Funded Startups in Austria
Austria's funded startup activity across these 50 rounds spans April 2024 through October 2025, with Vienna accounting for close to three in five companies.
Austria's funded startup activity across these 50 rounds spans April 2024 through October 2025, with Vienna accounting for close to three in five companies. Artificial intelligence is the most represented sector, with companies such as Prewave (Series B, $68M, June 2024), DeepOpinion (Series A, $12M, September 2024), XUND (Seed, $6M, March 2025), and fynk (Seed, $3M, October 2024) all closing rounds inside an 18-month window. Energy and biotech appear alongside AI — enspired raised a $17M Series B in October 2025 while Innovacell reached Series D in August 2025 in Innsbruck.
The data skews early-stage: seed rounds account for 17 of the 50 entries and pre-seed for another 8, together representing roughly half the dataset. Seven companies closed Series A rounds. The largest single disclosed amount is RP Global's $520M round in October 2024, followed by Gropyus at $110M and Storyblok at $80M, indicating that Austria can produce growth-stage capital events alongside the dense layer of early-stage deals.
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What are the largest disclosed rounds among Austrian startups in this data?
RP Global (Energy, Vienna) raised $520M in October 2024, the largest disclosed figure in the dataset. Gropyus (Real Estate, Vienna) followed at $110M in the same month, and Storyblok (Design, Linz) raised $80M in June 2024. Prewave (AI, Vienna) closed a $68M Series B in June 2024, making it the largest disclosed AI-sector round shown.
Which Austrian cities have the most funded startup activity in this dataset?
Vienna dominates, appearing in roughly 29 of the 50 entries. Innsbruck is the next most active, with companies including DeepOpinion, Innovacell, and Monkee. Linz accounts for Storyblok, Blockpit, and Respory, while Graz is home to smaXtec, Easelink, and Trever.
Which sector has attracted the most funding rounds among Austrian startups here?
Artificial intelligence appears as a sector for 14 of the 50 companies, including Prewave, XUND, DeepOpinion, fynk, Teneo Protocol, and NXRT. Energy (enspired, SALZSTROM, Nobile Group, RP Global) and biotech (Innovacell, aTension.life, Graph Therapeutics) are the next most active sectors by deal count.
What stage are most Austrian startups raising at?
Seed is the most common stage at 17 of the 50 rounds, with pre-seed adding another 8, so early-stage deals account for roughly half the entries. Series A appears 7 times. Growth-stage rounds — Series B and above — are limited to enspired, Prewave, Storyblok, and Innovacell.
How does 2025 deal volume compare to 2024 in this dataset?
27 of the 50 rounds closed in 2025 (January through October) versus 23 in 2024. The two largest individual amounts — RP Global's $520M and Gropyus's $110M — both occurred in 2024, so 2024 leads on total disclosed capital despite the slightly lower deal count.
Are there late-stage biotech or deep-tech companies raising in Austria?
Innovacell (Innsbruck) closed a Series D in August 2025, making it the most advanced biotech company by stage in the dataset. aTension.life (Steiermark) and Graph Therapeutics (Klosterneuburg) each raised $3M rounds in early 2025. On the deep-tech side, FlyNow Aviation (Salzburg, aerospace/EV) raised an undisclosed venture round in September 2025, and ecop Technologies (Oberosterreich, manufacturing) closed a $12M round in May 2025.
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