Calm/Storm Ventures

Calm/Storm Ventures is a boutique venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2019. The firm specializes in growth capital, pre-seed, and series A investments, with a particular focus on the digital health sector. However, it also explores opportunities across various industries in Europe and the United States. Calm/Storm Ventures emphasizes investment in entrepreneurs who are dedicated to improving health and wellbeing, supporting founders who aim to create positive change in people's lives. The firm fosters a culture of lifelong learning and personal growth, providing its network of entrepreneurs with unique access to experienced founders and valuable resources.

Magdalena Burgstaller

Visiting Investment Manager

Marine Popoff

Investment Manager

Michael G. Ströck

Managing Partner

42 past transactions

Ada Growth

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Ada Growth is on a mission to put a mentor in every woman's pocket. We combine AI with microlearning to provide professional growth and development tools for women in the workplace and help companies attract, retain, and grow female talent. Download the Ada App today! The Ada App is a microlearning app that provides 2 minute short form videos, miniquizzes, action items, and summaries that lead to long-term behavioral changes in the workplace. It also contains a digital mentor that can provide dynamic coaching in the spirit of the Ada App library of content, so that Ada App users have access to casual lessons when they have a few minutes a day as well as immediate feedback for any upcoming situation. Ada Growth serves the B2B enterprise and SME space primarily to companies with over 400 employees. We sell a professional growth / EdTech / L&D solution to HR, Employee Training and DEI administrators. We are vertical agnostic and provide a growth experience for both white collar and blue collar workers. Most EdTech solutions tend to flow to the corporate office layer of an enterprise, where this is a saturation of resources available. Many of our users have not been given professional growth tools purposefully built for them before or made flexible for their lifestyle, unlocking value for both the employee as well as the employer. We are the first enterprise-ready professional EdTech solution built specifically for women.

Nolea Health

Seed Round in 2023
Nolea Health is a specialized jobs marketplace platform tailored for mental healthcare, aimed at alleviating the shortage of healthcare staff. By leveraging AI technology, the platform effectively matches verified mental health professionals with available positions in healthcare organizations. Nolea Health streamlines the hiring process, reducing inefficiencies and costs associated with recruitment, while enhancing flexibility and job satisfaction for clinical staff. Additionally, the platform facilitates clinician onboarding and credentialing, allowing healthcare professionals to connect seamlessly with healthcare providers and optimize their workflow. By addressing the supply-demand mismatch in mental health services, Nolea Health supports clinicians in adhering to clinical protocols and delivering quality patient care.

Medwise.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Medwise.ai is an AI-powered, community-curated platform to answer all of your day to day clinical questions.

Ohana Software

Seed Round in 2023
Ohana is a virtual place to connect and communicate with your work family - your Ohana. They help you enhance your culture, inspire engagement, and enrich the work life experience of all your employees.

Rex

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a veterinary clinic designed to make pets feel comfortable and provide veterinary services. The company offers mobile appointment booking, telehealth visits and regular reminders about vaccinations and check-ups and provides pet checkups, preventive care and diagnostics, enabling pet owners to take care of their pets and receive veterinary care.

inne

Series A in 2022
Inne is a Berlin-based biotech startup focused on developing a hormone-based mini lab designed for women to monitor their fertility. The company aims to provide a convenient and accurate method for natural contraception, enabling women to better understand their bodies and make informed choices regarding their reproductive health. Inne's innovative device analyzes fertility hormones in saliva, offering insights into ovulation, menstrual cycles, and hormone levels. By utilizing biochemistry combined with a user-friendly app, Inne empowers women to identify their fertility phases based on hormonal readings, fostering a greater awareness of their overall female health.

Nelly

Seed Round in 2022
Nelly provides a tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments. It creates the basis for stress-free and clear work in your practice by drastically reducing the administrative effort for doctors, MFAs, ZFAs, and patients with Nelly. 90% of all healthcare professionals perceive bureaucracy and administrative burdens as the biggest problem in the workplace. The company's mission is to reduce the administrative effort in the healthcare sector by simplifying documentation and payment processes in order to make the practice visit more patient- and employee-friendly.

LEVY Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
LEVY Health is to provide a one-stop shop for women, men and couples who want to better understand their situation or fertility. Using our innovative questionnaire, we provide an accurate analysis of your current situation and advise you personally, individually and from the comfort of your own home via an online appointment.

Twain

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Twain is a developer of artificial intelligence-powered technology aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of outreach messages for sales teams. Its software allows users to paste their messages into a specialized editor, which quickly provides recommendations based on outreach best practices. This technology helps users craft compelling openings, avoid filler words, and include clear questions, ultimately improving response rates. By focusing on clarity and conciseness, Twain enables clients to create persuasive outreach communications that yield better engagement. The company is backed by prominent investors and has attracted the attention of several successful founders, emphasizing its commitment to innovation and user-centric solutions.

Oto Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a digital tinnitus management platform intended to empower people to manage their tinnitus and reclaim their quality of life. The company's platform offers personalized treatment plans, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, targeted mindfulness exercises, and relaxation techniques, enabling customers to gain control over their tinnitus symptoms and experience significant improvements.

