Best Sports Tech Companies in Austria
The 53 best Sports Tech companies in Austria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: HEROcoin.
Austria's Sports Tech scene is smaller than the headlines suggest, but the 53 companies we track here tell a pointed story. Total disclosed funding sits at $26M, and two names carry almost all of it: HEROcoin at $18M and Eversports at $7M, which together account for roughly 96% of the pool. Everything below PlayerHunter's $664K is essentially pre-institutional. So if you're scanning this directory for funded operators with real runway, the list narrows fast.
And yet the underlying demand is real. Median install growth across sports and sporting goods apps is running at roughly +18% YoY across 1,152 tracked apps, which tells you consumer appetite isn't the problem. Startups are actively reshaping fan engagement and performance analytics across every tier of the market, and even early-stage rounds are getting done, as a recent pre-Series A raise by Machaxi shows the appetite extending well beyond established markets. Austria's active investors, HYPE, INiTS, and SHAPE Capital Partners among them, have the thesis. The funding concentration just means the next breakout company here is still very much up for grabs.
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Our analysis of 50 Sports Tech companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sports Tech companies in Austria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HEROcoin Decentralized crypto coin for betting | $18M | 105 mo ago | Acquired | Paul Polterauer Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 2 | Eversports Online platform to search and book sporting events | $7M | 98 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | TypeScriptGraphQLRadix UI+14 | — |
| 3 | PlayerHunter Social networking platform for sport professional (Linkedin for sports professional) | $664K | — | Early Stage | Stevan Radak Founder & Co-CEO | 2011 | Facebook LoginGoogle MapsMUI+15 | — |
| 4 | Herosphere Provider of a blockchain-based betting platform for fantasy sports | $334K | 121 mo ago | Seed | Bernhard Blaha Co-Founder & COO | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | Venuzle Sports venue discovery and booking platform | $30K | 106 mo ago | Seed | Bernhard Bauer Co-Founder & CSO | 2014 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+25 | — |
| 6 | Zone 14 Ai Provider of automated video and data analysis for football clubs | — | 26 mo ago | Seed | Simon Schmiderer Co-Founder | 2021 | WordPressMySQLRedis+30 | — |
| 7 | PlusGear Internet first brand offering sportswear for men and women | — | 37 mo ago | Seed | Nino Salado Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyTailwind CSS+20 | — |
| 8 | Fanzone NFT-based social platform for trading digital cards | — | 46 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | — | — |
Top 11 Sports Tech companies in Austria
#1
Acquired · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2017$18Mraised▾
Decentralized crypto coin for betting. It allows game creators to integrate tokens into the games enabling users to bet. It enables gamers to play the games and earn coins and redeem the tokens on the platform.
- Oct 2017ICO$16M
- ICO$2M
#2
Series A · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2013 · 93 employees$7Mraised▾
Eversports is an online marketplace to search and book sporting events and sports courts. The platform enables users to search for a maximum number of sports including tennis, football, bowling, squash, and kitesurfing. It allows facility owners and event organizers to list their facilities and events on the platform for free. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.
- May 2018Series A$6M
- May 2016Seed$889.9K
- Oct 2015Seed$1M
#3
Early Stage · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2011 · 21 employees$664Kraised▾
PlayerHunter is a social networking platform for recruitment and networking in sports. It is the LinkedIn platform for sports professionals, a specialized sports social network, and recruitment platform. It targets to connect players with agents around the globe. As of October 2016, they claim to have 12500 users. Their user acquisition cost is 2-3Euro/user. They claims to raise 800Euro external financing so far.
#4
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2016 · 5 employees$333.7Kraised▾
Provider of a blockchain-based betting platform for fantasy sports. It allows users to register on the platform and play bets for multiple eSports games including Dota 2, League of Legends, and CS GO against other players and friends. Winners will get the cryptocurrency and redeem the same on the platform.
- May 2016Seed$333.7K
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#5
Seed · Graz, Styria · founded 2014 · 8 employees$30Kraised▾
Venuzle is an online marketplace for searching and booking sports venues. Users can search sports venues based on their location and confirm the booking by making an online payment. The platform allows users to explore sports events around them and register for events. Furthermore, the platform offers business management software for club owners/venue managers. Features provided by the software include online booking, appointment management, payment processing, communication tools, report generation tools, employee management tools and more.
- Aug 2017Seed$30K
#6
Seed · Austria · founded 2021—raised▾
Provider of automated video and data analysis for football clubs. It offers tools for recording, streaming, and analyzing games and training sessions. The system provides capabilities for tagging key moments, creating playlists, and generating player statistics. It facilitates live streaming for fans and real-time analysis for coaches.
- May 2024Seed—
#7
Seed · Vienna, Wien · founded 2021—raised▾
Internet first brand offering sportswear for men and women. The product catalog includes shorts, shirts, hoodies, sweaters, joggers, bras, leggings, and more.
- Jun 2023Seed—
#8
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2014 · 24 employees—raised▾
NFT-based social platform for trading digital cards. The platform enables users to collect, play, and trade digital cards of favorite teams and athletes as NFTs. It also offers features such as polls, quizzes, videos, sharing, posts, comments, friend referrals, and more.
- Sep 2022Angel—
#9
Funding Raised · Wels, Upper Austria · founded 1964 · 4000 employees—raised▾
Online retailer of multiple sports products and accessories. It provides users with a platform offering a wide range of products and services for winter sports, outdoor activities, fitness, running, cycling, team sports, and summer sports.
#10
Acquired · Wien, Wien · founded 2014 · 37 employees—raised▾
My Clubs is an online platform for booking sports facilities. The app allows users to buy a monthly pass which gives users access to multiple facilities and sports based on the type of subscription chosen by them. Its app is available on the Android and iOS platforms.
- Sep 2017Seed—
- Feb 2016Seed—
#11
Public · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2009 · 11 employees—raised▾
Mobile payment technology service provider. Provides white label wallet that allows paying without any cards, cash, or hardware. It develops tailor-made mobile solutions, including native applications and central server components. Enables mobile payment platform that allows clubs to increase fan engagement.
- 2014Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Sports Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Sports Technology is moving in Austria
A read on the academic research around Sports Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 4 Austria-affiliated papers.
- University of Salzburg2
- Medical University of Graz1
- Institute of Human Sciences1
- Athletes1
- Curriculum1
- Class (philosophy)1
- Simplicity1
- Physical education1
- Basketball1
- Context (archaeology)1
- Personalization1
- Analytics1
- Data collection1
- Applied psychology1
- Psychological intervention1
- Virtual reality1
- Athletes1
- Amateur1
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