# Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Austria in October 2023 ## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 19 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software 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. ## Hermann Hauser - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Patrick Poschl - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Consulting 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. ## Bernhard Niesner - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, Energy Management 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. ## Nikolaus Futter - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Sensor, Parking Nikolaus Futter - Chairman @ PSI Alliance ## Klaus Hofbauer - Type: Angel - Location: Linz, Oberosterreich, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, Apps, Music Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at ## Michael Altrichter - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet Michael Altrichter - Managing Director and Director @ Paysafecard ## Alfred Luger - Type: Angel - Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology Alfred Luger - Co-Founder, CFO & COO @ Runtastic ## Schnidar Harald - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: mHealth, Software, Biopharma Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor ## Christian Kaar - Type: Angel - Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Software, Information Technology Christian Kaar ## Niki Stadler - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation Niki Stadler ## Ferdinand Dietrich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Ferdinand Dietrich - CCO & Co-founder @ Storebox ## Michael Brehm - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and starting an investment company, Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000’s, he was Executive Director andInvestor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing, but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style, as well as their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship. ## Thomas Bachem - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Education Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor. ## Jürgen Rauch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Sales, Software Jürgen Rauch ## Udo Schloemer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Software Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largest startup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines hisone of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Joerg Floeck - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Travel Joerg Floeck - Managing Partner @ Speedinvest ## Ariel Luedi - Type: Angel - Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich. ## Markus Ertler - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Parking, Software, Sensor Markus Ertler - Investor @ Ubiq.ai ## Ibrahim Imam - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, CRM 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. ## Rene Giretzlehner - Type: Angel - Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Dating Rene Giretzlehner ## Michael Ströck - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Information Technology Founding partner and investor at Calm/Storm Ventures. Previously founded companies in consumer e-commerce (KochAbo; exit to Marley Spoon in 2015) and enterprise SaaS (Gustav; YC S17). Launched and grew successful open source projects (Vienna RSS; over 10 million downloads), as well as various community and charity projects (FounderTalks.org,Chancen:reich).I‘m especially passionate about the very early stages of company-building and have a track-record of early stage investments in my own companies, as well as healthcare and health-tech startups like Mediclass, hi.health and Probably Genetic (YC W19). Other notable investments include Flaviar (YC S14), Joblocal.de (Exit 2015), Kiko, Biloba and an investment as one of the first limited partners in Austrian venture fund Speedinvest. ## Dr. Cornelius Boersch - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech 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. ## Rene Schneider - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics Rene Schneider ## Reinhard Manzl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation Reinhard Manzl ## Alois Flatz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Real Estate, Social Media Alois Flatz is a Venture Partner with 20 years' experience in private equity, investment management and sustainability. He is a member of the boards of va-Q-tec and The Mobility House.Before joining Zouk, Alois was a Partner and Head of Research at Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich, where he co-founded the Dow Jones SustainabilityIndex. Alois was also Managing Partner of BTS Investment Advisors, a private equity advisor in India with over $3 billion AUM, and an advisor to the Austrian Ministry of the Environment.A published author on sustainable investment, Alois has a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, an MBA from Vienna University of Economics and studied International Management at HEC. ## Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Analytics, Accounting operating partner ## Domagoj Dolinsek - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement Domagoj Dolinsek is the founder of PlanRadar. ## Gerhard Kornfeld - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement Gerhard Kornfeld ## Laura Raggl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement Laura Raggl ## Peter Steinberger - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 Founder of PSPDFKit ## Gunther Birkner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Services Günther Birkner was appointed President, Food & Beverage Worldwide in November of 2011, broadening his scope as President of the Healthcare & Specialty Business in March of 2016.Birkner was one of the founding partners of Pachem AG, Austria building a successful business focused on the food and beverage markets entering into a jointventure with CCL in 2003 before the outright acquisition of Pachem in 2005. ## Carsten Maschmeyer - Type: Angel - Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success. ## Dieter Rappold - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Video Dieter Rappold is the current CEO of tubics. He previously worked at Virtual Identity as a Founder. Dieter Rappold attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). ## Nils Glagau - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Wellness Nils Glagau ## Alexander Kirchgasser - Type: Angel - Location: Radstadt, Salzburg, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Video, Software Alexander Kirchgasser - Managing Partner @ has.to.be ## Leo Strohmayr - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising Leo Strohmayr is the Founder and Managing Director at Anwert Technologies AG. ## Eric Demuth - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, FinTech, Financial Services Co-founder & Co-CEO of Bitpanda ## Franz Fuchsberger - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Railroad, Software, Education Co-Founder at Tricentis - the "Disruptor" in Software Test Management & -Automation. ## Florian Wimmer - Type: Angel - Location: Linz, Oberosterreich, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Analytics, Accounting Florian Wimmer - CEO & Co-Founder @ Blockpit GmbH ## Florian Köllich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology Florian Köllich ## Alexander Zrost - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising Alexander Zrost ## Markus Grund - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising Markus Grund ## David Chreng-Messembourg - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services David Chreng-Messembourg - Co-Founder and General Partner @ LeadBlock Partners ## Max Schnoedl - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: SaaS, Software, Retail 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. ## Siegfried Milly - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Advertising Siegfried Milly ## Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad is the chief operating officer of Bitpanda. He bridges the gap between the modern and the traditional financial world by connecting digital assets with fiat currencies. ## Alexander Igelsböck - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CRM, Software, Social CRM Data based efficiency has driven every stage of my career. From the creation, growth and successful exit strategy applied to the multiple companies I have been involved with, to my latest role as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of intelligence platform Adverity, powering smarter decisions with accurate analysis has remained a keypassion.Finding better ways to use and share knowledge also forms a key element of my current responsibilities. Adverity’s integration and data visualisation capabilities are designed to make insight not only more manageable, but also accessible. As CEO, it’s part of my job to assist our ever-expanding client list of global brands and agencies in mastering its capabilities. Drawing on a personal pool of 10 years experience in computer software and our teams’ extensive collective expertise, we are constantly searching for new avenues of potential innovation. For me, persistent development is both what keeps my role interesting and sets Adverity apart in a competitive market. ## Axel Kühner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning Axel Kühner is the CEO of Greiner. He attended VWA Stuttgart | Academy of Administration and Economics. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co