Top 20 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Austria in October 2023
Top 20 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Austria in October 2023
| Investor | Artificial intelligence Austria investments |
|---|---|
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 6 |
| Hermann Hauser | 4 |
| Schnidar Harald | 3 |
| Patrick Poschl | 3 |
| Rene Schneider | 2 |
| Leo Strohmayr | 1 |
| Franz Fuchsberger | 1 |
| Markus Grund | 1 |
| Gerhard Kürner | 1 |
| Axel Kühner | 1 |
| Max Schnoedl | 1 |
| Ibrahim Imam | 1 |
| Bernhard Niesner | 1 |
| Dr. Cornelius Boersch | 1 |
| Sander van de Rijdt | 1 |
| Norbert Mühlburger | 1 |
| Alexander Zrost | 1 |
| Siegfried Milly | 1 |
| Qasar Younis | 1 |
| Rafael Vartian | 1 |
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Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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- Health Care, Fitness, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
- Storebox — Storebox is the first fully digitized self-storage solution in Europe, with more than 140 locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. We offer storage spaces for private and business purposes, which are automatically accessible at any time. With our successful and recently awarded franchise system, we manage to grow and will continueto expand within Europe.Storebox is more than just a self-storage system. FULL-SERVICE CLICK & COLLECT Click & Collect directly in your neighbourhood? Storebox allows you to quickly and easily expand the Click & Collect offer for your customers to new districts, cities and countries. We coordinate the transport and customer communication for you.MICRO-HUBS FOR THE LAST MILE Use central warehouse locations in urban areas as a starting point for the last mile. Storebox as a micro-depot offers you the fastest way to your customers, allowing you to save time, money and emissions. Customer proximity and responsiveness through local storage: Benefit from our strategically positioned storage units and serve the needs of your customers as quickly as possible. At the same time, you can reduce unnecessarily driven kilometres by your employees in the field and thus save time and money.SPARE PARTS WAREHOUSE FOR SERVICE TECHNICIANS With Storebox you can store spare parts and goods directly where they will be used. In this way, you are in close proximity to the customer and save yourself long travel times for collecting the materials from a central warehouse. Create more efficiency by receiving deliveries of goods 24/7 directly to the Storebox and returning them if necessary.
- Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.
Hermann Hauser co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin out ARM), Active Book Company,Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited (acquired by Cambridge Display Technology), Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK and has supported many other start-ups.Hermann’s successes at Amadeus include: CSR plc (LON: CSR); Entropic Research Laboratory (acquired by Microsoft in 1999); Solexa (acquired by Illumina in 2007); and Icera (acquired by Nvidia in 2011). He is currently a non-executive director of XMOS, a company that is revolutionising re-configurable silicon chips; Intune Networks, a pioneer in the field of Optical Packet Switch & Transport; Tobii, the world leader in eye tracking and gaze detection; Plastic Logic, the first company to commercialize flexible plastic transistors (currently used in computer displays); and Cambridge Broadband Networks, a leader in point-to-multipoint wireless backhaul products.Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Hermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Ruskin University and was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’ in 2001. In 2004, he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science & Technology. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his contribution to the translation of science into business, and in 2013 a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.Austrian by birth, Hermann speaks German, English and conversational Italian and French.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
- USound — USound is a fabless audio company offering high-performance silicon speakers and high-quality sound solutions based on MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology. It is our vision to inspire music enthusiasts and acoustic professionals with crisp, natural sound for a fantastic hearing experience.
- Oxford Ionics — Oxford Ionics is delivering world-leading innovations to create the most powerful, accurate and reliable quantum computers.
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor
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- mHealth, Software, Biopharma
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- SCARLETRED — SCARLETRED is an international Digital Health Scaleup revolutionising the global skin care market by the AI powered SCARLETRED®VISION platform system. The problem we solved is subjective skin assessment and lacking standardization in Dermatology. Our medical device certified platform is fully mobile, runs via mobile App on smartphones and connectsto our web platform, which enables to generate smart imaging data and novel AI decision support applications in Dermatology and Telemedicine. The multi award winning technology is supplied international via SaaS to Biopharma and Cosmetics Industry, Hospitals and Medical Experts. Protected via worldwide patents it facilitates standardized skin documentation and remote tracking of skin changes and therapeutic effects via mobile App. Images can be uploaded in a cloud based platform and objectively analysed for visual skin changes over time, such as for allergic reactions, pigmentation changes, acne, psoriasis, disease or wound healing. SCARLETRED provides services on a broad range of dermatologic conditions ranging from B2B to B2B2C applications.
