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Adverity
Adverity is a marketing data and analytics platform headquartered in Vienna, founded in 2015. It helps marketing, sales and e-commerce teams integrate, clean and manage data from many sources, then analyse it to generate insights. Its offering splits into Adverity Data, for data collection, integration and quality management, and Adverity Intelligence, for analytics and AI-powered, conversational capabilities, connecting to a large number of marketing and advertising data sources. The company holds ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications and is backed by investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sapphire Ventures.
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Anyline
Anyline is a Vienna-based computer vision company founded in 2013 that provides mobile OCR and scanning SDK technology, enabling smartphones and tablets to read text, barcodes, IDs, license plates, and meter readings using the device camera. The company serves enterprise clients in energy, logistics, government, and automotive, with deployments in over 100 countries. Anyline has raised approximately $20 million and partners with organizations like the US Department of Homeland Security. It is a standout Austrian deep-tech company that turned on-device AI scanning into a scalable B2B platform.
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Bitmovin
Bitmovin is a video-streaming developer-infrastructure company that provides cloud-based tools for encoding, playing and analysing video, including a VOD encoder, a live encoder, a multi-device player and streaming quality-of-experience analytics. It originated from MPEG-DASH adaptive-streaming research at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and its founders were among the co-creators of the MPEG-DASH standard. Serving media and enterprise customers, the company operates dual headquarters in Klagenfurt and San Francisco and has raised venture funding including from Highland Europe, Atomico and Dawn Capital.
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Bitpanda
Bitpanda is one of Austria's most visible fintech scale-ups and has evolved from a consumer crypto trading app into a broader digital wealth platform. The product now combines access to cryptocurrencies, precious metals, ETFs, and other investment products in a single interface aimed at making investing feel simple for mainstream European users. A major part of Bitpanda's strategic value is not just consumer distribution, but the compliance and infrastructure layer it has built around regulated digital investing. That regulatory posture helped the company move from a retail app narrative toward financial infrastructure, including B2B services that let banks and fintechs offer investing products through Bitpanda's rails. In the European ecosystem, Bitpanda represents the maturation of fintech and digital-asset infrastructure on the continent: not only speculation-led growth, but operational depth around licensing, custody, user onboarding, and cross-border product rollout. Its presence also expands the directory's coverage of companies that sit between retail experience and regulated financial plumbing. That makes Bitpanda a strong reference point for founders and investors tracking how European fintech platforms transition from category breakout into foundational market infrastructure.
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Blockpit
Blockpit is a Linz-based crypto tax and portfolio compliance platform, founded in 2017 as one of Europe's earliest crypto tax regulation trailblazers. Its tools include a crypto tax calculator, portfolio tracker, tax optimizer, and source-of-funds reporting, generating more than 1 million tax reports for over 350,000 customers across Austria, Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and other markets. Legally Blockpit AG, the company made two acquisitions in 2020 and 2023 to expand its European crypto compliance footprint and is led by co-founders Florian Wimmer (CEO), Gerd Karlhuber (CFO), Magnus Berchtold (CPO), and Tom Buchsteiner (CTO).
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bsurance
bsurance is a Vienna-based insurtech founded in 2018, one of the first movers in embedded and connected insurance in Europe. Its no-code insurance platform helps insurers, MGAs, banks, and brands launch and manage digital and embedded insurance products quickly, positioning itself as the speed layer between legacy insurance cores and new market opportunities. The company says it is built on the experience of more than 30 cooperations across 10+ countries, and it is led by co-founders Emmanuel Cheret (CEO), Raffaela Gruen (COO and CPO), and Pedro Antunes (CTO).
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byrd
byrd is a Vienna-based third-party logistics (3PL) and e-commerce fulfillment company operating a European fulfillment network of 12 warehouses across Austria, Germany, France, the UK, and Poland. Its platform integrates with e-commerce channels like Shopify, Amazon, and WooCommerce for automated multichannel fulfillment, real-time inventory tracking, and multi-carrier shipping, reporting more than 7 million products shipped per year with 99.4% on-time and 99.9% fulfillment accuracy. byrd, legally byrd technologies GmbH, is led by co-founders Alexander Leichter and Petra Dobrocka.
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contextflow
contextflow is a Vienna-based medical AI company that builds computer-aided diagnostic tools for chest CT analysis, including its ADVANCE Chest CT suite for detecting and quantifying lung cancer, ILD and COPD, plus products for PACS integration and pharma use. It was founded in July 2016 out of the Medical University of Vienna and the EU-funded Khresmoi research project, with support from TU Wien. The company has been recognised as Best Healthtech Startup Austria by the Central European Startup Awards and has received grants and investment from the European Innovation Council.
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Crqlar
Crqlar is an Innsbruck-based hospitality software company that turns hotel and restaurant guest data into personalised service, syncing in real time with PMS systems such as Oracle, Mews, Protel, and Elite. Its tools include a smart drag-and-drop floor plan, half-board and full-board planning, an AI-powered guest briefing that flags allergies and special occasions, and online reservations with no-show protection. Crqlar reports serving over 2 million guests and 1 million merged guest profiles, and says its customers see measurable gains in upselling revenue and occupancy.
