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Lynus – the software for the enegery-optimized building of the future.
The business location Austria offers innovative businesses such as Lynus the right platform, a modern environment, and highly skilled workforce in order to use complex IOT solutions with ease. Additionally the desire of a lot of Austrian companies to minimize their CO2 footprint in a sustainable way, appeals very much to our business model.
Could cleantech help reduce Austria’s emissions?
Austria aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040 - 10 years earlier than the ambition set by the EU. With its scalability and its ability to be rapidly implemented, clean technology like BrainBox AI could be the key to achieving ambitious emissions reduction targets such as Austria's.
Forschung und Entwicklung
Innovation und Digitalisierung
Keepers Child Safety GmbH
Keepers Child Safety was founded in Israel in late 2016 to answer the growing need to protect children wherever they play in the digital world. The cyber-tech startup - with currently over 20 employees - has developed proprietary AI and ML technology to monitor, detect and protect kids from toxic conversations (bullying, harassment, racism,..) on their …
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Corona Tracking: New Encryption Technology Ensures Data Protection
The “Corona Heatmap” developed by the Know-Center and the Graz University of Technology shows where people who tested positive for the coronavirus were before the diagnosis i.e., the precise location where they got infected. In this way, conclusions can be drawn about coronavirus hotspots. An innovative process the interface between cryptography …
Innovation and Digitalisation
Austria in upheaval: Why data center space in Vienna is a sought-after commodity
The data center market in Austria, especially in Vienna, is currently growing rapidly. Despite its current total area of 5,600 m², our Vienna 1 Data Center has reached its capacity limit. Many new interested parties – but also existing clients – are eagerly awaiting the expansion of the data center.
Innovation und Digitalisierung
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VIRNECT CO., LTD.
Virnect was founded in the year 2016 with the objective of developing and making available user-friendly, value-creating augmented reality software solutions for applications in all areas of industry. The focus of its product development is providing optimal support to customers seeking greater efficiency and security at the workplace. Virnect established …
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360° Certification for Artificial Intelligence
A new initiative for trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) was launched in Styria. Within the context of a strategic partnership, the Know-Center, SGS, the Graz University of Technology and the University of Graz will research and develop efficient and independent test methods and testing technologies for AI systems.
Research and Development
Innovation and Digitalisation
Compleo Charging Solutions AG
Active in the sector since 2009, Compleo expanded to Austria at the beginning of 2021 as part of a cooperation with KSW Elektro- und Industrieanlagenbau (KSW). Now Compleo has set up a subsidiary in the Greater Vienna area as the next logical step in enhancing its sales capacities in the steadily growing Austrian market.
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4 Reasons for Evaluating Austria as the First Step for Internationalisation of Your Startup
Just recently the latest edition of the Austrian Start Up Monitor was published. The report, once again, shows that Austria has a very dynamic founder scene. Just think of Prescreen, mySugar, Bitpanda or Bitmovin; Austria has spawned numerous, internationally well-known flagships within the startup community.
Business Formation, Legal & Tax Aspects
Austria's Advantages
Bosch successfully pushes ahead with innovations in Austria
As a leading global supplier of technology and services, the Bosch Group offers technology that is “invented for life”. Thanks to its products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm, Bosch improves the quality of life for people worldwide. The innovative strength of the company is the basis for future growth.
Research and Development
Innovation and Digitalisation
Austria's Advantages
OnlineDoctor
OnlineDoctor is a healthcare startup founded in St. Gallen, Switzerland in 2016 and the leading teledermatological platform in the DACH region. Patients can receive a professional assessment of a skin problem from a medical specialist for skin and sexually transmitted diseases within a period of 48 hours on the basis of images which have been submitted …
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How automation is changing expenditure management
It has become established practice in the last few years to describe the future with version 4.0. This number refers to the various eras of economic history. The biggest turning point in this development was the first Industrial Revolution which took place towards the end of the 18th century. At that time mechanisation enabled a tremendous expansion …
Innovation and Digitalisation
The human element in digitisation- When Your Employees Make Use of Industry 4.0 Data
Data and digitisation have been crucial issues in both the industry and economy for many years. No specialist journal or congress could be imagined without such buzzwords as big data, industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (AI) and many more. There is a general consensus that the future belongs to those companies that understand how to best use their …
Speech Recognition Technology from Austria: Philips Speech as a “Hidden Champion”
Speech technology is a growth market. Philips Speech, the global market leader in professional speech to text solutions, is the “Hidden Champion” in this segment, highly active in this area, and has been for decades. Philips supports more than four million customers in 40 countries from its headquarters and production facility in Vienna-Favoriten. …
Tecnologia di riconoscimento vocale dall’Austria: Philips Speech come " Hidden Champion"
La tecnologia di riconoscimento vocale è un mercato in forte crescita. Philips Speech, numero 1 a livello mondiale nelle soluzioni professionali di dettatura e trascrizione, già da decenni è molto attivo come "Hidden Champion" in questo settore. Dalla sua sede centrale e dallo stabilimento di produzione di Vienna, nel quartiere di Favoriten, serve …
Innovazione e Digitalizzazione
Rosinger Group
The Rosinger Group is an internationally successful financial group with a long history, which is active in the business areas of “own investments” and “highly specialised consultancy services”.
