Viktoria was 14 when her family's billion-dollar business collapsed in eighteen months. Watching her father say "we didn't see it coming" shaped everything – the signals were there, buried in regulatory filings nobody tracked.

Viktoria founded her first finance company at 17, becoming Austria's youngest female founder at the time, and sold it to a teammate two years later. She then joined C-Quadrat, a $9B AUM investment group where she was offered a supervisory board seat.

Recognizing that most B2B companies were losing deals not from poor execution but from poor timing, she launched Octrace to solve the "when to sell" problem through temporal intelligence.

With minimal outside capital, she bootstrapped Octrace to almost €1M ARR by building predictive models that identify buying urgency 6-18 months before traditional intent signals appear.