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CYBERTRAP
CYBERTRAP (CyberTrap Software GmbH) is a Vienna-based cybersecurity company building an AI-driven deception and proactive defense platform. Its Engage Platform uses high-fidelity lures, decoys, and adaptive digital twins that mirror real assets to detect attackers early, study their behavior, and convert intrusions into threat intelligence, aiming to cut attacker dwell time from weeks to hours. The company positions itself against AI-driven attacks that can move laterally within minutes of a breach.
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Easelink
Easelink develops Matrix Charging, an automated hands-free EV charging system that connects vehicles to ground charging pads without manual cable handling. It positions against charging ecosystem players such as IONITY, EV Connect, and ChargePoint.
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faaya collective
faaya collective is an art-commerce platform that sells fine-art prints from emerging artists and produces on-demand prints locally in Graz, positioned as a sustainability-focused alternative to larger print marketplaces.
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Fretello
Fretello is a Linz-based app that teaches beginners to play guitar through step-by-step lessons, interactive practice with real-time feedback, and a song library that lets learners play their favorite tracks from day one. Lessons and courses are designed by professional guitarists and educators, and the app has been featured by Apple and used by a community of more than 700,000 guitarists worldwide. The company is legally Fretello GmbH, led by Florian Lettner.
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GoStudent
GoStudent is a Vienna-based online tutoring platform founded in 2016 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Mueller. The platform connects students with vetted tutors for one-on-one video lessons across subjects from math and science to languages. GoStudent raised over EUR 675 million and was valued at EUR 3 billion at its 2022 peak, making it one of Europe's most valuable edtech companies. The company operates in over 20 countries and has served more than 1.5 million tutoring sessions. After rapid pandemic-era growth, GoStudent refocused on unit economics and profitability, while expanding into AI-powered learning tools and school partnerships.
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ImageBiopsy Lab
ImageBiopsy Lab is a Vienna-based medical AI company building a modular software platform (IB Lab ZOO) for automated, objective analysis of musculoskeletal medical images, covering use cases such as knee osteoarthritis scoring, bone age estimation, leg geometry, hip angle measurement, scoliosis, and fracture detection. Its tools integrate into PACS and RIS radiology systems and have more than 100 installations across 10+ countries. The company has partnered with pharma company UCB to further develop AI-based osteoporosis and fracture identification technology, and it operates a US office in New Jersey alongside its Vienna headquarters.
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JOYNED
JOYNED (Joyned GmbH) is an Austrian professional audio technology company building deterministic Milan/AVB audio networking hardware and software, including USB audio interfaces such as the MU16, its Dash Milan controller software, and OEM AVB switches. The company also licenses its modular hardware and software platform to other manufacturers through its OEM & Licensing programme. JOYNED is a Promoter Member of the Avnu Alliance, the industry body behind the Milan networked-audio standard, and runs workshops such as its Milan networking session at Thomann Live Days 2026.
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Livin Farms
Livin Farms is a Vienna-based agrifoodtech company that builds ready-to-go industrial insect farming modules called Hive PRO factories, helping customers turn organic waste into insect protein for food and feed. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is led by founder and CEO Katharina Unger, a pioneer in the waste-to-protein industry since 2012. Its team combines expertise in biology, production and technology to shortcut the lengthy and expensive process of setting up an insect farming operation.
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Multivative
Multivative is a Graz-based early-stage startup that builds modular prototyping systems and Pick2Place workflows designed to accelerate electronics and hardware development for manufacturing teams. The company focuses on helping SMEs and industrial R&D labs produce electronic prototypes faster and more affordably by simplifying component placement and assembly steps. Multivative has received funding through the SURE5.0 Industry 5.0 programme and is part of the growing Styrian hardware and industrial automation startup cluster in Austria.
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Nuki
Nuki is a Graz-based Austrian startup, founded in 2014 by brothers Martin Pansy (CEO) and Jürgen Pansy, that makes retrofit smart locks and access hardware requiring no drilling and fitting most existing European door cylinders in minutes. Its line spans the flagship Smart Lock Ultra — with a brushless motor that unlocks in under a second and a 2025 CES Innovation Award — alongside the Keypad 2 (PIN, fingerprint and NFC), Opener (intercom bridge), Fob and Door Sensor, with compatibility across Apple Home, Alexa, Google Home and SmartThings. Nuki was the first electronic lock with native Matter support and an early adopter of the Aliro NFC access standard, and is privacy-first, requiring no mandatory user account. By early 2026 Nuki had over 600,000 smart locks deployed, more than one million active users and over two billion locking operations a year, positioning it as Europe's leading smart-lock brand after 50%+ annual sales growth in 2022 and 2023. The company entered the US market in July 2025 and is preparing a door-integrated Smart Module for late 2026. Nuki has raised roughly €22M, led by German growth investor Cipio Partners in a €20M+ 2021 round with Austrian backers Up to Eleven, Fortuna and Venta, and was an earlier strategic partner of Allegion.
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Predicting Health
Predicting Health develops AI-based clinical risk prediction tools that analyze patient data to support early intervention and improve care quality. The company is a spin-off from the KAGes Data Science Team in Graz and operates in the same category as platforms like PIPRA.
