Alexander Brix

CCO at fonio.ai, #1 AI Phone Agents for SMBs (​10k+ customers) | Scaled remove.bg to € 15M ARR (exit to Canva)

📍 Austria🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Angel Investor
Dec 2025
fonio is building the AI communication suite for small and medium businesses; so no call goes unanswered, no lead gets lost, and no customer is left waiting. What we do SMBs lose business every day to missed calls and slow responses. fonio puts AI on the front line of customer communication — handling calls and messages automatically, 24/7, without adding headcount. Our products → AI Phone Agent — answers, qualifies, and routes calls around the clock → AI WhatsApp Agent — keeps conversations moving on the channel your customers already use 9,000+ businesses across Europe run on fonio. Why join us Were a small team shipping fast from Vienna — building software that thousands of real businesses rely on every day. If you want your work to matter from day one and help define how AI changes SMB operations, fonio is the place. Were seed-funded, scaling fast across Europe, and hiring across 35+ open roles: from engineering and product to sales and marketing. Come build with us.
Angel Investor
Jan 2024
ContextSDK is designed to enhance mobile app engagement and revenue by leveraging real-world user context with machine learning. ContextSDK collects more than 200 signals from the modern smartphone to assess a user’s real-world context instantly - whether theyre commuting, walking or relaxing - and use this for intent detection. This allows for the delivery of precisely timed, context-aware notifications and content that enhance user satisfaction and drive conversions. Its on-device processing ensures privacy by avoiding cloud transfers, which preserves user trust. ContextSDK’s vision is to establish real-world context data as the new gold standard in mobile app engagement, providing product owners and CMOs with a powerful tool to continuously optimize user experiences.
Angel Investor
Dec 2023
Documents done right. Teams use fynk to create beautiful and re-usable agreements, fill them with dynamic data and conditional logic, collaborate and sign in real-time, while delivering a best-in-class experience to their customers.
Investor
Jun 2023
Were the UK and Europes leading reproductive benefits provider 🌍 Reproductive health is something that impacts so many of us. We created Fertifa to give people the help and support they need, whenever they need it. We offer support, clinical advice, financing and benefits for: - fertility and family-forming - womens health, including menopause - mens reproductive health We work with companies across the UK, as well as the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United States.​ Our current clients include Monzo, Bain Capital, Sothebys, lululemon, Space NK, Virgin, Natwest, Osborne Clarke, Amadeus, Centrica, Balderton, ClearScore and more. If youre interested in working with Fertifa to attract and retain your top talent and to build an inclusive workplace through reproductive health support, get in touch at enquiries@fertifa.com! Wed love to hear from you. Were making reproductive health accessible to everyone, no matter who they are or what theyre going through 💜
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2023
We believe the assets that define the future are private. Yet private markets remain a bolt-on in most portfolios. Our mission is to substantially increase investor allocations to private markets through a new model that merges quantitative research with asset and wealth management in a tech-first investment bank.
Angel Investor & Advisor
Mar 2023
We are building the go-to financial fitness app that makes learning about finance and money fun, easy, and relevant for people of any age. We are actively partnering with financial institutions and schools to realise our mission in building wealthy, powerful and independent generation.
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
MALOUM ist die Social Media Plattform, um genau den Content zu entdecken, der zu deinen sexuellen Vorlieben passt.
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
consola.finance is the first human-readable blockchain explorer that suits your business needs.
Investor & Supporting Partner
Apr 2022
Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and boutique venture capital firm. We focus on talents, not industries. We believe in lifelong learning & personal growth, empowering entrepreneurs with unique access to successful founders. We are a fund built by founders for founders.
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (9)
Founder (2)
2025
Angel Investor
Dec 2025
fonio is building the AI communication suite for small and medium businesses; so no call goes unanswered, no lead gets lost, and no customer is left waiting. What we do SMBs lose business every day to missed calls and slow responses. fonio puts AI on the front line of customer communication — handling calls and messages automatically, 24/7, without adding headcount. Our products → AI Phone Agent — answers, qualifies, and routes calls around the clock → AI WhatsApp Agent — keeps conversations moving on the channel your customers already use 9,000+ businesses across Europe run on fonio. Why join us Were a small team shipping fast from Vienna — building software that thousands of real businesses rely on every day. If you want your work to matter from day one and help define how AI changes SMB operations, fonio is the place. Were seed-funded, scaling fast across Europe, and hiring across 35+ open roles: from engineering and product to sales and marketing. Come build with us.
Co-Founder
Feb 2025
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
2024
Venture Partner
May 2024
New Renaissance Ventures is the first dedicated tech fund for the Cultural and Creative Industries
Angel Investor
Jan 2024
ContextSDK is designed to enhance mobile app engagement and revenue by leveraging real-world user context with machine learning. ContextSDK collects more than 200 signals from the modern smartphone to assess a user’s real-world context instantly - whether theyre commuting, walking or relaxing - and use this for intent detection. This allows for the delivery of precisely timed, context-aware notifications and content that enhance user satisfaction and drive conversions. Its on-device processing ensures privacy by avoiding cloud transfers, which preserves user trust. ContextSDK’s vision is to establish real-world context data as the new gold standard in mobile app engagement, providing product owners and CMOs with a powerful tool to continuously optimize user experiences.
2023
Angel Investor
Dec 2023
Documents done right. Teams use fynk to create beautiful and re-usable agreements, fill them with dynamic data and conditional logic, collaborate and sign in real-time, while delivering a best-in-class experience to their customers.
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