Community

3rd

fastest growing tech community in Europe in 2024

Female Founders

#1

most female founders among large cities (2023)

Investments 3-year Average

620mn €

per year between 22-24 (rank 18th in Europe)

DISCOVER Vienna startups

Funding data and any possible statistic on Vienna startups and the local ecosystem. See how the local ecosystem scores against the European competition of startup hubs in the statistics below. If you have your own startup company find funding calls and accelerator programs to apply to, see statistics on previous participants of these programs. You can see the statistics on total investment raised, female founders or foreign-born and migrant founders in this tech hub.

All of the data is curated by the DEEP research team and comes from 1st party sources like the Annual Startup Heatmap Survey or our monitor for job creation, news mentions and female founders. Other data comes from 3rd party sources like Dealroom, Crunchbase or Stackoverflow.

To get a list of the best startup cities you can find Europe's top ecosystems in our search or get a ranking of the best accelerators in Europe.

Startup Success Stories

 

GoStudent

GoStudent was founded in Vienna in 2016 and became a unicorn in 2021, with a valuation of €1.4 bn. The startup´s digital learning platform, available in 18 countries, matches students and teachers in virtual one-on-one classrooms. GoStudent was founded by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller.

 

 

 

Bitpanda

Founded in 2014 in Vienna by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer, Bitpanda is one of Europe’s leading crypto currency trading platforms. In 2020, it secured one of the largest Series A fundings led by Valar Ventures, a VC backed by Peter Thiel.

 

 

 

Partium

Humai (founded in Vienna in 2010), Catchoom, and Slyce merged to create Partium, an AI-based image recognition tech for industry and retail. Partium is headquartered in Vienna with local offices in Barcelona, Philadelphia, and Nova Scotia.

 

 

 

ECOSYSTEM Data for Vienna startups

Map of Startup Places

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NameGroupInfoWebsite
A1 Startup Campus Startup Program At the A1 Start Up Campus, young, innovative companies meet the accumulated know-how of Austria's most important communications company. The campus is home to selected Austrian start-ups and space for exchange and encounter. Equipped with A1 business solutions, startups can focus on the essentials: developing their business.
A1 Startup Campus Startup Program At the A1 Start Up Campus, young, innovative companies meet the accumulated know-how of Austria's most important communications company. The campus is home to selected Austrian start-ups and space for exchange and encounter. Equipped with A1 business solutions, startups can focus on the essentials: developing their business.
Advantage Austria Startup Program ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA, with its more than 115 offices in over 70 countries, provides a broad range of business development services and expertise. Its offices assist local companies in locating Austrian business partners and also strive to promote Austria as an investment location, a high-tech manufacturing base, and a renowned source of the creative industries.
Agro Innovation Lab Startup Program For entrepreneurs, our accelerator program offers the broad agro-specific and entrepreneurial know-how of our selected trainers and mentors, a brilliant network and very useful resources. In our pre-seed package we support the development of an idea into a detailed business model.
austria wirtschaftsservice Startup Program aws creative industries supports with monetary grants further training programs and provides targeted activities; these activities are to significantly contribute and increase the awareness of the value and potential of the creative industries in the innovation context and to strengthen the economic importance of this sector.
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