aws Fondsmanagement GmbH

aws Fondsmanagement GmbH, established in late 2009 by Austria Wirtschaftsservice, serves as a key player in Austria's investment landscape. As part of the Austrian Economic Service, it operates the aws SME fund, recognized as the largest Austrian fund dedicated to silent corporate investments while also providing equity financing. With an endowment of EUR 80 million, the fund focuses on investing in medium-sized companies, offering fresh capital to support the development of new products and processes, as well as facilitating international expansion. The fund is set to continue its operations until the end of 2025, playing a vital role in promoting the growth and competitiveness of Austrian enterprises.

Ralf Kunzmann

Managing Director

Bernhard Sagmeister

Managing Director

Christian Stein

Head of Equity Programs

Edeltraud Stiftinger

Managing Director

Thomas Uher

Chief Executive Officer

53 past transactions

notarity

Pre Seed Round in 2021
notarity is the most user-friendly platform for fully digital collaboration with notaries. Notarize documents online from anywhere at anytime.

Brusli

Grant in 2022
Brusli provides solutions and strategies for the reduction of food waste. It specializes in turning stale bread into muesli. A crispy cereal created from surplus bread is the company's initial product.

DrainBot

Grant in 2021
DrainBot provides railway and road operators with intelligent, autonomous tunnel drainage maintenance systems that improve economic efficiency and safety of their tunnels. Their novel system aims at completely removing locking times for tunnels, while reducing resource consumption, environmental impact and cost of tunnel drainage maintenance. Data-based approach to maintenance planning enables better efficiency and longer lifecycle of the infrastructure.

JENTIS

Seed Round in 2022
Jentis is the logical European solution to data control and data quality in today's digital world.

Monkee

Grant in 2019
Monkee aims to help people to improve their financial health. The app combines behavioral design, gamification and machine learning to support people to balance their finances and save more for their future. The AI-driven Financial Health coach support to define saving targets, breaks them down into motivating goals and helps with soft interventions (nudges) to save for those targets. Monkee helps to build habits to bring spending and saving more into balance. The company was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.

helloCash

Seed Round in 2015
helloCash is a cloud-based cash register software company. We offer an easy to handle and very cost effective solution to fullfill all legal requirements. helloCash can be used on every existing device like Tablet, Smartphone, PC or Laptop. We operate in 6 different european countries.

Vira Therapeutics

Series A in 2015
ViraTherapeutics develops highly potent anti-cancer therapeutics based on oncolytic (cancer-destroying) viruses. Our proprietary oncolytic virus, VSV-GP, efficiently destroys cancer cells, while leaving normal tissues unharmed. ViraTherapeutics currently performs preclinical safety and efficacy studies for VSV-GP and aims to conduct first clinical trials in cancer patients.

helloCash

Series A in 2018
helloCash is a cloud-based cash register software company. We offer an easy to handle and very cost effective solution to fullfill all legal requirements. helloCash can be used on every existing device like Tablet, Smartphone, PC or Laptop. We operate in 6 different european countries.

SCARLETRED

Grant in 2019
SCARLETRED is an international digital Health Company aiming on to disrupt the global skin care market by our first product SCARLETRED®VISION. The problem we solved is subjective skin assessment and lacking standardization in Dermatology. Our CE certified medical device is fully mobile, runs via iOS APP on smartphones and connects to our web platform, which enables smart Big Data and novel analytics applications in Dermatology. Our technology is awarded with the Austrian State Prize 2017 and proven in Silicon Valley with the MedTech Award. We supply the product plus SaaS to Biopharma and Cosmetics Industry, Hospitals and Medical Experts The patented technology facilitates standardized skin documentation and remote tracking via mobile App. Images can be uploaded in a cloud based platform and objectively analyzed for visual skin changes over time, such as for allergic reactions, pigmentation changes, acne, psoriasis, disease or wound healing. The application is fully GCP compliant and allows medical routine and clinical trial applications when combined with SCARLETRED's proprietary Skin Patch, serving as a precise color and size reference.

