Austria startup ecosystem
Austria's startup scene is centred on Vienna, which blends a high quality of life with growing access to capital and talent. The city serves as a gateway between Western and Central Europe, making it attractive for founders targeting DACH and CEE markets. Key sectors include fintech, proptech, and sustainability, supported by government grants and an expanding accelerator landscape. The directory currently lists 106 organisations across 12 cities.
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Bitpanda
Bitpanda is one of Austria's most visible fintech scale-ups and has evolved from a consumer crypto trading app into a broader digital wealth platform. The product now combines access to cryptocurrencies, precious metals, ETFs, and other investment products in a single interface aimed at making investing feel simple for mainstream European users. A major part of Bitpanda's strategic value is not just consumer distribution, but the compliance and infrastructure layer it has built around regulated digital investing. That regulatory posture helped the company move from a retail app narrative toward financial infrastructure, including B2B services that let banks and fintechs offer investing products through Bitpanda's rails. In the European ecosystem, Bitpanda represents the maturation of fintech and digital-asset infrastructure on the continent: not only speculation-led growth, but operational depth around licensing, custody, user onboarding, and cross-border product rollout. Its presence also expands the directory's coverage of companies that sit between retail experience and regulated financial plumbing. That makes Bitpanda a strong reference point for founders and investors tracking how European fintech platforms transition from category breakout into foundational market infrastructure.
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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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bsurance
bsurance is a Vienna-based insurtech founded in 2018, one of the first movers in embedded and connected insurance in Europe. Its no-code insurance platform helps insurers, MGAs, banks, and brands launch and manage digital and embedded insurance products quickly, positioning itself as the speed layer between legacy insurance cores and new market opportunities. The company says it is built on the experience of more than 30 cooperations across 10+ countries, and it is led by co-founders Emmanuel Cheret (CEO), Raffaela Gruen (COO and CPO), and Pedro Antunes (CTO).
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byrd
byrd is a Vienna-based third-party logistics (3PL) and e-commerce fulfillment company operating a European fulfillment network of 12 warehouses across Austria, Germany, France, the UK, and Poland. Its platform integrates with e-commerce channels like Shopify, Amazon, and WooCommerce for automated multichannel fulfillment, real-time inventory tracking, and multi-carrier shipping, reporting more than 7 million products shipped per year with 99.4% on-time and 99.9% fulfillment accuracy. byrd, legally byrd technologies GmbH, is led by co-founders Alexander Leichter and Petra Dobrocka.
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César Rodríguez-Garavito
Colombian legal scholar and professor at NYU School of Law, chair of the Earth Rights Research and Action program, working on human rights, environmental law and the rights of nature. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and environmental law.
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contextflow
contextflow is a Vienna-based medical AI company that builds computer-aided diagnostic tools for chest CT analysis, including its ADVANCE Chest CT suite for detecting and quantifying lung cancer, ILD and COPD, plus products for PACS integration and pharma use. It was founded in July 2016 out of the Medical University of Vienna and the EU-funded Khresmoi research project, with support from TU Wien. The company has been recognised as Best Healthtech Startup Austria by the Central European Startup Awards and has received grants and investment from the European Innovation Council.
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Cory Doctorow
British-Canadian author, journalist and digital-rights activist, a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and prolific commentator on technology, platforms and the open internet. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.
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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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Crqlar
Crqlar is an Innsbruck-based hospitality software company that turns hotel and restaurant guest data into personalised service, syncing in real time with PMS systems such as Oracle, Mews, Protel, and Elite. Its tools include a smart drag-and-drop floor plan, half-board and full-board planning, an AI-powered guest briefing that flags allergies and special occasions, and online reservations with no-show protection. Crqlar reports serving over 2 million guests and 1 million merged guest profiles, and says its customers see measurable gains in upselling revenue and occupancy.
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CultTech Summit 2026
A summit at the intersection of culture, technology, and business, gathering founders, investors, and cultural institutions in Vienna. Useful for founders building at the culture-tech edge.
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CYBERTRAP
CYBERTRAP (CyberTrap Software GmbH) is a Vienna-based cybersecurity company building an AI-driven deception and proactive defense platform. Its Engage Platform uses high-fidelity lures, decoys, and adaptive digital twins that mirror real assets to detect attackers early, study their behavior, and convert intrusions into threat intelligence, aiming to cut attacker dwell time from weeks to hours. The company positions itself against AI-driven attacks that can move laterally within minutes of a breach.
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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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Easelink
Easelink develops Matrix Charging, an automated hands-free EV charging system that connects vehicles to ground charging pads without manual cable handling. It positions against charging ecosystem players such as IONITY, EV Connect, and ChargePoint.
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Elevator Ventures
Elevator Ventures is the corporate venture capital unit of Raiffeisen Bank International, co-backed by Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien and Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark, managing funds of more than €100 million. The firm targets Series A and B fintech and beyond-banking companies, with a focus on the DACH and CEE regions, and has invested over €60 million in 21 companies, achieving seven exits. It originated from Elevator Lab, an RBI accelerator launched in 2017 to scout startup partners globally.
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eQventure
eQventure is an Austrian venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Graz, with a second office in Vienna. It specializes in early-stage and growth investments in deep technology, industrial tech, digital health, and consumer technology companies, primarily in Austria. Behind the firm are experienced entrepreneurs who contribute hands-on operational support and access to a global network spanning Austria, Germany, the UK, Israel, the US, and China.
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Europäisches Forum Alpbach
Vienna-based non-profit association and foundation that has organized the European Forum Alpbach since 1945, an annual interdisciplinary gathering in Tyrol bringing thousands of participants from politics, business, science, culture and a large scholarship-funded young cohort together for debate on Europe's future.
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European Forum Alpbach 2026 (August 2026)
The 81st edition of Austria's flagship interdisciplinary forum, themed around Europe's future, gathering thousands of participants from dozens of countries. It convenes decision-makers from politics, business, science and culture alongside scholarship-funded young people across Academy Days, Euregio Days and Conference Days. It is a high-level venue for founders seeking European policy, investment and innovation networking.
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faaya collective
faaya collective is an art-commerce platform that sells fine-art prints from emerging artists and produces on-demand prints locally in Graz, positioned as a sustainability-focused alternative to larger print marketplaces.
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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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Florian Kaps
Florian Kaps is an Austrian entrepreneur and analog media advocate, best known as co-founder of The Impossible Project, the initiative that saved Polaroid instant film from extinction and restarted global production of analog instant photography. He is also the founder of Supersense, a Vienna-based cultural concept store and event space dedicated to analog art, music, and photography. Kaps is a prominent figure in entrepreneurial ventures at the crossroads of analog culture and contemporary creative communities.
