Calm/Storm Ventures Sets Sail
The Austrian venture capital fund Calm/Storm launched its operational investment activity.
“We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life, health and well-being for the better. We invest in early-stage companies across Europe and have a particularly strong interest and track-record in the Digital Health space. But as a Pre-Seed investor we predominantly invest in founder personalities solving problems that matter — changing the future of health, the future of education, work and other relevant sectors to our life.” said co-founder Lucanus Polagnoli at their launch event and Hansi Hansmann added: “If anything good can come out of a crisis, it is a real chance to reimagine the world”
Hansi Hansmann, Lucanus Polagnoli and Michael Ströck from Calm / Storm. © Calm / Storm
Calm/Storm supports founders finding calm during the storm.
Alongside Hansi Hansmann a lot of experienced founders support Calm/Storm in working with portfolio founders. Alfred Luger, co-founder of Runtastic, Haymo Meran, co-founder of wikidocs and Gerfried Schuller, founder of Blue Tomato are also on board. They all participate in Calm/Storm’s Academy which is built around Michael Stroeck’s own experiences as a founder attending the US accelerator Y-Combinator.
Calm/Storm’s ACADEMY described in a brand new book
Future Ahead! © Calm / Storm
“Future Ahead! Investing in a New Decade ”is the name of a limited edition book featuring a series of guest contributions. The book shows what the Academy is all about — Insights of new entrepreneurs, scientists, investors as well as chefs, academics or olympic champions and of course experienced founders of well known startups like mySugr or Bitpanda. Learning by sharing knowledge.
Magdalena Burgstaller and Marine Popoff from Calm / Storm. © Calm / Storm
