Top 25 Travel Startup Investors in Austria in May 2026

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• Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.

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• OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
• Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
• HelloBello — HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..."

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• SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
• UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
• Giraffe360 — Giraffe360 is game-changing subscription product for real estate companies to streamline professional quality photography and high accuracy floor plan creation.

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• Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
• Kyron.bio — Kyron.bio uses the power of glycan alterations to enable improved protein therapies.
• Phlair — Carbon Atlantis is producing energy-efficient approach for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal.

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• Kiin Bio — Drug discovery is a system problem, where every inefficiency amplifies the next. We have the solution.
• PAVE Space — PAVE Space develops in-space transportation and satellite servicing technologies that enable movement and management of payloads across different orbits. The company builds spacecraft systems centered around a kickstage platform that transfers multi-ton payloads from low Earth orbit to target orbits within short timeframes using onboard propulsionsystems. Its core offering focuses on orbital mobility, providing services that bridge the gap between launch vehicles and final satellite deployment by repositioning payloads after initial launch. The platform is designed to integrate with multiple launch providers and supports both rideshare and dedicated missions through compatible interfaces and propulsion technologies.Beyond transportation, PAVE Space develops capabilities for in-orbit operations, including satellite inspection, life extension, docking, and servicing. These functions use a combination of propulsion systems, guidance and control algorithms, and autonomous technologies to manage spacecraft activities and extend satellite usability.
• Nautica Technologies — Nautica Technologies is developing intelligent robotic technologies for autonomous ship hull cleaning and inspection. we operate at the convergence of robots, autonomy, and data to solve important difficulties in the marine industry.

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• Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
• Automata — Automata LINQ platform: an open, integrated lab automation solution, designed to help labs unlock their potential, lab space and scientists.
• Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.

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• Podero — Podero energy flexibility software helps utilities steer devices, trade their flexibility on spot and balancing markets and launch new energy products.
• UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
• Circonomit — Building the world's environmental data infrastructure - We are the sustainability counterpart to what Excel, Sheets and Datev are to financial planning and accounting. Our mission is to create the first decision intelligence platform to bridge sustainability and finance by building the global standard for the collection and aggregation ofcorporate environmental data.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Sanubi — Sanubi is nursing aids, incontinence care and more.
• Storyclash — Storyclash is your Influencer Marketing Platform to discover brand-fit creators based on their content, not on vanity metrics. Track and analyze their work on any platform, including Stories.
• 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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• 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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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.
• triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.

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• Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
• OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
• Another Earth — Another Earth is building an AI-powered simulation and synthetic data platform for Earth Observation. As our planet changes, AI models need scalable, high-quality training data to keep pace. Another Earth provides synthetic data, scenario simulations and predictions required to accelerate AI development, and enable faster, smarterdecision-making—enabling smarter decisions for a more resilient world.

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• GOALS — GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. Gameplay-first, free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.
• Sphinx — AI compliance analysts for banks and fintechs.
• Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• TourRadar — TourRadar is the world's most trusted online marketplace for multi-day tours. Compare, read reviews, meet guides & travelers, book with confidence.

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• Aitiologic — aitiologic is an Austrian precision medicine startup developing ai-powered solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
• Aileen Health — Medical images detect tumors. What if they helped clinicians look ahead too, for guided therapy selection? Meet the GenAI companion Cancer4D.
• Another Earth — Another Earth is building an AI-powered simulation and synthetic data platform for Earth Observation. As our planet changes, AI models need scalable, high-quality training data to keep pace. Another Earth provides synthetic data, scenario simulations and predictions required to accelerate AI development, and enable faster, smarterdecision-making—enabling smarter decisions for a more resilient world.

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• Druid AI — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
• Finster AI — Finster is your AI research partner for finance. Personalized, proactive, and private intelligence for investment banking and asset management teams.
• Smartline — The world's most elegant health companion

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• yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
• Regimen — Regimen is the first effective digital therapeutic for men's most intimate health issues – starting with erections.
• Archilyse AG — Digital archive, smart plans Archilyse.one makes the quality of architecture and properties digitally and objectively measurable, comparable and understandable. This is all done using globally unique analyses, backed by AI. Start here and now: TEST NOW ARCHILYSE.ONE ADVISE ME

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• 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.
• UNIT 1 — At UNIT 1 we design beautiful, tech-enabled smart helmets and urban mobility accessories that save lives, and that people love to wear. Discover the future of smart helmets with hidden lights, crash detection, turn signals, and brake lights, and start riding the safest helmet for bikes, e-bikes, scooters, Onewheel...
• 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.