Situlus Holding is an Austrian investment firm based in Graz that provides venture and growth capital to technology-focused startups and small- to mid-sized companies. The firm operates as an independent investor and concentrates on the Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) region, backing innovative technology companies at early stages as well as growth rounds. Typical investments target the start-up and growth phases, supporting research and development efforts, with transaction sizes in the low-to-mid euro millions range. Situlus prioritizes companies in the technology sector within the DACH market and seeks to partner with founders to accelerate product development and market expansion.

Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vienna, with offices across Europe and in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology sectors including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, software as a service and infrastructure, climate tech, crypto, and emerging markets. The firm runs specialized investment teams aligned to these industries and offers an in-house Platform+ team providing tailored operational support, such as growth marketing, human resources, US business development and networking assistance throughout the portfolio journey. Speedinvest seeks to be a hands-on partner, sometimes taking operational roles for a period to help portfolio companies scale, and emphasizes hands-on collaboration with founders to accelerate growth.

eQventure is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Graz, Austria. It focuses on deep technology, industrial technology, network effects, digital health, and consumer technology, and operates hubs in Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, the United States, and China. The firm provides growth capital and leverages a global network and operational support to accelerate the growth of high-tech companies, with backing from entrepreneur investors who contribute capital and take an active, hands-on role with portfolio companies.

Tecnet Equity is an Austrian venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology companies, including ICT, life sciences, industrial technologies, material sciences and environmental technologies. It supports portfolio companies beyond capital with active guidance, leveraging an international network to help growth and scale. The firm also collaborates with research centers and universities to analyze, develop, and market research results and to aid patent protection, enabling inventions to be translated into new products and commercial opportunities. Founded in 2002 and based in Saint Polten, Austria, Tecnet Equity targets early-stage B2B technologies, life sciences start-ups, and spin-offs.

aws Gründerfonds is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, established in 2013. The firm specializes in investing in high-growth Austrian start-ups, focusing primarily on those in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages. With a fund size of 140 million euros, aws Gründerfonds targets a diverse range of sectors, including business products and services, consumer products and services, healthcare, information technology, energy, financial services, manufacturing, and technology-based industries such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Its objective is to support the development of innovative companies that demonstrate significant growth potential within the Austrian market.

Founded in 2007, ARAX Capital Partners is a Vienna-based venture capital firm that exclusively focuses on Austrian, early-stage technology and biotechnology ventures, with additional investment interest in real estate. It targets young, innovative companies with patentable technology that have already secured pre-seed funding to qualify for investment.

Xista Science Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Klosterneuburg, Austria that backs deep tech startups and academic spin-offs built on science, engineering and technology. It acts as a lead investor in pre-seed and seed rounds and can participate in follow-on rounds, offering tailored support to entrepreneurs. The firm combines investment acumen with scientific and technical understanding, supported by a diverse team with expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, finance, IP, legal, and strategic consulting, enabling it to bridge the worlds of science and business.

PUSH Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Vienna, Austria. The firm focuses on investing in a diverse range of sectors, including analytics, circularity, crypto, deeptech, EdTech, energy, entertainment, fintech, food systems, health, human resources, and travel. Additionally, PUSH Ventures places a particular emphasis on climate tech and healthcare within its investment strategy. By targeting innovative companies in these fields, PUSH Ventures aims to support growth and development in areas that are crucial for future sustainability and technological advancement.

Startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator serving Austrian startups.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

Founded in 2022, Verbund X Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies operating within the renewable energy sector across Europe.

Gamma Capital Partners is a Vienna-based venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 2002, the firm focuses on early-stage and growth opportunities in sectors including software, ICT, life sciences and related technology-driven fields. It targets minority stakes and seeks board participation, often collaborating with co-investors for larger rounds. The firm aims to support regional tech growth and scale across its focus markets, providing capital and strategic value to early and growth-stage companies in the EU. It operates with a regional emphasis on Austria, Germany, Switzerland and neighboring CEE markets, aligning investments with technology-driven business models.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

Capnamic Ventures is a Cologne-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that invests in technology startups at the early stage across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with a broader European footprint. It targets B2B software, digital infrastructure and transformation, and tech-enabled services, including adtech and martech, artificial intelligence, analytics, big data, cybersecurity, fintech and insurtech, Internet of Things, online marketplaces and e-commerce. The firm typically makes initial equity investments between €0.5 million and €3 million and may participate in follow-on rounds up to roughly €4–6 million in total, usually taking minority stakes and considering co-investments. Capnamic leverages its network of institutional and corporate investors to support portfolio companies and focuses on building value through collaboration with portfolio teams.

