Speedinvest

Speedinvest, established in 2011, is a European venture capital firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with additional offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, San Francisco, and a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, typically providing between €0.25 million to €3 million, and takes minority stakes, usually up to 20%. Speedinvest invests in sectors such as deep tech, fintech, industrial tech, marketplaces, consumer tech, and digital health, with a hands-on approach, often taking operational roles in portfolio companies for up to a year. The firm aims to provide more than just capital, offering operational support, growth marketing, HR, US business development, and networking assistance through its in-house Platform+ team.

Marie-Helene Ametsreiter

Partner

Jeroen Arts

Partner

Estelle Botbol

Principal

Daniela Caserotto-Leibert

Venture Partner

Sophia Escheu

Associate

Felix Faltin

Principal

Heinrich Gröller

Partner

Audrey Handem

Senior Associate

Jingchun Hao

Partner

Oliver Holle

CEO, Managing Partner and Managing Director

Lawrence Kilian

Principal, Corporate Development and M&A

Stefan Klestil

Partner

Namratha Kothapalli

Principal

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

Associate

Mathias Ockenfels

General Partner

Mariya Osadchaya-Isa

Principal

Alvaro Perezcano

Senior Associate

Magda Posluszny

Associate

Konstantin Schmeisser

Associate

Leonard Schmid

Senior Associate

Michael Schuster

Founder and Managing Partner, CIO

Andreas Schwarzenbrunner

Principal

Olga Shikhantsova

Partner

Michael Sieghart

CFO, Managing Partner and Managing Director

Sameer Singh

Venture Partner

Evgeny Slavin

Senior Associate

Philip Specht

Senior Associate

Katharine Spooner

Principal

Katharine Spooner

Senior Associate

Philipp Stangl

Investment Manager

Jürgen Wahl

Venture Partner

Werner Zahnt

Founding Partner, Corporate Development

Sophia Escheu

Associate

Maximilian Wilhelm

Senior Associate

Victor Huerbe

Principal

Past deals in API

Pliant

Series B in 2025
Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

Gigs

Series B in 2024
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service provider that offers wireless subscriptions tailored for smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices. The company specializes in delivering custom voice and data plans, enabling businesses to create their own mobile services while retaining control over branding and pricing. By utilizing Gigs' API and white-label solutions, companies across various sectors, including telecommunications, technology, and retail, can monetize their audiences effectively. Gigs aims to enhance client conversion rates, increase subscription revenue, and reduce product returns, particularly for wearable and IoT devices.

Tuum

Series B in 2024
Tuum is a cloud-native banking platform that is spearheading the next generation of digital innovation in the financial services industry. Built around a microservices architecture, the platform consists of flexible and independent modules covering all retail and business banking capabilities. The platform is API-based for quick and easy integration and can run on all major cloud providers, as well as on private clouds. Founded by a team of banking and technology experts in 2019, Tuum combines technological excellence with in-depth banking knowledge and packages it into a sophisticated, cutting-edge platform. Tuum currently employs over 60 people with offices in Tallinn, Berlin and Malaga.

Fiat Republic

Seed Round in 2023
Fiat Republic operates a fintech platform that simplifies the integration of fiat payment solutions for cryptocurrency platforms. By aggregating multiple banks into a single API, the company provides a unified compliance onboarding process that allows crypto sites to embed fiat payment flows seamlessly into their systems. The platform supports various local currencies and payment methods, including bank transfers and real-time foreign exchange, making it easier for users to access mainstream banking services. Fiat Republic's focus on e-money regulation ensures that its services are compliant and reliable, facilitating the democratization of access to the Web3 economy for both businesses and their customers.

Revio

Seed Round in 2023
Revio was founded in 2020 to help businesses collect more revenue, through reducing payment failures and recovering lost revenue. Through a single API, we optimise merchants’ payment stacks with locally-optimised payment methods and smart payment routing, failover, and retries. We understand that there is more to getting paid than accepting payments, and believe that how you engage customers when trying to collect a failed payment is as important as when you are trying to acquire them. Our Recovery solution builds on this insight, empowering businesses with data-driven omnichannel interaction workflows to recover at-risk revenue from their customers. Today, we’re helping some of Africa's largest brands and fastest-growing startups increase their revenue through increased payment success rates, customer retention, and lifetime value. Locally grounded but globally relevant, we aim to be the go-to revenue recovery and growth partner for businesses across emerging markets.

