# Top 25 Enterprise Software Startup Investors in Austria in May 2026 ## tecnet equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sankt Polten, Niederosterreich, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth. ## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## 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. ## Hansmen Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Software, Wellness The hansmengroup is a bunch of startups, that share common values, similar goals and the same Business Angel. A group with an incredible performance. ## Jürgen Rauch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Sales, Software Jürgen Rauch ## Open Field Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Diagnostics Open Field Capital LLC was established in August of 2003 with the exclusive focus of managing portfolios in emerging technology equities.The founding principals of Open Field Capital have worked together for over 15 years and have a substantial depth and breadth of experience in the financial markets. Throughout that time, the principals haveworked in emerging technology markets and have developed both an investment philosophy and methodology tailored to the sector's unique characteristics. ## eQventure - Type: VC Fund - Location: Graz, Steiermark, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs ## 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. ## Calm/Storm Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Medical Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A. ## Beringea - Type: VC Fund - Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends. ## Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) invests in early stage businesses from angel investment, seed, VC and Series A rounds through a combination of equity and debt structures.FRC’s approach is to target investments that complement the skills and experience of its Founders so that they can bring more than just capital to help a business grow. Both FRC’sFounders have a core knowledge of technology, services, and an entrepreneurial history that they can bring to the benefit of an investment. FRC is Europe-centric, and with a base in Ljubljana, Slovenia, there is an additional focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Austria and Southern Germany. On an opportunistic basis FRC will look at deals throughout Europe and also the United States. The Founders are well-connected to accelerators in Central Europe and in Silicon Valley. ## Carcharodon Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Carcharodon Capital provides seed financing for start-ups. The funds can also be provided during the foundation and serve the development and development of the company. The investment volume is between € 50,000 and € 200,000 per investment and can be provided in the form of equity, debt capital or as a hybrid (eg silent partner). ## Peter Steinberger - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 Founder of PSPDFKit ## Ferdinand Dietrich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Ferdinand Dietrich - CCO & Co-founder @ Storebox ## European Investment Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg. ## 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. ## Laura Raggl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement Laura Raggl ## Niki Stadler - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation Niki Stadler ## Fund F - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Software, Mobile Apps The European Venture Fund that backs gender-diverse founder teams. ## Reinhard Manzl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation Reinhard Manzl ## Gerhard Kornfeld - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement Gerhard Kornfeld ## A P - Trading - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Sales, Software Unternehmensbeteiligungen & Immobilien ## A & S Beteiligungsgesellschaft - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Sales, Software Beteiligung an anderen Unternehmen ## KIZOO Technology Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics KIZOO provides mentoring, seed and early-stage financing with a focus on rejuvenation biotech. Having been entrepreneurs, VCs and mentors in both, high growth tech and biotech companies theirselves for many years with multiple exits and massive value created for the founders, they now bring this experience to the emerging field of rejuvenationbiotech - a young industry that will eventually become much bigger than today's largest technology markets. ​ As part of the Forever Healthy Group, they directly support the creation of startups that turn research on the root causes of aging into therapies and services for humans. ​ Forever Healthy's other initiatives include the evaluation of new rejuvenation therapies, evidenced-based curation of the world's cutting-edge medical knowledge, funding research projects on the root causes of aging and hosting the annual Undoing Aging Conference. ## Hermann Hauser - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. # 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