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Ars Electronica Festival 2026
Five-day festival on art, technology and society in downtown Linz under the theme 'Future Begins — Negotiating Humanity'. Combines exhibitions, conferences, performances, workshops and tours across three venue clusters: OK Quarter, Med Campus and Danube Triangle.
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Ars Electronica Linz GmbH & Co KG
A company of the City of Linz, registered at Ars-Electronica-Strasse 1 in Linz, organised into the operational divisions Ars Electronica Center, Ars Electronica Festival-Prix-Exhibitions, Ars Electronica Futurelab, Ars Electronica Solutions and Corporate Services. It employs more than 200 people and produces the annual Ars Electronica Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica, alongside its museum and applied research and design work at the intersection of art, technology and society.
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Blockpit
Blockpit is a Linz-based crypto tax and portfolio compliance platform, founded in 2017 as one of Europe's earliest crypto tax regulation trailblazers. Its tools include a crypto tax calculator, portfolio tracker, tax optimizer, and source-of-funds reporting, generating more than 1 million tax reports for over 350,000 customers across Austria, Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and other markets. Legally Blockpit AG, the company made two acquisitions in 2020 and 2023 to expand its European crypto compliance footprint and is led by co-founders Florian Wimmer (CEO), Gerd Karlhuber (CFO), Magnus Berchtold (CPO), and Tom Buchsteiner (CTO).
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Coworking Linz
Coworking Linz is a city-centre shared workspace located at Stifterstraße 22, 4020 Linz, a short walk from both Linz Cathedral and the Landstraße retail district and approximately ten minutes on foot from the main railway station. The space occupies an accessible, wheelchair-friendly ground-floor unit and targets startups and small companies seeking a collaborative daily environment without long-term office leases. The offering centres on large communal tables with abundant desk space, standing desks, high-speed WiFi, printing, and fair-use coffee — a deliberately lean set-up that keeps the focus on focused work and peer interaction rather than amenity overload. Members also gain access to a kitchen, outdoor terrace, personal lockers, lounge areas, and 24-hour entry. The space markets itself specifically to early-stage founders and distributed teams needing a professional address and a local professional community in central Linz. Its compact footprint and convenient location make it a practical entry point into Linz's startup scene for solo founders or small remote teams relocating to Upper Austria.
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Daxbau
Daxbau is a creative-professional coworking space at Peuerbachstraße 7, 4020 Linz, designed specifically for independent creatives, freelancers, and small startups working across graphic design, illustration, photography, video production, software development, copywriting, translation, and journalism. The space combines a practical coworking floor — ergonomic desks, 100 Mbit WiFi, shared printers, personal lockers, and a kitchen — with a community ethos that values social exchange and peer accountability. Members can join on a full-time or part-time basis, with optional key access for off-hours entry, making it suitable for both regular desk workers and occasional drop-ins. The Peuerbachstraße address sits in a residential-commercial district a few tram stops from the city centre, giving it a quieter atmosphere than central business addresses. Amenities include a lounge, bike parking, car parking, and an adjoining restaurant. Daxbau's explicit vertical focus on creative professionals distinguishes it from tech-first coworking venues elsewhere in Linz, making it the natural home for designers, media producers, and content studios who want to work alongside peers in the same craft rather than in a generic open-plan environment.
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Factory300
Factory300 is Linz's flagship startup coworking venue, launched in summer 2017 inside Haus CASABLANCA at Peter-Behrens-Platz 10 within the historic Tabakfabrik complex. The space spans 3,200 square metres and hosts roughly 400 members representing more than 180 businesses, ranging from solo freelancers to corporate innovation teams. Membership tiers run from day passes at €37 through the Family plan (€123/month, flexible seating, 24/7 access) up to a dedicated Fixly desk at €346/month. In November 2018 Factory300 extended into the Strada del Startup — a 230-metre internal production street offering 57 private office units with around 300 additional workplaces, at that point roughly 80 percent occupied at launch. Corporate anchors Fill, MIBA, and Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ hold memberships alongside growth-stage startups. Notable alumni include Blockpit, which raised €8.4 million in crypto-tax software funding, and Celantur, an automotive technology spin-out. Factory300 runs regular community events, a lending library of meeting-room credits, and maintains ties to the broader Upper Austrian startup support network through its location within the Tabakfabrik ecosystem.