Revio

Seed Round in 2022
Revio was founded in 2020 to help businesses collect more revenue, through reducing payment failures and recovering lost revenue. Through a single API, we optimise merchants’ payment stacks with locally-optimised payment methods and smart payment routing, failover, and retries. We understand that there is more to getting paid than accepting payments, and believe that how you engage customers when trying to collect a failed payment is as important as when you are trying to acquire them. Our Recovery solution builds on this insight, empowering businesses with data-driven omnichannel interaction workflows to recover at-risk revenue from their customers. Today, we’re helping some of Africa's largest brands and fastest-growing startups increase their revenue through increased payment success rates, customer retention, and lifetime value. Locally grounded but globally relevant, we aim to be the go-to revenue recovery and growth partner for businesses across emerging markets.

Gigs

Series A in 2022
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service provider that offers wireless subscriptions tailored for smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices. The company specializes in delivering custom voice and data plans, enabling businesses to create their own mobile services while retaining control over branding and pricing. By utilizing Gigs' API and white-label solutions, companies across various sectors, including telecommunications, technology, and retail, can monetize their audiences effectively. Gigs aims to enhance client conversion rates, increase subscription revenue, and reduce product returns, particularly for wearable and IoT devices.

Text Cortex AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Text Cortex AI provides an innovative platform that utilizes customizable AI-based technology to assist businesses with content creation. Recognizing that many organizations struggle with generating text for various needs, including product descriptions, blogs, and landing pages, the platform aims to streamline the writing process. By employing natural language generation, Text Cortex AI significantly reduces the time required for content creation, allowing users to produce large volumes of text efficiently. The service is accessible through both a web application and an API, which facilitates seamless integration into existing workflows. Through its solutions, Text Cortex AI enables businesses to enhance their content marketing strategies and unlock sustainable growth in their communication efforts.

Upvest

Series B in 2022
Upvest GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, specializes in providing a blockchain application programming interface (API) that allows businesses to create tailored investment experiences for their customers. The company’s single investment API and digital infrastructure enable financial institutions to seamlessly integrate and offer customized investment products, including the ability to configure savings plans and facilitate micro-investing through roundups. Upvest supports a variety of decentralized applications, tokenized platforms, exchanges, and wallet services, connecting them with major open-source protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The modular design of their offerings ensures that businesses can easily adapt and scale their investment solutions while receiving comprehensive support for licenses and vendor management, as well as back-office operations.

Pemo

Seed Round in 2022
Pemo is a comprehensive spend management solution designed to streamline financial processes for small and medium enterprises in the MENAP region. The platform integrates smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems, and expense tracking features to provide businesses with complete visibility and control over their expenditures. With tools for accounting automation and real-time reporting, Pemo enables efficient management of employee expenses, allowing organizations to save time and reduce administrative burdens. By centralizing invoicing, approvals, and spending decisions, Pemo empowers businesses to focus on growth while maintaining financial oversight.

DasLab

Seed Round in 2022
DasLab is a company that offers a digital platform aimed at simplifying access to medical tests and vaccinations for patients, healthcare providers, and laboratories. Founded in 2020, the platform enables users to book medical tests, access their patient history, and obtain necessary certificates. It also facilitates the flow of testing and integrates with existing systems to ensure secure, standardized, and real-time delivery of results. By streamlining the testing process, DasLab seeks to enhance accessibility and efficiency in the healthcare sector.

IndyKite

Seed Round in 2022
IndyKite is a cloud identity platform focused on securing and managing identities for both humans and non-person entities, such as IoT devices. The company develops an identity-centric data platform that integrates identity and business information into a cohesive operational data layer. This unified approach facilitates authorization, application development, and analytics, all supported by a knowledge graph data model. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, IndyKite provides developers with flexible application programming interfaces, fostering a growing open-source ecosystem that enhances the overall value and trust in data management.