Seed + Speed Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage investments in B2B software startups, focusing on Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, it operates with additional offices in Munich, Hanover and San Francisco as part of the Maschmeyer Group. The firm provides equity investments and offers free sales support to portfolio companies.

HV Capital is a venture capital firm based in Munich and Berlin, focused on internet and technology companies in Europe. Founded in 2000 as HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, it has evolved into one of Europe’s leading early-stage and growth investors, with a portfolio of about 200 companies, including Zalando, Delivery Hero, FlixMobility and SumUp. The firm provides capital across growth stages, typically supporting startups from initial rounds to later phases. It concentrates on sectors such as fintech, B2B, e-commerce, enterprise software, travel, education, mobility, healthcare and retail, and operates across Europe. HV Capital combines financial backing with strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale.

KaPa Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The firm provides growth capital and early-stage funding to information technology companies, supporting both start-ups and more mature tech ventures. Its investment scope spans multiple countries, with activity across Austria, Germany, Singapore, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Canada, reflecting an international approach to backing IT-focused businesses.

eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners is a Germany-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1999. It invests its own funds across seed, early, and growth stages in deep-tech and sustainability-focused companies, including software, cybersecurity, IoT, new materials, and cleantech. The firm targets opportunities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with a focus on small and mid-sized enterprises and a track record of supporting portfolio companies with strategic guidance and access to an international network of entrepreneurs, scientists, investors and founders. Investments typically seek minority stakes and involve collaboration with co-investors, aiming for exits via IPO or trade sale. Based in Münster with a regional presence, the firm emphasizes long-term partnerships and value creation through technology-enabled growth.

i5invest is a Vienna-based venture capital and corporate development firm founded in 2007. The firm focuses on supporting cross-border mergers and acquisitions for technology companies and offers venture investment, seed financing, startup mentoring, corporate development, and advisory services. It operates with an accelerator and growth partner, i5growth, to help European tech companies scale. Leveraging a broad network, i5invest connects founders with the technology ecosystem and emphasizes long-term partnerships. The firm has completed more than 250 transactions and has facilitated deals with major global technology players. It invests in sectors including business and consumer products, e-commerce, mobile, software, and information technology, while its advisory arm provides M&A services for highly scalable business models.

Nordwind Growth is a German growth private equity firm based in Munich that invests in technology companies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It provides growth capital and strategic support to help these companies scale, including potential acquisitions and guidance on market expansion in those markets.

CHECK24 Ventures is the venture capital division of the CHECK24 group that provides seed and growth financing to early-stage internet companies. It operates independently from CHECK24 in its investment decisions and targets fintech, insurtech, online marketplaces, and software companies in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Founded in 2016 by Eckhard Juls and Henrich Blase, the firm is based in Germany.

ZAKA VC is a Prague-based venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed startups across Europe, with a focus on early-stage software-driven ventures. The firm targets sectors such as B2C, retail, utilities, financial services, ad tech, e-commerce, marketing tech, real estate, and technology, and operates with a pan-European reach that includes Central and Eastern Europe, the DACH region, the Baltics, and the United Kingdom. It maintains a hands-on approach through a network of scouts and local presence in Prague, Bratislava, Berlin, and other regional hubs to source and support founders. Founded in 2019, ZAKA VC seeks early-stage opportunities in Europe from its ecosystem to help software-driven teams scale from seed to growth.

Project A Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that provides capital and extensive operational support to technology startups across Europe. Founded in 2012, it backs seed and Series A investments, leveraging a in-house team of more than 100 experts in software engineering, data analytics, marketing, and recruiting to help portfolio companies scale. The firm targets technology-focused companies across Europe, with notable portfolio including Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

FSP Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Vienna, Austria. It concentrates on clean technology and environmental sectors, investing in technology-driven companies in Austria and neighboring regions. Target areas include energy, mobility, water, environment, housing, materials, manufacturing, agriculture, and waste, with an emphasis on sustainable growth and addressing environmental and social challenges.

