Austrians in the US
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| Name | What they do | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Hermann Hauser * | Co-created Acorn and ARM | Founder |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Former Governor of California, Bodybuilder, and Actor | Other |
| Rudy Adolf | Founder Focus Financial Partners (>$7B exit), Sylvan / E3Tech | Founder |
| Eugene Kleiner † | Co-Founder Fairchild Semiconductor, Kleiner Perkins | Investor |
| Georg Kucsko | Co-Founder & CTO Suno (AI music, $5.4B valuation) | Founder |
| Martin Roscheisen | Founder Diamond Foundry, Nanosolar etc. | Founder |
| Norbert Bischofberger | CEO NextQuest, prev. CSO Gilead (Tamiflu) | Founder |
| Eric Steinberger | Founder Magic.dev (raised $515 million) | Founder |
| Moritz Stephan | Founder Hone, former Cognition | Founder |
| Christoph Lengauer | Co-Founder & CSO Curie.Bio | Founder |
| Mathias Lechner | Co-Founder & CTO Liquid AI ($2B+ valuation) | Founder |
| Sebastian De Ro | Founder Magic.dev (raised $515 million) | Founder |
| Peter Steinberger | Founder OpenClaw, OpenAI, PSPDFKit | Operator |
| Wolfgang Puck | Chef & Restaurateur, Spago, CUT, caters the Oscars | Other |
| Charly Kleissner | Co-Founder Toniic, worked with Steve at NeXT | Founder |
| Isaak Freeman | Founder Stealth | Founder |
| Alexander Falk | Founder & CEO Altova (XMLSpy) | Founder |
| Gerald Aigner * | Google employee #17, built Google's early data centers | Operator |
| Oskar Mencer * | Founder & CEO Maxeler Technologies (acquired by Groq) | Founder |
| Julian Schrittwieser | Anthropic, DeepMind | Operator |
| Lisa Anderson | Co-Founder & CEO Paragonix Technologies | Founder |
| Gerhard Zeiler | President International Warner Bros. Discovery | Operator |
| Roman Scharf * | Co-Founder Jajah ($207M Exit) | FounderInvestor |
| Oliver Holle * | Managing Partner Speedinvest (>€1.2B AuM) | Investor |
| Sarah Buchner | Founder & CEO Trunk Tools ($70M raised) | Founder |
| Joël Hainzl | CDTM, Founder Stealth | Founder |
| Markus Wagner | Partner at i5invest & i5growth | Investor |
| Daniel Mattes * | Co-Founder Jajah ($207M Exit) | Founder |
| Robin Lumsden * | US & EU Attorney, Owner Vienna Vikings | Other |
| Emanuel Pirker | Founder Stratodesk, CTO IGEL Technology | Founder |
| Gerhard Eschelbeck | Cybersecurity Advisor, ex CISO Google | Operator |
| Florian Bauer | Member of Technical Staff at OAI, Serial Founder (MoonVision, Moonshiner, Dishtracker – all acquired) | FounderOperator |
| Armin Sommer | Founder Stealth (RL/Robotics) | Founder |
| Manfred Affenzeller | Co-Head Leveraged Debt Capital Markets Americas, Deutsche Bank (20+ years) | Investor |
| Andreas Wendel | CTO at Kodiak Robotics ($2.5B) | Founder |
| Chris Schnabl | Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | Investor |
| Andreas Klinger * | CTO Product Hunt, Co-Initiator EU-Inc | Investor |
| Johannes Larcher | Prev. CEO Storytel, HBO Max International | Operator |
| Iska Saric | VP, CEO Communications at Meta | Operator |
| Christoph Feichtenhofer | Director Research FAIR Meta | Operator |
| Max Stoiber | OpenAI, 100k+ GitHub stars | Operator |
| Moritz Plassnig | CEO CloudBees, Founder Codeship | Founder |
| Stefan Nusser | Chief Product Officer Intrinsic (Alphabet) | Operator |
| Philipp Thurner | Founder & CEO NEXL ($45M raised) | Founder |
| Michael Wiesinger | COO at Kodiak Robotics ($2.5B) | Founder |
| Maximilian Hörantner * | Co-Founder, Swift Solar ($44M raised) | Founder |
| Matthias Gerstgrasser | Research Scientist OpenAI | Operator |
| Elias Frantar | Member of Technical Staff OpenAI | Operator |
| Marianna Bonechi | Co-Founder Slava Ventures (AI/cyber VC) | Investor |
| Raoul Maier | Managing Partner Eudemian Ventures | Investor |
| Marc Rosenmayr | CFO and EVP Finance, Operations and IT at Red Bull North America | Operator |
| Manuel Nedbal | Co-Founder & CEO SecurITe, Founder ShieldX, prev. Google, McAfee | Founder |
| Lukas Linemayr | Founder Petra (early stage VC), prev. Streamlined Ventures | Investor |
| Dominik Gruber | Member of Technical Staff OpenAI, prev. Asana | Operator |
| Patricia Bubner | Founder Orbillion Bio (YC W21) | Founder |
| Andreas Zoellner | Founder BrightCrowd, Index Solutions | Founder |
| Julia Wiesinger | Group Product Manager Google | Operator |
