Top 15 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2026
Top 15 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Austria in May 2026
| Investor | Travel Austria investments |
|---|---|
| Speedinvest | 8 |
| LAUNCHub Ventures | 2 |
| aws Gründungsfonds | 2 |
| Verve Ventures | 2 |
| Hoxton Ventures | 1 |
| austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) | 1 |
| PUSH VC | 1 |
| Cherry Ventures | 1 |
| b2venture | 1 |
| Kinled Holding | 1 |
| startup300 | 1 |
| Isomer Capital | 1 |
| Ringier Digital Ventures | 1 |
| Michael Grabner Media GmbH | 1 |
| Ponooc | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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 ..."
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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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Switzerland, France, Germany
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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.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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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
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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Belgium
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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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- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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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.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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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.
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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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
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- 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.
startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Austria, Germany, United States
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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.
- Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
Isomer's entrepreneurial approach accesses high-potential opportunities through limited partner investments in funds, company co-investments, and providing liquidity to firms and founders via secondary purchases.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Austria
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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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- Internet, Fitness, Wellness
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, Austria
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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
MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein
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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.
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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- Energy, Electric Vehicle, Logistics
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom
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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.
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