aws Mittelstandsfonds

As a 100% subsidiary of Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) we aim to improve the accessibility of investment capital for Austrian SMEs, to create and strengthen partnerships and hence generate sustainable growth of our portfolio companies.​​​​
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Nina Dohrau

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Christopher Raithle

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Daniel Schaller

Investment Manager

13 past transactions

International Jet Management GmbH

Private Equity Round in 2010
International Jet Management GmbH operates executive jets. The company offers full management, partial management, and flexible management services in the areas of dispatch, technical management, crew training, financial management, aircraft charter, aircraft consulting, aircraft sales, and account management. Its fleet of aircraft includes shortrange, midrange, longrange bizliner, and ultralongrange aircrafts. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Schwechat, Austria.

POOL4TOOL

Private Equity Round in 2013
POOL4TOOL is the leading cloud-based All-in-One Supply Collaboration Platform for connecting business partners throughout the value chain. More than 300 clients and 50,000 professionals use POOL4TOOL to reduce process costs by an average of over 30%. Our modular portfolio contains solutions for over 40 processes including supplier relationship management, sourcing, supply base management, supply chain management, eCollaboration, quality control, and product costing. POOL4TOOL is highly focused on global process and data harmonization, using our golden record approach which ensures not only source2contract and procure2pay best processes but aggregates information on a complete project or bill of material level as well. POOL4TOOL provides flexible, customizable solutions that can be tailored to each customer’s unique situation, providing full ERP integration and sustainable material and process cost reduction throughout the entire supply chain. POOL4TOOL is the solution that provides the best combination of software, industry specific expertise and services so you can optimize commodity and supplier strategies as well as your daily supply chain processes.
A.M.I. is a manufacturer of medical technology with that improves the quality of patient care. A.M.I. is a group of professionals that decided to combine extensive knowledge of the medical device industry and engineering processes to provide European surgeons with the professional support required to realize product ideas, and to bring it to market in the shortest possible time-frame. The company's mission is to enhance the quality of patient care by creating innovative products and treatment methods for surgical application. All the products are manufactured according to European standards for medical devices and are CE approved before being deployed for sale. A.M.I. was founded on 1998 and is headquartered in Feldkirch, Austria.

Immovate Projektentwicklungs

Private Equity Round in 2015
Immovate Projektentwicklungs provides renovation services for monuments.

Sico Technology GmbH

Private Equity Round in 2015
Sico Technology GmbH provides innovative market leader in the production of silicon products for the semiconductor industry. It produces and manufactures quartzglass, silicon, and ceramics. It also offers complete solutions for serial and customized production. Sico Technology GmbH was founded on 1982 and is based in Villach, Austria.

Mediashop Holding GmbH

Private Equity Round in 2012
Mediashop is a TV shopping company that operates in 12 countries across Europe with a reach of more than 100 million customers. Its goal is to offer innovative, high-quality products at a very attractive price. The comprehensive product portfolio includes the latest products in the fields of kitchen, household, leisure, fitness, wellness, and beauty.

Marinomed Biotech AG

Private Equity Round in 2015
Marinomed is a biopharmaceutical development company focusing on the development of innovative therapies based on patent protected technology platforms. Products against respiratory viruses derived from the proprietary MAVIREX platform are marketed with renowned partners in a growing number of countries around the globe. The new MARINOSOLV platform allows novel stable aqueous formulations of hardly soluble compounds such as corticosteroids, enabling a faster onset of action and a better bioavailability. The MARINOSOLV technology is not limited to a specific compound and has the potential to facilitate delivery of any compound with solubility issues. Marinomed was founded on 2006 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

BECOM Electronics GmbH

Private Equity Round in 2011
BECOM Electronics GmbH is an Austrian company in the field of Electronic Engineering & Manufacturing Services (EMS). BECOM Electronics has become one of the leading Austrian electronics service providers (EMS company: Electronic-Engineering & Manufacturing Service) in recent years . Since 1985, the company has been successfully involved in contract development and production of electronic and electromechanical assemblies and devices, from prototypes to pilot series to series production. From the very beginning, BECOM Electronics has defined numerous quality criteria that the company is guided by. These include the best production facilities and the greatest possible profitability.

Reactive Beteiligungs

Venture Round in 2010
The REAKTIV Unternehmensgruppe, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Linz, is one of Austria's largest and most renowned providers of services for the permanent integration of people in the labor market. With the 100% subsidiaries Trendwerk Gemeinnützige GmbH, Context Impulse GmbH, Job Plus GmbH, Galilei Association, Mentor GmbH & Co OG and the Agens Education and Consulting GmbH, the REAKTIV Group has a broad base to make people competent in the reemployment to accompany. The successful methodology of the REAKTIV Group is based on individual potential analysis, consulting, targeted further education and qualification measures, complex integration measures in work processes as well as in-depth knowledge of the requirements of the labor market. Through intensive cooperation with around 3000 companies from all sectors and the long-term cooperation with the AMS (Public Employment Service Austria) and the Federal Social Welfare Office, the group of companies has also established itself as a leading non-profit employee lender. In addition, the REAKTIV Group offers consulting and implementation services for companies in the following areas as required: short-time working, educational leave, staff reduction, restructuring, etc. REAKTIV cooperates closely with the Public Employment Service and the social partners.

System Industrie Electronic

Private Equity Round in 2017
System Industrie Electronic GmbH offers electronic assemblies, display and touch solutions, medical computing units (MCUs), medical monitors (MMs), and individual industrial design solutions. The company supports its partners throughout the complete product lifecycle. The company's focus markets include medtech, in vitro diagnostics, analytics, industry, and automotive. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Lustenau, Austria. System Industrie Electronic GmbH operates as a subsidiary of System Industrie Electronic Holding AG.
SOLID is an Austrian solar engineering company specializing in all aspects of large-scale solar thermal energy plants. Since 1992, SOLID has been planning, building, delivering, assembling and operating large-scale solar plants around the world, providing hot water, room heating, industrial process heat and district heating for towns and villages. SOLID also designs and builds solar chilled water plants, including the largest commercial solar cooling projects currently in operating. The project sizes today are typically in a range from 300 kWthermal up to several MWthermal nominal capacity. With its unmatched experience in design and operation of large-scale solar plants, SOLID is both a pioneer and one of the world’s leading companies in the solar industry.

tectos gmbh

Private Equity Round in 2016
Tectos GmbH provides automotive engineering services and specializes in test bench technology. The company develops and construct powertrain solutions for engine and transmission test benches. It focuses specific tasks with the aim of developing and delivering individual cost-effective, economical, and powerful solutions. The company has a highly qualified team and creative ability to make the company a global brand. Tectos GmbH was founded on 2004 and is headquartered in Graz, Austria.

INDUSTRIEMAGAZIN Verlag

Private Equity Round in 2011
INDUSTRIEMAGAZIN Verlag is renowned publisher for trade magazines in the fields of business, production, construction and public administration.