From Idea to successful Start-up

Carinthia is emerging as a vibrant innovation hub—thanks to a growing support ecosystem that includes start-up incubator, strong public-private collaboration, and forward-looking instruments like the Carinthian Venture Fonds.

This panel explores how strategic investments and targeted funding mechanisms are shaping a new generation of start-ups in Carinthia.

Key themes include:

• how the Carinthian start-up incubator is catalysing innovation and entrepreneurial spirit

• the role of the Carinthian Venture Fonds in funding early-stage growth

• the story of a successful start-up, avemoy, that scaled through regional support

avemoy is providing true autonomy for standard drones. The company's unprecedented drone navigation algorithm is extending the work drone for the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. This allows the company to bring data acquisition to a new dimension, leveraging a novel approach to autonomy, capable of capturing a new magnitude of real-world data using drones – without GPS and in unknown environments. This autonomy expands the potential of commercially available drones without the necessity of additional specialised navigation sensors.
HORTISCAN is a fully automated system that consists of especially developed, autonomously flying drones and highly specialised artificial intelligence. You only need one unit per hectare for your greenhouse areas. The drone flies by itself and provides the AI with video material. Depth sensors and high-resolution cameras record videos that are locally processed by Hortiscan. Only the data that is really relevant is transmitted to the cloud – and to your personal cockpit. 

Join founders, fund managers, incubator leaders, and innovation policy experts for an insightful discussion on how Carinthia is building the future of entrepreneurship—one start-up at a time.