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Can you scale without VC?

In the last panel of the day at the AustrianStartups Summit, Johannes Ferner (fiskaly), Maria Antonia Zahlbruckner (factorymaker) and Markus Lang (Speedinvest) talk about:

Which funding fits which stage, from equity and debt to venture debt, grants and revenue-based financing. And the typical mistakes Austrian startups make when they scale.

🎙️ The Austrian Scaling Path, moderated by Florian Haas (EY)
🤝 Powered by EY and Erste Bank und Sparkasse
📅 15 October, 17:00
📍 Ottakringer Brauerei

🚀 The Summit is in two days. No ticket yet? Get yours here: link in bio by @austrianstartups

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What happens after the exit?

At the AustrianStartups Summit, Johann 'Hansi' Hansmann (business angel), Katarzyna Renata Pichler(InnovaticGroup, business angel), Tobias Homberger (myClubs, VC-backed exit) and Camilla Sievers (Qi Health, i5growth) talk about:

What risk angels really take, and what they actually look for. What an exit means for founders, including the risks nobody talks about: terms, earn-outs, life after the sale.

🎙️ Exit & Angels, moderated by Dejan Jovicevic (Brutkasten)
📅 15 October, 16:15
📍 Ottakringer Brauerei
No ticket yet? Get yours here: link in comments by @austrianstartups

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8 days ago

What does staying manual actually cost your startup?
It feels like the safe option. But it quietly eats time, money, focus and talent.

At the AustrianStartups Summit, Constantin Wintoniak (fynk), Nora Frizberg (COO, Speedinvest) and Tino Albrecht (Director for Startups, SAP MEE) talk about when automation comes too early or too late, and what it does to teams and culture.

🎙️ The Biggest Risk Is Playing It Safe, moderated by our CEO Hannah Wundsam, powered by SAP
📅 15 October, 15:35
📍 Ottakringer Brauerei
No ticket yet? Get yours here: link in bio by @austrianstartups

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9 days ago

What happens to risk when anyone can build a product in a weekend?

Building got cheaper and faster. The risk now sits somewhere else: staying hard to copy, depending on US models, and using AI responsibly. And that's where founders in Austria can win.

In the second panel of the AustrianStartups Summit, Daniel Keinrath (fonio.ai), Carina Zehetmaier (PaiperOne) and Raoul Felix Maier (Eudemian Ventures) compare how Austria and the US approach these risks.

🎙️ AI Changes the Rules of Taking Risks, moderated by Clemens Wasner (EnliteAI)

📅 15 October, 14:25
📍 Ottakringer Brauerei
No ticket yet? Get yours here: link in bio by @austrianstartups

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10 days ago

What is risk?
Ask a bootstrapped founder, a spin-off, a VC-backed startup and a scaleup, and you'll get four different answers.

That's exactly what we're doing in the first panel of the AustrianStartups Summit.

In the panel,Risky by Design - How your business model, stage, and product define the bets worth taking, Nadina Ruedl (Die Pflanzerei), Lisa Smith (Prewave), Kilian Kaminski (refurbed) and Christian Bezdeka (woom) will talk about how their business model, stage and product shaped which risks were worth taking, which ones they decided against, and the moments it could have gone wrong.

🎙️ Risky by Design, moderated by Antonia Rinesch
📅 15 October, 13:40
📍 Ottakringer Brauerei
No ticket yet? Get yours here 🎟️ (link in bio) by @austrianstartups

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11 days ago

❗ This is your last chance to apply. Applications for the Summit Sprint close tomorrow, October 7.

On October 14 we're hosting a 24-hour hackathon at 42 Vienna, working on challenges from real organizations. The three winning teams get to pitch on the main stage of the AustrianStartups Summit the next day, in front of an investor jury and 1,000 people from the ecosystem.

And there is more:
- Every team gets Cloudflare's full tech stack at enterprise level for a week
- Two Cloudflare mentors on site, both days
- Cloudflare credits for the top 3 teams: 25k, 10k and 5k (road to 325k possible with funding)
- An advisory call for the winners with Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn
- Cloudflare will feature the tracks, use cases, highlights and winning teams on its Socials

Developers, designers, PMs, students, founders: sign up solo and we'll help you find a team, or bring your own. Every participant also gets a free ticket to the Summit on October 15.

Powered by Entanglement, Inc., 42 Vienna, START HACK Vienna, Red Bull, TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) and Cloudflare.

