Western und Eastern VCs gathering in Vienna

„Banks and insurance companies will die a death of thousand cuts”, said Martin Hauge in his keynote at the first Up Venture Conference in Vienna.  The Creandum board member and new partner at Fluent Digital Capital (Fund of Fund under establishment) was referring to the raise of fintech companies and how they are changing the financial industries.

Game changing ventures and how to finance them was naturally a dominant topic at the first Up Venture Conference in Vienna last Friday. Aim of the conference is to connect LPs and GPs from the Western and Eastern VC Ecosystem, and the organiser surely succeeded. Venture Experts such as Nikolas Samios (General Partner at German Startups Group), Peter Schwanitz (Portfolio Advisors), Speedinvest CEO Oliver Holle, Michael Gastauer (Founder & President Gastauer Family Office) and many more attended the event. The team of DealMatrix, led by Christoph Drescher, had some highly interesting conversations while introducing their SaaS solution for venture capital, startup events and investors.

From left: Venionaire Capital Partner Alexander Rapatz and DealMatrix CEO Christoph Drescher.

The Conference was organized by Rubixlab, a Slovakian accelerator and incubator and they already announced to repeat the event next year. There is good news for Austrian Startups as well: Rubixlab is thinking about opening a new office in Austria – a warm welcome from our side!