# Top 50 Real Estate Startup Investors in Austria in May 2026

## aws Gründerfonds (aws Founders Fund)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## aws Fondsmanagement GmbH
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## VENTA GROUP
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Android

We, the VENTA Real Estate Group are your competent and ambitious partner in the field of real estate. We develop condominiums, rental apartments, offices and commercial space that are sustainable, productive and liveable. We gladly consider your individual wishes.

## Segnalita
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wattens, Tirol, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software

Segnalita is very proud of working together with passionate entrepreneurs and promising companies. With a focus on the future and the ongoing expansion of their portfolio they are continuously looking for enthusiastic founders and their ideas.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

## Markus Ertler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Parking, Software, Sensor

Markus Ertler - Investor @ Ubiq.ai

## Matterwave Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Matterwave Ventures invests in early-stage industrial hardware and software companies, empowering them to become global leaders. The company's solutions are those that will influence how value will be created in industry in the future. Matterwave Ventures, as sector-neutral investors, is on the lookout for ground-breaking hardware and softwaresolutions, including materials, components, systems, and software. With a sincere interest in their products, extensive market knowledge, solid connections in the industry, and unmatched investment expertise in the field, Matterwave Ventures supports the companies in its portfolio.

## Lemonade Stand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Lemonade Stand is a VC fund that focuses on early stage B2B investments in Baltic and East European founders no matter the HQ location. Investing €25-300K in strong teams, technology or traction.

## Aquis Sanitär
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Android

Aquis Sanitär is supply sanitary equipment with infrared sensor operated electronic faucets in workd wide.

## 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

## Martin Global AG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buchs, Inner-Rhoden, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Logistics

Martin Global AG are some of the factors by which our experienced team, actively performs a variety of industries, good ideas and product.

## Onsight Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing, Printing

Pan-european early-stage deep-tech VC

## 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.

## Invisible Hand Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hospitality, Real Estate, Residential

Nature has its own ways which we are only able to understand and control to a marginal extent. We believe that working in balance with our environment (both natural and societal) will yield the most continuous returns while automatically benefiting our first- and second-tier stakeholders. Therefore, we investment in sustainable business, cultureand anything that may have a positive effect on our communities and our environment.

## Michael Grabner Media GmbH
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

MGM - MIchael Grabner Media GmbH. Business Angel for Startups

## Cavalry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

## Peter Steinberger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2

Founder of PSPDFKit

## Berliner Volksbank Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Berliner Volksbank Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Berliner Volksbank. They support young, innovative companies in implementing their growth strategy. They stand for stability, reliability, community and partnership at eye level. These values ​​accompany us throughout the investment process and shape the cooperation with theirportfolio companies.

## Nikolaus Futter
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Sensor, Parking

Nikolaus Futter - Chairman @ PSI Alliance

## High Rise Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, Commercial Real Estate

High Rise Ventures is a Prop Tech company builder. We help early stage tech start-ups with a great team and a convincing technology to strive in the B2B space.

## Peter Prischl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mödling, Niederosterreich, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Real Estate

Peter Prischl

## Loric Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Financial Services, FinTech

Technology is transforming the way we live, work and play.
Loric Ventures invests in innovative and disruptive solutions globally, with a focus on fin- and urbantech and impact.

## Tauros Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Timber, Internet, Software

Tauros Capital Management provides equity-like funds in return for a limited share of the company's turnover.

## Sander van de Rijdt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Construction

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.

## Laura Raggl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement

Laura Raggl

## Christian Passet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Software, Smart Home

Christian Passet - System Developer and Co-Founder @ Flatout Technologies

## Yabeo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grünwald, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services

We are an early-stage investor that believes in flexible Evergreen funding without the limitations of traditional funds.

## Manta Ray Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Logistics

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.

## SmartEnergy Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Sensor, Parking, Internet

SmartEnergy Innovation Fund

## M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

M12 are a venture capital fund, by Microsoft. Our investment teams are based globally to support your business from start up funding to Series C investment.

## Niki Stadler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation

Niki Stadler

## Ferdinand Dietrich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Ferdinand Dietrich - CCO & Co-founder @ Storebox

## Domagoj Dolinsek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement

Domagoj Dolinsek is the founder of PlanRadar.

## Reinhard Manzl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation

Reinhard Manzl

## Dr. Georg Hoblik
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Construction

Dr. Georg Hoblik

## VERBUND AG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Sensor, Parking, Internet

Austria's largest electricity provider

## Stefan Polletin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Facility Management

Stefan Polletin

## Rolf Adam
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Facility Management

Rolf Adam

## Wecken & Cie.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Wecken & Cie. is an early-stage venture capital investor, focused on European fast-growing, disruptive technology companies, with expertise in FinTech and PropTech. Wecken & Cie. invests across other sectors and stages opportunistically.Having invested in more than 40 companies since 2007 and thereof successfully exited e.g. Delivery Heroand EcoIntense, Wecken & Cie. typically participates together with other institutional investors in Series A investment rounds with €500k to €3m initially, with the ability to provide additionally capital over the life of the investment. Wecken & Cie. is backed by Klaus Wecken, co-founder of multiple startups in the technology and real-estate sector, most prominently KHK Software which he sold to SAGE Group in 1997.

## Gerhard Kornfeld
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement

Gerhard Kornfeld

## Peak Pride
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical

Multi family office investing in proptech, digital health & sustainability

## ABB
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

ABB is a pioneering technology leader that works closely with utility, industry, transportation and infrastructure customers to write the future of industrial digitalization and realize value.

## Energie360°
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Energy Storage, Clean Energy

One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies

## Allegion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet of Things, Smart Home, iOS

Allegion plc is a global provider of security products and solutions. The company offers a portfolio of mechanical and electronic security products across a range of brands. It operates in three geographic regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), and Asia Pacific. As of November 15, 2013, the Company was selling itssecurity products and solutions under 23 brands in 120 countries, including Schlage, Von Duprin, LCN, CISA, and Interflex. It sells a range of security products and solutions for end-users in commercial, institutional, and residential facilities worldwide, including into the education, healthcare, government, commercial office, and single- and multi-family residential markets.In April 2014, the Company acquired Fire & Security Hardware.

## PwC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We are a community of solvers combining human ingenuity, experience and technology innovation to help organisations build trust and deliver sustained outcomes.

## Ibrahim Imam
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Cipio Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software

Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.

## Flashpoint
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds.

## Insight Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.

## b2venture (formerly btov Partners)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. With investment teams in Digital and Industrial Tech, Btov invests EUR 50m per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

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