Deep Science. Bold Ventures.
Bridging the Gap Between Business and Lab
Noctua Science Ventures is Austria’s first dedicated spin-off fund, designed to support sciencepreneurs in transforming groundbreaking research into successful deep-tech startups.
We provide early-stage funding, strategic guidance, and access to an extensive investor network, ensuring that cutting-edge innovation doesn’t remain stuck in the lab—but makes its way into the world.
Our Focus
IP-heavy startups emerging from universities and research institutions.
Our Role
Our Goal
We invest in high-potential, research-driven startups in five key verticals:
- Software & AI
- DeepTech
- Climate & Industrial Tech
- SynBio & BioTech
- HealthTech
Each vertical represents a transformative sector where science meets industry to create game-changing innovation.
Big Ideas Need Bold Moves – Show Us Your Science!
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Igor Landry
2020 Alumn
An early-stage spin-off fund to finance the next generation of IP-heavy deeptech startups directly from the research lab.
Dec 22
Early Admission
June 23
Regular Admission
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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 involved in a research project that might be the next big thing? Do you need funding to transform your idea into a marketable product? You are lacking time and resources to deal with business-related procedures and IP-setup?
Closing the gap between business and lab.
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.
Dec 22
Early Admission
June 23
Regular Admission
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"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 start-ups in Europe."
– Jens Schneider
Rector TU Vienna
"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
"Our vision is clear: we want to establish Vienna and Austria as a European hub for research-related spin-offs. Noctua Science Ventures combines academic excellence with venture capital and thus creates a bridge between research and business."
– Jens Schneider
Rector TU Vienna
“Europa ist ein Vorreiter bei Deep-Tech Startups und wir sind stolz als Speedinvest hier eine wichtige Rolle zu spielen. Mit Noctua Science Ventures können wir einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten um Wien bzw. Österreich hier noch stärker auf die internationale Landkarte zu holen”
– Oliver Holle
CEO, Speedinvest
“Wir haben in den letzten Jahren gesehen, welch unglaubliches Potenzial durch Deep-TEch Spin-offs rund um die TU München oder auch die ETH Zürich entsteht. Wir sind überzeugt, dass wir mit Noctua Science Ventures einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten können, um auch in Wien bzw. Österreich das Spin-Off Ökosystem entscheidend zu stärken”
– Oliver Holle
CEO, Speedinvest
Noctua Science Ventures
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