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Dudu Gencel
Startup Services ∣ Team Leader

If you're looking to develop your business in Vienna, I'll provide you with comprehensive consultations. As an expert for the startup ecosystem, I am well connected both nationally and internationally and will be happy to activate this network to assist you with your business scaling. Also contact me if you want to know more about Vienna's major startup festival ViennaUP. Let's talk.

  • Vienna Startup Package

    Experience all things Vienna through the perspective of a business founder with the Vienna Startup Package.

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  • Meet Vienna's investors

    Learn about the city’s seasoned investors, betting on teams in health & life sciences, the creative industries, and sustainability. 

     

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  • The centre of an international network

    Vienna’s tight integration into the international startup landscape make the city a spring board for unparalleled growth. 

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  • Starting a business in Austria

    Explore the path to setting up a limited liability company (GmbH) in Austria and kickstart your entrepreneurial journey.

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  • These startups are having a ball!

    Discover the city's many tech success stories, and meet the people behind them, with Sifted's "Tech in Vienna" report.

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  • Explore recent funding rounds

    Feel the financial pulse of innovation in Vienna, get an understanding of the trends, and meet cutting-edge ventures. 

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A city to make your own. Let's meet Vienna.

Over 2,000 coffee houses

Vienna’s coffee houses are part of its globally-renowned heritage and were probably the world’s first co-working spaces.

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10 fun facts about Vienna’s coffee houses
63 kilometres

of access to natural bodies of water in Vienna. In summer, the city offers a perfect and free natural alternative to open-air swimming pools. 

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Take a swim on the wild side
193,000 university students

of which 1/3 are international, in 27 institutions of higher learning. 

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Higher education in Vienna
48 co-working spaces

designed to maximise insight, innovation and collaboration. 

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Vienna's co-working spaces
63% of Austrian startups

have international employees. And diverse teams have been shown to deliver more success. 

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Meet the austrian startup monitor
  • Success Story

    PreGenerate - a bio chip instead of animal testing

    PreGenerate, a Viennese MedTech company in the Startup Labs Vienna, is working on a pioneering new method using organic chips. Could their method be an alternative path?

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  • Success Story

    kleinkraft - small but mighty energy pioneers

    The world is racing to transition from fossil fuels towards more renewable energies. On energy storage, kleinkraft is blazing a new trail.

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  • Success Story

    Bistra & Christina: Changing the world beings in Vienna

    Social innovators Bistra and Christina found everything they were looking for in Vienna, and something extra – new adventures, new projects, and new love.

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  • Success Story

    Kollektiv Kaorle: A lido for Ottakring

    Kollektiv Kaorle proves that spaces create opportunity through their community project in Vienna's Ottakring.

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Let's meet.

We’re here to help you start up in Vienna.