CNB Capital

Constantia New Business GmbH is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2012. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on seed to Series A funding for innovative B2B technology companies. CNB targets businesses that demonstrate initial customer traction in sectors such as information technology, advanced manufacturing, measurement and inspection, material sciences, and robotics. With a strong emphasis on supporting passionate founding teams, the firm provides guidance particularly in sales and marketing to help scale their ventures. CNB maintains a long-term investment outlook and exclusively invests in companies located in Europe, seeking to partner with entrepreneurs who are developing transformative products that can impact their respective industries.

Nick Bourne

Junior Investment Manager

Sabine Fleischmann

Senior Investment Manager

Martin Jankoski

Junior Investment Manager

Thomas Rossegger

Venture Partner

Junyun Yang

Venture Partner

Past deals in Austria

Hydrogrid

Venture Round in 2022
HYDROGRID GmbH develops software for optimal hydro power control and dispatch. Its production planning and dispatch solutions allow power plant owners to increase their revenues by aligning their production to the power markets whilst at the same time reducing daily operational workload. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

Bitmovin

Series C in 2021
Bitmovin Inc specializes in online streaming solutions and server encoding systems, offering a range of products designed to enhance video delivery and user experience. The company's key offerings include a cloud-based transcoding platform known as bitcodin, which supports adaptive streaming for MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS, as well as BITDASH, a suite of optimized clients for various devices. Additionally, Bitmovin provides an Encoding API for real-time content encoding, a Player for delivering video to streaming devices, and analytics tools that help increase viewer engagement through actionable insights. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Klagenfurt, Austria, Bitmovin emerged from the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt and continues to engage in research and standardization efforts in the multimedia sector. The company maintains a strategic partnership with Intertrust Technologies Corporation and has attracted investment from notable firms such as Atomico and YCombinator.

Hydrogrid

Series A in 2020
HYDROGRID GmbH develops software for optimal hydro power control and dispatch. Its production planning and dispatch solutions allow power plant owners to increase their revenues by aligning their production to the power markets whilst at the same time reducing daily operational workload. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

Bitmovin

Series B in 2018
Bitmovin Inc specializes in online streaming solutions and server encoding systems, offering a range of products designed to enhance video delivery and user experience. The company's key offerings include a cloud-based transcoding platform known as bitcodin, which supports adaptive streaming for MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS, as well as BITDASH, a suite of optimized clients for various devices. Additionally, Bitmovin provides an Encoding API for real-time content encoding, a Player for delivering video to streaming devices, and analytics tools that help increase viewer engagement through actionable insights. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Klagenfurt, Austria, Bitmovin emerged from the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt and continues to engage in research and standardization efforts in the multimedia sector. The company maintains a strategic partnership with Intertrust Technologies Corporation and has attracted investment from notable firms such as Atomico and YCombinator.

Bitmovin

Seed Round in 2014
Bitmovin Inc specializes in online streaming solutions and server encoding systems, offering a range of products designed to enhance video delivery and user experience. The company's key offerings include a cloud-based transcoding platform known as bitcodin, which supports adaptive streaming for MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS, as well as BITDASH, a suite of optimized clients for various devices. Additionally, Bitmovin provides an Encoding API for real-time content encoding, a Player for delivering video to streaming devices, and analytics tools that help increase viewer engagement through actionable insights. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Klagenfurt, Austria, Bitmovin emerged from the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt and continues to engage in research and standardization efforts in the multimedia sector. The company maintains a strategic partnership with Intertrust Technologies Corporation and has attracted investment from notable firms such as Atomico and YCombinator.