Sleepyhead Program

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sleepyhead Program is a digital sleep retraining service aimed at individuals experiencing long-term sleep disorders, particularly chronic insomnia. The program employs evidence-based behavioral and cognitive techniques to facilitate better sleep by retraining the brain. Clients benefit from a structured digital therapy approach that includes weekly live video sessions with insomnia specialists. This comprehensive support system assists users in overcoming sleep issues, providing them with the tools necessary to improve their overall sleep quality.

Apriwell

Seed Round in 2021
Apriwell specializes in providing natural health solutions aimed at addressing chronic conditions, particularly focusing on digestive health. The company offers a range of high-quality digestive supplements designed to enhance gut health through scientifically-supported formulations. Apriwell emphasizes a holistic approach, combining these products with a free health course that includes effective methods and exercises to support overall well-being. By prioritizing a human-centered experience, Apriwell aims to deliver comprehensive care to modern consumers seeking effective solutions for digestive issues such as constipation.

keleya

Seed Round in 2021
Keleya enables women and their partners to have a safe and relaxed pregnancy, birth experience and motherhood by providing them with personalized, expert based information, workouts and nutrition plans and a matching midwife. Founded in 2017, Kelaya is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

heyvie

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Anyone has this small nudge here and there. Or some movement that is limited. Or something they want to improve on. Even professional athletes. Neurocentric Training is the key to long-term performance and resilience. However it is only accessible to a fraction of people. HAYV builds data-driven technology to make neurocentric training accessible and facilitate a resilient society. HAYV gives you options. Options to automatically build your individual neurocentric toolkit. Options to move as desired and change. Options to become resilient. HAYV was founded in the midsts of COVID-19. Never before has it been this important to be resilient as well as decisive about your own life. Get moving. Now.

thymia

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We use video games based on Neuropsychology alongside analyses of video and speech to make mental health assessments smart, starting with depression. Our online platform empowers clinicians so they can assess depression faster, more accurately and objectively. Our multi-modal depression recognition and tracking system allows us to find the right treatment in weeks instead of years and we make the entire process enjoyable for the patient.

Biloba

Seed Round in 2021
Biloba operates a telemedicine platform focused on pediatrics, providing parents with easy access to healthcare professionals. The service allows parents to connect with pediatricians via text or video consultations on a subscription basis, available daily from 8 am to 10 pm. This platform is designed to facilitate quick and effective communication regarding children's health, enabling parents to receive timely answers to their medical inquiries. Biloba aims to support both parents and healthcare professionals by streamlining the consultation process in pediatric care.

9amHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2021
9am.health redesigns all care elements into one digital service individualized around today’s reality of people’s life - always available and convenient, at prices anyone can afford even without insurance. 9am.health focuses on chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia for customers in the United States.

SquareMind

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SquareMind SAS develops robotic medical assistants combining artificial intelligence and robotics. Its 3D reconstruction software solutions allow robots to make skin cancer detection accessible in real time through high resolution body mapping. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Blueheart

Seed Round in 2020
Blueheart Technologies Ltd, founded in 2019 and located in Rickmansworth, United Kingdom, specializes in the development and publication of the Blueheart Therapy app. This mobile application offers private digital therapy solutions aimed at addressing sexual dysfunction. The platform is designed to enhance and restore intimate connections by making sexual therapy affordable, accessible, and devoid of stigma. Blueheart's mission is to ensure that individuals and couples do not lose loving relationships due to sexual issues or misunderstandings.

YourCoach Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
YourCoach Health LLC specializes in developing a practice management solution for health and wellness coaches. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the company provides a platform that facilitates comprehensive client engagement by integrating mind, body, and soul through behavior modification and accountability tools. Its features include the ability to create customized programs, manage contracts and e-signatures, facilitate video and chat communications, process payments, and access a content library. This holistic approach empowers coaches to effectively guide their clients towards achieving optimal health outcomes.

doctorly

Seed Round in 2020
doctorly GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, offers a cloud-based practice management platform designed to streamline operations for healthcare professionals. The application provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that enables digital appointment booking, video conferencing, and management of electronic health records. Additionally, doctorly includes features for patient health analysis, aimed at enhancing efficiency and reducing costs for medical practices. The company's team consists of a diverse group of tech entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, and design specialists, all committed to improving the healthcare landscape in Germany.

ThinkSono

Pre Seed Round in 2020
ThinkSono Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in developing software for diagnosing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care. Founded in 2016, the company has created an automatic diagnostic system that utilizes deep learning technologies. This innovative system guides healthcare professionals in placing a portable ultrasound scanner on the skin to capture images of underlying blood vessels. The software then analyzes these images, allowing doctors to make a DVT diagnosis within ten minutes, significantly enhancing the efficiency of patient care.