👉 Apply by October 7. The link is in the comments. by @austrianstartups

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12 days ago

4 out of 5 Austrian startups are planning to expand internationally within the next year. If yours is one of them, the Born Global Mindset masterclass with AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA belongs on your Summit agenda.

Elena Frauenlob will share how to prioritise market opportunities, avoid common expansion traps and make smarter market-entry decisions. Plus: how to tap into AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA's global network for local know-how, connections and hands-on support around the world.

👉 Don't have your Summit ticket yet? Get yours via the link in our bio. by @austrianstartups

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13 days ago

Die Umsetzung der paneuropäischen Rechtsform EU Inc. ist auch – wie nicht anders zu erwarten – eines der zentralen konkreten Anliegen der neuen Dachorganisation. Daneben nennt man den European Innovation Act, die Spar- und Investitionsunion und die Regulierung von KI und dem digitalen Bereich als konkrete Bereiche, die priorisiert werden sollen. Die übergeordneten Ziele überraschen ebenso wenig: ein echter europäischer Binnenmarkt für Startups, mehr verfügbares Kapital und das Ziel, Frontier-Technologien tatsächlich am Kontinent zu Größe zu bringen. by @austrianstartups

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13 days ago

Employee equity in Austria is still complicated, especially when it comes to taxes.

That's why, together with Grant Thornton Austria, we're hosting a members-only brunch for our GROW and SCALE founders. On October 15, right before the Summit, Erich Schaffer (Partner & Tax Advisor) and Sabine Strauss (Tax Advisor) break down the real risks and opportunities behind equity participation models in Austria.

Over coffee and good food, get clear, practical insights on how to structure equity smartly, avoid common tax pitfalls, and turn one of the trickiest topics in scaling a company into a genuine competitive advantage.

This is your chance to ask the experts directly in a relaxed, peer-to-peer setting.
📅 Oct 15, 9:30 to 11:00, Gold Fassl

Not a member yet? Apply for a Founder Membership to get invited to events like this one. You also get a Summit ticket, and benefits and tickets apply to your co-founders too (link in bio). by @austrianstartups

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13 days ago

How do you move fast on AI in a regulated financial services company without compromising on compliance and governance?

Nora Frizberg brings this rare perspective to the AustrianStartups Summit.

She is Chief Operating Officer of Speedinvest, one of Europe's leading early-stage venture capital firms, where she oversees operations, including legal, compliance, and IT operations. She led the firm's company-wide AI adoption: she rolled out tools, built AI literacy across teams, and integrated these tools with Speedinvest's core systems to automate workflows.

She joins the fireside chat:
The Biggest Risk Is Playing It Safe: What the automation gap really costs your startup

On stage with her: Constantin Wintoniak 🥝, CEO and co-founder of fynk, and Tino Albrecht, Director SAP for Startups MEE.

📅 October 15
📍 Ottakringer Brauerei
👉 Get your ticket here: link in bio by @austrianstartups

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15 days ago

Have you received investment in the last 18 months? Then this Masterclass is for you!

Next up in the masterclass track at the AustrianStartups Summit: Scaling Beyond Equity - Unlocking the door to bank financing for startups, with Nicolas Mayerhofer from Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws).

What makes a startup bankable, and how do you get more capital out of the equity you've already raised?

Nicolas shows how the aws guarantee program "equity leverage" (Eigenkapital hebeln) turns equity into extra capital, without giving up more shares or control.

📅 15 October, 16:00 | Hopfenboden, Ottakringer Brauerei
👉 No ticket yet? Get yours via the link in the bio by @austrianstartups

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16 days ago

Raising now or planning to? Then put this masterclass on your Summit list.

Everyone looks at the valuation first. The stuff that hurts later usually sits in the clauses around it. How the money gets split when you sell. What happens to your shares if you leave. Who gets to decide when the company is sold.

In Termsheet Decoded - What you must know before you sign the deal, Dominik Tyrybon and Niklas Kerschbaumer from Schoenherr Attorneys at Law take a real term sheet apart clause by clause: what investors are really asking for, what's actually market in Austria, and where you should push back.

Dominik is a venture capital and M&A lawyer who works with founders and investors at every stage, from fundraising to governance and scaling. Niklas advises on financing rounds, growth investments, spin-offs and M&A, with a focus on Healthcare & Life Sciences and Technology.

📅 15 October, 15:00 | Hopfenboden, Ottakringer Brauerei
👉 No ticket yet? Get yours via the link in the bio. by @austrianstartups

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17 days ago