Lucanus Polagnoli

Founder of Calm/Storm / Kauffman Fellow / Super-Early-Stage Investor / HealthTech / TabooTech / FemTech/ PurposeDriven / Husband / Father / Sailor 🇦🇹🇪🇺🇮🇹🇦🇺

📍 Vienna, Vienna, Austria🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Austria
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Jul 2021
LVNDR is a fully remote digital health service providing holistic healthcare for LGBTQ+ people to access care remotely including text/video consultations, testing, medication and support. We empower users to take control of their health with greater access to tailored services and features designed to fit their needs.
Investor
Apr 2021
Our clinical grade voice biomarkers power a health and safety infrastructure layer for all voice communications - actively partnering across telecomms, telehealth, LLM providers, automotive, aviation, defence and more. Voice is everywhere. We ensure every conversation is safe.
Investor
Mar 2021
9amHealth is complete cardiometabolic care—a first-of-its-kind, whole-body approach to preventing and treating diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and hypertension. We partner with businesses looking to provide effective health benefits to their members while reducing overall healthcare costs. 9amHealth was founded in 2021 by the team behind mySugr and is backed by 7Wire Ventures, Human Capital, Founders Fund, and Define Ventures. More at www.join9am.com.
Investor
Dec 2020
The future of fertility care is here. Affordable, at-home ICI-based fertility treatment designed to help you get you pregnant.
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2020
✨NOW HIRING✨ We're tearing down sexual taboos and transforming sex lives all over the world. Blueheart provides private digital sex therapy to anyone who needs it.
Investor & Board Member
Feb 2020
Keleya is an innovative, international, app-based solution dedicated to empowering expectant and young mothers with the support and resources they need to have a healthy and happy journey into motherhood. Our Apple-featured apps are unique of their kind. No other apps offer the combination of a personalized pregnancy calendar, health tracker, and the largest selection of workouts, recipes and verified expert knowledge for pregnant women and young mothers. Next to our apps, we are proud to run the largest midwife platform in Germany, ammely.de, which allows women to find and book a video consultation with a midwife at short notice location-independent. Since our founding in summer 2017, we have been working with passion, agility and team spirit helping over 400,000 women and providing access to more than 6,000 midwives. Download our pregnancy app: https://keleya-pregnancy.onelink.me/uBfd/965qksv7 Downloard our mama app: https://keleya-mama.onelink.me/SnUn/g6b8mcwf
Investor & Venture Partner Speedinvest II
Jun 2019
It takes more than capital to build real-world, cutting-edge technologies and companies that last. That’s why we commit the full power of our sector-focused investment teams and global network of customers, talent, top-tier follow-on investors, industry leaders, and experienced entrepreneurs to help you scale smarter and faster. With offices in London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Munich, and Abu Dhabi, we are on the ground across EMEA, helping our portfolio companies own their local markets and expand globally. From pre-seed to exit, we partner with bold founders to build category-defining, lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Wayflyer (Ireland), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (US), GoStudent (Austria), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) – together. Speedinvest: The Power of More.
Board Member
Jan 2019
At ThinkSono, we are committed to removing the barriers to universal ultrasound access. We are working towards a world where ultrasound diagnosis can be provided safely at the point of care by any healthcare professional. Our first application ThinkSono Guidance enables any healthcare professional to detect deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care in as little as 5 minutes. It uses artificial intelligence to guide the user through the current gold-standard diagnosis, a compression ultrasound examination.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2019
At doctorly we are creating the future of digital health care. Our vision: Enabling people to live healthier lives​. We believe that technology, hand in hand with medical professionals, can create a truly modern and exponentially more effective approach to health care. With our unique b2b2c model, doctorly provides all of the digital technology, tools, and support, via a single system, for a doctor to efficiently and digitally manage their practice, and to engage with their patients like never before. We are also enabling patients to access, control and understand their own health records and data. Backed by some of the best investors in the world, the doctorly team is a wonderful mix of serial tech-entrepreneurs, amazing engineers & medical experts. Were hiring: https://doctorlycareer.kenjo.io/
Investor & Board Observer
Jul 2018
Make losing weight feel Second Nature. Our app uses behavioural science to retrain your mind to make healthy choices automatically, so these stick in the long run
Board Member
Apr 2018
Bloom’s proprietary technology offers personalized health insights within minutes from a drop of blood. Currently, Bloom offers the Bloom Ferritin, Bloom Thyroid, Bloom Inflammation and Bloom Kidney Tests, and is continuously working to expand its portfolio and technologies.
Board Member
Mar 2018
With the evolution of smartphones everyone is a creator. But inbuilt microphones struggle to capture sound at the source. At mikme, we are dedicated to ensuring that digital content has exceptional sound quality. Our solution? Capture, connect, captivate. Capture: our small, portable, compatible, user-friendly microphones allow you to wirelessly capture studio-grade sound at the source. Connect: our proprietary app allows you to create audio and video content, edit it, infuse it with your brand then upload it directly to your socials. Captivate: high-quality sound engages your audience, keeping them coming back for more. Learn more about our product offering on our website -->
Board Member
Jun 2017
Diagnosia is a new kind of medical software and we believe that its time to truly support physicians in the their daily clinical services, at the point of care, with most intuitive, simplest interfaces. Diagnosia is Austrias most used doctor app and and fully integrated in over 70 hospitals across Austria, Germany and Switzerland. We genuinely believe in making medicine simple through software.
Board Member
May 2017
Timeular is a VC-backed technology company, helping people get powerful insights into how they spend their time and increase productivity. Some of the world's leading organisations including Google, SpaceX and Audi are using Timeular to improve time management and optimise their operations. To find out more, reach out to us at hello@timeular.com
Board Member
Sep 2015
Playbrush is a pioneer in the field of oral care, with offices in London and Vienna. We grew from a shared passion and regard among our founders for oral care that could change lives, leveraging smart technology to make healthy habits more accessible than ever before. After joining forces with Sunstar, we have continued to create game-changing toothbrushes and multiple patented apps, for adults and children, and promote holistic health that starts in the mouth. The dentist recommended, smart oral care solution of the future!
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2021
Investor
Jul 2021
LVNDR is a fully remote digital health service providing holistic healthcare for LGBTQ+ people to access care remotely including text/video consultations, testing, medication and support. We empower users to take control of their health with greater access to tailored services and features designed to fit their needs.
Investor
Apr 2021
Our clinical grade voice biomarkers power a health and safety infrastructure layer for all voice communications - actively partnering across telecomms, telehealth, LLM providers, automotive, aviation, defence and more. Voice is everywhere. We ensure every conversation is safe.
Investor
Mar 2021
9amHealth is complete cardiometabolic care—a first-of-its-kind, whole-body approach to preventing and treating diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and hypertension. We partner with businesses looking to provide effective health benefits to their members while reducing overall healthcare costs. 9amHealth was founded in 2021 by the team behind mySugr and is backed by 7Wire Ventures, Human Capital, Founders Fund, and Define Ventures. More at www.join9am.com.
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Investor
Dec 2020
The future of fertility care is here. Affordable, at-home ICI-based fertility treatment designed to help you get you pregnant.
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2020
✨NOW HIRING✨ We're tearing down sexual taboos and transforming sex lives all over the world. Blueheart provides private digital sex therapy to anyone who needs it.
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