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Red-White-Red Card – Start-up Founders

Red-White-Red Card – Start-up Founders is issued by Migration Platform of the Austrian Federal Government. VisaAI tracks 3 official requirements for it, each traced to the government page that states it.

Last verified against the official source on .

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Requirements change. Confirm every item on Migration Platform of the Austrian Federal Government’s own page before you apply.

Each requirement below is written in plain English by VisaAI. The indented text beneath it is quoted from Migration Platform of the Austrian Federal Government’s own page, so you can check what we say against what they say. Where a quotation shows “ ... ”, text has been left out.

Conditions you must meet

  • Founding capital of at least €30,000 with a 50% equity shareBoth parts are one sentence on the page: the amount and the minimum share of it the founder must hold.
    prove capital for the company to be founded amounting to € 30.000 minimum with an equity share of at least 50 %
  • A minimum of 50 pointsThe threshold is stated in prose, so it is quoted. The individual criterion scores are not — see not_extracted.
    can score 50 points minimum according to the following criteria

Documents you must provide

  • Evidence of additional investment capital of at least €50,000Separate from the €30,000 founding capital, and a larger figure.
    Evidence of additional investment capital of € 50.000 minimum

Official sources

  • Start-up Founders — Requirements, Migration Platform of the Austrian Federal Government

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