OncoOne

Series A in 2020
OncoOne is a biotech start-up dedicated to developing innovative therapeutics to treat patients with solid tumors, founded by three individuals with a long history in drug development and oncology research from the pharmaceutical industry.

semanticlabs

Debt Financing in 2005
System One, based in Vienna, offers products in the field of semantic analysis, collaboration, search and contextualisation. Based on core technologies in Search and Semantic Algorithms its mission is to "decrease the costs of daily information workflows, enable new business strategies and are more flexible and cost effective all the way".

Wowflow

Grant in 2021
Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.

Prediki Prediction Services

Seed Round in 2012
Prediki is the open prediction platform. It aggregates its users opinions into one objective prediction

emotion3D

Pre Seed Round in 2010
emotion3D develops camera-based vehicle in-cabin monitoring solutions for safety and user experience applications in the automotive industry. Our proprietary machine learning / deep learning software technology monitors all occupants (estimating the positions of all human joints and head poses, recognizing human actions, analyzing anthropometric properties, etc.) and objects in a car (phones, wallets, child- seats, etc.) delivering vast amounts of valuable information about the driver, passengers and objects inside a vehicle. This analysis detects drowsiness, fatigue, dangerous objects and other critical situations in order to react in real-time to avoid accidents and improve driving experience. In addition to safety features, the technology can be used for increasing user experience through gesture and activity recognition. 94% of car accidents (NHTSA) are caused by human error resulting in more than 1.200.000 people dying each year (WHO) and hundreds of thousands more injured. We provide an intelligent software that analyses, understands and reacts to humans and objects inside the car in order to prevent accidents. As our main customers, Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs, see themselves confronted with increasing legal regulations concerning driver and passenger safety, we offer a reliable system to equip their vehicles in order to meet these safety standards and stand out from competition.

Robo Wunderkind

Venture Round in 2016
Robo Wunderkind is a startup based in Vienna, Austria. We build tools that enhance the way kids play, learn, and create with tech in school and at home. Our award-winning robotics kits empower kids to learn to code through the joy of play. Based in Vienna as well as San Francisco, California. In the summer of 2014, the team was part of the first worldwide hardware accelerator HAX. The progress made there was incorporated into Robo, earning them the "Robot of the Year" Award from Festo and the Austrian Startup of the Year Award in 2015.

Infotemp

Seed Round in 2016
Infotemp is a Performance Application for companies that gives users access to fast time tracking systems, simplified payroll processes & intelligent analytics.

KINAMU Business Solutions

Series A in 2007
The KINAMU Business Solutions AG was founded at the beginning of the year 2007 as SAP spin-off company by Christian Knoll, Alexander Simon, Michael Hubl and Marcus Riedler. All KINAMU founders have 10 to 20 years experience in the international IT business. Apropos names, the focus is on our company name - KINAMU. KINAMU is Kiswahili (an African language) and means agility/flexibility. Certainly an unusual name for an IT company but quite adequate.

Flatout Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
Flatout Technologies GmbH develops cloud software for home automation. The company offers FlatCloud, a cloud solution that connects sensors and actuators in a home to each other and allows them to be controlled through the Internet. Its product connects to smart devices of a home; and support Z-Wave and IP compatible devices. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

Miracor Medical

Series B in 2011
Miracor Medical operates as a medical device company. It develops and commercializes a pressure-controlled intermittent coronary sinus occlusion (PiCSO) impulse system for cardiac surgeons to facilitate the PiCSO treatment for myocardial infarction/heart attack patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Miracor Medical offers a therapy for improving micro-vascular perfusion functions through the coronary sinus. Werner Mohl founded it in 2008, with its headquarters in Awans in Belgium.