Target Partners is a German venture capital firm based in Munich, founded in 1999, that focuses on seed and early-stage technology investments in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The firm backs software, communications and networking, computer hardware and electronics companies, providing strategic guidance and hands-on support to help portfolio businesses scale, access international markets, and form key partnerships. Its partners bring entrepreneurial and venture capital experience from Europe and the United States, leveraging a broad network to facilitate customer access, co-development, distribution agreements and potential acquisitions. Target Partners emphasizes active involvement and long-term value creation, backed by a history of successful investments and exits across multiple funds.

Berlin Technologie Holding is a Berlin-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2013 that provides equity, debt, and venture debt financing to technology and technology-enabled businesses in German-speaking regions, including Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It engages across growth stages from late seed to later-stage buyouts, often through its own balance sheet, and pursues value creation via buyouts, spin-offs, management buy-outs, roll-ups, and buy-and-build strategies. The firm focuses on sectors such as Internet of Things, property technology, mobile, enterprise software as a service, and fintech, targeting companies with stable cash flows and growth potential, typically investing in the lower millions of euros to support expansion in technology-driven markets.

Segnalita Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and based in Wattens, Austria. It focuses on early-stage investments and seeks to support passionate entrepreneurs and promising startups to help grow its portfolio.

Venionaire Capital is a Vienna-based advisory and investment firm focused on angel and venture capital and corporate finance. It provides venture capital and corporate finance services, including mergers and acquisitions, technology valuation, succession planning, debt management and debt restructuring, transaction services, and mentoring. The firm operates through a regional network across Austria, Switzerland and Germany and serves clients in media, software, healthcare, capital markets, life sciences, digital health and mobile industries. Founded in 2012, Venionaire Capital combines capital-raising and strategic advisory with hands-on investment activity, supporting clients from early development to growth phases.

Fil Rouge Capital is a Europe-focused venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology and tech-enabled companies. It pursues investments across sectors such as IT, software as a service, e-commerce, consumer and business products and services, IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced manufacturing, and infrastructure, typically deploying equity or debt and aiming to complement founders' technical and entrepreneurial backgrounds. The firm operates across Europe, with activity reported in Luxembourg, Croatia and Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovenia, Austria and Southern Germany, and has shown willingness to invest opportunistically in other European markets. Typical investment sizes range from 0.5 to 5 million euros.

Polar Light Capital is a private investment company and venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Linz, Austria. It invests in technology and medtech companies across Europe and beyond, supporting building great companies and acting as a reliable long-term partner. The firm pursues an all-stages approach, engaging with ventures from seed and startup phases through growth to market leadership.

KK Incube Invest Management is a Vienna-based investment firm specializing in venture capital and investment management. The firm focuses on seed, early-, and late-stage investments and is composed of professionals dedicated to managing investments.

BioScience Ventures Group is a Munich-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage life sciences investments in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It operates as an association of experienced business angels with expertise in drug development, preclinical and clinical studies, and biologics such as antibodies or proteins. The firm prioritizes seed and early-stage opportunities in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical technology, and medical devices, and typically provides funding in the range of €0.2 to €0.5 million. It often seeks governance involvement by taking board seats on portfolio companies.

Prediction Capital is a Malta-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology startups. Founded in 2022, it targets B2B and B2C opportunities across software, fintech, education technology, media, consumer services, agriculture technology, gaming, insurance technology, food technology and wellness, with activity in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The firm seeks to back founders who can drive innovation and positive change, supporting scalable solutions across the European market.

Findus Venture is a venture capital firm based in Goldwörth, Austria. It invests in deep tech companies with sustainable business models intended to benefit mankind, including space technology.

Founded in 2023, ROI Ventures is an angel investment group based in Vienna, Austria. It focuses on investing in early-stage B2B startups operating within the SaaS, deep-tech, prop-tech, fintech, and gaming sectors.

VR Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that concentrates on early-stage investments in fintech, proptech, B2B software, and SaaS. It targets opportunities across Europe, with activity in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The firm typically makes initial investments in the range of 0.5 to 2 million euros and favors late seed to Series A/B rounds. VR Ventures provides portfolio companies with access to its network, expertise, and market knowledge to support growth in financial technology and real estate technology sectors. By focusing on startups at the early stage, the firm aims to help scale innovative business models in the digital economy across Europe.

