Top 10 Automotive Startup Investors in Austria (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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eQventure
VC Fund
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3 | Austria, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $536k–$13M |
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Hermann Hauser
Angel
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2 | Austria, United Kingdom, Italy | Series A, Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $514k–$16M |
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Elevator Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Poland, Turkey | Series A, Seed | FinTech, SaaS, Software | $536k–$23M |
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COI Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Private Equity, Series A | Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Restaurants | |
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UNIQA Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Insurance, Health Care, FinTech | $429k–$125M |
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SET Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Energy, Renewable Energy, Software | $2.7M–$18M |
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Smartworks Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Software, Energy, Data Center | $1.1M–$8.3M |
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aws Fondsmanagement GmbH
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, Belgium | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $43k–$2.1M |
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Franz Fuchsberger
Angel
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1 | Austria | Series A | Railroad, Software, Education | |
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EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Austria, France | Series A, Seed | Software, Power Grid, Renewable Energy | $1.4M–$12M |
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $536k–$1.1M; Series A $750k–$6.4M; Series B $4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finmatics — Finmatics is a self-learning, artificial intelligence system that automates the activities of accounting service providers. It adapts itself to the unique bookkeeping requirements of companies, industries, and countries by analyzing the activities of human accountants.
- Greenwood-Power — Greenwood-Power is the leading innovator for non-conventional transformers. Let's talk about your individual requirements - CONTACT US TODAY!
- Autonoma Technologies — Autonoma Technologies is an information technology company that specializes in the digitalization of customer platforms.
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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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $514k–$6.4M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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.
Elevator Ventures - Corporate Venture Capital powered by Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI).
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- Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Austria, Poland, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $536k–$1.5M; Series A $1.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bob W — Book the smartest alternative to hotels and random rentals. Climate-neutral and locally designed apartments in handpicked districts. Stay days, weeks or months.
- vestr — Vestr facilitates the creation and life-cycle management of actively managed investment products and offers a software-as-a-service to its clients. The software engine handles everything from portfolio rebalancing to investor reporting and audit trails, so issuers and portfolio managers can focus on their core competencies. vestr is a pure playtechnology company and does not issue their own structured products.
- Autenti — Autenti is a platform for document authorization and contracting via the Internet. It facilitates the signing of many papers and accelerates the working mode in companies.
Co-Investor Partners is a private equity investor focused on mid-sized growth companies in German-speaking countries – with offices in Zurich, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. It has conducted direct investments for the last 21 years, supporting mid-sized companies in growth phases.Co-Investor Partner seeks to invest in companies ranking #1-3 ineach market with double-digit underlying company's growth, proven business models with at least EUR 10m in revenues and positive unit economics and energetic, visonary teams with proven managerial skills. Focused industries include Health-/Medtech/ Diagnostics, E-Commerce/ Retail Tech, SaaS/ Digital Services/ IT-Security, Advanced Materials/ Specialty Chemistry and Automation/ Robotics. The firms sweet spot are equity tickets between EUR 15-25 (including follow-on investments). Co-Investor Partners benefits from its highly professional investment team as well as its stable network of entrepreneurs that provide investment capital as shareholders of the group and co-investors for direct investments. Co-Investor Partners builds on a wealth of experience from more than 50 equity investments and has 11 active investments under management currently in various sectors. Among the successful investments are Mister Spex (partial exit through IPO), Fixatti (sold to listed chemical company Arkema), Euroimmun (sold to the US laboratory specialists PerkinElmer) and Casualfood (exit to Orior AG). The group consists of Co-Investor AG, Zürich, as well as its three wholly-owned subsidiaries of Co-Investor Deutschland GmbH, EVP Capital Management AG and Co-Investor Financial Services GmbH headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Restaurants
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Freaks 4U — Freaks 4U is a marketing agency that offers corporate communications, in-house media, and productions for gaming and esports.
- Mister Spex — Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.
- Keller Sports — Clothing, shoes, equipment ➤⭐ over 150 premium brands for your sport ➤10% KELLER Premium-discount*✨ ➤Free shipping from 150 €✅
UNIQA Ventures GmbH is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, a leading insurance carrier in Central & Eastern Europe and a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Austria and CEE. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future ofkey industries. Investment areas are the future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and FinTech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.
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- Industry: Insurance, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $429k–$5.4M; Series A $4.3M–$13M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
- Insly — Insly provides insurance software solutions that help you manage and automate your insurance business operations and increase the efficiency of your processes.
- Abi Global Health — Abi Global Health is an information technology company that focuses on the hospital and healthcare industry and offers an online-based platform that connects people to doctors online to get medical advice. Its platform enables its users to get access to trusted advice from doctors, its virtual health assistant, Abi, connects people to a globalnetwork of doctors for quick answers or in-depth consultations.
Venture capital firm focused broadly on innovative energy generation, distribution storage and efficiency.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$14M; Series B $8M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
- ESFORIN SE — ESFORIN SE is a fully digital energy company, offering modularly integrable energy solutions – for both, power and gas.
- vilisto GmbH — vilisto saves companies and municipalities up to 40% of heating energy without any effort for the customers by using fully automated radiator thermostats. The digital heat management solution is based on thermostats with an integrated presence detection, learning algorithms and room climate sensors. While the thermostats control the roomtemperatures fully automated and demand-based, the connected web portal allows for a central and efficient management of the property portfolio.
Enabling Visions. Today. Tomorrow. Together.
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Data Center
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.1M; Series A $1.6M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ubiq.ai — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
- IONATE — IONATE Ltd. is a technology company developing next-generation Hybrid Intelligent Transformers.
- triply — Sustainable mobility made easy. We help companies and organizations design safe and sustainable mobility solutions.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $214k–$2.1M; Grant $107k–$589k; Pre-Seed $43k–$338k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brusli — Brusli provides solutions and strategies for the reduction of food waste.
- revitalyze — revitalyze is an award-winning greentech platform that enables a circular construction industry through a unique approach to the reuse of building elements.
- Lightning Company — The Lightning Company is the first EU-based bitcoin and lightning payment gateway. We want to make bitcoin payments as easy and attractive as possible, ensuring that customers have no additional costs, whilst merchants receive attractive processing fees.
Co-Founder at Tricentis - the "Disruptor" in Software Test Management & -Automation.
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- Industry: Railroad, Software, Education
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.
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- Industry: Software, Power Grid, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$2.5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
- Vivacity Labs — VivaCity's AI solution provides detailed and anonymous data insights to help optimise transport networks, improve urban infrastructure efficiency & save lives.
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