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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Forward Festival Vienna 2026
Two-day festival at Gartenbaukino gathering 1,500+ creatives at the intersection of design, technology and entrepreneurship. Features 20+ international speakers, hands-on workshops and 25+ talks on creative processes, breakthroughs and craft.
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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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Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist widely regarded as a godfather of deep learning, a 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics and Turing Award winner for his work on neural networks. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.
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Global Deep Tech Battle @ CES 2026
Virtual pitch competition for deep-tech startups aligned with the CES spotlight, organized by the Austrian startup ecosystem. Features international jury panels and exposure to global investors and corporate innovation teams. Strong entry point for hardware, biotech, and frontier-tech founders seeking international visibility beyond Europe.
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GoStudent
GoStudent is a Vienna-based online tutoring platform founded in 2016 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Mueller. The platform connects students with vetted tutors for one-on-one video lessons across subjects from math and science to languages. GoStudent raised over EUR 675 million and was valued at EUR 3 billion at its 2022 peak, making it one of Europe's most valuable edtech companies. The company operates in over 20 countries and has served more than 1.5 million tutoring sessions. After rapid pandemic-era growth, GoStudent refocused on unit economics and profitability, while expanding into AI-powered learning tools and school partnerships.
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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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Grow F by Female Founders
Grow F is an accelerator programme run by Female Founders, a Vienna-based organisation building one of Europe's leading communities and support networks for women entrepreneurs. Female Founders has backed 250+ startups and connects founders to a network of 500+ VCs, with roughly half of the startups it supports in deep tech. The Grow F programme supports female-led, high-growth startups with mentoring, investor access and a structured curriculum to help them raise funding and scale internationally, alongside sibling formats like the FF Bootcamp and FF Experience.
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Hermann Hauser Frontier Lab
Deep-tech commercialization program and successor to the I.E.C.T. Summer School, running since 2015. It delivers an intensive week of mentorship for science-driven founders preparing a pre-seed or seed raise, culminating in a Demo Day where teams pitch to a curated group of investors and corporate partners.
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Hermann Hauser Frontier Lab 2026 (September 2026)
A one-week intensive deep-tech commercialization program, successor to the I.E.C.T. Summer School, for ambitious founders preparing a pre-seed or seed raise within the next year. The week of mentorship and collaboration culminates in a Demo Day where founders pitch to a curated group of investors and corporate partners. In 2026 the program is hosted in Styria.
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ImageBiopsy Lab
ImageBiopsy Lab is a Vienna-based medical AI company building a modular software platform (IB Lab ZOO) for automated, objective analysis of musculoskeletal medical images, covering use cases such as knee osteoarthritis scoring, bone age estimation, leg geometry, hip angle measurement, scoliosis, and fracture detection. Its tools integrate into PACS and RIS radiology systems and have more than 100 installations across 10+ countries. The company has partnered with pharma company UCB to further develop AI-based osteoporosis and fracture identification technology, and it operates a US office in New Jersey alongside its Vienna headquarters.
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Impact Hub Vienna
Impact Hub Vienna, founded in 2009, is a coworking space and community hub for social entrepreneurs and impact-driven organizations in Vienna, part of the global Impact Hub network. It runs 6–8 incubation and acceleration programs per year spanning integration, education, health, and sustainability, and has supported more than 500 startups across over 40 programs. The community numbers more than 550 members and includes founders, NGOs, corporates, and investors aligned around creating measurable social or environmental impact.
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INiTS
Founded 2002. Academic incubator supported by University of Vienna, TU Wien, and Vienna Business Agency. Helps research-driven startups commercialize IP via START:IP and SCALEup, with funding up to EUR 100K and lab access. Scope: Regional (Vienna).
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Intertool x Schweissen 2026
Austria's largest manufacturing and welding trade fair at Messe Wels, drawing 30,000+ industrial buyers and 500+ exhibitors across automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, and metalworking. Free with pre-registration or about EUR 25 on-site. Strong for automation, tooling, and industrial IoT startups seeking DACH factory pilots.
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Intertool x Schweissen 2028
Intertool x Schweissen returns to Messe Wels 25-28 April 2028, covering industrial manufacturing and automation technology for more than 11,000 trade visitors. The biennial fair combines Intertool's machine tool and automation focus with the Schweissen welding technology exhibition.
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invest.austria conference 2026
Leading Austrian funding-lifecycle event at Apothekertrakt Schönbrunn, Vienna, connecting angel investors, venture capital and private equity with innovative entrepreneurs. Full-day panels, keynotes, expo area, matchmaking via B2Match, and evening program.
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IST cube
IST cube is an early-stage, deep-tech venture capital firm and incubator connected to the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) near Vienna. It invests seed capital in science-based startups, particularly in artificial intelligence, life sciences and other frontier technologies, and supports founders spinning research out of academia into companies.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nobel laureate economist and professor at Columbia University, former chief economist of the World Bank, known for work on information economics, inequality and globalization. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach in Tyrol.
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JOYNED
JOYNED (Joyned GmbH) is an Austrian professional audio technology company building deterministic Milan/AVB audio networking hardware and software, including USB audio interfaces such as the MU16, its Dash Milan controller software, and OEM AVB switches. The company also licenses its modular hardware and software platform to other manufacturers through its OEM & Licensing programme. JOYNED is a Promoter Member of the Avnu Alliance, the industry body behind the Milan networked-audio standard, and runs workshops such as its Milan networking session at Thomann Live Days 2026.
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Lars Reger
German engineer and technology executive serving as Chief Technology Officer of NXP Semiconductors, a leading global semiconductor company, with deep expertise in automotive, IoT and edge computing. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.
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Layla Hosseini-Gerami
Scientist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of AI and drug discovery, focused on using computational methods to rescue and repurpose previously failed drug candidates. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and drug discovery.
