeta Labs — Revolutionize daily tasks with our AI assistant. Not just a chatbot - it chats, understands, and performs. Free yourself to focus on meaningful things.
Artificial.Agency — Artificial Agency is an AI firm that is pioneering generative behavior in gaming. Artificial Agency pioneering AI-powered behavior engine, designed for game creators and studios of all sizes, incorporates runtime decision-making into game dynamics, resulting in an experience that feels fully alive.

Skywood Capital(天木资本) is a cross-border VC fund with both fund and team based in Silicon Valley and China to support and accelerate global team's innovation in US, China and global market. The fund invest primarily in early stage and growth stage companies with excellent team and vision, disruptive technology or business model, targetingscalable and big market. Skywood Capital has a strong team of experts with extensive cross-border experiences in industry for investment, fund management, product design and engineering, technology innovation, company growth strategy, global marketing and business development (especially in US and China), human resources and recruiting, incubator setup and operation. Skywood Capital not just offers the funding for startup but also supports the startup to grow fast and healthy along the journey, with successful exit. The fund helps to enhance the global entrepreneur ecosystem and, it is considered the first choice for global startup to get into China market.天木资本，是基于全球革命性技术创新和新兴科技行业的发展趋势，整合硅谷、全球其他创新城市和国内优势资源，以资本和专业经验服务全球创新者，根据产业需求精准定位，专注于投资海外最具颠覆性和影响力的科技成果和商业创新。基金特色：● 专注中美跨境投资及并购● 对接中美欧资源● 偏重技术创新取向● 优质资产管理，运营咨询和项目合作服务

Investment focus

Health Care, Virtual Reality, Water
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

ecomo — Lack of a simple yet effective pollution detector has been a major issue in this battle with water contamination. We developed the first portable and affordable device that is capable of detecting a number of water quality characteristics, including Total Organic Carbon (TOC), turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), heavy metals, and bacteria etc.This solves the problem of potential pollution factors before reaching to the end users by detecting/ remove contaminants in the water. It’s perfect for both outdoor (hiking, camping) and indoor (kitchen, office) use.Smart – Able to measure key water quality characteristics with LED indicatorSimple – Button-less design; Smartphone APP readingsPortable – Solar panel powered for outdoor useExtendible – Support filter/detector add-ons
zGlue — zGlue is a Silicon Valley company offering a platform and process for building custom chips on demand. As businesses in the hardware space face increasingly intense time-to-market challenges, zGlue provides an innovative solution through their ChipBuilder software platform, proprietary Smart Fabric interposer, and manufacturing partnerships withworld-renowned TSMC and ASE. zGlue’s approach to accelerated product development delivers top-quality chips at an exceptional speed, offering a significant improvement in miniaturization, affordability, and scalability for custom ICs.
SimpliFlow — SimpliFlow offers innovative and modern software solutions in the fields of top-class sport, personal training and corporate health management.

Pre-Seed and Seed StageVenture Investing We aim to lead the first institutional round for exceptional founders building highly scalable software platforms. We leverage our experience as founders and operators along with customer connections to accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies. Portfolio Exits Prioritize what you can control al February 3, 2022 Founders often ask

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Canada, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flipd — Flipd is the all-in-one productivity app makes you feel good about your progress. Keep track of your productivity, stay motivated, connect with others, and achieve your goals with Flipd.
Repable — Repable is an analytics company that is focused on the gaming industry.Repable provides broadcasters, teams, and enterprises with analytics and insights about the gaming and streaming industries to understand the financial and social impact of their interactions with their fans and public.Repable was founded by Sean Power and Heather AnneCarson in September 2015. And it is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Litmus Automation — The Industrial Data Platform that helps you get results. Connect, collect, normalize, contextualize, analyze, model, integrate, repeat.

business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.

Sharp Alpha Advisors is a venture capital firm specializing in sports betting and online gaming

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Fantasy Sports
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Linq.gg — Fintech solution tailored for mobile game developers to create, publish, and scale real-money games.
GridRival — GridRival is a sports betting startup built for race fans with the mission of making motorsports more engaging. We accomplish this through a valuable and unique fusion of fantasy-style gaming & betting, motorsports content, and built-in social functionality.
C15 Studio — We are C15. Powering PremiumSports FAST channels. Dedicated to sports, predicated on quality.

