Florian Gschwandtner

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Florian Gschwandtner (2016)

Florian Gschwandtner (born January 29, 1983 in Steyr ) is an Austrian entrepreneur and investor. He was the managing director of the company he founded, Runtastic , which was taken over by the adidas Group in August 2015 .

Life

Gschwandtner grew up on their parents' farm together with an older brother and a younger sister in Strengberg in Lower Austria. The parents are farmers. At her request, he attended the college for agricultural professions in Wieselburg , which he completed with the Matura. He then studied at the Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences with a focus on mobile computing (graduation in 2008) and supply chain management at the Steyr University of Applied Sciences . After changing jobs in various companies, Gschwandtner started his first full-time position at the software company NTS in 2009, which he soon gave up.

Runtastic

In October 2009 Gschwandtner founded the health and fitness company Runtastic with his three colleagues Christian Kaar, Alfred Luger and René Giretzlehner and one other employee. The project was initially financed by income from the development of apps and other products for Austrian telecom companies. In August 2015, Runtastic was acquired by the Adidas group for 220 million euros.

Runtastic now employs more than 190 people in Linz , Vienna , Salzburg and San Francisco . Gschwandtner remained CEO of the company even after the takeover by Adidas. Since October 2017, Gschwandtner has been working as a consultant for the Austrian federal government on the subject of digitization and innovation. On September 24, 2018, his autobiography So Runs Start-up was published by Ecowin-Verlag. At the end of the same year, Gschwandtner withdrew from the Runtastic company.

Investment activity

With the proceeds from the sale of Runtastic, Gschwandtner soon began to invest in other start-up companies . Together with the other founders of Runtastic, he founded 8eyes GmbH for this purpose, in which he holds 25%. This has invested in the startups Cashpresso, Hello Again, Mimo and Storyclash, among others. The company also holds shares in the startup financiers Speedinvest and Startup3000.

Since the 6th season that aired in February 2019 Florian Gschwandtner sits as an investor in the television broadcast 2 minutes 2 million in Puls 4 . He invested in the companies Benu (funeral planning), Helferline (tech support), beekeeping, Luke Roberts (smart lighting) and Instahelp (psychological online counseling). The latter two investments, however, only came about after the recording.

Publications

Awards

  • 2013: “Onliner of the year” from Werbeplanung.at
  • 2015: “Man of the Year” from the business magazine Trend
  • 2015: Winner of the media future award
  • 2017: 75th place among the most important Austrians
  • 2017: Upper Austrian performance award

Web links

Official website of Florian Gschwandtner

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ adidas Group acquires Runtastic . ( adidas-group.com [accessed January 4, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Onliner of the year in the innovator category: Florian Gschwandtner | werbeplanung.at . ( werbeplanung.at [accessed on January 4, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Runs and runs . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 12, 2016
  4. ↑ "The running shoe of the future thinks with you" . In: Handelsblatt , August 18, 2015
  5. ^ Upper Austrian news: Runtastic founder Gschwandtner in the VP team of experts . ( nachrichten.at [accessed November 30, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Ecowin. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Runtastic co-founder Gschwandtner stops . Article dated September 10, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018.
  8. ↑ Storyclash: Runtastic founder and Speedinvest invest 400,000 euros in the social monitoring start-up , www.trendingtopics.at [accessed on January 4, 2017]
  9. ↑ Gschwandtner takes over 2 million for Altrichter at 2 minutes. July 30, 2018, accessed March 14, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 8eyes GmbH, Vienna. In: FirmenABC. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ PULS 4: 2 minutes 2 million - Season 6 - Florian Gschwandtner - puls4.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020 (Austrian German).
  12. ↑ PULS 4: 2 minutes 2 million, season 6. Accessed on March 14, 2019 (Austrian German).
  13. ↑ Onliner of the year in the innovator category: Florian Gschwandtner | werbeplanung.at . ( werbeplanung.at [accessed on January 4, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Runtastic founder Florian Gschwandtner, the man of the year 2015 | trend.at . In: trend.at . December 13, 2015 ( trend.at [accessed January 4, 2017]).
  15. ↑ HORIZONT: The winners of the Media Future Prize :. (No longer available online.) In: HORIZONT. Archived from the original on January 5, 2017 ; Retrieved January 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horizont.at
  16. ↑ The 200 most important Austrians for 2017 . December 31, 2016 ( oe24.at [accessed January 5, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: "Performance prices" for Runtastic and Tractive . ( nachrichten.at [accessed November 30, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Gschwandtner, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and investor
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr