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Gateway Ventures Office Opening Party in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Additionally to our new Office we also presented the new Branding of our new Service Line: calmar.vc With Calmar VC we want to unite the European Startup-Ecosystem. How we are doing that? Well, you will definitely see and hear about it. ✌ There is also still 1-2 desks open for rent in our new office in the First District of Vienna, if you are interested just write us a message! Thanks everyone for joining, it was a great evening!

Good Job, hypt! 👏 The «Bankwerker» at Bank Thalwil Genossenschaft are live with hypt. Here's what that means in practice: after every customer interaction, Claudia and Michael, the two avatars of our Conversational AI, actively ask for feedback. No tedious questionnaire, just a short conversation. Satisfied customers are then invited right away to share their experience online or to recommend Bank Thalwil to others. Looking forward to further successtories 🚀 ! Johannes Gockner Siegfried Kettner, CMC Adrian B. Rhomberg Jakub Mahdal Johann Brandauer Alexander Schmid

🚀 Invitation to Free Webinar - 18 September - Closing Your Next Round Raising your next funding round? Skip the guesswork. Fundraising is stressful enough without figuring out the "unwritten rules" investors expect you to already know. That's why we're hosting a free webinar: Closing Your Next Funding Round! 3 experienced angel-VC investors break down exactly what it takes to prepare strategically and raise with confidence. 📅 Date: 18 September ⏰ Time: 10:00–11:00 CEST 📍 Place: Online 💰 Cost: free What you'll walk away with: ✅ Landscape: Understanding today’s investor landscape ✅ Timing & Quantifying: When to start and how much to raise ✅ The Pitch: Essential elements every deck must include ✅ Targeting: How to find and select the right investors for your stage ✅ Technicalities explained: Datarooms, LOIs and NDAs, Equity, SAFEs, CLAs, Cap Tables and more. Your expert hosts: 👩💼 Conny Hörl — entrepreneur, business angel & startup mentor championing women in founding and investing 👨💼 Markus Kainz — exited founder, CEO of Gateway Ventures, angel investor with deep fundraising expertise 👨💼 Jacopo Losso— angel investor, CGO of Gateway Ventures, has coached hundreds of founders on investment readiness If you're a founder gearing up to raise, this is 60 minutes that could save you months of trial and error. 🔗 Reserve your free spot here: https://lnkd.in/dsqiQWPt #Fundraising #Startups #Investing calmar.vc

Our Portfolio Startup Koherent announces his new partnership with Plowmen Craven, congratulations! 👏 Chimneys are some of the hardest risk structures to keep an eye on. You can't just walk up and check. Chimney inspections usually need ropes, drones, planned shutdowns, so they happen rarely. But in between, the motion never stops, and someone always carries the responsibility. Our solution partners at Plowman Craven solved this issue with continuous monitoring collecting millimetre-level movement data, around the clock and in all seasons, going straight to the engineers who make the further assessment. Their engineering judgement in front, our measurement underneath. Egon Friebus Michael Fenchel Günter Maier Judith Moosmann Eleni Ulitzka Constanze Kappel (Josten) Friedrich Humer Christoph Bussmann

Congratulations to iDWELL! 🇦🇹 Our portfolio company (made in Austria 🌟), iDWELL, now manages more than 2 million apartments with its new U.S. growth investor, Riverside Acceleration Capital 🇺🇸 The PropTech company iDWELL has reached the next milestone in its corporate development: More than two million apartments are now managed through the platform. At the same time, Riverside Acceleration Capital, an international growth investor, is joining the company and investing a seven-figure euro amount in its further expansion. With this funding, iDWELL aims to further strengthen its position as the leading digital platform for professional property management.

"We have no competitors." 😬 Investors hear this and think one thing: naive. Every market has competition, even if just indirect. Knowing yours, and being able to talk about it confidently, is one of the clearest signals of a founder who's done their homework. Want to know the other do's and don'ts for raising a successful round? Join our free fundraising webinar tomorrow, Wednesday July 29 at 11 AM. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dAvzms4R Jacopo Losso Alessandro Chalimba Markus Kainz Christian Gerencser calmar.vc

Ever wondered how much money you should raise in a financing round? Or whether you should go with SAFEs or equity? Where to find the right investors – and how to know if they're the right fit for you? If these questions keep you up at night, join our free Fundraising webinar this Wednesday, 29 July at 11AM CEST! Jacopo Losso will bring clarity on these questions and more, so you can approach your next round with confidence. 💡 📅 Wednesday, 29 July | 11AM CEST 👇 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dAvzms4R #Fundraising #VentureCapital #Startups #StartupFunding #GatewayVentures

Does fundraising actually freeze in the summer, or is that just a convenient excuse we tell ourselves? ☀️📈 Most VCs are slower, yes. The checks can take longer to process. BUT… The top-tier investors are still taking calls. The best leads are still building relationships. And while your competitors are relaxing on the beach, you could be optimizing your pitch, structuring your rounds and building your pipeline (while still enjoying the sun). The truth is: Deals are always closing for prepared founders. The fundraising doesn't stop. It just changes tempo. Therefore, we're hosting a free 45-minute live webinar on July 29th held by Jacopo Losso to help you execute during the "slow" months, close faster and ultimately enjoy summer more without falling behind and feeling guilty about it. 🚀 Sign up now & share with founders in need!: https://lnkd.in/dAvzms4R 💬 What’s your experience? Have you ever had a real fundraising breakthrough in July or August? Let’s talk👇 #Entrepreneurship #Startups #Fundraising #Investment #EarlyStage   Feel free to spread the word! 📢 Markus Kainz Peter Helesic Kevin MONSERRAT Eva Gruber Fatma Acar Mati Bot Kambis Kohansal Vajargah

🏢 Looking for a desk or meeting room in the heart of Vienna? Recently, we moved to our new Office in 1010 Vienna and are now renting out 2 desks and our meeting room in our beautiful office right in Vienna's inner city! 📍 Located right between Burggarten, Naturhistorisches Museum, and the MuseumsQuartier - easily reachable via U2, tram 1, 2, and 71. The office is bright and welcoming, with tall old windows, a representative entry hall, a kitchen, a meeting room, a small call room, and three rooms with workspaces. 🖥️ Desks Individual workstations in a bright room, each equipped with: Up to two monitors (HDMI/USB-C) Ergonomic office chairs 🤝 Meeting room Space for up to 10 people, with a large screen and whiteboard — plus a smaller breakout room right next door for breaks or one-on-one meetings. Whether you need a desk occasionally, on weekends, or for a longer period — we'd love to have you! 📩 Feel free to reach out or drop a comment if you're interested, and we can discuss more details and arange an office viewing 👍

🇪🇺 European Stars: Humanoid raises $152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation, becoming Europe's first pure play humanoid robotics unicorn. Just two years after founding, the London based robotics company has closed one of the largest Series A rounds in the sector, bringing its total funding to $270M. - Round led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. 富邦金控, and AGLAÉ VENTURES - Capital will fund the next-gen robot platform, commercial deployments starting Q4 2026, mass manufacturing of wheeled humanoid robots, and continued development of its Kinetiq AI software ... Congratulations to this great milestone! Egon Friebus Kambis Kohansal Vajargah