Speedinvest

SpeedInvest GmbH is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2011. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on technology-related startups across Europe, particularly in sectors such as deep tech, fintech, insurtech, consumer tech, and marketplaces. The firm typically invests between €0.25 million and €3 million in pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages, while preferring to acquire minority stakes of up to 20% in its portfolio companies. SpeedInvest aims to be actively involved in the companies it invests in, often taking on operational roles for six months to one year. With additional offices in cities like San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, and London, SpeedInvest leverages a global network to support entrepreneurs in building successful businesses, thus contributing to the development of Europe’s startup ecosystem.

Marie-Helene Ametsreiter

General Partner, Portfolio Success

Jeroen Arts

Partner

Julian Blessin

General Partner

Charlie Boles

Senior Associate

Estelle Botbol

Senior Associate

Eric Bovee

General Partner

Daniela Caserotto-Leibert

Venture Partner

Stephen Croome

Principal

Anthony Danon

Principal

Sophia Escheu

Associate

Joerg Floeck

Executive Chairman

Heinrich Gröller

Venture Partner

Frederik Hagenauer

Partner

Audrey Handem

Associate

Jingchun Rick Hao

Partner

Jingchun Hao

Partner

Oliver Holle

CEO, Managing Partner and Managing Director

Daniel Keiper-Knorr

General Partner and Founder

Lawrence Kilian

Principal, Corporate Development and M&A

Stefan Klestil

Partner

Mathias Knaur

Venture Partner

Namratha Kothapalli

Principal

Markus Krainz

Venture Partner

Markus Lang

Partner

Tom Filip Lesche

Partner

Alexis Majos

Principal

Enrique Martínez-Hausmann

Principal

Klaus Matzka

Partner

Wissam Nadreddine

Principal

Wissam Nasreddine

Principal

Florian Obst

Principal

Mathias Ockenfels

Partner

Herbert Ortner

Venture Partner

Mariya Osadchaya-Isa

Principal

Alvaro Perezcano

Senior Associate

Konstantin Schmeisser

Associate

Leonard Schmid

Senior Associate

Andreas Schwarzenbrunner

Principal

Olga Shikhantsova

Principal

Michael Sieghart

CFO, Managing Partner and Managing Director

Evgeny Slavin

Senior Associate

Katharine Spooner

Senior Associate

Philipp Stangl

Investment Manager

Yang Tran

Venture Partner

Jürgen Wahl

Venture Partner

Past deals in Crowdsourcing

TextCortex AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Text is everywhere around us and all of it is created by humans. 57% of businesses are struggling when it comes to content creation. Most of them in particular in creating text for the 1000s of descriptions, 100s of blogs, and 10s of landing pages. We take their problems away to unlock the long term content growth channel. Our AI writing solution takes away 2/3 of the time it usually takes for writing text content. Available as WebApp or API.

Smiler

Seed Round in 2022
Provider of spot photography services intended to make professional photography accessible to everyone. The company helps customers to capture pictures in high quality and allows photographers to sign up and make money with flexible working hours in a diverse range of locations, helping people create and capture memories.

Tulipshare

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tulipshare is an activist investor platform that empowers retail investors to influence the governance of major public companies. By combining crowdfunding with shareholder rights, it allows individuals to invest in well-known companies with as little as one euro. This innovative approach enables investors to express their values and advocate for ethical changes within corporate boardrooms. Through collective action, Tulipshare seeks to amplify the voices of retail shareholders, facilitating a new way for them to engage in the investment process and contribute to significant corporate reforms.

Storyclash

Venture Round in 2020
Storyclash GmbH is a real-time social media monitoring and analytics software company based in Linz, Austria, founded in 2015. The platform enables users, including editors, marketers, and researchers, to track articles, posts, videos, and social media interactions such as shares, comments, and likes. By analyzing these interactions, Storyclash helps its clients identify trending content, monitor competitors, and make informed decisions to enhance website traffic. Key features of the platform include content analysis, competitor tracking, and a big screen mode for visualizing trends. Notable customers of Storyclash include leading media outlets such as Heute, EXPRESS, KURIER, Heftig, and SALZBURG 24.

Gustav

Seed Round in 2017
Gustav is an modern contingent workforce management solution. It connects staffing suppliers, recruiters and headhunters online with the best companies in the world to help them hire and manage contingent workers. Backed by Y Combinator, Speedinvest, Pioneers Ventures and world class business angels.

Storyclash

Seed Round in 2016
Storyclash GmbH is a real-time social media monitoring and analytics software company based in Linz, Austria, founded in 2015. The platform enables users, including editors, marketers, and researchers, to track articles, posts, videos, and social media interactions such as shares, comments, and likes. By analyzing these interactions, Storyclash helps its clients identify trending content, monitor competitors, and make informed decisions to enhance website traffic. Key features of the platform include content analysis, competitor tracking, and a big screen mode for visualizing trends. Notable customers of Storyclash include leading media outlets such as Heute, EXPRESS, KURIER, Heftig, and SALZBURG 24.

Gustav

Angel Round in 2016
Gustav is an modern contingent workforce management solution. It connects staffing suppliers, recruiters and headhunters online with the best companies in the world to help them hire and manage contingent workers. Backed by Y Combinator, Speedinvest, Pioneers Ventures and world class business angels.

Cloudo

Seed Round in 2015
Cloudo s.r.o., based in Bratislava, Slovakia, offers a productivity application designed to streamline access to various cloud services. The platform enables users to search, organize, and manage their digital resources from a single interface. By integrating functionalities from multiple applications, such as Dropbox and Asana, Cloudo allows users to quickly open files, assign tasks, and search across different cloud apps, enhancing overall productivity and efficiency.

Wikidocs

Seed Round in 2013
Wikidocs provides a real time collaborative editing API for HTML. Collaborative editing of content becomes more and more a commodity feature and Wikidocs provides this technology for all kind of services and software products in the world by adding three lines of Javascript code. Wikidocs supports all major WYSIWYG editors out of the box.

Joblocal

Seed Round in 2012
joblocal is the first network of regional job fairs in Germany. Unlike the big national online job sites, joblocal has potential candidates about the platforms' relevant offers in their vicinity. These cover the entire job market in a region across all levels from - not only for specialists and managers, but also for temporary workers and trainees.

Findery

Venture Round in 2012
Findery is a social discovery platform designed to enrich the exploration of places by sharing personal notes and stories from users. It allows individuals to uncover the histories, memories, and unique insights associated with various locations, creating a narrative around each place. This platform encourages users to share their favorite experiences, tips, and little-known facts, thus transforming the way people engage with their surroundings. Accessible via smartphones, Findery serves as a resource for discovering local and global stories, making every location come alive through the collective contributions of its community.

Shpock

Seed Round in 2012
Finderly is a consumer electronics recommendation platform. It allows friends and experts to help one find the right product.

soup.me

Angel Round in 2011
soup.me provides an online service that takes your existing data from social media services like Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Instagram and 90 others and transforms it into beautiful visualisations, collecting and aggregating it in one place under your brand and control.
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