Vienna startup directory
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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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Cory Doctorow
British-Canadian author, journalist and digital-rights activist, a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and prolific commentator on technology, platforms and the open internet. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.
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CultTech Summit 2026
A summit at the intersection of culture, technology, and business, gathering founders, investors, and cultural institutions in Vienna. Useful for founders building at the culture-tech edge.
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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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Elevator Ventures
Elevator Ventures is the corporate venture capital unit of Raiffeisen Bank International, co-backed by Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien and Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark, managing funds of more than €100 million. The firm targets Series A and B fintech and beyond-banking companies, with a focus on the DACH and CEE regions, and has invested over €60 million in 21 companies, achieving seven exits. It originated from Elevator Lab, an RBI accelerator launched in 2017 to scout startup partners globally.
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Europäisches Forum Alpbach
Vienna-based non-profit association and foundation that has organized the European Forum Alpbach since 1945, an annual interdisciplinary gathering in Tyrol bringing thousands of participants from politics, business, science, culture and a large scholarship-funded young cohort together for debate on Europe's future.
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Florian Kaps
Florian Kaps is an Austrian entrepreneur and analog media advocate, best known as co-founder of The Impossible Project, the initiative that saved Polaroid instant film from extinction and restarted global production of analog instant photography. He is also the founder of Supersense, a Vienna-based cultural concept store and event space dedicated to analog art, music, and photography. Kaps is a prominent figure in entrepreneurial ventures at the crossroads of analog culture and contemporary creative communities.
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Forward Festival Vienna 2026
Two-day festival at Gartenbaukino gathering 1,500+ creatives at the intersection of design, technology and entrepreneurship. Features 20+ international speakers, hands-on workshops and 25+ talks on creative processes, breakthroughs and craft.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist widely regarded as a godfather of deep learning, a 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics and Turing Award winner for his work on neural networks. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.
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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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Grow F by Female Founders
Grow F is an accelerator programme run by Female Founders, a Vienna-based organisation building one of Europe's leading communities and support networks for women entrepreneurs. Female Founders has backed 250+ startups and connects founders to a network of 500+ VCs, with roughly half of the startups it supports in deep tech. The Grow F programme supports female-led, high-growth startups with mentoring, investor access and a structured curriculum to help them raise funding and scale internationally, alongside sibling formats like the FF Bootcamp and FF Experience.
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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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Impact Hub Vienna
Impact Hub Vienna, founded in 2009, is a coworking space and community hub for social entrepreneurs and impact-driven organizations in Vienna, part of the global Impact Hub network. It runs 6–8 incubation and acceleration programs per year spanning integration, education, health, and sustainability, and has supported more than 500 startups across over 40 programs. The community numbers more than 550 members and includes founders, NGOs, corporates, and investors aligned around creating measurable social or environmental impact.
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INiTS
Founded 2002. Academic incubator supported by University of Vienna, TU Wien, and Vienna Business Agency. Helps research-driven startups commercialize IP via START:IP and SCALEup, with funding up to EUR 100K and lab access. Scope: Regional (Vienna).
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invest.austria conference 2026
Leading Austrian funding-lifecycle event at Apothekertrakt Schönbrunn, Vienna, connecting angel investors, venture capital and private equity with innovative entrepreneurs. Full-day panels, keynotes, expo area, matchmaking via B2Match, and evening program.
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Lars Reger
German engineer and technology executive serving as Chief Technology Officer of NXP Semiconductors, a leading global semiconductor company, with deep expertise in automotive, IoT and edge computing. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.
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Layla Hosseini-Gerami
Scientist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of AI and drug discovery, focused on using computational methods to rescue and repurpose previously failed drug candidates. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and drug discovery.
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Lisa Smith
Technology leader at Prewave, a Vienna-based supply-chain risk and ESG monitoring startup that uses AI to track disruptions and compliance risks across global supplier networks. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.
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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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Marie-Helene Ametsreiter
Austrian venture capital investor and General Partner at Speedinvest, one of Europe's most active early-stage funds, with a focus on deep tech, industrial technology and hardware startups. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.
