Venionaire Investment

About Venionaire Investment

Venionaire Investment is the regulated fund-management entity of Venionaire Capital, an Austrian firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2012 by Berthold Baurek-Karlic. The firm operates a hybrid model: a registered European Alternative Investment Fund Manager managing its own venture funds, plus a corporate-finance and advisory practice. It runs at least five identified fund vehicles spanning Web3, secondaries, deeptech and energy strategies, with a Luxembourg arm alongside the Vienna base. Assets under management as of December 2024 are not publicly disclosed. The firm maintains additional offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo and Luxembourg.

Investment thesis

Venionaire invests early-stage venture capital, predominantly at Seed and Series A, through thematic fund vehicles spanning deeptech, Web3 and blockchain, energy, and unicorn secondaries. Sector focus is broad technology with a deeptech and frontier-technology emphasis. Geography is primarily pan-European with a Central and Eastern European and DACH anchor reflecting the firm's Vienna base. Ticket size and limited partner base are not publicly disclosed. The value-creation lever combines AIFM-grade fund structuring with an in-house corporate-finance and technology-valuation capability that supports portfolio scaling and follow-on financing.

Recent activity

Recent investments include Q.ANT in photonic and quantum computing deeptech, Teneo Protocol in Web3 and blockchain, and Monkee in fintech. No exits are documented from primary sources, consistent with the firm's early-stage venture focus and the long maturation cycles of deeptech investing. The platform continues to deploy across deeptech, Web3, energy and secondaries through its thematic fund vehicles. Detailed buyer names and multiple data available on Pro at €49/month.