Infineon EdgeAI Startup Challenge 2025

building hard tech is hard

We know because we’ve done it. It’s not your standard startup playbook, and it requires founders who are ready to get their hands dirty and go far beyond their computer keyboard. That’s why we engage beyond capital. We bring the right combination of engineering resources, community, and long-term capital to empower founders to move at unparalleled speed and global scale.

we are SOSV

HAX is built on the foundation of the multi-stage venture firm SOSV, which also operates the IndieBio startup program for startups focused on bio-tech approaches to human and planetary health. In addition to our investment capital,  SOSV’s marketing platform provides breakout opportunities for our portfolio companies to shine through the annual SOSV Human Health 100 and SOSV Climate Tech 100 lists, as well as the annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit and VC-Founder Matchup, which attracts more than 5,000 participants.

The Vesna’s mission is to invest into deep tech projects and startups that will help solve our planet’s most urgent problems or tackle them in a more efficient and innovative way. We start at TRL4 on and are not stopping when it comes to growth.
We will do this by accessing cutting-edge technologies through our core partnerships with research institutions, and transfer these technologies out to commercially viable products in companies/start-ups by our investment strategy that is in a light of our hands-on startup know-how and full investment lifecycles. Portfolio companies will closely work with industry partners and expert network, especially our Advisors to shape their best path to success.

Today, research institutions, professors and scientists are eager for project commercialisation and spinoffs, not only to catch up with the EU averages, but also to make a real-life difference rather than just shelved academic research.

We are Austria's most active Seed - Series A Venture-Capital-Investor.

aws Gründungsfonds is an Austrian venture capital investor based in Vienna.

We invest together with experienced co-investors in promising Austrian start-ups, from the first growth phase (Seed) through subsequent financing rounds (Series A/B) to exit.

The goal of the aws Gründungsfonds is to support its portfolio companies in their journey to the market and their sustainable growth, partnering with them closely and at eye level to assist in their success.

Serdica Capital is an alternative investment fund manager licensed by the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission.

Serdica Capital is responsible for the set up, investment management, investor relations, administration, compliance and regulatory oversight, and reporting services for the alternative funds under its management.

The B&C Group invests in expanding technology-focused businesses that support ‘old economy’ industrial companies with digitalisation and/or optimisation. It makes these investments through B&C Innovation Investments GmbH (BCII).

By investing in industrial tech scale-ups – and through its majority holdings in AMAG, Lenzing and Semperit and its long-standing research funding activities – the B&C Group aims to strengthen Austria’s standing as a business location.

With over 350 members, invest•austria is the leading network for investors in the pre-IPO capital market in Austria. We are the central contact point for all questions relating to angel investing, venture capital, and private equity.

Onsight Ventures is an internationally oriented investment fund based in Innsbruck. The focus is on early stage investments in technology based companies. We are a partner aiming to build long-term value together.

Onsight Ventures is supported by outstanding professionals in their fields. Hermann Hauser and Christoph Huber both lend their expertise, led by a young, and dynamic team players. Our USP is the experience and know-how to identify and validate Deep Technologies.

Are you a technology-oriented startup or SME capable of going global and looking for venture capital for your scalable business model? Can you show that you act with awareness of your economical, environmental and social responsibilities?

Your value creation already takes place in or will take place in the future with a reference to Carinthia -
then we should get to know each other.

We use our own capital to invest in early-stage, development and growth projects.