journi

Seed Round in 2016
journi GmbH offers a travel blogging solution to record trips offline and on the go. The company offers journi, an application that helps users to log their travels for themselves and for their friends. It allows users to find trips or places they like and get help from their journi travel network while planning their next adventure; and get an overview about what's going on in their travel network, as well as real-time updates about their friends' adventures. journi GmbH was formerly known as miavia GmbH. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

SPHARES

Grant in 2013
SPHARES solves the collaboration needs of today's knowledge workers. Your project team consists of different people with different work environments? You have not time to support yet another collaboration website? SPHARES allows you to stay within your work environment and share all your relevant work items (files, calendars, task lists and contact information) with each team member without anybody of the project team having to leave her usual working environment. They synchronise your projects and therefore synchronize your life. SPHARES is a SaaS product currently in early access and will be launched during autumn this years with its full feature set. You can register to their beta currently and use its full feature set for free. Get productive now! Founded in 2013 they are providing the unique solution to heterogenous work environments of teams. You can use SPHAERS to connect your Google (Calendar, Tasks, Drive, Contacts), Microsoft Exchange (Tasks, Calendar and Contacts) and other Services like DropBox, Bitbucket, WebDAV and much more to come.

Return on Art

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Return on Art is the one platform that makes discovering and collecting art exciting and effortless. We leverage the latest technology and art market expertise to create value for global artists and an effortless buying experience for our collectors.

revitalyze

Pre Seed Round in 2024
revitalyze is an award-winning greentech platform that enables a circular construction industry through a unique approach to the reuse of building elements

Geoprospectors GmbH

Seed Round in 2015
Geoprospectors GmbH develops and assembles soil structure measuring systems. It offers Topsoil Mapper, a sensor supported control system that evaluates soil structures. The Topsoil Mapper includes Topsoil Mapper; Topsoil Visualizer; Topsoil Data Box, a Web portal; and Topsoil Data Analyzer, a desktop software. The company is also engaged in the system designing and prototyping; exploration of oil, gas, and mineral deposits, environmental monitoring; geological structure mapping; pipeline and sub-surface infrastructure monitoring; nuclear deposit and hazard detection. Geoprospectors GmbH was founded in 2014 and is based in Traiskirchen, Austria.

Circly

Seed Round in 2023
Determining tomorrow's needs through sales figures is one of Circly's core competencies, but we go one step further: Circly develops interactive AI construction modules for retailers. Thanks to our modular concept, our users can choose the influencing factors themselves and weight them differently, so that the AI can be adapted to the company at any time. With Circly, the supply chain and warehouse utilization can be brought to the next level. We are about to pilot the system and are looking for retailers who are interested in case studies. Description: Machine Learning based Prediction System for the retail sector to forecast the demand in order to avoid food waste, out of stocks and overstock. Other benefits include insights into customer segments and groups, product trends, the possibility of dynamic pricing and marketing!

BrightComSol

Pre Seed Round in 2018
We produce and process light-emitting perovskite quantum dots in demanding environments and deliver our products as curable resin formulation (BrightSplash™) or thin-film (BrightLeaf™) useable as X-ray scintillators and light-emitting layers in quantum dot displays and beyond.

Lightning Company

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The Lightning Company is the first EU-based bitcoin and lightning payment gateway. We want to make bitcoin payments as easy and attractive as possible, ensuring that customers have no additional costs, whilst merchants receive attractive processing fees.

Evologic Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
Evologic is working as hub between problem focused users and technology oriented experts. By forging high tech approaches into user-friendly applications Evologic provides sustainable solutions for everyday problems of the industrial and private sector.

Themis Bioscience

Seed Round in 2009
Themis Bioscience is a start-up biotechnology company developing vaccines to prevent infectious diseases. The company’s development focus is primarily concentrated on emerging and specialist indications, advancing promising vaccines from preclinical to late-stage clinical development phases. We aim to exploit the increasing licensing and acquisition trend to generate value by developing and partnering our technology programs and vaccine candidates. It is our mission to establish Themis as a first class biotech development boutique and to become a preferred licensing partner for leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Robo Wunderkind

Seed Round in 2016
Robo Wunderkind is a startup based in Vienna, Austria. We build tools that enhance the way kids play, learn, and create with tech in school and at home. Our award-winning robotics kits empower kids to learn to code through the joy of play. Based in Vienna as well as San Francisco, California. In the summer of 2014, the team was part of the first worldwide hardware accelerator HAX. The progress made there was incorporated into Robo, earning them the "Robot of the Year" Award from Festo and the Austrian Startup of the Year Award in 2015.

DrainBot

Grant in 2021
DrainBot provides railway and road operators with intelligent, autonomous tunnel drainage maintenance systems that improve economic efficiency and safety of their tunnels. Their novel system aims at completely removing locking times for tunnels, while reducing resource consumption, environmental impact and cost of tunnel drainage maintenance. Data-based approach to maintenance planning enables better efficiency and longer lifecycle of the infrastructure.

ON DEMAND Microelectronics

Series A in 2005
ON DEMAND Microelectronics AG, a fabless semiconductor company, provides integrated semiconductor solutions for the portable multimedia, mobile digital television, and home entertainment markets. It offers video/audio processing products for mobile applications, such as smart phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, portable games consoles, and video conferencing systems; and high definition television and video processing devices, including video and image processing for mobile digital television and home entertainment systems, as well as multimedia streaming devices. The company operates in Europe, the United States, and APAC, as well as in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea. ON DEMAND Microelectronics AG was founded in 2003 and is based in Vienna, Austria. The company has corporate, research, and development offices in Silicon Valley and Austin, as well as in Bangalore, India.

Stresscoach

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pocketcoach GmbH designs, develops, and provides digital coaching to cope with anxiety. The company provides automated therapist teaching cognitive behavioral therapy for people who struggle with anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Pocketcoach GmbH was founded in 2019 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

kompany

Grant in 2012
kompany is the RegTech platform for Global Business Verification and Business KYC providing the audit-proof, primary source, and time-stamped company information from 150+ jurisdictions in real-time. It is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has offices in Singapore and the UK. Since being founded in 2012, kompany has attracted a unique pool of top developers, regulatory experts, and product managers from around the world. It is a government licensed clearing house and official distributor for commercial and business registers in multiple countries worldwide.

Nuki Home Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
Nuki Home Solutions GmbH manufactures smart door locks to auto open and lock the doors using GPS and Bluetoooth. It also offers applications for iOS and Android phones to control doors. Nuki Home Solutions GmbH was formerly known as Noki Home Solutions GmbH. The company is based in Graz, Austria.

Snapodds

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Problem: We share opinions, emotions, everything. The world is going social, but TV is left behind. We have proof that there is a strong desire to share what is on TV: A Facebook study has shown that for some sports events 82% of Instagram posts contain screenshots of TV. The behavior of sharing TV content is there, but the way of doing it is way too hard. People have to stand up in front of the screen and make photos with reflections and strange angles. But when people do go to this trouble, it creates a major problem for the media as rights holders. They lose control of their content. They lose the ability to monetize those moments. Solution: Snapscreen makes watching TV and its content socially shareable You simply open the browser (or app) on your phone, snap the TV screen (works perfectly from a long distance), that takes you to that exact moment in the broadcast/ stream, you reverse forward or backward to the moment you want to share, clip up to 30sec and share where you want all in high definition and perfect audio. The content clipped also has the ability to be top and tailed with graphics or pre/ post roll. Everything is measurable. Snapscreen is a B2C mobile web app in the US (launch Sep 2020 for the elections) and B2B component (SDK) that gets integrated into apps and websites of our customers in media.

