C4 the leading address for growth capital

Austria is the best funding location in Europe, but is in the bottom third of the EU when it comes to expansion financing through equity.

The international investment boutique for the DACH region

C4 closes the gap in expansion financing

With up to € 6 million in venture capital per target, C4 is Austria's leading address for growth financing

C4 commitment for investors:

We will be happy to guide you into top C4 targets, but we will also get you out of this investment after a successful exit

Get capital market expertise in a non-binding consultation

Our structure

Capital Markets

Corporate finance, advice for IPOs, bond issues, promissory note loans, advice for venture financing and private placements, management and employee participation

M & A

Buy/sell-side advice for medium-sized companies, MBOs/MBIs, mergers and spin-offs, post M&A advice (target integration)

C4 Growth Hub

Free growth consulting in affordable offices in a top location in the 1st district.

C4 Club of Partners

Expansion/rollout – financing of Austrian growth companies; fund management in C4-specific sectors

Our understanding

Expertise and commitment – our service for your success

  • High-quality advice from former board members and supervisory board members of listed industrial companies
  • Professional M&A and corporate finance staff with experience in industry, private equity and investment banking
  • Development of an international network of investors and companies since 2001, when C4 Holding AG was founded
  • Initiator and member of the IPO-Light Working Party (C4, CMS Reich Rohrwig Hainz, Conda) established in 2024, in which smaller medium-sized companies can successfully and cost-effectively implement an IPO as an own issue for the first time
  • Implementation of low-dilution financing rounds for start-ups, scale-ups and medium-sized companies
  • Fast, binding decision-making processes and creative, individual solutions to problems
  • Investment boutique with the mission to close the expansion/growth capital gap (from EUR 1.5m) in Austria
  • Implementation of innovative capital market transactions in Austria and Germany

Our range of services

The first step

MBOs/MBIs, spin-offs, seed and start-up financing

The growth

Growth financing through crowdinvesting campaigns, followed by international venture financing

The road to success

Growth consulting from start-up to scale-up, productivity consulting, takeovers, optimization of structural and process organization management coaching

To the stock exchange

Providing advice for IPOs and secondary offerings, implementation of own issues with the IPO Light working party*, investors relations, advice support in the market as capital markets coach of the Vienna Stock Exchange

* including organization of roadshows with institutional investors, retail placement via crowdinvesting with partners CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz & Conda

C4 – the international investment boutique for growth companies

Customers & partners about C4

Our customers and partners always expect the highest level of care and attention

Rainer Schönfelder


Rainer Schönfelder , former ski star, shareholder of COOEE alpin Holding
"C4's experience in marketing complex investment opportunities and its commercial expertise were the ideal addition to our team."
Rainer Schönfelder
Former ski star, shareholder COOEE alpin Holding


Rainer Schönfelder, former ski star, shareholder of COOEE alpin Holding
"C4's experience in marketing complex investment opportunities and its commercial expertise were the ideal addition to our team."


Rainer Schönfelder
Rainer Schönfelder
Former ski star, shareholder COOEE alpin Holding
Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Berger, MBA
Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Berger, MBA
Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Berger, MBA
Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Berger, MBA
Dipl.-Ing. Camilo Wolff, MBA
Dipl.-Ing. Camilo Wolff, MBA
Dipl.-Ing. Camilo Wolff, MBA
Dipl.-Ing. Camilo Wolff, MBA
Werner Posch
Werner Posch
Founder and CEO, neovoltaic AG
Werner Posch
Werner Posch
Founder and CEO, neovoltaic AG
Alfred Ötsch
Alfred Ötsch
Former Siemens/AUA board member, investor
Alfred Ötsch
Alfred Ötsch
Former Siemens/AUA board member, investor
Gerold Pankl
Gerold Pankl
Founder, former CEO Pankl Racing Systems, investor
Gerold Pankl
Gerold Pankl
Founder, former CEO Pankl Racing Systems, investor

Locations of the C4 Group