Fiat Republic

Seed Round in 2022
Fiat Republic operates a fintech platform that simplifies the integration of fiat payment solutions for cryptocurrency platforms. By aggregating multiple banks into a single API, the company provides a unified compliance onboarding process that allows crypto sites to embed fiat payment flows seamlessly into their systems. The platform supports various local currencies and payment methods, including bank transfers and real-time foreign exchange, making it easier for users to access mainstream banking services. Fiat Republic's focus on e-money regulation ensures that its services are compliant and reliable, facilitating the democratization of access to the Web3 economy for both businesses and their customers.

IndyKite

Pre Seed Round in 2021
IndyKite is a cloud identity platform focused on securing and managing identities for both humans and non-person entities, such as IoT devices. The company develops an identity-centric data platform that integrates identity and business information into a cohesive operational data layer. This unified approach facilitates authorization, application development, and analytics, all supported by a knowledge graph data model. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, IndyKite provides developers with flexible application programming interfaces, fostering a growing open-source ecosystem that enhances the overall value and trust in data management.

9amHealth

Seed Round in 2021
9amHealth is a healthcare service provider that aims to deliver comprehensive medical support for chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. The company offers personalized care plans, prescription medication, at-home lab tests, and unlimited virtual visits, ensuring that patients have direct access to affordable and compassionate care. By redesigning all care elements into a single digital service, 9amHealth caters to the modern realities of patients' lives, making healthcare always available and convenient, even for those without insurance. Its focus on chronic conditions highlights its commitment to improving the health and well-being of customers in the United States.

Tide

Series C in 2021
Tide is a UK-based fintech company specializing in business banking services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Its platform offers streamlined business accounts and administrative solutions, such as seamless integration with accounting systems, to help SMEs save time and money. Tide's advanced technology is tailored to the needs of SMEs, making it a leading challenger in the UK's SME banking sector. The company is committed to serving SMEs exclusively, focusing on their unique requirements.

Gigs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service provider that offers wireless subscriptions tailored for smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices. The company specializes in delivering custom voice and data plans, enabling businesses to create their own mobile services while retaining control over branding and pricing. By utilizing Gigs' API and white-label solutions, companies across various sectors, including telecommunications, technology, and retail, can monetize their audiences effectively. Gigs aims to enhance client conversion rates, increase subscription revenue, and reduce product returns, particularly for wearable and IoT devices.

Xapix

Seed Round in 2020
Xapix, Inc. operates an online platform that enables enterprise developers to discover, integrate, and manage data and services from various providers. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco with an additional office in Berlin, the company specializes in combining data endpoints into a unified application programming interface (API), facilitating data mapping across different formats. Xapix also offers a suite of tools aimed at e-commerce leaders, including a personal Amazon AI Operations Assistant that supports financial and operational analysis, alerts, and optimizations to enhance sales and profitability. Its analytics platform centralizes essential data and delivers artificial intelligence-driven recommendations, thereby assisting digital-first retailers in acquiring, managing, and scaling their brands through automated product portfolio management. This enables clients to gain performance insights, measure growth, and maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Impala

Series A in 2019
Impala Enterprise Ltd, founded in 2016 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in developing cloud-based software tailored for the management of small and medium-sized hotels. Its platform streamlines various operational aspects, including bookings, staff management, finance, and task coordination. Additionally, Impala offers a secure and user-friendly universal REST API that allows for seamless integration with multiple hotel systems, ensuring bank-grade security and full compliance with GDPR regulations. The company's infrastructure is designed to be robust, utilizing geographically diverse hosting to enhance reliability and performance.

