Austrian marketplace for business consulting HalloSophia raises €1.4M seed 

The Linz-based startup HalloSophia that provides business advisory services has raised €1.4 million in a seed round for the further expansion. The investment was led by angel investors Greiner, Doppler, Kubinger and Deschka famillies, Trending Topics reports.

• Founded in 2020 by Florian Wimmer, and Nico Teringl, HalloSophia is an open marketplace for business consulting services. It creates different advisory packages for startups and SMEs together with consulting companies and individual experts in specific fields, and offers them completely online. 

“The HalloSophia platform solves everything in external expert advice from the first step of finding experts, communicating with them, booking an appointment, payment and follow-ups,”

Florian Wimmer, co-founder and CEO of HalloSophia, says.

• The fresh round was led by Austrian industrial families Greiner, Doppler, Kubinger and Deschka. Blockpit founder Florian Wimmer, Florian Huber, and Gert Weidinger also joined the investment.
• HalloSophia will spend costs to further expand its new B2B partner program, to optimize the product, and to strengthen the founding team.