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Fretello
Fretello is a Linz-based app that teaches beginners to play guitar through step-by-step lessons, interactive practice with real-time feedback, and a song library that lets learners play their favorite tracks from day one. Lessons and courses are designed by professional guitarists and educators, and the app has been featured by Apple and used by a community of more than 700,000 guitarists worldwide. The company is legally Fretello GmbH, led by Florian Lettner.
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Grand Garage
Grand Garage is a makerspace and educational workshop embedded within the Tabakfabrik Linz campus at Peter-Behrens-Platz 6, 4020 Linz. The facility spans approximately 2,000 square metres and equips members with access to more than 40 professional machines covering laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC routers, electronics workbenches, and analogue woodworking tools. Members enjoy 24/7 keycard access to the production floor, while drop-in workshop hours run Tuesday through Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings for non-members and students. The space positions itself explicitly at the intersection of digital fabrication and skills education: alongside open membership it runs structured workshop programmes for schools and vocational training institutions throughout Upper Austria. Startups and product developers use Grand Garage primarily for rapid hardware prototyping — moving from concept sketches to physical prototypes without committing to factory tooling. Companies, associations, and educational institutions are listed as cooperation partners, giving the space a hybrid character between a community makerspace and a light industrial R&D facility. The membership model supports both individual makers and team-level access, consistent with an open-floor coworking approach applied to physical production rather than desk work.
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Regus Linz Promenade
Regus Linz Promenade is a fully serviced flexible workspace centre at Promenade 23, 4020 Linz, positioned along the city's principal boulevard between the Hauptplatz and the Landstraße zone. As part of the global Regus network, the centre offers a spectrum of workspace products — hot-desking and coworking memberships, dedicated desks, private day offices from €149 per day, and team offices for groups of various sizes — all under short-term, flexible contracts with no minimum rental period. The space is fully furnished and staffed, with receptionist services, high-speed internet, meeting rooms, and cleaning included in all plans. Private office memberships start from approximately €15 per person per day at the coworking tier. The Promenade address gives members a prestigious Linz business address in the commercial core of the city, accessible directly from the Hauptplatz tram interchange. The centre serves established SMEs, corporate project teams, and internationally mobile professionals who require reliable, immediately operational workspace rather than a community-first startup environment. Regus Linz Promenade functions as the most enterprise-oriented coworking option in central Linz, complementing the startup-focused spaces concentrated in the Tabakfabrik campus.
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Storyblok
Storyblok is a headless content management system founded in 2017 in Linz, Austria by Dominik Angerer and Alexander Feiglstorfer. The platform provides a visual editor and API-first architecture that enables developers and marketing teams to create, manage, and publish content across websites, mobile apps, and digital displays from a single source. Storyblok has raised over $80 million from investors including Mubadala Capital, HV Capital, and 3VC. The company serves thousands of customers including Adidas, Tesla, and Pizza Hut. As a fully remote-first Austrian company that competes with Contentful and Sanity, Storyblok is a standout example of enterprise SaaS innovation from outside Europe's traditional tech hubs.
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Tabakfabrik Linz
Tabakfabrik Linz is a landmark creative and innovation campus occupying a former tobacco factory built between 1929 and 1935 by architects Peter Behrens and Alexander Popp. Production halted in September 2009, after which the City of Linz acquired the site for €17 million and began a phased conversion into a mixed creative, academic, and startup district. The complex covers 38,148 square metres of land with approximately 24,000 square metres of usable interior space, distributed across studios, ateliers, workshops, and office blocks. More than 250 organisations now operate on-site, including programmes from Kunstuniversität Linz (Creative Robotics, Fashion and Technology), design agencies such as Netural, the Valie Export Center for media and performance art research, and the Factory300 and Strada del Startup startup-office cluster. Workspace options range from artist ateliers and shared studios to private offices, making the campus accessible to creatives, researchers, and founders at various stages. The location — Gruberstraße 1 / Peter-Behrens-Platz 11, Linz — sits in the Hafen district roughly ten minutes from the city centre. The campus functions as an anchor of Linz's creative-industries ecosystem and hosts major cultural events alongside its resident community.
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Tech2b
tech2b is a startup incubator in Upper Austria, based in Linz, that supports innovative, future-oriented founders in building and scaling their businesses. It runs a structured pipeline of programmes — IDEATE, ACTIVATE and INCUBATE — plus sector-specific tracks including a tourism incubator (#tourismusinkubator), Business2Excellence, and PIER4, with focus areas spanning diversity-led founding teams, hardware, greentech and medtech. It offers coaching, funding access and connections across the regional Upper Austrian innovation ecosystem, and runs the annual EDISON startup awards.