Adverity

Series B in 2019
Adverity GmbH is a technology company that offers a web-based marketing reporting and analytics platform designed to enhance data management for marketing teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria, Adverity enables businesses to collect, normalize, and analyze data from various marketing applications, big data platforms, and spreadsheets. The platform features an API-like connector builder and a data transformation engine that creates accurate and aligned datasets. By integrating disparate data sources, Adverity allows organizations to blend marketing, advertising, and sales information, establishing a single source of truth for business performance. Its automated connectivity to multiple data sources facilitates seamless management of client campaigns across all channels, empowering marketing teams to derive actionable insights and make informed decisions. The company serves notable clients, including Unilever and Bosch, and has expanded its presence with additional offices in London and New York.

Xapix

Seed Round in 2019
Xapix, Inc. operates an online platform that enables enterprise developers to discover, integrate, and manage data and services from various providers. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco with an additional office in Berlin, the company specializes in combining data endpoints into a unified application programming interface (API), facilitating data mapping across different formats. Xapix also offers a suite of tools aimed at e-commerce leaders, including a personal Amazon AI Operations Assistant that supports financial and operational analysis, alerts, and optimizations to enhance sales and profitability. Its analytics platform centralizes essential data and delivers artificial intelligence-driven recommendations, thereby assisting digital-first retailers in acquiring, managing, and scaling their brands through automated product portfolio management. This enables clients to gain performance insights, measure growth, and maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Stateless

Series A in 2019
Stateless, Inc., established in 2016 and based in Boulder, Colorado, specializes in network architecture for private and hybrid cloud environments. The company offers virtualized network functions and Luxon, a software-defined interconnect network platform, enabling cloud service providers to dynamically deliver routing, security, and automation services at scale.

Tide

Convertible Note in 2018
Tide is a UK-based fintech company specializing in business banking services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Its platform offers streamlined business accounts and administrative solutions, such as seamless integration with accounting systems, to help SMEs save time and money. Tide's advanced technology is tailored to the needs of SMEs, making it a leading challenger in the UK's SME banking sector. The company is committed to serving SMEs exclusively, focusing on their unique requirements.

Impala

Seed Round in 2018
Impala Enterprise Ltd, founded in 2016 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in developing cloud-based software tailored for the management of small and medium-sized hotels. Its platform streamlines various operational aspects, including bookings, staff management, finance, and task coordination. Additionally, Impala offers a secure and user-friendly universal REST API that allows for seamless integration with multiple hotel systems, ensuring bank-grade security and full compliance with GDPR regulations. The company's infrastructure is designed to be robust, utilizing geographically diverse hosting to enhance reliability and performance.

Adverity

Series A in 2018
Adverity GmbH is a technology company that offers a web-based marketing reporting and analytics platform designed to enhance data management for marketing teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria, Adverity enables businesses to collect, normalize, and analyze data from various marketing applications, big data platforms, and spreadsheets. The platform features an API-like connector builder and a data transformation engine that creates accurate and aligned datasets. By integrating disparate data sources, Adverity allows organizations to blend marketing, advertising, and sales information, establishing a single source of truth for business performance. Its automated connectivity to multiple data sources facilitates seamless management of client campaigns across all channels, empowering marketing teams to derive actionable insights and make informed decisions. The company serves notable clients, including Unilever and Bosch, and has expanded its presence with additional offices in London and New York.

Stateless

Seed Round in 2017
Stateless, Inc., established in 2016 and based in Boulder, Colorado, specializes in network architecture for private and hybrid cloud environments. The company offers virtualized network functions and Luxon, a software-defined interconnect network platform, enabling cloud service providers to dynamically deliver routing, security, and automation services at scale.

Upvest

Seed Round in 2017
Upvest GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, specializes in providing a blockchain application programming interface (API) that allows businesses to create tailored investment experiences for their customers. The company’s single investment API and digital infrastructure enable financial institutions to seamlessly integrate and offer customized investment products, including the ability to configure savings plans and facilitate micro-investing through roundups. Upvest supports a variety of decentralized applications, tokenized platforms, exchanges, and wallet services, connecting them with major open-source protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The modular design of their offerings ensures that businesses can easily adapt and scale their investment solutions while receiving comprehensive support for licenses and vendor management, as well as back-office operations.

