Vienna, the capital city of Austria is one of the most vivid, diverse and fastly growing tech scenes in Europe. While the Viennese startup ecosystem is not as great as London‘s or Berlin’s, it is certainly on the right track to becoming a major European startup hub for many reasons.
With Germany to the North, Vienna continues to profit from its high quality of life as well as its abundance of talented labour and high-level research. This balance between quality of living combined with affordable prices makes Vienna a city where one can enjoy working in the very best conditions.
Having a healthy economy and focus on the service sector as well as specialist areas of research and IT, Vienna has numerous startups working on the solutions that will benefit society for good. We have listed the top 10 startups with the help of Dealroom to work for this 2019
Adverity
Funding: €14.2M
Founders: Alexander Igelsböck, Andreas Glänzer, Martin Brunthaler
Founded in 2015, Adverity enables users of its platform to easily connect and work with their entire media, marketing, and e-commerce ecosystems. It is a SaaS platform that enables brands and agencies to make better marketing decisions by integrating all data into a single source of truth and leveraging Artificial Intelligence to uncover opportunities.
Eversports
Funding: €9.5M
Founders: Andreas Woditschka, Emanuel Steininger, Hanno Lippitsch, Ivo Radulovski
Eversports is a SaaS-enabled Marketplace that brings sports providers and athletes together. This platform connects its members directly with sports venues, helps them to book courts or courses and to meet sports partners.
Tour Radar
Funding: €60.4M
Founders: Shawn Pittman, Travis Pittman
Founded in 2010, TourRadar is an online marketplace to compare & book multi-day tours to over 200 countries worldwide. At present, the company works with over 500 tour and river cruise operators including Avalon, Contiki, G Adventures, Globus, Intrepid Travel and Topdeck.
Tricentis
Funding: €150M
Founders: Franz Fuchsberger, Wolfgang Platz
Tricentis offers enterprise software testing solutions that enable enterprises to achieve high automation rates while minimizing risks. The company provides automated insight to reduce business risk, improve cost efficiency and accelerate software delivery speed. It has offices in Austria, Australia, Germany, India, Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, the United States and the UK.
Hoopika Pharma
Funding: €114M
Founders: Andreas Bergthaler, Daniel Pinschewer, Katherine Cohen, Lukas Flatz, Rolf Zinkernagel
It is a clinical stage company developing next-generation immunotherapies for infectious diseases and cancer using novel proprietary arenavirus vector platforms.
Shpock
Funding: NA
Founders: Katharina Klausberger, Armin Strbac
Founded in 2010, it is a mobile marketplace that connects millions of private sellers and buyers and local businesses. The categories range from electronics, fashion and furniture but also specialised interests such as cars and property.
wikifolio
Funding: €8.5M
Founders: Andreas Kern
It is an internet platform allowing experienced investors to implement and publish trading ideas and offering them a chance to benefit from the expertise of traders. The Wikifolio aims to set new standards for radical transparency and provides a fair fee-model.
Kompany
Funding: €6.1M
Founders: Bernhard Hoetzl, Iris Pittl, Peter Bainbridge-Clayton, Russell Perry
Founded in 2012, kompany is the leading RegTech provider of authoritative Global Company Intelligence for Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML). The Vienna-based startup kompany provides real-time access to official and authoritative commercial register data, including company filings from more than 100 million companies in 150+ jurisdictions.
JobRocker
Funding: €1.2M
Founders: Günther Strenn
This platform help companies find the best suitable team member, quickly and efficiently in a fair and transparent fee. In fact, it is the first digital headhunting-platform with a revolutionary matching-technology.
Firstbird
Funding: €2M
Founders: Arnim Wahls, Daniel Winter, Matthias Wolf
Firstbird is an employee referral platform that connects you with talent through the referrals.
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