VALANX Biotech

Grant in 2017
VALANX Biotech GmbH develops and manufactures a synthetic programmable amino acid (Norl). The company develops SnapIt, which is a reactive amino acid that conjugates an antibody with a medicine to make an antibody-drug conjugate which helps in treating cancer. Its product is also used for PEGylation of therapeutic peptides and proteins, directed immobilization for biosensors, and oriented immobilization of biocatalysts. The company offers bioanalytics and mass spectrometry (MS) on-demand. VALANX Biotech GmbH was founded in 2017 and is based in Klosterneuburg, Austria.

semanticlabs

Seed Round in 2005
System One, based in Vienna, offers products in the field of semantic analysis, collaboration, search and contextualisation. Based on core technologies in Search and Semantic Algorithms its mission is to "decrease the costs of daily information workflows, enable new business strategies and are more flexible and cost effective all the way".

Robo Wunderkind

Venture Round in 2018
Robo Wunderkind is a startup based in Vienna, Austria. We build tools that enhance the way kids play, learn, and create with tech in school and at home. Our award-winning robotics kits empower kids to learn to code through the joy of play. Based in Vienna as well as San Francisco, California. In the summer of 2014, the team was part of the first worldwide hardware accelerator HAX. The progress made there was incorporated into Robo, earning them the "Robot of the Year" Award from Festo and the Austrian Startup of the Year Award in 2015.

SCARLETRED

Seed Round in 2016
SCARLETRED is an international digital Health Company aiming on to disrupt the global skin care market by our first product SCARLETRED®VISION. The problem we solved is subjective skin assessment and lacking standardization in Dermatology. Our CE certified medical device is fully mobile, runs via iOS APP on smartphones and connects to our web platform, which enables smart Big Data and novel analytics applications in Dermatology. Our technology is awarded with the Austrian State Prize 2017 and proven in Silicon Valley with the MedTech Award. We supply the product plus SaaS to Biopharma and Cosmetics Industry, Hospitals and Medical Experts The patented technology facilitates standardized skin documentation and remote tracking via mobile App. Images can be uploaded in a cloud based platform and objectively analyzed for visual skin changes over time, such as for allergic reactions, pigmentation changes, acne, psoriasis, disease or wound healing. The application is fully GCP compliant and allows medical routine and clinical trial applications when combined with SCARLETRED's proprietary Skin Patch, serving as a precise color and size reference.

BrightComSol

Seed Round in 2019
We produce and process light-emitting perovskite quantum dots in demanding environments and deliver our products as curable resin formulation (BrightSplash™) or thin-film (BrightLeaf™) useable as X-ray scintillators and light-emitting layers in quantum dot displays and beyond.

Seven Bel

Seed Round in 2018
Seven Bel GmbH develops and manufactures sound scanners for industrial and private environments. Its products and related cloud infrastructure help customers to simplify the workflow of the measurement and analysis of their acoustic problems, and share results with their colleagues, partners, and clients in the format of automatically generated reports. The company’s products are used in various applications, including product engineering, building acoustics, environmental noise, and confined spaces. It also offers acoustic consulting services. Seven Bel GmbH was founded in 2018 and is based in Leonding, Austria.

revitalyze

Pre Seed Round in 2023
revitalyze is an award-winning greentech platform that enables a circular construction industry through a unique approach to the reuse of building elements

BrightComSol

Seed Round in 2019
We produce and process light-emitting perovskite quantum dots in demanding environments and deliver our products as curable resin formulation (BrightSplash™) or thin-film (BrightLeaf™) useable as X-ray scintillators and light-emitting layers in quantum dot displays and beyond.

teamecho

Grant in 2015
TeamEcho GmbH operates a SaaS tool that measures the employees mood. It serves managers, employees, and human resources. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Linz, Austria.

Vienna Textile Lab

Seed Round in 2022
Vienna Textile Lab provides textile dyes using naturally occurring microorganisms. By using colors to dye textiles, they are being responsible and considerate. They help designers use new types of materials, methods, and concepts in the textile business.