TalkJS

Seed Round in 2017
TalkJS is a developer of a real-time messaging platform that enables businesses to integrate custom chat features into their products easily. The platform supports various chat use cases, allowing for private one-on-one conversations or group interactions within channels and chat rooms. TalkJS provides a frontend user interface software development kit (UI SDK) and includes built-in notifications, facilitating quick implementation with minimal coding. Additionally, it offers moderation tools that enable companies to monitor conversations and manage interactions effectively. By providing an integrated chat system for websites, TalkJS enhances customer engagement and interaction, ultimately supporting businesses in fostering better communication with their users.

Adverity

Seed Round in 2017
Adverity GmbH is a technology company that offers a web-based marketing reporting and analytics platform designed to enhance data management for marketing teams. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria, Adverity enables businesses to collect, normalize, and analyze data from various marketing applications, big data platforms, and spreadsheets. The platform features an API-like connector builder and a data transformation engine that creates accurate and aligned datasets. By integrating disparate data sources, Adverity allows organizations to blend marketing, advertising, and sales information, establishing a single source of truth for business performance. Its automated connectivity to multiple data sources facilitates seamless management of client campaigns across all channels, empowering marketing teams to derive actionable insights and make informed decisions. The company serves notable clients, including Unilever and Bosch, and has expanded its presence with additional offices in London and New York.

Bitmovin

Series A in 2016
Bitmovin Inc specializes in online streaming solutions and server encoding systems, focusing on enhancing the performance and delivery of video content. Founded in 2012, the company offers a cloud-based transcoding platform known as bitcodin, which supports adaptive streaming formats like MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS. Its product suite includes BITDASH, optimized clients for various platforms, and LIBDASH, an official ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH reference software. Additionally, Bitmovin provides an Encoding API for real-time content encoding, a Player for delivering video to devices, and Analytics tools to improve viewer engagement through actionable insights. With offices in San Francisco and Klagenfurt, Austria, Bitmovin also engages in consulting and standardization services related to multimedia technologies, leveraging a strong connection to academic research in the field. The company has formed a strategic partnership with Intertrust Technologies Corporation and is backed by notable investors.

Bitmovin

Seed Round in 2014
Bitmovin Inc specializes in online streaming solutions and server encoding systems, focusing on enhancing the performance and delivery of video content. Founded in 2012, the company offers a cloud-based transcoding platform known as bitcodin, which supports adaptive streaming formats like MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS. Its product suite includes BITDASH, optimized clients for various platforms, and LIBDASH, an official ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH reference software. Additionally, Bitmovin provides an Encoding API for real-time content encoding, a Player for delivering video to devices, and Analytics tools to improve viewer engagement through actionable insights. With offices in San Francisco and Klagenfurt, Austria, Bitmovin also engages in consulting and standardization services related to multimedia technologies, leveraging a strong connection to academic research in the field. The company has formed a strategic partnership with Intertrust Technologies Corporation and is backed by notable investors.

Wikidocs

Seed Round in 2013
Wikidocs specializes in real-time collaborative editing technology for HTML content. The company offers a straightforward editing tool that enables users to collaboratively edit web pages seamlessly. By integrating just three lines of JavaScript code, Wikidocs' technology can be implemented across various services and software products. It is compatible with all major WYSIWYG editors, making it an accessible solution for businesses seeking to enhance their content creation processes.

Open Publishing

Seed Round in 2012
Open Publishing GmbH, based in Munich, Germany, is a digital publishing solutions provider. The company offers a range of services including publishing software, eBook production and distribution, and consultancy services. Its product portfolio includes the digitization of printed books and print-on-demand issues, as well as marketing solutions such as temporary price campaigns, dealer newsletters, metadata optimization, SEO, and online marketing campaigns. Open Publishing also provides web design solutions for publishers and authors, including websites, apps, and individual platforms, and operates a self-publishing platform. The company manages over 200,000 books and offers an easy way for publishers to publish digital and print-on-demand books, distributing them across various online bookstores and e-readers worldwide. Open Publishing's platform is designed to be accessible to small publishers and startups through automation and competitive pricing, with integration capabilities via an open API.

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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