Vienna startup directory
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0100 Conference DACH 2026
Investor-focused conference in Vienna connecting LPs, GPs, and family offices across the DACH private equity and venture capital markets. Features structured networking, fund manager presentations, and LP-GP matchmaking sessions. Valuable for startups seeking growth equity and founders looking to understand the Central European investor landscape.
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3TS Capital Partners
Founded in 2000, 3TS Capital Partners is a Vienna-based VC and growth equity firm investing EUR 5-20M at Series B and beyond in technology, media, and telecom companies across Central and Eastern Europe. The firm manages over EUR 500M and has completed 70+ investments with 30+ exits. Notable portfolio companies include SALESmanago (acquired by Bain Capital), Evrotrust, and Emarsys (acquired by SAP). 3TS focuses on profitable, scaling B2B software and digital media businesses in the DACH and CEE regions.
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3VC
Founded in 2017 as Capital300 and rebranded to 3VC, this Vienna-based firm invests EUR 1-10M at Series A in European tech challengers originating from DACH and CEE. The firm manages over EUR 250M and targets enterprise software, developer tools, and consumer internet companies with strong product-market fit. Portfolio includes GoStudent (edtech unicorn), Prewave (supply chain AI), and Storyblok (headless CMS). 3VC provides deep operational support through its network of 100+ tech executives across Europe.
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4GAMECHANGERS Festival 2026
Vienna's multi-stage innovation festival organized by ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4, bringing 10,000+ attendees across media, tech, sustainability, and politics tracks. Features a startup expo, pitch competition, and keynotes from European tech leaders. Free to EUR 99.
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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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Agro Innovation Lab
Created 2016 by Raiffeisen Ware Austria and BayWa. Agritech accelerator offering mentoring, pilot opportunities on farms, industry networking, and hackathons; pilots can lead to strategic cooperation or investment with BayWa/RWA. Scope: International (Europe).
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AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Austria's largest non-university research institution, focused on applied research in energy, mobility, health, digital safety and security and innovation systems. It organizes Technology Talks Austria, a flagship innovation conference convening leaders from politics, industry and academia on technological sovereignty and resilience.
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Alexander Wrabetz
Alexander Wrabetz is Vienna's Commissioner for AI in Media and the former long-serving Director General of ORF, Austria's public broadcasting corporation. He is a prominent figure in Austrian and European media policy, having led ORF through major digital transformation phases over multiple terms. At the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, he argued for cross-sector cooperation among public and private broadcasters to address economic pressures from advertising losses and accelerate AI adoption.
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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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Apex Ventures
Apex Ventures is a Vienna-based seed-stage venture capital firm launched in 2017 by Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, Wolfgang Berner, and Ulrich Gall, focused on deep tech, AI, medical devices, and digital health. The firm manages over EUR 50M and invests EUR 250K-1.5M in science-driven teams with defensible intellectual property, often emerging from leading European research institutions. Apex has backed companies including Prewave, Ribbonfish, and contextflow, and provides hands-on support in technology commercialization and clinical market access.
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Austria Future Finance Summit 2026
One-day Vienna summit bringing together fintech founders, banks, corporates, regulators, and investors. Held with Vienna Blockchain Week and NEOB.ai. Covers digital finance, tokenization, AI, payments, regulation, and enterprise adoption with 500+ attendees and 30+ speakers.
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AustrianStartups
Austria's leading startup community organization, active since 2013, hosting afterwork meetups, regional events, and the annual Austrian Startup Report. AustrianStartups connects over 5,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem players across Vienna, Graz, and Linz, advocating for better startup policy and strengthening the national startup landscape.
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AustrianStartups Summit 2026
Annual meeting point of the Austrian startup ecosystem at Ottakringer Brauerei in Vienna. Brings founders, investors and industry leaders together for talks, panels and high-value networking under the 2026 motto 'No risk, no fun(ds)'.
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AWS First Incubator
aws First is a pre-startup incubation programme run by Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws), the promotional bank of the Austrian federal government. It supports aspiring founders and very early-stage teams with grants, coaching and structured guidance to develop their business ideas into viable startups, sitting at the earliest end of Austria's public startup-support pipeline.
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aws Gruenderfonds
The aws Gruenderfonds is an Austrian venture capital fund managed within Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws), the promotional bank of the Austrian federal government. It provides equity and equity-like financing to young, high-growth Austrian startups, typically at seed and early stages, to help them scale and attract follow-on private investment.
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Bernhard Albrecht
Bernhard Albrecht is Co-CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4, Austria's leading commercial broadcaster and digital entertainment group. He drives the company's AI strategy and digital transformation agenda across its portfolio of TV and digital channels. At the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, he emphasized moving from AI buzzwords toward genuine practical implementations in media production and marketing.
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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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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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César Rodríguez-Garavito
Colombian legal scholar and professor at NYU School of Law, chair of the Earth Rights Research and Action program, working on human rights, environmental law and the rights of nature. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and environmental law.
