Business Match Network

What Business Match Network does

Business Match Network OG is an Austrian private partnership founded in 2004 by Anna Rafbauer and Sylvie Stavaric, headquartered in Vienna with a secondary registered office in Pasching. The company specializes in exclusive peer-to-peer networking events for C-level and senior executives in Austria, operating three event series: the Finance Leader Club, the IT Leader Club, and the HR Leader Club. Each series curates approximately 100 senior executives per event for keynote presentations, facilitated discussion rounds, and structured One2One meetings on functional leadership topics such as digital transformation, financial leadership, and the future of work.

The company's core technology is a matching portal built on the B2Match GmbH event-matching platform, which stores participant registration data, enables executives to build protected matching profiles, and facilitates pre-event One2One meeting scheduling. While the portal is operationally central to the participant experience, the underlying matching capability is provided by B2Match rather than developed in-house. Attendee associations include Coca-Cola HBC Austria, GrECo International Holding AG, Erste Group, Bank Gutmann, ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG, Schenker, FACC Operations, and Umdasch Group, indicating enterprise-quality brand reach across Banking, Insurance, Beverage, Rail/Infrastructure, Logistics, Aerospace, and Construction/Manufacturing verticals.

Business Match Network generates revenue primarily through paid event registration and membership-based participation in its Leader Club series, with pricing structured as an annual subscription cadence but kept quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is event-driven and founder-led, relying on direct outreach by the founders to qualified C-level executives, a LinkedIn presence under "BeLinked Business Networks," website content marketing, and word-of-mouth referrals from existing participants. The company operates with a lean team of approximately six employees, with two managing directors (the founders) personally conducting outreach. No external funding rounds, acquisitions, subsidiaries, or public listing are disclosed.

Name

Business Match Network

Legal name

Business Match Network OG

Website

https://businessmatch.at

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Business Match Network OG operates exclusive peer-level networking events for Austrian C-level executives through its Finance, IT, and HR Leader Club series. The Vienna-based firm uses a B2Match-powered matching portal to facilitate curated One2One meetings for senior decision-makers at leading Austrian enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Executive Networking Events

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Summits & Invitation-Only Forums (MPAGAGAK)

Keywords

• Executive networking events
• Business event management
• Leadership networking clubs
• B2b professional events
• Corporate networking platforms

Headquarters

HQ city

Vienna

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Event Registration & Membership: Revenue generated through paid attendance to exclusive networking events for C-level executives and senior management. Events include Finance Leader Club, IT Leader Club, and HR Leader Club with curated networking experiences, keynote speeches, and One2One meeting sessions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Business Match Network organizes and operates exclusive, curated networking events for C-level executives and senior management across Austria through three specialized clubs: Finance Leader Club, IT Leader Club, and HR Leader Club. The company also operates a matching portal that allows participants to schedule pre-event One2One business meetings with relevant peers, supported by over 20 years of event-organizing expertise held by the two founders.

Product overview

Business Match Network organizes exclusive peer-level networking events for executives across three specialized clubs: Finance Leader Club, IT Leader Club, and HR Leader Club. The company operates a matching portal that enables participants to schedule One2One meetings before events. Founded by Anna Rafbauer and Sylvie Stavaric with over 20 years of business event experience, the company is based in Vienna, Austria and curates high-quality networking experiences for C-level and senior management professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Finance Leader Club

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• B2Match GmbHcoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partner providing the matching profile platform for event registration and participant networking. B2Match stores registration data for the Business Match matching system.
• BDO Consulting GmbHminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHR consulting partnership where BDO contributes content expertise for Employer Branding topics featured on the Business Match platform and events.
• amasolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIT consulting firm contributing thought leadership content on BizOps and IT transformation topics featured on Business Match blog.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization): EO runs global invitation-only peer networks for entrepreneurs and executives through curated events, forums, and learning programs — the same architecture Business Match operates for Austrian Finance, IT, and HR executives.
• YPO (Young Presidents' Organization): YPO is the prototypical invitation-only forum for presidents, CEOs, and senior executives, with peer-to-peer learning events, retreats, and One2One-style exchanges — directly comparable to Business Match's Leader Club format.
• Vistage: Vistage operates paid peer-advisory groups for CEOs, business owners, and senior executives — the same curated group-format model that Business Match runs for Austrian C-level executives, just at much larger global scale.
• Winsborough: Winsborough convenes executive peer groups and private membership forums for senior leaders across multiple verticals, closely mirroring Business Match's multi-vertical Leader Club approach.
• B2Match: B2Match is the matching-platform vendor that powers Business Match's One2One scheduling portal and therefore sits at the heart of the same curated networking/b2b matchmaking category the subject company competes in.
• Leaders Lounge: DACH-region executive dinner and roundtable formats that compete for the same senior executive audiences and use similar invitation-only, no-vendor, high-touch curation rules as Business Match's Leader Clubs.

Broad incumbents

• Chief Executive Group: Chief Executive Group runs peer advisory boards, executive retreats, and leadership forums for CEOs and senior executives, providing a broader incumbent benchmark in the same executive-network space.
• GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group): GLG operates a much larger, global expert-network platform that connects executives with curated peers and experts for paid one-on-one interactions — an incumbent offering overlapping curation services at a broader scale.

Regional players

• The Executive Network (TEN): TEN-style executive membership organizations operate private, curated networks of senior business leaders in specific European markets — a natural regional peer against Business Match's Austria-only footprint.

Emerging players

• Peer to Peer Forum: Smaller curated executive peer-group operator that organizes invitation-only leadership forums for specific functional verticals, overlapping directly with how Business Match runs its Leader Clubs.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/business-match-network-vienna

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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