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Startup Report 2025

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Meet Austria’s funded founders who share their stories, insights and tips on fundraising. Your yearly update on the trends in the Austrian startup ecosystem.

Founder Tips

Topic of this year's report: Leadership. 100 pages full of tips and best practices on leadership from the successful founders who raised capital in Austria. Each year, the Founder Q&A focusses on a differen topic.

Expert Insights

Industry insiders share insights and tips for founders. Topics include: Technical Due Diligence Tips, Croproate-Startup-Collaboration, Term Sheet Clauses, Ecosystem Trends. Practical advice. New topics each year.

2015-2025

A wealth of facts & know-how can be found in the past 10 years of Startup Report.

Editions Published

of Startup Report since 2015

Expert Articles

with insights and founder tips

372

Founder Q&As

with insights and tips from funded founders

READERSHIP

Who are the readers of Startup Report.

39,2%

Active Founders

11,1%

Aspiring Founders

8,6%

Startup Mentors/Advisors

6,5%

Investors

6,5%

Accelerators & Support Orgas

4,7%

Corporates

3,9%

School/University Reps

2,9%

Public/Gvt. Orgas

2,8%

Journalists

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You know an Austrian startup that deserves to be included in the next Startup Report? Then nominate them before the next annual report gets published in spring of 2026. Participation is free of charge.

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PUBLISHER: FLORIAN KANDLER

Hi, I’m Florian Kandler. I’m a three-time founder from Vienna, who’s companies have raised over €3 million of funding. You might know me as the official Pitch Coach of “2 Minuten 2 Millionen”, the author of the “Business ~~Angels~~ Devils” book and the Pitch Tips book, the host of the Gründer&Zünder Podcast, or from teaching about pitching and fundraising at Accelerators.

I know how tough it is to raise capital. And how great it feels, when you close a round of funding and take your startup to the next level of growth.

Startup Report is one of my passion projects since 2015, and is part of my various initiatives that aim to help founders build fundable businesses.

I want to inspire founders in Austria. Show them that “it can be done here” (= the funding list in the report)! Show local role models (= the founders in the report). And, very importantly, invite the successful founders to share their fundraising tips and insights with the community (the Q&A in the report).

I hope you will enjoy reading Startup Report, get inspired, and learn from the successful founders.

Sincerely yours,

Florian Kandler
– Keep up that startup spirit!