TECHHOUSE ACCELERATOR is a 16-week accelerator program based in Graz Austria. During the program, startups and zech teams collaborate with industry partners on solving tech challenges and connect with venture capitalists and investors.
AIL was founded in 2016 as an innovation platform of RWA & Lagerhaus cooperatives, one of Europe’s biggest players in Agriculture. We see ourselves as trend scout, accelerator, mentor and partner, – to play an active part in shaping the future of agriculture through innovation.
MMV connects high-growth, high-tech scaleups with established corporations. We create impact within 12 months for both parties by working with leading-edge, ready-to-scale high-growth tech companies, and large corporates willing to leverage innovation power.
Speedinvest is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with €450M AuM and 40 investors based in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Wefox, Bitpanda, TIER Mobility and GoStudent are among our portfolio of 200+ companies.
Aws Grnderfonds is Austrias most active venture capital fund with around EUR 70 m under management. The fund invests during the later seed and series A/B phases of highly scalable Austrian technology start-ups. Co-investors from our international network are actively involved.
Christopher Trummer is a young entrepreneur and executive in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to starting Celeris Therapeutics, he was already able to help scale a company from 3 to then nearly 20 people. His expertise is in the intersection between biotechnology and computer science, having earned majors in both disciplines (Master degrees).
At second glance it becomes clear: there must be more behind it. Co-founder Julia Rhee is a former pianist, has an investment background, is active in US VCs and, like her co-founder Aleksey Igudesman, is a recognized musician. And what probably stands out the most: Music Traveler has international greats like Billy Joel, John Malkovich and Hans Zimmer as official testimonials. Recently, the startup has also been very successful with its social media activities.
Originally drawn to acting, I came to the field of digital design and software engineering and related studies, where I felt comfortable as a digital native. Through relevant project management, I further developed my skills and became a co-founder of presono, which I have been leading as CEO ever since. As a podcaster of an entrepreneur and business show and as a moderator on stages I get exciting and interesting insights into these worlds. As a counter balance, I am a passionate triathlete on an ambitious level, up to the Ironman distance and long-distance cycling.
After 20 years of performing concerts around the world as a guitarist, Jonas Skielboe wanted to rethink how we produce events: He came up with a stage with integrated equipment that unfolds from an e-cargo bike to bring out culture at any possible location. Anywhere. Anytime.
HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dogs nutritional needs. HelloBellos personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door.
Petra Wolkenstein has been working for seven years with national and international startups and entrepreneurs on go-to-market strategies, cooperation and investor access. She heads Konsultori, the Viennese boutique consultancy, specialising in scaling projects. In 2018 she founded the platform key2investors, which supports startups in their investor search. Her experience comes from 10 years of corporate M&A in the telecommunications industry in Eastern Europe and business development in the TMT sector, from training and consulting projects on negotiation tactics, investor search, cooperation and business development for Austrian and international projects and accelerators.
Sasha Lipman is the Founder of tech2impact – the global digital hub for the impact tech ecosystem. It is an ecosystem of more than 500 founders, accelerators and investors located all the way from the USA to Australia. Her main passions are impact tech and connecting people. Previously she has launched the IMPACT growth hacking accelerator and organized the Global Pitch competition. Based in Vienna, Austria and connected globally!
Lisa-Marie Fassl is the co-founder and CEO of Female Founders, the fastest-growing community of entrepreneurial women in Europe, reaching 43k women per week. With her team she solves the two biggest problems of the tech & innovation ecosystem: access to funding for female-led companies and recruitment of female talent. With a 9-year track record in the tech ecosystem and especially in early stage financing, she’s initiated projects all over Europe and supported hundreds of companies. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30, the Special Advisor for Startups at the Federal Ministry for Digital & Economic Affairs, member of Viennas highest economic policy advisory board, the Vienna Economic Council, a lecturer at several Austrian universities.
Whether it’s one day, 1x a week, a flexible or fixed desk or an entire office, everyone can find their perfect workspace with us. CoWorking at SpaceLend is more than just an office community – it is an opportunity to join a network of over 60 entrepreneurs.
Petra Wolkenstein has been working for seven years with national and international startups and entrepreneurs on go-to-market strategies, cooperation and investor access. She heads Konsultori, the Viennese boutique consultancy, specialising in scaling projects. In 2018 she founded the platform key2investors, which supports startups in their investor search. Her experience comes from 10 years of corporate M&A in the telecommunications industry in Eastern Europe and business development in the TMT sector, from training and consulting projects on negotiation tactics, investor search, cooperation and business development for Austrian and international projects and accelerators.
Active in the European startup community since 2012, Nina got to know the ecosystem from different angles. As a Principal and later Head of Marketing & Community at Speedinvest, a pan-European seed-stage VC fund, she put her focus on portfolio services and knowledge exchange among founders. In 2016 she co-founded Female Founders, an organization that aims to change economy and society by fostering entrepreneurial leadership. Female Founders currently runs different programs, among them a startup accelerator for female-led ventures from all over Europe and a female leadership program for women in tech. In addition to that she is the chairwoman of the Austrian Venture Capital and Private Equity Organization (AVCO).
Lisa-Marie Fassl is the co-founder and CEO of Female Founders, the fastest-growing community of entrepreneurial women in Europe, reaching 43k women per week. With her team she solves the two biggest problems of the tech & innovation ecosystem: access to funding for female-led companies and recruitment of female talent. With a 9-year track record in the tech ecosystem and especially in early stage financing, she’s initiated projects all over Europe and supported hundreds of companies. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30, the Special Advisor for Startups at the Federal Ministry for Digital & Economic Affairs, member of Viennas highest economic policy advisory board, the Vienna Economic Council, a lecturer at several Austrian universities.
Celeris Therapeutics is a deep learning company that uses innovative methods to degrade undruggable targets. We predict biomolecular interactions and generate small, organic molecules and degraders such as PROTACs against these targets.
Music Traveler, is a marketplace that centralises spaces and venues with musical instruments and equipment for the creative industry. The platform enables artists, industry professionals and its businesses to find and lease creative spaces and venues.
Monkee has the vision to help millions of users to improve their financial wellbeing. The app combines gamification and digital “nudges” to help users save more money for what’s really important to them and actively contributes money to their saving targets. .
