Venture Capital for Ideas and Innovations
aws Founders Fund invests venture capital during the start-up and early growth phase of Austrian start-ups. We offer support for your future (financial) plans as a long-term investor and partner and believe in the additional value of co-investments.
aws Founders Fund invests venture capital during the start-up and early growth phase of Austrian start-ups. We offer support for your future (financial) plans as a long-term investor and partner and believe in the additional value of co-investments.
Location: Austria, Vienna
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2013
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 1
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 01.10.2025 | OPTIMUSE | optimuse.com | $4.68M | Austria |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.10.2025 | Optimuse sammelt 4 Millionen ein – viboo erhält 3,3 Millionen – Headmade Materials bekommt 1,8 Millionen | Im #DealMonitor für den 01. Oktober werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-... |
| 03.11.2023 | Austrian biotech HeartBeat.bio raises €4.5M pre-Series A round | Austrian biotech HeartBeat.bio raises €4.5M pre-Series A round 03 November, 2023, 11:04 Rostyslav Sobachynskyi --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Austrian biotech startup HeartBeat.b... |
| 02.11.2023 | Austrian biotech HeartBeat.bio secures €4.5M for cardioid drug discovery platform | Austrian biotech startup HeartBeat.bio has secured a € 4.5 million Pre-Series A round. The fresh capital will fuel the completion of its cardioid drug discovery platform for proprietary and collaborative drug discovery programs for the like... |
| 06.10.2023 | Austrian SaaS provider Shopstory receives €2M from local funds | Austrian SaaS provider Shopstory receives €2M from local funds 06 October, 2023, 12:43 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Shopstory, provider of an online store marke... |
| 15.02.2023 | Valutico raises seven-figure sum for its business valuation software, helping asset managers get more precise | Vienna's Valutico raised a seven-figure amount to refine its business valuations platform and recruit additional engineers and delivery staff. The round was backed by financial services firm Erste Group alongside venture capital firms PUSH ... |
| 20.01.2023 | Austrian biotech startup Arkeon raises €2.75M of investment | Austrian biotech startup Arkeon raises €2.75M of investment 20 January, 2023, 10:48 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> The Vienna-based Arkeon, a startup that creates... |
| 21.09.2022 | Vienna-based Prewave rakes in €11 million for supply chain risk intelligence platform | As businesses manage globally distributed suppliers, the need for transparency across the entire supply chain is evident. Vienna-based AI platform Prewave has raised €11 million in funding to help businesses predict, find, understand and ca... |
| 09.01.2015 | Miracor Medical Systems receives additional funding | |
| 08.01.2015 | Miracor Medical Systems Closes €4.5M Extension to Series B Financing | Miracor Medical Systems, a Vienna, Austria-based medical device company, closed a €4.5m extension to its Series B financing. Backers included new investors BioMedInvest and aws Gründerfonds and existing investors Earlybird Venture Capital, ... |
| 19.05.2014 | VisoCon Raises Funding | VisoCon, a Graz, Austria-based provider of a cloud Unified Communication Solution, raised an undisclosed amount of funding. AWS Gründerfonds joined existing investors eQventures, i4g and tecnet. The company intends to use the funds to expan... |