Top 15 Sports Angel Investors in Austria (May 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

Total investments: 56
Round size: Seed $300k–$2.7M; Angel $321k–$600k
Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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.

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- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health - Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017) - Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech

Investment focus

Industry: iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: Austria, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.

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Anton Kittelberger - Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ 9am.health

Investment focus

Industry: iOS, Sports, Android
Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

myClubs — One membership. Unlimited sports.We provide digital access to the best gyms and fitness classes in Austria and Switzerland. Our network of more than 800 exclusive partner studios guarantees choice, flexibility and quality. Thousands of customers use our product as well as more and more companies and insurances. By digitalizing the growingfitness market we are following our mission: Rethinking sports.
Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.

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Georg Kofler is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Industry: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
Stage:Angel, Seed
Geography: Germany, Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Layzee — Layzee produces products related to outdoor living and camping.
KONKRUA — KONKRUA is a super delicious, gluten-free, healthy and easy original ingredients from Thailand.
Keego — Keego engages in the manufacture and supply of sports bottles.

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Martin Kreiger

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Stage:Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

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I believe everybody has a hidden talent and it needs a trigger to develop the full potential. My trigger was my brother when we set the foundation for building GoStudent, the best funded K-12 EdTech startup in Europe. My vision is to scale GoStudent to become the No. 1 global school helping children to unlock their full potential.

Investment focus

Industry: EdTech, Travel, Leisure
Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Austria, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
Seasy.com — Making Sea Life Easy
Junto — Junto is an EdTech that offers digital live training for companies.

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Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Apps
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Germany, United States, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.4M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
Crew.work — All-in-one recruiting platform that helps you hire the A players your moonshot mission needs.

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Marcel Beemsterboer - Owner @ Zeeburg Ventures

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, 3D Printing
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: The Netherlands, Spain, Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $750k–$1.6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Hubs — From prototypes to end parts. Get your parts into production in less than 5 minutes. Services: 3D Printing - CNC Machining - Injection Molding
Eversports — Find sport studios and facilities throughout Austria. Search for courses, workshops, events and sports fields that fit you and book easily online.
Deskbookers — Deskbookers is an online platform for businesses and individuals to find flexible space... offices, meeting and training rooms and flex desks. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The site is currently available in Dutch, German, and English.

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Markus Zengerer

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Stage:Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Germany, Austria, Sweden

Investor stats

Total investments: 66
Round size: Seed $16k–$2.8M; Angel $96k–$643k; Series A $1.6M–$28M
Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
Futurised — Futurized makes processes simple and intelligent by providing businesses with software robots that automate all unpleasant and complex operations using AI.
AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.

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As Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer, Johannes leads the Workpath sales team and is responsible for international expansion and the strategic development of partnerships. He moreover is heavily involved in shaping the Workpath brand and regularly publishes on the topics of organization, leadership and the new working world.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Stage:Angel
Geography: Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

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Kai Hansen is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor from Berlin, Germany, and Founding Partner of Rheingau Founders.He studied business administration with focus on entrepreneurship and marketing at the EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel (Germany), Auckland and Buenos Aires.During his last year at university Kai founded his firststartup, sportme, a social community for athletes, with Philipp Hartmann and Dr. Tobias Johann in March 2007, before going on to create Rheingau Founders together. Since then Kai has been actively involved in founding and developing 20 more startups.As Founder & Managing Director, Kai was recently responsible for the success of Lieferando, a European delivery service startup which was acquired by the market leader Takeaway.com in 2014 for more than US$100mn. With Lieferando Kai build a fast growing, multinational marketplace in a highly competitive environment and learned what it takes to make a startup successful. At Rheingau Founders, Kai is responsible for new ideas and business model development. With his extensive operational knowledge he also provides the portfolio companies with hands-on advice and strategic guidance, especially with developing efficient processes and operations.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 33
Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $3M–$11M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Lumiform — Lumiform is an easy-to-use & powerful inspection & audit software. The Lumiform mobile app is available on all devices, iOS & Android - Start FOR FREE now.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.

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Entrepreneur and Investor in E-business and Tech sector.Managing Partner and Co-founder at Market One Capital, a marketplace first VC fund based in Warsaw and Barcelona. Managing Partner and Co-founder in Protos Venture Capital, an early stage VC fund. Co-founder of Pomocni.pl group including niania.pl, remontuj.pl, pomocedomowe.pl Investor andsupporter in +20 companies, i.e. Docplanner.com (Znanylekarz.pl), Brainly.com, Unamo.com, Allani.pl, Restaumatic.com, Shoplo.com, Starofservice.com, Depilacja.pl, Pushpushgo.com.Main focus: marketing, product, business development

Investment focus

Industry: Wellness, Health Care, Ride Sharing
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Poland, Austria, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 14
Round size: Seed $2.1M–$7.5M; Series A $5.4M–$36M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.
Eversports — Find sport studios and facilities throughout Austria. Search for courses, workshops, events and sports fields that fit you and book easily online.
MoreGrowth — We build profitable online brands. We do it fast. Team up with the best and let's achieve great things together.

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Mariusz Gralewski is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of ZnanyLekarz. Mariusz Gralewski attended the Warsaw University of Technology.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Education, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Poland, Spain, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Round size: Seed $121k–$4M
Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
AlohaCamp — AlohaCamp is an online booking portal for adventure travel. They offer tent, campervan, glamping, and cottage sites. It provides a referral program.
StarOfService — Tous les professionnels, au meilleur prix.

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