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Startup Funding Austria: The Complete Investor Guide 2026
Three unicorns, a record 891 million euros raised in 2024, and a legal framework built for founder-investor dynamics. But who funds what, at which stage, and with how much still requires navigating a fragmented landscape.
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Future Forward 2026: What Is Confirmed, Ten Weeks Out
Ten weeks out, here is what is locked in: the room, the programme shape, the matchmaking and the four ticket options.
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Qubit Founders: From Quantum Research to Quantum Company
The question of whether your own research could become a company is one most people carry around for months. Usually alone. That is the gap Qubit Founders exists to close.
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Cowork & Recharge: Work Smarter, Recharge Better
Two spaces under one roof: an innovation hub and a spa designed by Jean Nouvel. No commuting between your desk and your workout.
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The Quiet Crisis in Corporate Innovation (And Why 80+ Austrian Companies Are Taking a Different Approach)
Most corporate innovation programmes exist in isolation from the ecosystems where innovation happens. That is expensive in ways that do not show up on a balance sheet.
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The Hidden Costs of Choosing the Wrong Office in Vienna (And What 40+ Companies Found Instead)
Vienna has no shortage of office space and no shortage of options. Yet scale-ups and corporate innovation teams consistently report the same frustration: they cannot find what they need.
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Our New Website Is Live
The old site was two years out of date, and it showed. Numbers that no longer matched, programmes that had ended, and a structure built for what weXelerate looked like in 2024.
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Quantum Reality Check: What Is Coming This Autumn
The Quantum Reality Check helps Austrian companies work out where quantum becomes relevant to them, and when. It is free, because the FFG funds it. The autumn schedule is dense.
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AI Solution Day 03: HR and People, 20 October in Vienna
The third edition of AI Solution Day takes place on 20 October at weXelerate. Startups pitch, then everyone sits down together and works on real challenges that corporates bring into the room.
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How to Get a Corporate Partner as a Startup (Without Knowing Anyone)
Large companies are actively looking for you. The problem is not demand. It is that the two sides look for each other in different places and speak different languages.
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Vibe Code Wednesday: A Room of People Building, Every Week
Not a meetup with speakers. A room of people building their own thing, on the same evening every week. Bring a laptop. Everything else is optional.
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How to Find the Right Networking Events in Vienna for Your Industry
Vienna has more business events than any one person can attend, which sounds like a good problem until you have spent four consecutive Thursday evenings in rooms that turned out to be for somebody else.
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The 10x Startup Club Is Open, and So Is the Startup Directory
Batches start and end. Corporate partners scout continuously. The 10x Startup Club is our answer to both: a curated registry of B2B startups, open all year, free.
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KPIs That Measure Innovation, Not Activity
Ask an innovation team what they measured last quarter and you get workshops held, ideas submitted, pilots launched. Every one is a real number. None tells you whether anything changed.
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Recap: The First Two Quantum Reality Check Webinars
Two sessions, two speakers, one common thread: quantum technology stopped being science fiction some time ago, but the useful parts are not the parts most people are watching.
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Recap: What Came Out of the Quantum-Safe Cryptography Roundtable
Austrian CISOs and innovation leads met on 16 June to compare notes on quantum security. Chatham House rule, which is what made it work. Here is the substance, without attribution.
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When to Move From Home Office to a Real Office (And What to Look For)
Nobody moves out of a home office because of one dramatic moment. It happens gradually. Here is how to tell whether the absence of a shared room now costs more than the room would.
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What to Ask Before Signing a Co-Working Contract in Vienna
Co-working contracts look simple. One monthly number, cancel any time, coffee included. Then three months in you find out the meeting rooms cost extra and the notice period is not the one you remembered.
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Future Forward 2026 Launches: Claim Your Super Early Bird Tickets
Austria's innovation conference returns for its fourth edition on 26 November 2026. The original launch post, written while Super Early Bird tickets were still open.
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How to Plan a Corporate Event in Vienna: The 14-Point Checklist
Most corporate events do not fail on the day. They fail six weeks earlier, when someone books a room based on a headcount that was a guess. Fourteen things that go wrong or go right, in the order you should deal with them.
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#TeamEurope: The Movement No One Owns, and Everyone Belongs To
No brand runs it. No institution owns it. No PR agency is behind it. #TeamEurope is used by founders and professionals who believe Europe's greatest strength is collaboration.
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Recap: AI Solution Day 01, Customer Care
Startups pitched, then everyone sat down together to work on eight real challenges brought in by corporates. Some follow-up meetings were booked before the day was over.
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