ViennaUP 2025 – The Startup Festival You Don’t Want to Miss

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ViennaUP is a unique, city-wide festival celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation. Connect with international founders, investors, and talents in a dynamic atmosphere.

ViennaUP 2025 – The Startup Festival You Don’t Want to Miss

ViennaUP 2025 – The Startup Festival You Don’t Want to Miss

  • Hosted May 8–16 across Vienna, featuring a numerous of events, thousands of participants from more than 80 countries, spread across multiple venues in the whole city
  • Organized by the Vienna Business Agency, it’s a city-wide decentralized festival built to connect founders, investors, corporates, creatives, deep-tech innovators and enablers  

Why is the ViennaUP such a must-have event?

  • As initiative of the Vienna Business Agency, ViennaUP spotlights the Vienna ecosystem – a magnet for talent, research, and access to capital & global networks  
  • Through the "Discover Vienna" program, international startups can receive travel reimbursements, accommodation, event tickets – all designed to give them a perfect experience of the Vienna ecosystem  

Fermentful – The star from Riga

  • Fermentful is a food-tech startup from Riga, Latvia. They turn green buckwheat into creamy, plant-based probiotic drinks (kefir-like), gluten & dairy-free, no added sugar, rich in live cultures
  • Flavors include Natural, Apple-Lingonberry, Sea Buckthorn, Dark Chocolate – all created with organic, scientifically validated strains  


 

Fermentful at ViennaUP

  • We recorded Fermentful live at the ViennaUP 2025  – showing how a product rooted in science + sustainability connects the people.

Festival Impact: Connect – Learn – Scale   
  

  1. Investors
      a. Pitch sessions like Connect Day packed with VCs, corporates & angels – startups get real-time feedback   and deal flows
  2. Customers & Early Adopters
      a. Café Spaces, workshops & pitch events let founders test-market, show product, explain mission and attract   media buzz.
  3. Like‑minded Community
      a. Roundtables, panels, socials—founders bond, collaborate on deep-tech, health, or smart-city verticals.
       

Festivals like ViennaUP fuel growth, spark partnerships, and amplify impact – especially for early founders like Fermentful.

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