Success Stories
Rosinger Group
«Rosinger Group“ – это зарекомендовавший себя в течении многих лет и преуспевающий в мировом масштабе финансовый концерн, работающий не только в сегменте «собственные инвестиции», но и в области предоставления …
Shared Mobility in Austria!
"A green planet with mobility from everyone, for everyone" has continuously been the motto of GO Sharing.
Innovation and Digitalisation
Support measures for companies affected by COVID-19
To stimulate the economy, either new programs may be established as a result of the draft law or existing support programs (e.g. aws, ÖHT) will be expanded. All measures introduced are intended to be applicable immediately and will be in force until the end of 2020. The measures currently introduced include the following areas:
Austria's Advantages
Digital Hidden Champions in Austria
Hidden champions are successful companies that are typically not recognized as such by the population at large as they are selling their products to other companies. They do not produce consumer products, but they create components that are necessary for those products to exist. Austria is known to have quite a few of these companies but it’s easy …
Innovation und Digitalisierung
Ventus Cloud Austria GmbH
Ventus Cloud AG, founded in Switzerland in the year 2019, has set itself the task of assisting developers and companies by facilitating the provision of infrastructure via its European cloud platform.
Success Stories
A Vienna Startup Success Story: Artivive
Augmented reality combines the real world with digital enhancements that allow us to visualize a new dimension of our reality. Artivive is the leading augmented reality art platform, based in Vienna, a city with such a rich cultural history, it was a no-brainer that this art-tech startup should set up shop in Austria’s capital city.
5G Technology – boosting post-COVID economy in Austria
The worldwide experience from the first 5G FWA implementations replacing in difficult areas the costly construction of cable networks in such conditions is urgently observed in many regions of the world, also in Europe, where service providers count on their implementation.
Forschung und Entwicklung
Innovation und Digitalisierung
Evotec SE
Evotec is an active substance research company which rapidly presses ahead with innovative product approaches on the basis of development partnerships with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academics, patient advocacy groups and venture capitalists.
Success Stories
The light-Emitting Austrian Network
Photonic technologies comprise a large proportion of the European and Austrian economy and have enabled them to play a pioneering role. However, global competition is continuously intensifying. In this case, investments in photonics are absolutely indispensable as the basis for maintaining the role of a frontrunner. Although photonics is already well-known …
Research and Development
Green Edge Cloud Austria GmbH
Green Edge Cloud Ltd is a next generation cloud service provider on the European market. The company offers “private” cloud solutions on a decentralised, distributed, secure, cost-transparent and sustainable system architecture running on an innovative European operating system.
Success Stories
Klaxon Mobility GmbH
Klaxon Mobility GmbH was founded as a startup in Villach, Carinthia at the end of 2015 by Dr. Enrico Boaretto and Dr. Andrea Stella. It develops and produces innovative mobility solutions for all manual wheelchair models on the basis of state-of-the-art technologies.
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Trask Austria GmbH
Trask is a technology and business consulting company with headquarters based in Prague. The focus lies on technology-based business innovations, revolutionary products in digital banking, development of new technologies worth following, deep knowledge of the customers’ environments and the courage to push limits.
Success Stories
Should one invest just in a time of crisis?
Marion Biber, Managing Director of ABA – Invest in Austria and expert for the business location of Austria, explains why it may make sense just now to invest abroad in despite of the coronavirus crisis and lockdowns.
Austria's Advantages
Digital Transformation Made in Austria
The global lockdowns have not only changed people’s private lives, but also put a much greater burden on online systems. Digital solutions, whether banking transactions, online shops, streaming platforms or other online portals, are more sought after than ever before, and thus also more strained than they ever have been.
Innovation and Digitalisation
