Deep Science. Bold Ventures.
Financing the next generation of Deep Tech
Our Focus
IP-heavy startups emerging from universities and research institutions.
Our Role
Closing the Funding Gap between science and business.
Our Goal
Sparking innovation in the Austrian spinoff ecosystem.
(Your) Research Can Change Tomorrow!
Let’s Make It Happen!
Austrian research produces excellent results – and this is mostly due to amazing researchers and university staff working on cutting edge topics in research institutions and universities all across the country.
Noctua Science Ventures helps to turn some of this research into deep-tech companies by providing early-stage funding to academic startups that have been developed at universities or research institutes in Austria.
Think of us as the counselling owl on a sciencepreneur’s shoulder—guiding spinoffs through critical stages, from team building to intellectual property strategy and business scaling.
As a joint venture between Speedinvest and the TU Vienna, we leverage a deep relationship with universities and research institutions as well as a Europe-wide investors network.
If It Works in the Lab, It Can Work in the World!
Are you a scientist or student leading a research project that might be the next big thing? Are you in need of a strong partner for funding and counseling to guide your idea into a marketable product?
We are focused on deep-tech pioneers
across five key verticals.
Software & AI
Deep Tech
Climate & Industrial Tech
SynBio & BioTech
HealthTech
Our Secret Sauce: Academic excellence
+ Venture capital
Our Secret Sauce: Academic excellence + Venture capital
What makes Noctua Science Ventures special is the unique interlude between one of the largest seed investors in Europe and one of the best-placed research universities in the world. The combination of Speedinvest’s extensive experience in early-stage investing with TU Vienna’s high-potential research expertise/network is our superpower.
"With Noctua Science Ventures, we are providing a decisive impulse for research transfer in Austria. Excellent science is the basis for innovation - with this fund, we are specifically supporting researchers in turning their ideas into marketable companies and establishing Vienna and Austria as a leading location for deep-tech startups in Europe."
– Jens Schneider,
Rector TU Vienna
“In recent years, we have seen the incredible potential created by deep tech spin-offs from the Technical University of Munich to the ETH Zurich. We are convinced that with Noctua Science Ventures we can make a decisive contribution, positioning Vienna and Austria even more strongly on the international innovation map’”
– Oliver Holle,
CEO Speedinvest
"Austria's universities and research institutions are producing ground-breaking research results - as the Nobel Prizes of recent years have shown. However, too few ideas make it to the application stage. Noctua Science Ventures enables us to support promising academic spin-offs at an early stage and provide them with the resources they need to enter the market. Our Austrian innovation ecosystem of universities, research institutions, business and industry provides the ideal basis for this."
– Jens Schneider,
Rector TU Vienna
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