Serial entrepreneur and angel investor Florian Gschwandtner invests in the Viennese proptech puck.io."I myself live in a property in which the services of puck immobilien app service GmbH are used and I was enthusiastic about how communication with the property management and the users can be optimized with it.The potential of this real estate ecosystem is huge,” says Gschwandtner, who is joining puck with a six-figure investment."We are not digital experts in operations," explains puck co-founder Daniel Jelitzka about the investment round."Our trade is real estate, that of our new partners is digitization".Gschwandtner will contribute conceptually to the further development of the product and company;the operational partner will be the digital implementation agency viable.puck immobilien app services GmbH was founded in 2017 by the JP Immobiliengruppe and was more than 90 percent in the hands of JP until the current investment round - a small part has belonged to a company since the founding of Martin Müller, who is also the main owner of J & P Immobilienmakler GmbH is.The market launch followed in 2018, at that time still under the management of Daniel Jelitzka (JP Immobilien) and Martin Müller - in 2020 Julia Wawrik rose to the management board, which she has held with Müller since then.Puck develops digital solutions for the administration and management of real estate.The centerpiece is an app for communication between homeowners, property managers and tenants.The app for tenants is supplemented by a digital bulletin board with up-to-date information about the house, but also about the surrounding area, local news, an exchange market and public transport information.In the meantime, the offer has been expanded to include a parcel box that can be opened using QR codes and an intercom system that can be operated remotely, and booking systems for rooms or e-charging stations are also possible.Property management companies can also use puck's solutions to manage damage reports, for example, or asset managers can market vacancies.The company is currently working with two products, puck 360 offers all hardware and software possibilities, while puck smart as an entry-level product is limited to the digital bulletin board.In the future, puck wants to work even more with IoT sensors and thus automate numerous damage reports."The pandemic led to a major digitization push in Austria and this also affected the real estate industry," says Daniel Jelitzka.In Vienna, ten percent of the apartments are already connected;the app has more than 75,000 users.Sales are currently still concentrating on Vienna, explains Managing Director Wawrik - but scaling is easily possible and Germany, for example, is a logical and exciting next step.The now almost 30 customers include large real estate companies and property management companies such as IMV, Santner, ARWAG Immobilientreuhand and Otto Friedrich.Jelitzka gives an example of the advantages that puck.io offers: In the past, a property manager would have received 30 calls from tenants after elevator damage, with whom he had to talk on the phone in order to hang up a sign and organize the repair afterwards.Thanks to digitization, the damage reports come via app and tenants can be automatically informed about the progress of the repair process via push message.Florian Gschwandtner has been a business angel since the exit of his startup Runtastic to Adidas (2015, 220 million euros) and also appeared on the TV show 2 minutes 2 million.He invests primarily through the investment company 8eyes, which he founded together with his former co-founders Alfred Luger, Christian Kaar and Rene Giretzlehner.Most recently, 8eyes also acquired a stake in the Linz-based child protection app Ohana, which, at 15 percent, is the Runtastic founders' largest holding to date.The best-known investments include TeamEcho, Credi2, hello again, Storyclash and Freebiebox.Gschwandtner has a direct stake of around 30 percent in his own new startup, Leaders21 - here, too, his former co-founders are on board with smaller shares.According to Gschwandtner, he is involved in around 40 start-ups.Disclaimer: The Runtastic founders hold a 2.6566% stake in Brutkasten Media GmbH via 8eyes GmbH.While the number of infections was so low last summer that one might have thought the pandemic was over, the picture is different this year.According to AGES, the 7-day incidence is 542, on June 21, 2022 there were over 10,000 new infections.As high as it was last in mid-April.In order to continue the fight against the "invisible" enemy, Engineering Software Steyr (ESS) has launched Dynairix, a live simulation software.Support comes from the cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides servers for high-performance computing, containers, databases and storage, enabling Dynairix to be used at "high speed".“AWS provides the excellent processing power and scalability we need to provide users with a smooth, near-real-time simulation experience.Literally anyone from anywhere in the world can log in for free via browser and learn how to be safe in public in a fun and interactive way,” says Martin Schifko, CEO of ESS.With the simulation software, which is accessible via a web browser, users can select specific virtual rooms, add people and introduce other influencing factors, such as ventilation systems, in order to simulate the spread of aerosols in the air.Based on the simulation, it will be possible to establish suitable countermeasures.For example, teachers could use this information to align seating plans in classrooms.In addition, a display of a risk factor, a function for sharing the simulation, 3D view, laptop and mobile phone compatibility have now been added as features.Other new additions to the roadmap include heat transfer and drag simulations.Here's how it works: The simulation is controlled with drag & drop.By making entries, you build a digital image of the desired room, add people and mark some of them as "infected".If the simulation starts, it shows how the infection spreads and which measures, such as a draft, could improve the overall situation.The algorithm is fed by user input and is constantly learning in order to constantly increase its own performance and accuracy.The software also uses calculations from the Technical University of Graz, which were published by the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology.Dynairix is ​​free and is made available to both non-profit organizations and government organizations so that they can simulate the infection process in classrooms, supermarkets, hospitals or public spaces and coordinate countermeasures.For example, the HTL Steyr in Upper Austria used the solution to make school classes safer."With Dynairix, we are making simulation software available to the general public that no other institution previously had access to," concludes Schifko."This is a huge step for the democratization of simulation technology and enables organizations to fight the virus effectively."The latest news about startups, the latest innovations and political decisions on digitization straight to your inbox.Choose the right one for you from our wide range of newsletters.Puck develops digital solutions for the administration and management of real estate - including a digital bulletin board and parcel box.