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

Past deals in Austria

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.

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.

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.

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.