Austrian VC Firm AWS Grunderfonds Is Changing The Tech World

AWS Grunderfonds logo

AWS Grunderfonds is a VC fund investing in later seed, high-growth, high-tech startups. More specifically, the company prefers investments in deep tech, digital, infrastructure, and life science technologies. The Austrian firm’s portfolio includes more than 25 companies. Meanwhile the firm manages investments worth more than EUR 68.5 million.  AWS Grunderfonds’s high-tech investment branch, called High-Tech Grunderfonds (HTGF), has invested in more than 600 startup companies since 2005. Over time, this has helped to draw in further external investments, now totaling over EUR 2.4 billion.

Investments worth (millions)

0

portfolio

0

Exits

0

Data sourced from Pitchbook 2022

About AWS Grunderfonds

Location

AWS Grunderfonds is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and mainly prioritizes investing in Austrian high-tech startups that are in series A/B funding rounds. The types of investments vary, although there is a strong reliance on mezzanine financing and equity investing. The company has refined its techniques over time and now has specific rules for partner organizations if an investment is going to be made. First and foremost, AWS Grunderfonds requires its potential partners to show proof of concept before pursuing any technology investments. It is also very strict about only investing in companies with a well-organized and passionate team of founders. However, the team at AWS Grunderfonds is also characteristically helpful in preparing and assisting with future financing rounds once a startup has been accepted into its portfolio.

Remarkable Investments

AWS Grunderfonds manages investments in a number of sectors, including green technologies. Two of the company’s largest current investments in the green space are in goUrban, and GreenPass, SaaS organizations focused on minimizing pollution in urban spaces. AWS Grunderfonds also invests in a number of companies that are making it easier for Europeans to conduct business. One such business is Cashy, a fintech company with lifetime fundraising around EUR 2 million, which uses complex algorithms to quickly calculate the value of used items. In the medical sector, AWS Grunderfonds invests in a number of companies that are already changing patients’ lives for the better. One such company, IB Lab, helps with the early detection and diagnosis of bone diseases. Another, Breath ILO (formerly Carbomed Medical Solutions), helps easily determine a woman’s ovulation period and has achieved over EUR 7 million of funding.

AWS Grunderfonds in the News

In January of 2022, AWS Grunderfonds contributed to two major funding rounds in the Austrian startup environment. The first, a follow-up investment with PlanRadar, helped Europe’s largest digital field management platform achieve $69 million of fundraising. This funding will support PlanRadar’s international expansion. AWS Grunderfonds’s second major contribution to start 2022 was a joint investment with Austrian VC firm eQventure into an app store marketing platform called App Radar. This latest round of funding achieved EUR 2 million, which brought investments in the organization up to EUR 5 million lifetime since App Radar was founded in 2015. In February of 2020, AWS Grunderfonds, together with investment partner MAD, injected seven figures worth of growth financing into a life science technology company called Innerspace, which uses virtual reality to conduct DeepTraining. Innerspace will use this investment to improve their technology, and to further infiltrate the pharmaceutical training space.

More Companies in Europe

Vital Capital and its founder Eytan Stibbe are opening the door for others and creating impact investment opportunities across the African continent.

Vital Capital

Vital Capital and its founder Eytan Stibbe are opening the door for others and creating impact investment opportunities across the African continent.
Read More
Invescap is a Swiss-based investment company that provides innovative investment solutions to an approved client base in Switzerland and Europe.

Invescap

Invescap is a Swiss-based investment company that provides innovative investment solutions to an approved client base in Switzerland and Europe.
Read More
investcorp

Investcorp

Investcorp is a global alternative investment company that caters to both private and institutional clients
Read More
Invex Ventures

Index Ventures

Index Ventures is an international venture capital company that focuses on technology-aided companies.
Read More
robeco

Robeco

Robeco is a Dutch asset managing company headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands. As in December 2017, Robeco had AuM to the value of €191 billion under ...
Read More
Prime Ventures

Prime Ventures

Prime Ventures is a public venture capital firm with interests in the European technological entrepreneurial market.
Read More
HSBC Logo

HSBC

HSBC is the British financial banking group. The company’s service portfolio includes corporate banking, retail banking, investment banking, mortgage loans, wealth management, private banking, credit ...
Read More
entrepreneur first logo

Entrepreneur First

Entrepreneur First is an international investment company interested in helping people build technology companies.
Read More
innogy innovation hub

Innovation Hub

Innovation Hub is a driver of new ideas, business models, and disruptive paradigm shifts in the fields of artificial intelligence, energy, cyber ventures, and more.
Read More

Investors with Interest in Europe

Paul Heydon

Paul Heydon

Paul Heydon, an angel and seed round investor actively working within the gaming and augmented reality/ virtual reality and AI industries.
Read More
Felix Haas

Felix Haas

Felix Haas is a German entrepreneur, advisor, and prolific angel investor with a private portfolio of over 80 startups.
Read More
FrankThelen3

Frank Thelen

Frank Thelen is an angel investor and serial founder of companies such as ip.labs and doo. Thelen loves innovation and is known for his participation ...
Read More
oliver thylmann

Oliver Thylmann

Oliver Thylmann is an investor and entrepreneur based in Cologne, Germany. Thylmann is the co-founder and chief customer officer at Giant Swarm.
Read More
Klaus Hommels

Klaus Hommels

Klaus Hommels is a venture capitalist focused on early investments in internet businesses.
Read More
Mark Bivens

Mark Bivens

Mark Bivens, an entrepreneur, high-tech angel investor and cryptocurrency educator who has a broad range of investments throughout Europe and Japan.
Read More
Robert Gaal

Robert Gaal

Robert Gaal is a self-taught, self-made Dutch entrepreneur and investor. Gaal is best known as the founder of a range of tech startups. He is ...
Read More
Osman Semerci - Global Investor

Osman Semerci

Osman Semerci, an award-winning investment executive with over two decades of experience in international investment.
Read More
Etienne vantKruys

Etienne vantKruys

Etienne vantKruys is one of the foremost investors in the cryptocurrency space, and his decisions are changing Blockchain and Web 3.0 for the better.
Read More