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 Open Source

Flank

Seed Round in 2022
Legal OS GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in creating, managing, and analyzing legally compliant and individualized contracts. The company provides a comprehensive library that facilitates collaboration on legal documents, offering tools for self-assembling contracts and automating business processes. Legal OS is designed to serve law firms and legal departments, enabling the efficient production of both simple and complex contracts. Its innovative solutions emphasize speed and compliance, making the process of generating legal documents seamless and user-friendly.

Seqera

Seed Round in 2021
Seqera Labs is a Barcelona-based business creating solutions for high-performance computing workloads across cloud and clusters. It was founded by the creators of the popular open-source workflow software Nextflow (http://www.nextflow.io).

Avatao

Venture Round in 2021
Avatao provides an online training platform focused on teaching secure software development through hands-on exercises and tutorials. It caters to various technical teams, including developers, security champions, and DevOps professionals, by offering an interactive learning experience rather than simple tutorials or videos. With over 600 challenges and tutorials available in more than 10 languages, the platform addresses a comprehensive range of security topics, from web security to secure API design. Avatao immerses users in real-world scenarios, enabling them to learn to identify and address vulnerabilities effectively. This approach not only enhances the security awareness of software engineering teams but also equips them with the skills necessary to build high-quality products while managing risks more efficiently.

Gitpod

Venture Round in 2021
Gitpod is a developer platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments, designed to enhance productivity for software engineering teams. By eliminating the need for manual setup of local environments, Gitpod allows teams to save significant time and streamline their workflows. The platform is natively integrated with popular version control systems such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, facilitating the automatic and continuous prebuilding of development environments for various branches. This feature enables team members to instantly access fresh environments for new tasks, whether they are developing new features, fixing bugs, or conducting code reviews. Gitpod's open-source solution also supports language engineering and automated provisioning, further simplifying the development process and fostering collaboration among team members.

Gitpod

Seed Round in 2020
Gitpod is a developer platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments, designed to enhance productivity for software engineering teams. By eliminating the need for manual setup of local environments, Gitpod allows teams to save significant time and streamline their workflows. The platform is natively integrated with popular version control systems such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, facilitating the automatic and continuous prebuilding of development environments for various branches. This feature enables team members to instantly access fresh environments for new tasks, whether they are developing new features, fixing bugs, or conducting code reviews. Gitpod's open-source solution also supports language engineering and automated provisioning, further simplifying the development process and fostering collaboration among team members.

SOC.OS

Seed Round in 2020
SOC.OS is an alert correlation and triage automation tool. SOC.OS is a spin-out of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. SOC.OS enriches, correlates and prioritises your alerts, boosting productivity, enhancing threat visibility and shortening mean time to respond to cyber incidents.
Open develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement. It offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit. Open's application programming interface platform lets financial institutions integrate banking and payments into their applications and accounting systems. Anish Achuthan founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Flank

Seed Round in 2019
Legal OS GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in creating, managing, and analyzing legally compliant and individualized contracts. The company provides a comprehensive library that facilitates collaboration on legal documents, offering tools for self-assembling contracts and automating business processes. Legal OS is designed to serve law firms and legal departments, enabling the efficient production of both simple and complex contracts. Its innovative solutions emphasize speed and compliance, making the process of generating legal documents seamless and user-friendly.
Open develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement. It offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit. Open's application programming interface platform lets financial institutions integrate banking and payments into their applications and accounting systems. Anish Achuthan founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.
Open develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement. It offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit. Open's application programming interface platform lets financial institutions integrate banking and payments into their applications and accounting systems. Anish Achuthan founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Flank

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Legal OS GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in creating, managing, and analyzing legally compliant and individualized contracts. The company provides a comprehensive library that facilitates collaboration on legal documents, offering tools for self-assembling contracts and automating business processes. Legal OS is designed to serve law firms and legal departments, enabling the efficient production of both simple and complex contracts. Its innovative solutions emphasize speed and compliance, making the process of generating legal documents seamless and user-friendly.

Avatao

Seed Round in 2018
Avatao provides an online training platform focused on teaching secure software development through hands-on exercises and tutorials. It caters to various technical teams, including developers, security champions, and DevOps professionals, by offering an interactive learning experience rather than simple tutorials or videos. With over 600 challenges and tutorials available in more than 10 languages, the platform addresses a comprehensive range of security topics, from web security to secure API design. Avatao immerses users in real-world scenarios, enabling them to learn to identify and address vulnerabilities effectively. This approach not only enhances the security awareness of software engineering teams but also equips them with the skills necessary to build high-quality products while managing risks more efficiently.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2016
Crate Technology GmbH, known for its CrateDB product, offers an open-source distributed SQL database designed to meet the demands of modern applications, particularly in the IoT sector. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dornbirn, Austria, with additional offices in San Francisco and Berlin, the company provides a unique hybrid solution that supports real-time Standard SQL for time series, relational, and JSON data. CrateDB caters to both transactional and analytical needs within a single database platform, ensuring reliability by managing node failures and supporting applications across web, mobile, and IoT environments. The database is utilized by tier-1 customers in various industries, enabling them to perform Big Data analytics, full-text search, and geospatial queries effectively. With over 1,600 CrateDB clusters deployed globally, the platform is integral to many production-data applications, delivering real-time insights and scalability for machine-generated data.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2015
Crate Technology GmbH, known for its CrateDB product, offers an open-source distributed SQL database designed to meet the demands of modern applications, particularly in the IoT sector. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dornbirn, Austria, with additional offices in San Francisco and Berlin, the company provides a unique hybrid solution that supports real-time Standard SQL for time series, relational, and JSON data. CrateDB caters to both transactional and analytical needs within a single database platform, ensuring reliability by managing node failures and supporting applications across web, mobile, and IoT environments. The database is utilized by tier-1 customers in various industries, enabling them to perform Big Data analytics, full-text search, and geospatial queries effectively. With over 1,600 CrateDB clusters deployed globally, the platform is integral to many production-data applications, delivering real-time insights and scalability for machine-generated data.

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.

Open Publishing

Seed Round in 2012
Open Publishing GmbH, based in Munich, Germany, specializes in digital publishing solutions that cater to various aspects of the publishing process. The company offers a comprehensive range of services, including the digitization of printed books, production of print-on-demand titles, and management of eBook distribution across major online bookstores and e-readers worldwide. With a platform that supports over 200,000 books, Open Publishing provides essential features such as web presence, e-commerce solutions, multi-channel distribution, and royalty payment systems, making it accessible to both small publishers and startups. The company also delivers marketing services, including price campaigns, metadata optimization, and online marketing management. Additionally, Open Publishing offers web design solutions and builds self-publishing platforms while facilitating integration with external systems like PayPal and Google Analytics. As a subsidiary of GRIN Verlag GmbH, Open Publishing is committed to enhancing the efficiency and accessibility of publishing in the digital age.
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