A catalogue of games produced by the leading game developer in the CIS. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Apps
Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed
United States, Austria, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Donut Lab — Donut Punks is a MOBA game that offers a unique blend of fun, action, and strategy. It is designed for players who want to team up and take on the challenge of fighting against hordes of zombies in a thrilling online environment.
Polystream — Polystream is completely rethinking and realising new ways of how to use the visual cloud, from server to client, from network to edge as we build the 3D Internet. Powered by our breakthrough command streaming technology, you can now instantly engage, grow, and monetise audiences of all shapes and sizes wherever they are in the world; whether it’splayers, streamers, or viewers. Our synchronous spectator engine Fantom enables cloud native games and experiences to be cost-effectively streamed with unrivalled reach, and unprecedented scale.
Gcore — Gcore is the first class web service with cutting-edge features and advanced security. It provides efficient services for all modern web needs: CDN, hosting, storage, streaming platform, DNS, security, and cloud. The company oversees a global infrastructure that delivers edge and cloud-based services to enterprise-level businesses.

Mariusz Gralewski is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of ZnanyLekarz. Mariusz Gralewski attended the Warsaw University of Technology.

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.

Nabtesco Technology Ventures works to collaborate globally with promising start-ups on targeted technology innovation for societal benefit and service.

Investment focus

Energy, Sports, Hardware
Funding Round, Series B
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

sewts — Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that uses high-precision finite element method (FEM) simulations to efficiently train machine learning algorithms. Theintelligent software solution enables countless applications in industrial automation like the handling of textiles in industrial laundries or the manufacturing of garment. sewts is backed by APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a couple of highly experienced business angels.
Colibri Energy — Colibri Energy - Lithium Batteries produces battery solutions for GSE & Logistics to reduce costs of operations and provide sustainable alternatives.
NanoGraf Corporation — SiNode Systems is a materials venture based out of Northwestern University that is commercializing a novel silicon based anode technology developed by research team led by Professor Harold Kung. SiNode aims to change the status quo of the industry by developing high performance anodes for Li-ion batteries.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Austria, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

HD Immune — HD Immune develops an antibody to target the mutated protein and remove it from the body. HDI has a lead antibody mAB C6-17 which lowers mtHTT in the blood and organs.
Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
revitalyze — Digital sales and cost-saving solutions for aggregates with a white label customer portal.

Co-CEO at CleanHub, entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS), especially when it's in the SMB space.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Photography, E-Commerce Platforms
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Greece, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.

We provide venture capital for companies with cutting-edge technology that solves key issues in the transition to a net zero emissions world.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

sewts — Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that uses high-precision finite element method (FEM) simulations to efficiently train machine learning algorithms. Theintelligent software solution enables countless applications in industrial automation like the handling of textiles in industrial laundries or the manufacturing of garment. sewts is backed by APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a couple of highly experienced business angels.
Colibri Energy — Colibri Energy - Lithium Batteries produces battery solutions for GSE & Logistics to reduce costs of operations and provide sustainable alternatives.
NanoGraf Corporation — SiNode Systems is a materials venture based out of Northwestern University that is commercializing a novel silicon based anode technology developed by research team led by Professor Harold Kung. SiNode aims to change the status quo of the industry by developing high performance anodes for Li-ion batteries.

XL Group, through its subsidiaries, creates extranets for management of communication and direct marketing campaigns. The company is based in Saint Etienne, France.

Investment focus

Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

mySugr — mySugr is a digital health company that simplifies life with diabetes. The mySugr App, in combination with integrated medical devices, empowers people with diabetes through a comprehensive self-management package: it includes the mySugr App (Logbook, Insulin Calculator, Diabetes Coach, Doctor Reports) and a connected blood sugar meter withhome-delivered unlimited test strips. A large part of the company lives with diabetes, many since childhood.

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.

Investment focus

EdTech, Travel, Leisure
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
Seasy.com — Making Sea Life Easy
Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.

