Business
Angel
Summit
2025

03. 04. JUL

Austria's top startups pitch to national
and international investors in Kitzbühel.

Idea

The Business Angel Summit brings together selected private investors with outstanding, innovative startups from Austria in the heart of the Austrian Alps, thus creating the best opportunities for the perfect match.

At the Business Angel Summit, top Austrian startup teams will have the unique opportunity to attract not only leading entrepreneurs from Tyrol, but also key players from the international business world as partners and potential investors for their companies. This year's Business Angel Summit will take place in Kitzbühel. We look forward to seeing you there!

What is the goal?

The Business Angel Summit wants to team up outstanding Austrian know-how with private investors.

International Business Angels looking for first-class ideas and projects are brought together with promising Austrian startups in the fields of science, research and technology to make Austrian innovations an international success.

The Business Angel Summit is the best event in Western Austria to exchange knowledge and experiences in select company, to network with national & international partners and to establish future-oriented cooperation.

How does it work?

Austrian startups apply with their pitch deck for one of the Business Angel Summit's starting places. From all submissions, the twelve most promising projects, which will present themselves exclusively in front of the audience and have the possibility to get in touch with investors, business angels and potential partners. 

What are the benefits for investors and startups?

Potential investors get a personal up-to-the-minute insight into the current deal flow of innovations in the Austrian startup scene. Angel Investors get the chance to meet with high potential startups - offering new, innovative technologies and services as well as a major growth potential - and to invest in the best projects.


Startup teams looking for smart capital to realise their business concept benefit from selective, straightforward and personal access to first-class venture capitalists.

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Criteria for the selection of the 12 TOP-startups
  • The product/service has already reached market maturity (at least first test customers)
  • There is a clearly recognizable unique selling proposition
  • The product/service is scalable and addresses a large and/or new market
  • The company has basic financing (e.g. through funding or own resources) 
  • The company is currently actively looking for an investor


For startups

Application deadline: 2025-05-18

Apply as a Startup​ 

For investors

Application deadline: 2025-07-01

Apply as an investor ​ 

Host

The Standortagentur Tirol and AWS are jointly hosting the Business Angel Summit 2025. This collaboration promotes innovative business ideas.

austria wirtschafts service

As the federal promotional bank, Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft (aws) supports Austrian startu-ups and inovative entrepreneurs on the one hand by matching them with private investors (aws i2 Business Angels Austria) and on the other ahnd through the wide range of low-interest SME loans, start-up and technology grant and guarantees for start-ups and entrepreneurial growth, as well as the aws Gründerfonds. In addition, aws supports i2 Business Angels in their search for co-investors. 

 

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Standortagentur Tirol

The Standortagentur Tirol is an institution of the Land Tirol and assigned by law to sustainably strengthen the business and science location Tirol.

The agency supports start-ups in the fields of research, technology, innovation and cooperation and assists them in finding partners in business and science for the development of successful innovations. 

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Partner

Supporting
Partner

Erste Bank Sparkasse EY WVF Kitzbühel

Netzwerk
partner

Event
Info

EVENT VENUE

Rasmushof Hotel Kitzbühel
Hermann Reisch Weg 15
A-6370 Kitzbühel
t +43 5356 652 52
e office@rasmushof.at
w www.rasmushof.at

The event is planned according to the criteria of GREEN EVENTS TIROL. GREEN EVENTS TIROL is an initiative by Klimabündnis Tirol and Umwelt Verein Tirol in cooperation with the State of Tyrol to promote an environmentally and socially responsible event culture.

Accessibility
All people are welcome here!

Free choice of seat: We ensure that guests with disabilities can choose their preferred seat close to the action on stage.

Contact person: Barbara Wille is the contact person responsible for accessibility. She can be reached by e-mail (barbara.wille@standortagentur-tirol.at) and telephone (+43 676 843101-250).

Travelling
We ask you to travel in an environmentally friendly way: By public transport, on foot or by bike. Sufficient bicycle parking spaces are available. The venue is a 25-minute walk from Kitzbühel railway station. Timetable information: www.vvt.at.

Travelling by ÖBB: With every train journey with ÖBB you save CO2 and arrive relaxed at the event. The current timetable information and all timetables can be found at www.oebb.at.
Travelling by IVB: Mobility around the clock, 365 days a year. The current timetables can be found at www.ivb.at.

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Contact



Standortagentur Tirol GmbH
Ing.-Etzel-Straße 17
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

Lisa Spöck
t +43 512 576 262 - 218
w www.standort-tirol.at


Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH
Rechte Wienzeile 225
1120 Wien
Austria

Dusan Todorovic

t +43 1 501 75 - 332
w www.business-angels.at