Top 25 Travel Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in Austria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Austria. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Travel Startup Investors in Austria in May 2025
Investor | Travel Austria investments |
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Speedinvest | 8 |
LAUNCHub Ventures | 2 |
aws Gründungsfonds | 2 |
Verve Ventures | 2 |
Joerg Trouvain | 1 |
Zaid Al-Aifari | 1 |
PUSH VC | 1 |
Christoph Prinz | 1 |
Kinled Holding | 1 |
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) | 1 |
austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) | 1 |
startup300 | 1 |
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 1 |
Hoxton Ventures | 1 |
Pioneers Ventures | 1 |
Felix Ohswald | 1 |
Cherry Ventures | 1 |
Ponooc | 1 |
Bas Godska | 1 |
Klaus Hofbauer | 1 |
Michael Grabner Media GmbH | 1 |
b2venture | 1 |
Joerg Floeck | 1 |
Erik Blachford | 1 |
Stefan Kalteis | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
- 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.
- Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tree.ly — Tree.ly does climate protection through the projects in European forests through its SaaS platform and hyperlocal CO2-credits.
- 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.
- 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 ..."
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Switzerland, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
- Poppins — Mila merges music, technology, and neuroscience to reshape therapy into a musical experience. We create musical games for children based on neurologic music therapy methods. These games are designed to address learning dissabilities like dyslexia, providing a digital treatment at home and helping identify these conditions. Behind these games, weleverage data science and new technologies to interpret learning, language, and motor performance into a cognitive score. Our goal is to improve the process for patients receiving treatment and to reaching the vast undiagnosed majority.
- Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
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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Investment focus
- 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.
Zaid Al-Aifari
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Education, 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 is a completely individual software solution that trains employees from all industries effectively. Based on gamification, QuickSpeech offers an easily accessible app for its users. With less than 60 seconds learning effort per day, it playfully expands relevant knowledge. Micro & mobile learning for your employee onboardings, skillbuilding, talent management and executive coaching! If you are interested to collaborate, please contact me or visit: https://www.quickspeech.info/
| Investments that move industries
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Podero — Podero's aim is to create software that controls energy devices, such as batteries, electric cars, and heat pumps, in order to lower CO2 emissions, create new revenue streams for utilities, and lower consumer electricity bills.Podero's objective is to make it possible to coordinate the largest fleet of devices in the world by utilizingtrade algorithms, software automation, and machine learning forecasts to move energy use to the most economical and sustainable times.
- 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.
- 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.
Private angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Rental, Sailing
- Angel, Seed
- Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.
Kinled was founded in 1980 to retain the investment assets of the Aisher family.In 1990, the investment focus shifted to a portfolio of early stage investments applying Kinled’s company development experience alongside the endurance and passion of family owned investments together with the strategic focus of venture capitalists.Since then,Kinled has taken 8 companies to public markets and many more to successful trade sales at significant multiples.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Xapien — Xapien delivers automated insight reports on companies and individuals in minutes, so you can make informed business decisions quickly and with confidence.
- OneTrust — OneTrust is a provider of privacy management and marketing compliance technology that helps organizations comply with global regulations. It automates privacy impact assessments and data inventory mapping, enforces risk remediation actions, and triggers recurring audits for continuous compliance monitoring across customer, employee, and vendor datatransfers. Its web-based software can be accessed on any device and provides a single place for a private office to collaborate with business groups, vendors, and trusted advisors managing privacy risks. The result is the ability to demonstrate privacy by design and ongoing compliance with policies, data privacy laws (GDPR, BCR, Privacy Shield), and other privacy frameworks (HITECH, ISO, GAPP, APEC).The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Connect Earth — Connect Earth is an environmental data company that builds the infrastructure for climate-conscious products by aggregating and standardising environmental data and making it available through developer-first toolkits. The core product is an API solution that calculates the carbon impact of spend-based financial transactions of consumers and companies.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Synaps — The collaborative architectural platform where you can draw plans, delegate tasks and gather real-time feedback, all in one place. Join the waitlist.
- SOMAREALITY — SOMAREALITY provides eye tracking solutions for diverse industries. Improve healthcare, automotive, research & aviation with real-time cognitive insights.
- Cycuria Therapeutics — While new therapies, such as FLT3 inhibitors and venetoclax-based regimens, have improved initial response rates, durable remissions and long-term survival
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- 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.
- Aileen Health — Next frame predictions for medical images.
startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.
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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.
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
- 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.
Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company.
The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Inoviv — Inoviv biomarker tests to support novel therapies
- 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.
- DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
Pioneers Ventures is a EUR 10M early-stage VC fund empowering outstanding startups with its global network of corporates, industry experts, and entrepreneurs. Besides the financial component it provides startups with an extensive support program.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany
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.
- triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.
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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Investment focus
- EdTech, Travel, Leisure
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Germany
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cortea — Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations.
- Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
- Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source
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.
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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.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- 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.
- Knowledge Gate Group — Knowledge Gate Group operates a KOL Knowledge Platform that allows direct communication with key external experts and therapy area experts within the life science field. This platform accelerates life-saving research by providing a space for testing assumptions and qualifying strategic decision-making. The company's services are particularlybeneficial for professionals in the life sciences sector, enabling them to access expert knowledge and insights to inform their research and strategies.
- Deep Sleep Technologies — DeepSleep offers a sleep enhancement patented technology
Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at
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Investment focus
- 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.
MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
- 1Komma5° — KOMMA5 ° offers all owners of electric vehicles free electricity, which we refinance through trading with so-called GHG quotas. 1KOMMA5 ° encourages to lead a self-determined and CO2-neutral life.
- assemblean — assemblean goal is to construct the digital manufacturing infrastructure of the future. We want to make it possible for everyone to build physical items as readily as software.
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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Investment focus
- 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.
Currently a Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, 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 at Butterfield & Robinson and CEO atTerrapass, 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
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- Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
- Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
- Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.
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 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
- 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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