About us
We're START Vienna, a student-run non-profit connecting Vienna's most ambitious students and early-career builders with the startups and companies on the frontier of innovation.
Over the past years that's increasingly meant AI companies, and that's where this group focuses: hackathons, founder talks, hands-on workshops, and the kind of in-person events where you actually meet the people you'll start your next thing with.
We're part of the global START Network — over 1,000 alumni across Europe and LATAM, 30 years of building entrepreneurial communities at universities. In Vienna, our members come from, WU Vienna, TU Wien, University of Vienna, FH Technikum, and beyond.
What you'll find at our events:
- Real challenges from real companies, not theoretical exercises
- Hackathons with prize pools that take you seriously (10,000+ EUR)
- Direct access to founders, VCs, and tech leads from Vienna's startup scene
- A community that pushes you to actually build, not just talk about building
If you're a student, recent graduate, junior dev, designer, or early-career operator with an entrepreneurial itch, you're in the right place.
Next up: START Hack Vienna '26 — 24 hours, 100 builders, 4 case partners, June 6 and 7 at Home of Innovation.
Past events
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