Speedinvest

Speedinvest GmbH is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2011. It specializes in early-stage investments, primarily focusing on pre-seed, seed, and Series A funding for startup companies across various sectors, including fintech, insurtech, deep tech, consumer technology, and marketplaces. Speedinvest typically invests between €0.25 million and €3 million, aiming for minority stakes of up to 20% in its portfolio companies. The firm is particularly active in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on countries such as Austria, Germany, and the UK. Beyond financial support, Speedinvest emphasizes a hands-on approach, often taking on operational roles within its portfolio companies for six months to a year, to provide strategic guidance and expertise. With additional offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, and San Francisco, Speedinvest leverages its diverse team and extensive networks to empower entrepreneurs through all stages of their business journey.

Ametsreiter, Marie-Helene

Partner

Julian Blessin

General Partner

Anthony Danon

Principal

Sophia Escheu

Associate

Joerg Floeck

Executive Chairman

Heinrich Gröller

Partner

Oliver Holle

Founder, CEO and Managing Partner

Daniel Keiper-Knorr

General Partner and Founder

Klestil, Stefan

Partner

Namratha Kothapalli

Principal

Markus Lang

Partner

Tom Filip Lesche

Partner

Enrique Martínez-Hausmann

Principal

Wissam Nadreddine

Principal

Obst, Florian

Associate

Ockenfels, Mathias

Partner

Alvaro Perezcano

Senior Associate

Magda Posluszny

Associate

Leonard Schmid

Senior Associate

Schuster, Michael

Founder and Managing Partner, CIO

Andreas Schwarzenbrunner

Principal

Olga Shikhantsova

Principal

Evgeny Slavin

Senior Associate

Katharine Spooner

Senior Associate

Wöss, Nina

Head of Marketing and Community

Past deals in Madrid

Cobee

Series A in 2021
Cobee is a Madrid-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in automating and simplifying employee benefits management. Its online platform allows businesses to streamline the administration of employee benefits and flexible compensation. Cobee provides each employee with a VISA card linked to a digital application, enabling them to pay for various expenses such as meals, transportation, daycare, training, and medical insurance. This approach not only enhances employee satisfaction but also reduces costs for companies by eliminating intermediaries and external suppliers. The platform centralizes information, improving the management and visibility of benefits, while also offering real-time insights into savings. Cobee aims to create a seamless experience for both employers and employees, allowing organizations to focus on their core operations.

Toqio

Seed Round in 2021
Toqio is a company that provides a platform for organizations to develop their own fintech solutions, either as mobile applications or web-based services. Founded in 2019 by Eduardo Martinez and Michael Galvin, with offices in London, Madrid, and Nairobi, Toqio offers a configuration and customization platform supported by a marketplace of partners. The company specializes in software integration tools tailored for the financial industry, facilitating various services such as digital consumer and business banking, onboarding, transaction monitoring, and the distribution of financial products. By enabling companies to create data-driven financial propositions, Toqio helps them rapidly deploy solutions to meet the needs of their customers effectively.

Bnext

Series A in 2020
Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own current account in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.

Cobee

Seed Round in 2020
Cobee is a Madrid-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in automating and simplifying employee benefits management. Its online platform allows businesses to streamline the administration of employee benefits and flexible compensation. Cobee provides each employee with a VISA card linked to a digital application, enabling them to pay for various expenses such as meals, transportation, daycare, training, and medical insurance. This approach not only enhances employee satisfaction but also reduces costs for companies by eliminating intermediaries and external suppliers. The platform centralizes information, improving the management and visibility of benefits, while also offering real-time insights into savings. Cobee aims to create a seamless experience for both employers and employees, allowing organizations to focus on their core operations.

Bnext

Series A in 2019
Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own current account in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.

Rive

Series A in 2019
Rive is redefining how people buy, sell, and rent homes. Rive brings simplicity to switching homes by providing liquidity to sellers and fully renovated, move-in-ready homes for buyers while providing real estate agents with a unique combination of tech tools and products to give superior service to their customers. As a result, our customers have access to everything they need for a successful real estate transaction, from cutting-edge real-time market insights to renovation services delivered by local real estate professionals who guide them at every step. ‘Rive’ means leading edge and groundbreaking, just like the idea Rive was founded on: that selling homes should be simple and stress-free. To make this a reality, the Rive platform brings together all the different solutions that you need to change your life and property. Since we started in 2017, we have grown from a local iBuyer into a team of more than 300 real estate professionals in Finland, Spain, and Poland, and expanded our offering into a full-service real estate platform that provides a range of solutions for selling, buying, renovating, and financing your home. Rive is headquartered in Helsinki and is operating in all the major cities in Finland as well as Warsaw, Poland, and Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. Rive service concept is developed by Homerun Technologies Ltd. You can find more about us: www.rivehomes.com

Rive

Seed Round in 2018
Rive is redefining how people buy, sell, and rent homes. Rive brings simplicity to switching homes by providing liquidity to sellers and fully renovated, move-in-ready homes for buyers while providing real estate agents with a unique combination of tech tools and products to give superior service to their customers. As a result, our customers have access to everything they need for a successful real estate transaction, from cutting-edge real-time market insights to renovation services delivered by local real estate professionals who guide them at every step. ‘Rive’ means leading edge and groundbreaking, just like the idea Rive was founded on: that selling homes should be simple and stress-free. To make this a reality, the Rive platform brings together all the different solutions that you need to change your life and property. Since we started in 2017, we have grown from a local iBuyer into a team of more than 300 real estate professionals in Finland, Spain, and Poland, and expanded our offering into a full-service real estate platform that provides a range of solutions for selling, buying, renovating, and financing your home. Rive is headquartered in Helsinki and is operating in all the major cities in Finland as well as Warsaw, Poland, and Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. Rive service concept is developed by Homerun Technologies Ltd. You can find more about us: www.rivehomes.com

Rive

Angel Round in 2017
Rive is redefining how people buy, sell, and rent homes. Rive brings simplicity to switching homes by providing liquidity to sellers and fully renovated, move-in-ready homes for buyers while providing real estate agents with a unique combination of tech tools and products to give superior service to their customers. As a result, our customers have access to everything they need for a successful real estate transaction, from cutting-edge real-time market insights to renovation services delivered by local real estate professionals who guide them at every step. ‘Rive’ means leading edge and groundbreaking, just like the idea Rive was founded on: that selling homes should be simple and stress-free. To make this a reality, the Rive platform brings together all the different solutions that you need to change your life and property. Since we started in 2017, we have grown from a local iBuyer into a team of more than 300 real estate professionals in Finland, Spain, and Poland, and expanded our offering into a full-service real estate platform that provides a range of solutions for selling, buying, renovating, and financing your home. Rive is headquartered in Helsinki and is operating in all the major cities in Finland as well as Warsaw, Poland, and Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. Rive service concept is developed by Homerun Technologies Ltd. You can find more about us: www.rivehomes.com
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