Hand-picked startups, investors, and ecosystem operators in Graz, with a custom city illustration in europe-startup-guide.com brand colors.
11 entries.
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.
eQventure is an Austrian venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Graz, with a second office in Vienna. It specializes in early-stage and growth investments in deep technology, industrial tech, digital health, and consumer technology companies, primarily in Austria. Behind the firm are experienced entrepreneurs who contribute hands-on operational support and access to a global network spanning Austria, Germany, the UK, Israel, the US, and China.
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.
A one-week intensive deep-tech commercialization program, successor to the I.E.C.T. Summer School, for ambitious founders preparing a pre-seed or seed raise within the next year. The week of mentorship and collaboration culminates in a Demo Day where founders pitch to a curated group of investors and corporate partners. In 2026 the program is hosted in Styria.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Science Park Graz is a high-tech startup incubator in Graz, Austria, linked to the city's universities, that supports early-stage deep-tech and science-based founders. It provides incubation programmes, coaching, workspace and access to research and investor networks to help spin technology out of academia into companies.
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.
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.