ApolloCapital is a Munich-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that backs seed and early-stage startups, with a focus on e-commerce and internet sectors and activity across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Tyrolean Business Angel is an angel investment group based in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, founded in 2014. It supports early-stage, technology-oriented B2B startups in Austria by providing capital, industry know-how, and a professional network, across sectors including energy, healthcare, information technology, clean technology, climate technology, health technology, life sciences and software as a service.

EquityPitcher Ventures is an early-growth venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. It backs B2B companies across the DACH region and collaborates with industry experts, investors, and exit partners to help entrepreneurs access know-how, networks, and capital needed to scale.

VNT Management is a Finland-based venture capital firm founded in 2002 and headquartered in Tampere, providing venture capital management services to investors and entrepreneurs with a focus on clean technologies, electrical systems, renewable energy, power generation, and energy sectors across Europe, especially the Nordics and German-speaking markets.

KKA Partners is a Berlin-based private equity firm that invests in companies across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), focusing on technology-enabled transformation of mid-sized businesses. It targets healthcare, smart industries, business services, and consumer-branded goods, seeking majority or controlling stakes. Founded in 2018, the firm emphasizes value creation through operational improvements and strategic transformation enabled by technology, helping portfolio companies accelerate growth and consolidation in their sectors.

Constantia New Business is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2012. It concentrates on early and growth capital across Europe, supporting companies from seed to growth rounds up to Series A and beyond. The firm targets innovative technology sectors including B2B software, advanced manufacturing, measurement and inspection, materials science in industrial processes, information technology, robotics, and related appliances. It focuses on European businesses and aims to back companies at various stages of development to scale operations and adopt new technologies.

Think.Health is a venture capital firm based in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, founded in 2015. It targets minority investments in seed- and growth-stage companies across healthcare, digital health, medical technologies, diagnostics, biotechnology and life sciences, with a focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United States. The firm has an additional office in Berlin and pursues opportunities in early and growth stages with investment sizes typically ranging from about 0.24 to 2.46 million dollars.

Bellevue Asset Management is a Swiss investment management firm and subsidiary of Bellevue Group, an independent financial group headquartered in Zurich. Established in 1993, it offers a broad range of investment products and services to intermediary and institutional clients, with a notable emphasis on the healthcare sector through Luxembourg-based funds and specialized equity strategies. The firm manages client-focused equity portfolios, mutual funds, hedge funds, and venture capital investments and invests globally in public equities using fundamental, bottom-up research. It also pursues multi-asset strategies and supports entrepreneur-themed funds, reflecting its pioneering approach in this niche. Bellevue Asset Management operates from Küsnacht with additional offices in Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg.

W&W Brandpool is the corporate venture arm of Wüstenrot & Württembergische AG, based in Stuttgart, Germany. It invests in seed and early-stage companies with digital business models across living, finance, health, family, education and mobility, and may consider related sectors such as real estate and insurance. The firm focuses on Europe, particularly Austria, Germany and Switzerland, and typically makes equity investments from its balance sheet in the range of approximately $1 million to $20 million, targeting ventures with enterprise value between roughly $10 million and $80 million. The approach emphasizes strategic alignment with the parent group's financial services footprint and long-term collaboration with portfolio companies.

Elevation Investments is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, focused on capturing investment opportunities in the personal growth segment.

RKP InnoInvest is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2022. It provides investment capital and strategic services to startups and growing companies, with a focus on food and beverage fast moving consumer goods, health, and digital technology sectors.

Falkensteiner Ventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria, that focuses on seed and early-stage opportunities in hotels, lodging, leisure and hospitality, travel and mobility, accommodation and camping, and elderly care across Europe, with emphasis on German-speaking markets. It supports selected founders from concept to seed phases through industry know-how, a professional network, investment, and infrastructure to accelerate growth.

WaVe-X is the independent venture builder and corporate venture capital arm of Walter Group AG, focused on creating and funding early-stage ventures in logistics, mobility, proptech, and construction tech. As a venture studio, WaVe-X builds startups from scratch with founder teams and makes early-stage investments from pre-seed to Series A, with tickets starting around €200,000. Based in Wiener Neudorf, Austria, WaVe-X was founded in 2022.