Patrick spent over 8 years in the financial service industry based in Vienna and London. Most recently before Scalable at Goldman Sachs in London, he was working in the team responsible for structuring of financial products and developments of electronic trading platforms. Patrick studied international business at the Vienna University of Economicsand Business. Additionally, during his studies, he was self-employed as an IT-specialist.
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- SaaS, Software, Consulting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria
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- corplife — CorpLife is changing the Corporate Expense Processes with the App Clevexa. The Employees have a really simple and quick solution and the coporates save Money and time. Additional to this App CorpLife is providing the most innovative Solution in Employee Benefits. Based in Vienna/Austria CorpLife is already operating internationally.
- 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.
- Farmdok GmbH — FARMDOK is mobile, simple and automatic production documentation for agriculture - a farm management system, a field record, field diary! With a smartphone app, a web system and a unique GPS driving pattern evaluation, the recording costs for the farmers is not only reduced, but the fulfillment of legal documentation obligations is simplified. Atthe same time, FARMDOK created a reliable database for operational decision-making.FARMDOK is a Lower Austrian AgTech startup based in Wieselburg that develops smart farming solutions that simplify planning and recording in agriculture. Records are required by law and as a business decision-making basis. The four founders Andreas, Johann and Peter Prankl, as well as Franz Heinzlmaier, have an agricultural background themselves. They developed FARMDOK with the motivation to not only make the huge amount of agricultural data and information available to the farmer but above all to harness it.
Rene Schneider
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- Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics
- Seed, Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Medicus AI — Medicus AI is an innovative technology company that supports you by offering an AI-powered experience that takes your business to the next level and provides your patients with personalized access to better understand and manage their health
Leo Strohmayr is the Founder and Managing Director at Anwert Technologies AG.
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- Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 506 — 506 is a marketing data science pioneer for privacy-compliant analysis, visualization and activation of digital visitor and customer data. With its AI and cloud-based 506 customer intelligence platform and extensive marketing and data science expertise, enterprise data is transformed into sustainable business success.
Co-Founder at Tricentis - the "Disruptor" in Software Test Management & -Automation.
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- Railroad, Software, Education
- Series A
- Austria
Markus Grund
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- Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
- Angel
- Austria
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- 506 — 506 is a marketing data science pioneer for privacy-compliant analysis, visualization and activation of digital visitor and customer data. With its AI and cloud-based 506 customer intelligence platform and extensive marketing and data science expertise, enterprise data is transformed into sustainable business success.
Gerhard Kürner is the Founder and CEO of 506, a fast-growing data & performance solution provider servicing partners, retail market leaders, global industry groups and fast-rising consumer brands.Gerhard Kürner grew up in a family full of entrepreneurs and started testing and learning with the first available home computer system in the mid80s. Starting his professional career in the early 90´s with the introduction of CD-Interactive, Gerhard Kürner has always been on the leading edge of communication of brands and people. As a result, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Advertising in 1995. He helped to build up one of Austrias first privat television stations and one of the first nationwide digital streaming services in 2000. After the acquisition by Austrias largest publisher group he worked on the transition of voestalpine , the largest stock traded Austrian industry group. He helped turning the old fashioned Austrian steel maker into a global technology leader. During this time Gerhard Kürner won several global awards and was also responsible for the development and construction of the voestalpine Stahlwelt, which has since achieved worldwide recognition.In 2015 Gerhard Kürner took a share in an advertising agency in Linz. Together with his partners, he developed Lunik2 into one of the top 3 advertising agencies in Upper Austria by 2019. In November 2019, he founded 506, a solution provider for AI-driven and data-based marketing, which he heads as CEO.Selfmade entrepreneur Gerhard Kürner is always searching for new and better ways to build up businesses and to support people to do so. As a Business Angel and member of startup advisory boards, he lectures at various universities. He was part of the jury for the Austrian State Prize for Public Relations and also a board member at the Public Relations Association of Austria from 2011 to 2013. Kürner is married, has three children and lives in Wels, Austria.
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- Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
- Angel
- Austria
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- 506 — 506 is a marketing data science pioneer for privacy-compliant analysis, visualization and activation of digital visitor and customer data. With its AI and cloud-based 506 customer intelligence platform and extensive marketing and data science expertise, enterprise data is transformed into sustainable business success.
Axel Kühner is the CEO of Greiner. He attended VWA Stuttgart | Academy of Administration and Economics.
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- SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Austria
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- Circly — Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further:Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to thecompany at any time.With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies.Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!