| Clemens Koegler | CIO Red Bull North America, owns tech across a $6B+ business | Operator |
| Christian Plasser | AI Product Executive, prev. EY Global Ventures Leader, eBay, PayPal | Operator |
| Noah Weber | Co-Founder & CTO Cosmon ($31M raised) | Founder |
| Fabian Schober | SVP Connected Technology and Mobility at Element Materials, leads a 1,000+ person global unit, WU Vienna | Operator |
| Norbert Leinfellner | EVP Global Engineering at CAIRE (medtech), previously Siemens Healthineers and Zeiss, TU Graz | Operator |
| Amélie Vavrovsky | Founder & CEO Formally, Stanford HAI | Founder |
| Alexander Thury | Stanford GSB, Doctor of Medicine, FasTest GmbH | Founder |
| Clemens Weisgram | Co-Founder GATE Space | Founder |
| Leopold Haller | Founding Member of Technical Staff Axiom Math | Operator |
| Nikolaus Hammler | Apple Display EE Architect | Operator |
| Benedikt Wolff | Investor with Nova | Investor |
| Georg M. Wieselthaler | Professor of Surgery, UCSF, 400+ heart transplants | Academic |
| Markus Rogan | World record holder olympic swimmer | Other |
| Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt | CEO Tech Diplomacy Network SF | Other |
| Mario Herger | Author, Austrian Innovation Center SV, SAP Labs LLC | Other |
| Gottfried Komatz | VP Manufacturing Chief Engineers North America at Stellantis, TU Graz | Operator |
| Daniel Pickem | Member of Technical Staff Magic.dev, prev. NVIDIA, Apple | Operator |
| Gernot Zacke | Co-Founder Grid, prev. Visor, Atomico, Kearney | Founder |
| Alexander Pucher | Founder Stealth (realtime AI), founding team StarTree & Parasail | Founder |
| Jakob Buchmayer * | Investor at Accel (Lovable, n8n, Legora), Co-Founder HeroBox (acq. by VYTAL) | Investor |
| Julius Gruener | Stealth Founder - HBS MBA, prev. BCG | Founder |
| Klaus Doppler | Chief Architect & Head Wi-Fi Nokia | Operator |
| Matthias Reininger | Apple Mac Product Design | Operator |
| Friedrich Prinz | Stanford Professor of Mechanical Engineering | Academic |
| Marius Wernig | Stanford Professor of Pathology, stem cell pioneer (Ogawa-Yamanaka Prize) | Academic |
| Stefan Cox | Raptor Turbomachinery at SpaceX, MSc Propulsion TU Delft, prev. hydrogen aircraft at AeroDelft & AIT | Operator |
| Konstantin Klingler * | Co-Founder Seamflow ($4.5M seed) | Founder |
| Ben, Luk & Tom Koska | building SF Tensor (YC F25) | Founder |
| Roland Vogl | Executive Director of CodeX, Stanford Legal Informatics | Academic |
| Gerlinde Wernig | Associate Professor of Pathology Stanford Medicine | Academic |
| Walter Scheidel | Stanford Professor Humanities, Classics, and History | Academic |
| Michael Grossmann | Staff SRE Crusoe (AI cloud, GPU fleet automation), prev. Patreon, Twitch, Friendster | Operator |
| Saman Sayahpour | CMU, Co-Founder Stealth | Founder |
| Anna Pototschnig | Senior Legal Counsel Calix, AI & commercial tech attorney | Operator |
| Stephan Lammel | Associate Professor Neurobiology, UC Berkeley | Academic |
| Doris Bachtrog | Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, UC Berkeley | Academic |
| Markus Zechner | Stanford Adjunct Professor Earth & Planetary Sciences | Academic |
| Siegfried Fina | Co-Director of the Transatlantic Technology Law Stanford | Academic |
| Clemens Ortner | Clinical Professor Stanford Medicine | Academic |
| Michael Dobersberger | Austrian Trade Commissioner SF, Co-Director Open Austria | Other |
| Martin Rauchbauer | Co-Founder Open Austria | Other |
| William Shi | Founder Stealth 17yo, IMO Silver Medalist | Founder |
| Sebastian Marsoner | Stanford B.S. EE & CS, MS&E | Academic |
| Ferdinand Mayr | Goldman Sachs (TMT), MIT Fin. Mathematics | Investor |
| Bernhard Mistlberger | Stanford SLAC Theory Group, Theoretical particle physicist | Academic |
| Alexander Stibor | Staff Scientist for Quantum Instrumentation, Lawrence Berkeley | Academic |
| Luis Kalckstein * | Founder Stealth | Founder |
| Silke English | Tech Diplomacy Manager Open Austria | Other |
| Stefan Faistenauer | Deeptech & Space Investor - Plug and Play Ventures | Investor |
| Max Rosenblattl * | AI Researcher Stanford, Agentic Systems Lab | Academic |
| Josef Greilhuber | Mathematics PhD Stanford, spectral geometry | Academic |
| Julian Ehrenbrandtner * | CDTM, VSR Berkeley | Academic |
| Oliver Sommer | Berkeley CS | Academic |
* moved abroad · † deceased