Are you interested in spinning out your research or bringing your innovative ideas to the market put but you don’t know what sources of funding are out there and what fits? This workshop offers you an overview of the multiple ways you can monetarily support your endeavor as a scientist and as a founder and puts you in direct contact with stakeholders from the Viennese ecosystem. The event begins with an overview of ways one can fund a new venture by Petra Grozdic, followed by 2 hours of fair-like access to various organizations from the local ecosystem. At the end of the workshop, you will understand the difference between various sources of funding as well as the programs and requirements of the Viennese organizations offering monetary support.

About the speaker

Petra Grozdic – CFO | Startup Coach | OKR Lead

Petra Grozdic is CFO at TheVentury and all about bringing a goal-oriented mindset to organizations. Within her role at TheVentury, she is deeply involved in finance & operations topics, as well as organisational design. In this role, she is making sure to enable the company to be set up for scale. In her work with startups and early-stage founders, she focuses on financial planning, business modelling and goal setting. She holds lectures at universities, incubators and accelerators and coaches founders around these topics. She is involved in the female factor network and passionate about sharing her knowledge and interests with the community.

Check Petra Grozdic on LinkedIn!

Organizations participating:

• AAIA – Austrian Angel Investors Association
• AMS Unternehmensgründungs-Programm
• AVCO – the Austrian Venture Capital and Private Equity Organisation
• AWS – Austria Wirtschaftsservice
• AWS First Incubator
• AWS Gründerfonds
• Calm/Storm Ventures
• CNB Capital
• CONDA
• FFG
• netidee
• primeCROWD
• Startup Now – WKO Startup-Initiative
• technet equity
• TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center
• TU Wien Fundraising and Industry Relations
• Vienna Business Agency

About the Entrepreneurship for Scientists Series

The Entrepreneurship for Scientists Series organized by the TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) is targeting scientists who would like to enrich or develop a personal entrepreneurial skillset & business competencies, know more about opportunities how to navigate innovations from „the lab“ to society or who would simply like to engage in entrepreneurial thinking. These workshops are free of charge to scientists from all faculties and institutes of TU Wien. Registration required.

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