Austria startup ecosystem
Austria's startup scene is centred on Vienna, which blends a high quality of life with growing access to capital and talent. The city serves as a gateway between Western and Central Europe, making it attractive for founders targeting DACH and CEE markets. Key sectors include fintech, proptech, and sustainability, supported by government grants and an expanding accelerator landscape. The directory currently lists 106 organisations across 12 cities.
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Speedinvest
Speedinvest is one of Europe's most active pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firms, founded in 2011 in Vienna by Oliver Holle. The firm manages over EUR 600M across sector-focused funds covering fintech, deep tech, marketplaces, and industrial tech, with offices in Vienna, Berlin, London, Munich, and San Francisco. Speedinvest invests EUR 500K-2M initially and follows on to Series A, having backed 300+ companies including Bitpanda, GoStudent, Tier Mobility, Open, and Wefox. The firm operates a 40-person platform team providing hands-on support in hiring, legal, growth, and US market entry.
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Startup South! Klagenfurt Edition 2026
Regional meetup event in Klagenfurt, hosted by AustrianStartups, fostering connections within the local startup community as part of their ongoing series.
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Startup South! Klagenfurt Edition 2026
Regional startup community meetup in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, focused on connecting local founders, mentors, and ecosystem builders. Part of the AustrianStartups nationwide event series fostering grassroots entrepreneurship. Valuable for founders in southern Austria seeking local support networks and regional investor introductions.
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Startup Tirol
Startup Tirol is the regional startup agency for Tyrol, informing, coaching, and connecting founders from first idea through to a growing company. It runs a portfolio of dedicated programmes, including Beyond [her] Lab (support for women founders), the INNC innovation-check programme, the Boost.Up! growth programme, and pioneer:impact for impact-driven ventures, alongside recurring community formats such as Founders Match on Campus and a Founders Breakfast Club. Startup Tirol is also the regional delivery partner for aws AplusB, Austria's national academic pre-incubation funding scheme.
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Stefan Kollinger
Stefan Kollinger is Chief Innovation Officer at ORF, Austria's public broadcasting corporation, where he leads innovation strategy and digital technology initiatives. He is a key executive responsible for driving ORF's transformation in the face of streaming competition and AI disruption. He participated as a speaker at the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, representing ORF's perspective on practical AI adoption within public media workflows.
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Storyblok
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.
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Synaps
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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Tabakfabrik Linz
Tabakfabrik Linz is a landmark creative and innovation campus occupying a former tobacco factory built between 1929 and 1935 by architects Peter Behrens and Alexander Popp. Production halted in September 2009, after which the City of Linz acquired the site for €17 million and began a phased conversion into a mixed creative, academic, and startup district. The complex covers 38,148 square metres of land with approximately 24,000 square metres of usable interior space, distributed across studios, ateliers, workshops, and office blocks. More than 250 organisations now operate on-site, including programmes from Kunstuniversität Linz (Creative Robotics, Fashion and Technology), design agencies such as Netural, the Valie Export Center for media and performance art research, and the Factory300 and Strada del Startup startup-office cluster. Workspace options range from artist ateliers and shared studios to private offices, making the campus accessible to creatives, researchers, and founders at various stages. The location — Gruberstraße 1 / Peter-Behrens-Platz 11, Linz — sits in the Hafen district roughly ten minutes from the city centre. The campus functions as an anchor of Linz's creative-industries ecosystem and hosts major cultural events alongside its resident community.
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Tech2b
tech2b is a startup incubator in Upper Austria, based in Linz, that supports innovative, future-oriented founders in building and scaling their businesses. It runs a structured pipeline of programmes — IDEATE, ACTIVATE and INCUBATE — plus sector-specific tracks including a tourism incubator (#tourismusinkubator), Business2Excellence, and PIER4, with focus areas spanning diversity-led founding teams, hardware, greentech and medtech. It offers coaching, funding access and connections across the regional Upper Austrian innovation ecosystem, and runs the annual EDISON startup awards.
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Technology Talks Austria 2026 (September 2026)
A two-day flagship innovation conference themed around technological leadership for a resilient Europe, organized by AIT. It convenes international experts and decision-makers from politics, industry and academia for keynotes, plenary debates, in-depth workshops and networking on technological sovereignty, resilient infrastructure and turning research into industrial strength. A strong fit for deep-tech founders and R&D-driven startups.
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TEDAI Vienna
Local organizing team behind TEDAI Vienna, the official TED conference dedicated to artificial intelligence, produced in collaboration with TED. It curates three days of TED Talks, panels and workshops at the Hofburg for executives, AI builders, researchers and decision-makers from dozens of countries.
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TEDAI Vienna 2026 (October 2026)
The official TED conference dedicated to artificial intelligence, featuring three days of TED Talks, panels and workshops on AI's future at the Hofburg in Vienna. It draws over a thousand guests from dozens of countries and hundreds of organizations, roughly a third of them executives plus AI builders, researchers and decision-makers. A premium, high-signal venue for founders engaging with global AI thought leaders.
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TourRadar
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.
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Tractive
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.
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Trever
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.
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Uniqa Ventures
UNIQA Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group, founded in 2016 and based in Vienna, with €150 million in investment capital. It invests at Series A and B stages in insurtech, digital health, mobility, and fintech companies, with a particular emphasis on CEE startups. The portfolio has grown to over 50 companies including unicorn Bitpanda, with eight acquisitions among its exits.
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Valeria Pettorino
Cosmologist and physicist researching dark energy and the large-scale structure of the universe, applying machine learning to astrophysical data and survey missions. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and galaxies.
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Venionaire Capital
Venionaire Capital is a Vienna-based boutique venture capital and advisory firm founded in 2012 by Berthold Baurek-Karlic. The firm manages venture funds focused on DACH-region technology startups, investing at seed and Series A in fintech, IoT, and entertainment tech. Venionaire combines direct fund investments with corporate innovation advisory services, helping connect startups with strategic corporate partners. The firm also organizes the ViennaUP conference track and provides M&A advisory for tech companies, positioning itself as a bridge between the Austrian startup ecosystem and international capital markets.
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VentureCake
Launched in 2020, VentureCake is a Vienna-based early-stage accelerator providing a structured mentoring track, ecosystem access, and coworking space in central Vienna. The program supports pre-seed and seed startups across tech sectors with workshops on fundraising, product development, and go-to-market. Each cohort culminates in a Demo Day with a EUR 250K pitch prize. VentureCake connects founders with Austrian corporate partners and angel investors. Scope: Local (Vienna).
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Vienna Tech Summit 2026
A two-day tech and careers summit in central Vienna connecting developers, tech companies, and startups, with a job fair, talks, and networking. Useful for founders building engineering teams in the DACH region.
