Top 10 Travel Angel Investors in Austria in May 2026
Top 10 Travel Angel Investors in Austria in May 2026
| Investor | Travel Austria investments |
|---|---|
| Joerg Floeck | 1 |
| Erik Blachford | 1 |
| Zaid Al-Aifari | 1 |
| Christoph Prinz | 1 |
| Felix Ohswald | 1 |
| Joerg Trouvain | 1 |
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 1 |
| Klaus Hofbauer | 1 |
| Bas Godska | 1 |
| Stefan Kalteis | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Joerg is a global citizen and has travelled about 60 countries and lived in six of them. His early passion for investing and technology opened the door to an international career in Financial Services. As a swimmer and basketball player, Joerg developed the competitive spirit which ultimately led him into the Executive Committee of Thomson Reutersin New York. He built his C-Level network socializing with global leaders at the World Economic Forum (Davos), advising the Mayor of Rome and meeting Barack Obama at the White House Press dinner in Washington. As an enthusiastic fan and corporate sponsor of Formula 1, he will never forget co-driving a Porsche GT3 with Nico Rosberg.Today, Joerg is eager to bridge the cultural gap between the corporate and start-up world. He is an active business angel and corporate non-executive board director. After many years on the FinTech Investment Committee he became Chairman of Speedinvest in October 2017.
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- Apps, SaaS, EdTech
- Angel, Series A
- Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gustav — Modern staffing teams use Gustav's VMS to source talent from trusted sub-vendors. Fast, secure, and compliant!
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
- wikifolio — wikifolio.com enables traders to turn their portfolios into fully-fledged financial products (“wikifolios”), listed on Europe’s leading exchange for structured products. Thousands of different trading strategies have already been built on the varied investment universe of more than 100,000 stocks, funds, exchange-traded-products (ETFs, ETCs andETNs) as well structured products (incl. investment certificates and leveraged products).With wikifolio.com, investors can easily invest in the best suited trading strategies by ordering wikifolio-certificates via a brokerage account of their choice. Every trade can be viewed in real-time on wikifolio.com alongside with all relevant key figures for a strategy as well as comments by traders. The FinTech company aims to set new standards for radical transparency and provides a fair fee-model.
Erik Blachford is based out of San Francisco, California and is on the Board of Directors at Fora. Erik has previously served as CEO of Expedia, Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp's travel division, IAC Travel (including online travel businesses Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International), CEO atButterfield & Robinson and CEO at Terrapass, Inc.His prior positions at Expedia Inc. included SVP of Marketing & Planning and various roles in product management. Erik is an active private company investor, serving on boards including Glassdoor, Zillow, Siteminder, Liftopia and Terrapass, and participates in non-profit boards including EcoAmerica, The Cutting Ball Theatre and the US National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.Erik holds a bachelor's degree in English and certificate in theatre from Princeton University and a master's in business administration from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.
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- Travel, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Sleepbox — With questions and inquiries please reach out to mk@sleepbox.com We will get back to you as soon as we can.
- Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
- CANOPY — CANOPY is an exceptional network of shared workspaces for both accomplished professionals and aspirational entrepreneurs alike - a sophisticated and diverse community of thinkers, creators, builders and innovators. They cater for those who appreciate a more inspiring, contemporary design environment, insist on generosity of space, and need adistraction-free, calm place of work for contemplation and concentration. Their members are more demanding, and won't settle for the contrived, compromised or dumbed down alternatives out there. They value being around others they feel a genuine affinity with, and being part of a valuable ecosystem that meaningfully creates more opportunities, and greater success. They believe the workspace you are a member of is part of your personal brand. It says something about who you are. It partly defines you. If you’re serious about your work, come to CANOPY.
Zaid Al-Aifari
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- Education, Mobile Apps, Audio
- Seed, Funding Round
- Austria, Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Monkee — Monkee combines Personal Finance and Cashback in one unique product. We help our users to save more money for what's important to them and actively support them in growing their savings while consciously shopping the things they need. At the same time we help our retail partners to connect with consumers in a relevant and rewarding way. Thecompany was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
- ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
- QuickSpeech — QuickSpeech ist die intelligente Microlearning-Plattform, die Ihre Mitarbeiter automatisch in kurzen Wissensportionen spielerisch trainiert und motiviert.
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- Travel, Rental, Sailing
- Angel, Seed
- Austria, Germany
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- Diagnosia — Making medicine simple.
- TourRadar — TourRadar is the world's most trusted online marketplace for multi-day tours. Compare, read reviews, meet guides & travelers, book with confidence.
- Zizoo — Charter a yacht or rent a boat in 65+ countries. 20,000+ boats, bareboat to fully crewed. Flexible booking terms. 4.8/5 on Trustpilot, 500+ reviews.
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
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.
Joerg Trouvain is a renowned authority of the European travel industry and an experienced expert in the e-commerce sector: He will now function as CEO of the new company ProSieben Travel GmbH. From 2009 until 2012, he was the CEO of HolidayCheck AG, one of the most successful e-commerce companies in German-speaking regions. Prior to that he spentmany years in the field of interactive entertainment as the head of European operations at Activision Blizzard in London and as Managing Director for Electronic Arts in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. His career included earlier positions in sales management at BMG and in key account management at BASF Magnetics.
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- Travel, Tourism, Marketplace
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- TourRadar — TourRadar is the world's most trusted online marketplace for multi-day tours. Compare, read reviews, meet guides & travelers, book with confidence.
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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- Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Germany
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.
- Donnerstag.ai — Build, run and scale financial reconciliations across your core financial data and systems.
Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at
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- Marketplace, Apps, Music
- Seed, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- markta — Digital farmers market
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- 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.
Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund. Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm. Co-Founder Netherlands for Ukraine Foundation (NL4UA.org) supporting Ukrainians affected by the war since 2022. Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000. Assisted 100+companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe." Bas' Angel Fund (>EUR 100mn AUM) ranked by PitchBook as #2 in success by IRR (2021). Top 50 SuperAngel worldwide (Arete Index, 2024-25)Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019): CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media. CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Skolkovo MSM MBA (2013), Guest lecturer Stanford IGC Exec MBAAngel investor in decacorn Miro, Harver (exit to Rubicon PE), Chocofamily, Piano. Bas' angel investments (~50) have helped founders raise over $1 billion from investors like Iconiq, Accel, Insight, Salesforce, Google, YC, and Techstars. The combined market cap of these companies, based on their latest funding rounds, is ~$20 billion. As a VC/LP Bas invested in 400+ companies including 20+ unicorns.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.
- SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
- Knowledge Gate Group — Connect with global experts in life sciences and accelerate your innovation pipeline with AI-assisted insights.
Stefan Kalteis
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- Software, Travel, Tourism
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
- Fraud0 — Fraud0 is a software that renders uncontaminated analytics, automated non-human traffic, fraud and advertising detection solutions.
- 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.
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