Sjaak Fleer

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

Pulsar Venture Capital, a business acceleration program, offers financing and mentorship to clean tech, robotics, and electronics startups.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Oyl — Oyl is a Bitcoin wallet designed to enable seamless trading of Ordinals, BRC-20 & Runes all within the wallet.
Q Platform — Q Platform is a First globally connected fintech- multi-banking platform in Russia and CIS.Its platform for banks provides access to the whole ecosystem of fintech solutions available on the market with detailed analysis; allowing quick integration and management. The platform for Fintechs allows to enter new markets and works with new audiencesin different countries using interbank distribution model.The company was founded in 2017 and based in Moscow, Russia
Beauty Tech — Beauty Tech is an application with a variety of consumer DNA tests, as well as personalized cosmetics, dietary supplements and nutrition kit

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
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.
Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Marcel Beemsterboer - Owner @ Zeeburg Ventures

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.

Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen is a company active in the oil and gas sector.

Investment focus

Sports, Chemical, Consulting
Seed, Funding Round
Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Eologix — Eologix introduces an easily retrofittable sensor system for all types of wind turbines. The system consists of one single receiving unit per turbine plus a number of sensing units which are distributed over the blades’ surface. The sensing units can easily mounted, e.g. during regular inspection of the blades.
Apeiron Synthesis — Apeiron Synthesis develops catalysts, with a broad application in pharmaceuticals, flavors, and fragrances and the production of polymers and rubber. They develop a broad portfolio of patented and patent-pending catalysts that can satisfy nearly any process using metathesis which is used to deliver process-specific catalysts and also to providevalue to its clients across the whole research and development, implementation, and production process.

Biogena develops, produces & markets high-quality dietary supplements.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Fitness, Health Care
Seed
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

NEOH USA — NEOH USA is a fast growing new food brand from Kirkland, WA and the leader in Crossbars. It satisfies your sweet tooth without the guilt. Crossbars taste as great as a candy bars but are protein bars.
Saturo — Saturo is Europe’s first meal replacement product in a bottle, offering balanced and healthy nutrition.
Luminous Labs GmbH — Home - LuminousRed Red Light

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
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.

PHOENIX CONTACT Innovation Ventures is the global corporate venture capital company of the PHOENIX CONTACT Group, a global manufacturer and supplier of components and systems for electrical connection and industrial automation technology. The venture capital company invests in startups with business models that are related to electrical connectiontechnology, industrial digitization, automation and control technology, and associated markets.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Cyber Security
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Eologix — Eologix introduces an easily retrofittable sensor system for all types of wind turbines. The system consists of one single receiving unit per turbine plus a number of sensing units which are distributed over the blades’ surface. The sensing units can easily mounted, e.g. during regular inspection of the blades.
Aedifion — Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems.
Digital Spine — Our mission is to disrupt the paradigm that buildings are mainly defined by bricks, concrete & steel. We are enhancing their purpose and definition with digital technology, realtime connectivity & user-centric software applications. We distill 90 years of experience in machinery & engineering into cutting edge cloud-based solutions& services.Our core competency is the digital transformation of vertical mobility & transport within the ecosystem of smart buildings.

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.

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

Martin Kreiger

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

The Roche Venture Fund is the name given to the corporate venture fund of the healthcare company Roche. Roche has allocated CHF 500 million to invest in and develop commercially successful innovative life science companies. Roche has been investing in early stage companies as part of collaborations since the early-1990s and independent ofcollaborations since 2002. All equity investments made by Roche in biotech and diagnostics companies (including collaboration investments) are negotiated and managed by the Roche Venture Fund. In the past 20 years, the Roche Venture Fund has invested in over 60 companies globally. Currently, Roche Venture Fund has a portfolio of around 30 companies located in 10 countries across Europe, North America and the Pacific Region. The fund is an evergreen fund with CHF 500 million available of which approximately 40% is currently invested.The Roche Venture Fund is a committed long-term stable investor with sufficient money reserved in their fund for follow-on financing rounds. As part of a multinational healthcare company, the Roche Venture Fund has access to considerable expertise both internally and externally. We co-invest with leading venture funds, including other corporate venture funds, on a regular basis.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

