Vienna, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Growth MarTechB2B SaaSEnterprise SoftwareAI
Vienna, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Growth Computer VisionEnterprise SoftwareAI
Klagenfurt, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Series C Developer ToolsSaaSB2B SaaSEnterprise Software
Vienna, Austria · Startup 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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Graz, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Growth Green EnergyEV ChargingMobility
Graz, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Early Stage Creative IndustriesE-commerceArtTech
Vienna, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Growth EdTechTutoringEducation
Graz, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Early Stage ManufacturingIndustrial AutomationHardware
Graz, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Growth SecuritySmart HomeIoTHardware
Graz, Austria · Startup 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.
Startup Early Stage HealthcareAIHealthTech
Vienna, Austria · Startup refurbed is a Vienna-based online marketplace for refurbished electronics, household appliances, and sports equipment, founded in 2017 by Peter Windischhofer, Kilian Kaminski, and Jurgen Riedl. The platform connects certified refurbishers with consumers seeking sustainable, warranty-backed alternatives to new devices at savings of up to 40%. refurbed operates across 11 European markets including Germany, Austria, Italy, and Sweden, and has raised over EUR 55 million. By planting a tree for every product sold, the company emphasizes its sustainability mission and has become one of Austria's most visible circular-economy startups.
Startup Growth MarketplaceCircular EconomyE-commerce
Graz, Austria · Startup RobotDreams is a Graz-based healthtech startup founded in 2022 that develops AI diagnostics software analyzing blood biomarker data to accelerate detection of acute conditions such as acute coronary syndrome. The platform aims to reduce diagnostic turnaround times in emergency departments by applying machine learning to in-vitro diagnostics results, helping clinicians make faster triage decisions. RobotDreams competes in the growing AI-enabled clinical diagnostics space and targets hospitals, laboratories, and emergency-care providers across Europe.
Startup Early Stage HealthcareDiagnosticsAI
Graz, Austria · Startup smaXtec builds ingestible sensor and AI monitoring systems for dairy cows to detect health issues early and improve herd management decisions, competing with precision livestock platforms such as Allflex, CowManager, and Nedap.
Startup Growth AgriTechIoTAI
Linz, Austria · Startup Storyblok is a headless content management system founded in 2017 in Linz, Austria by Dominik Angerer and Alexander Feiglstorfer. The platform provides a visual editor and API-first architecture that enables developers and marketing teams to create, manage, and publish content across websites, mobile apps, and digital displays from a single source. Storyblok has raised over $80 million from investors including Mubadala Capital, HV Capital, and 3VC. The company serves thousands of customers including Adidas, Tesla, and Pizza Hut. As a fully remote-first Austrian company that competes with Contentful and Sanity, Storyblok is a standout example of enterprise SaaS innovation from outside Europe's traditional tech hubs.
Startup Growth CMSSaaSDeveloper Tools
Vienna, Austria · Startup Vienna-based AI canvas for architects providing a browser-based collaborative design environment where natural-language prompts generate vector floorplans, 2D drawings, 3D models, and video renders up to 1,000× faster than traditional CAD tools. 60,000 users within months of beta launch. Raised €3.06M pre-seed from Plug and Play.
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Vienna, Austria · Startup TourRadar is a Vienna-based online travel marketplace specialising in multi-day organised tours. Founded in 2010 by brothers Travis and Shawn Pittman, it connects travelers with tour operators worldwide across adventure travel, safaris, river cruises, food tours and hiking trips. The platform lets users browse, compare and book multi-day trips, read traveler reviews and access booking-protection services. It positions itself as an organised adventure platform and has raised venture funding through a Series C round with backers including TCV, Cherry Ventures and Speedinvest.
Startup Series C TravelTechMarketplaceSaaS
Pasching, Austria · Startup Tractive builds GPS tracking and health-monitoring products for dogs and cats. Tractive is a startup based in Pasching, Austria at the growth stage. The company operates in the Pet Tech, IoT, Wearables space. Founded in 2012. Learn more at their website.
Startup Growth Pet TechIoTWearables
Graz, Austria · Startup Trever provides a digital-asset operating system for financial institutions to trade, settle, and manage cryptocurrencies and tokenized securities. In market positioning it overlaps with infrastructure providers such as Fireblocks and Metaco.
Startup Growth FintechDigital AssetsB2B SaaS