Max Schnoedl is an independent board director, advisor and investor.He currently serves as Chairman emeritus of Springbrook. Previously, Max was President/CEO of Springbrook and COO, CFO and CSO of Accela. In addition, he also served as Board Chair of BRZ, Deputy Board Chair of Österreichische Post and Investment Committee Member ofÖsterreichische Beteiligungs AG. Prior to that, Max served as the Vice President of Deutsche Bank in San Francisco and New York, and previously held positions in Moscow, Russia and Frankfurt, Germany. Max holds an MBA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria.
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- SaaS, Software, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Austria, Switzerland, United States
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- Cohart — Cohart is a vertical marketplace for creators and their collectors. Creators build storefronts, meet collectors, and monetize/manage their communities – while next-gen consumers discover, collect, and re-sell. Starting with art and expanding to other creative collectible verticals in the future.
- Circly — Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further:Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to thecompany at any time.With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies.Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!
- medudoc — medudoc is a Berlin based digital health start-up that aims to digitalize the analog process of patient education prior to a medical intervention.
Ibrahim had already founded two companies during his studies at the Vienna University of Technology. After completing his studies, he worked with Sander to launch several other startups in the IT sector and has considerable experience in B2B sales. At PlanRadar, he’s primarily responsible for Marketing & Sales.
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- Software, Information Technology, CRM
- Angel, Series A
- Austria
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- ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
- hello again — hello again is a software that offers digital loyalty solutions. Their service includes customer relationships, customer loyalty management, software engineering, loyalty club, communication, customer acquisition, sales promotion, and insights.
Bernhard Niesner is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu – the world´s largest social network for language learning with more than 35m users. busuu provides language courses in 12 different languages combined with direct interaction with native speakers from the community. The London-based start-up received several awards and was named “Best EducationStart-Up in 2011” by TechCrunch. busuu is backed by renown business angels like Martin Varsavsky and received investment from PRO-Founders Capital.Before founding busuu, Bernhard worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In addition to busuu, he is Associated Professor at IE Business School in the area of online marketing.Bernhard graduated summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA (with honors) from IE Business School. In 2009 he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the year” in Austria.
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- Software, Apps, Energy Management
- Seed, Angel
- Austria, United Kingdom
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- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
- Shadowmap — Shadowmap aims to help with this procedure. Our contribution is the democratization of insolation data availability. We are creating the tools and inspiring humanity to re-establish a harmonious relationship with the Sun.
- notarity — notarity is the most user-friendly platform for fully digital collaboration with notaries. Notarize documents online from anywhere at anytime.
Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.
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- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, Mexico
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- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
- Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
After studying at the Vienna University of Technology and Vienna University of Economics, Sander worked for an international consulting group. From 2006, he has launched several IT companies in partnership with Ibrahim. At PlanRadar, he’s mainly responsible for management and finance.
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- Software, Analytics, Construction
- Series A
- Austria
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- ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
Norbert Muehlburger serves as CEO and Chairman of the Advisory Board of WESTCAM Beteiligungs - & Management GmbH.
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- Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 506 — 506 is a marketing data science pioneer for privacy-compliant analysis, visualization and activation of digital visitor and customer data. With its AI and cloud-based 506 customer intelligence platform and extensive marketing and data science expertise, enterprise data is transformed into sustainable business success.
Alexander Zrost
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- Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 506 — 506 is a marketing data science pioneer for privacy-compliant analysis, visualization and activation of digital visitor and customer data. With its AI and cloud-based 506 customer intelligence platform and extensive marketing and data science expertise, enterprise data is transformed into sustainable business success.
Siegfried Milly
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- Big Data, Analytics, Advertising
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- 506 — 506 is a marketing data science pioneer for privacy-compliant analysis, visualization and activation of digital visitor and customer data. With its AI and cloud-based 506 customer intelligence platform and extensive marketing and data science expertise, enterprise data is transformed into sustainable business success.
Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm.
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- Software, Transportation, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- Reflex — Pynecone is an open-source, full-stack Python framework that makes it simple to build and deploy web apps in minutes. Pynecone combines the flexibility, performance, and customizability of traditional web development with the ease of use and accessibility of low-code frameworks.
- Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
- Resemble AI — AI voice generator with voice cloning for text to speech.
Rafael Vartian
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- Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics
- Series A
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Medicus AI — Medicus AI is an innovative technology company that supports you by offering an AI-powered experience that takes your business to the next level and provides your patients with personalized access to better understand and manage their health
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