DiogenX — We incorporated DiogenX with the objective to provide new therapeutic solutions for diabetic patients. With Patrick Collombat and the team, we are focused on developing a first-in-class regenerative treatment for type 1 diabetes. Benjamin Charles CEO See the team Latest News See more Our Work OUR APPROACH ABOUT DIABETES
Mironid — Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of www.mironid.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas

startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fretello — Made by guitarists, for guitarists, Fretello started as a simple app that our CEO, Florian, created as a companion to help him improve his skills. Seven years and many iterations later, we’re now the app of choice for guitar players of all levels who have a genuine thirst to improve.Driven by a belief that anyone can learn guitar, but noteveryone is taught well, we cut through the noise to give guitarists a comprehensive education that actually sticks. We know that proper learning takes time. We’re not here to simply teach you a few riffs and the odd song. We’re here to teach you how to really play your instrument. For us, the goal is mastery but with continual improvement. So, we’ve combined the insights of educational experts and professional musicians with advanced AI technology to create a truly innovative learning tool. That’s why we offer a structured Learn Path alongside tailored practice plans, daily guitar workouts, a large song library, and interactive jam sessions. We tackle playing guitar from every angle because that’s how confident, versatile guitarists are made. As passionate musicians, we count being able to express ourselves through music as one of life’s greatest joys. Whether with or without us, we hope you find a way to experience some of that too.
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.
Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.

RTAventures VC invests early in online businesses with special focus on healthcare related products and business models like SaaS (software as a service) and marketplaces. RTAventures VC is managed by Piotr Kulesza and Lubomir Jurczak and is based in Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, Germany. The largest investments include Docplanner, Typeform, PointNine Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Genetics
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Poland, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

AlohaCamp — AlohaCamp is an online booking portal for adventure travel. They offer tent, campervan, glamping, and cottage sites. It provides a referral program.
MNM Bioscience Inc. — MNM integrates cutting-edge genomics with the latest technological breakthroughs in AI to fight cancer. Our goal is to crack the code of cancer biology.
MNM Bioscience Inc. — MNM integrates cutting-edge genomics with the latest technological breakthroughs in AI to fight cancer. Our goal is to crack the code of cancer biology.

Ponooc is a venture capital fund based in the Netherlands with a focus on sustainable energy or mobility related ventures. We are open to both early and later stage venture deals where the invested capital is used to help the entrepreneurs and their team take the next step. We believe in a hands-on approach and work closely together with managementwhere we think we can add value, either through previous experience or our extensive network. Our geographical focus is Europe.

Investment focus

Energy, Electric Vehicle, Logistics
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Bringly — Sustainable & carefee multi-carrier urban delivery partner. You don't have to chose between the benefits of a delivery platform or a carrier. Enjoy the best of both to provide the most sustainable, fast & affordable last mile delivery options.Our shipping network of bicycle couriers and electric vehicles makes it possible to deliver quickly, locally and CO2-neutral.
ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.

Market One Capital | Seed fund empowering marketplaces and network effects platforms across Europe

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Trever — Start operating with digital assets and manage trading, treasury management, and bookkeeping within a single connection. Quick integration, 24/7 availability and fully compliant.
eany — B2B marketplace for Household, DIY and Home Electronics products
Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.

XLHEALTH is a Venture Capital investor in startups of the IT healthcare industry. Following the mission statement "Digital Health – Made in Germany" XLHEALTH invests in selected companies that make a sustainable impact to preserve and improve human health. XLHEALTH offers startups a network of mentors and access to 400,000 providers,organizations, industry partners and patented health technologies.

Investment focus

Fitness, mHealth, Diabetes
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

mySugr — mySugr is a digital health company that simplifies life with diabetes. The mySugr App, in combination with integrated medical devices, empowers people with diabetes through a comprehensive self-management package: it includes the mySugr App (Logbook, Insulin Calculator, Diabetes Coach, Doctor Reports) and a connected blood sugar meter withhome-delivered unlimited test strips. A large part of the company lives with diabetes, many since childhood.

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