Timeular

Seed Round in 2020
Timeular GmbH develops ZEI, a communication device for providing time tracking solutions. The customizable device named Zei tracks the client's time with a customizable and wirelessly connected polygon that can be integrated into current time tracking solutions. The company serves freelancer, designer, engineers, and architects. Timeular GmbH was founded in 2015 and is based in Graz, Austria.

Probably Genetic

Seed Round in 2020
Probably Genetic is on a mission to help get answers for those with rare genetic conditions that are commonly initially diagnosed as autism spectrum disorder. On average, a patient with a rare genetic condition waits up 7 years to find answers. In the meantime, they spend years bouncing around from doctors to specialists, often at an enormous personal financial cost, to understand if there is more to their, or their child's symptoms. They believe this is too long! Probably Genetic offers educational material and DNA sequencing tests to make it easy to find out if there is more to your symptoms. Their aim is to help those who fall through the cracks of the current healthcare system.

Kiko Homes

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Kiko Homes Limited rents out real estate properties through an online application. It serves landlords and tenants. Kiko Homes Limited was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Kiko Homes

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Kiko Homes Limited rents out real estate properties through an online application. It serves landlords and tenants. Kiko Homes Limited was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Lingio

Seed Round in 2020
Lingio AB is a Stockholm-based company that specializes in language learning, particularly focused on the Swedish language. The company develops an application that incorporates gaming principles to enhance the learning experience, making it both enjoyable and engaging for users. In addition to its general language app, Lingio offers vocational language courses tailored to various sectors, including cleaning, catering, hospitality, construction, transportation, information technology, real estate, healthcare, vehicle technology, plumbing, and electricity. Through its innovative approach, Lingio aims to improve language acquisition in a fun and effective way.

Hotelflex

Seed Round in 2020
Hotelflex, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, offers innovative solutions for the hospitality industry by allowing hotels to manage bookings with flexible check-in and check-out times. The company specializes in predicting the arrival and departure times of guests, enabling hotels to optimize room occupancy by re-selling the time between these periods. This approach not only enhances guest convenience but also maximizes revenue potential for hotels, making Hotelflex a valuable partner in the property management sector.

Second Nature

Series A in 2020
Second Nature is a smartphone application that coaches and motivates diabetes patients to live a healthier lifestyle. OurPath is a lifestyle improvement programme, proven to help people reduce the risk and complications of type 2 diabetes.

hi.health

Seed Round in 2020
hi.health offers people with private health insurance convenient and safe access to health care billing via app or web. Users can easily submit their invoices digitally and hi.health takes care of the further processing, billing and customer service providing a seamless user experience. With the integrated “library” users receive a transparent overview of relevant digital health products and services, that are (partially) covered by their insurance. hi.health operates at the intersection of digital health, fintech and insurtech. While each of these rapidly growing markets are already exciting in themselves, their combination in one product is unique. The company was founded by Sebastian Gruber and Fredrik Debong in July 2019. Since hi.health launched in Germany at the end of 2019 several thousand users already use the independent billing app.

Leda Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
At Leda Health, our mission is to transform existing systems of sexual assault prevention, care, and justice to better serve survivors and the communities in which they live. We are currently developing a more holistic care program and expanding our services. To learn more about Leda Health, visit: https://www.leda.co/ https://www.facebook.com/ledahealth/ https://twitter.com/ledahealthco https://www.instagram.com/ledahealth/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ledahealth/

Biloba

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Biloba operates a telemedicine platform focused on pediatrics, providing parents with easy access to healthcare professionals. The service allows parents to connect with pediatricians via text or video consultations on a subscription basis, available daily from 8 am to 10 pm. This platform is designed to facilitate quick and effective communication regarding children's health, enabling parents to receive timely answers to their medical inquiries. Biloba aims to support both parents and healthcare professionals by streamlining the consultation process in pediatric care.

keleya

Seed Round in 2019
Keleya enables women and their partners to have a safe and relaxed pregnancy, birth experience and motherhood by providing them with personalized, expert based information, workouts and nutrition plans and a matching midwife. Founded in 2017, Kelaya is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Suvera

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Suvera Ltd, established in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom, has developed a virtual care follow-up application aimed at enhancing primary care for patients with long-term conditions. The platform allows general practices to manage patients remotely, focusing on conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD, depression, and anxiety. By enabling patients to engage in their care through their phones, Suvera aims to improve health outcomes, reduce hospital admissions, and minimize the need for in-person doctor appointments, ultimately allowing patients to spend more time in good health and reach their personal health milestones.

Bambus.io

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Fintech, Credit

hi.health

Pre Seed Round in 2018
hi.health offers people with private health insurance convenient and safe access to health care billing via app or web. Users can easily submit their invoices digitally and hi.health takes care of the further processing, billing and customer service providing a seamless user experience. With the integrated “library” users receive a transparent overview of relevant digital health products and services, that are (partially) covered by their insurance. hi.health operates at the intersection of digital health, fintech and insurtech. While each of these rapidly growing markets are already exciting in themselves, their combination in one product is unique. The company was founded by Sebastian Gruber and Fredrik Debong in July 2019. Since hi.health launched in Germany at the end of 2019 several thousand users already use the independent billing app.