Latest fund size
$17M
Announced
November 11, 2026
Global HQ
Austria
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Check size
$100K-$600K
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Stage focus
Pre-Seed
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Regions of investment
Europe
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Noctua Science Ventures is an Austrian venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed research-based spin-offs from Austrian universities and research institutions. The fund was founded as a joint venture between Speedinvest and TU Wien.
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Names, roles, emails and LinkedIn profiles for the team, plus the fund's website.
Noctua Science Ventures invests as a first-check, pre-seed investor in technology-agnostic deeptech spin-offs, with a particular emphasis on deep tech, software and AI, climate and industrial tech, health tech, and synthetic biology.
The fund emphasizes tech transfer and IP strategy, pairing scientist-founders with experienced entrepreneurs, and helping companies maintain a clean cap table before introducing them to seed and Series A investors.
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What the fund looks for in founders and which sectors it backs.
Noctua Science Ventures announced a first close of $17 million, announced November 2026.
First-close investors include ERSTE Group, Verbund, and Allocator One.
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Fund size, LPs and track record.
Leadership
Investment Strategy
Noctua Science Ventures invests up to $560,000 per spin-off as lead investor in a company's first financing round, with capacity for up to ten investments per year, focused exclusively on Austria.
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Leadership, investment strategy, notable investments and exits.
