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

Stephen Croome

Principal

Sophia Escheu

Associate

Felix Faltin

Principal

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

General Partner Sif

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

Andreas Schwarzenbrunner

Partner

Olga Shikhantsova

Partner

Michael Sieghart

CFO, Managing Partner and Managing Director

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

Andrea Zitna

Partner

Sophia Escheu

Associate

Maximilian Wilhelm

Senior Associate

Victor Huerbe

Principal

Past deals in Crowdfunding

Mundi

Seed Round in 2025
Mundi is a fintech company that transforms financial technology by offering access to capital market products and opportunities to businesses of all sizes.

Khazna

Series B in 2025
Khazna operates a mobile application platform designed to enhance financial services for Egyptians, particularly targeting the 50% of smartphone users who lack access to formal financial systems. The super app provides a range of services including General Purpose Credit, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), bill payments, savings, and insurance. It also facilitates cash advances for employees to address unforeseen emergencies and allows users to transfer and receive funds without incurring transaction fees. By focusing on digitizing cash transactions, Khazna aims to offer convenient, effective, and secure financial solutions, thereby improving financial inclusion in Egypt and potentially beyond.

Riverse

Seed Round in 2023
Riverse is a B2B platform that facilitates the certification and transaction of carbon credits, specifically targeting greentech manufacturing companies in Europe. The platform streamlines the process of issuing and selling carbon credits, allowing companies to generate revenue within weeks. By focusing on technology-driven, circular economy projects, Riverse provides essential services such as impact measurement, verification, and monetization. This enables industrial decarbonization initiatives to earn financial support for scaling their operations. Riverse aims to build a standardized approach to carbon credits while enhancing the monitoring, reporting, and verification of environmental impacts, thereby promoting a more sustainable industry.

Khazna

Series A in 2022
Khazna operates a mobile application platform designed to enhance financial services for Egyptians, particularly targeting the 50% of smartphone users who lack access to formal financial systems. The super app provides a range of services including General Purpose Credit, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), bill payments, savings, and insurance. It also facilitates cash advances for employees to address unforeseen emergencies and allows users to transfer and receive funds without incurring transaction fees. By focusing on digitizing cash transactions, Khazna aims to offer convenient, effective, and secure financial solutions, thereby improving financial inclusion in Egypt and potentially beyond.

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.

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.

Bnext

Series A in 2020
Bnext is a fintech platform based in Madrid, Spain, that functions as a supermarket for financial products. It offers users the ability to create a current account quickly, providing nearly all the functionalities of a traditional bank without the need to engage with one. Users can consolidate their financial information by linking external accounts on the platform. The core innovation of Bnext is its Marketplace, where users can explore a diverse range of financial products from various fintechs and banks, all selected to meet their specific needs. This platform allows users to purchase and manage these products seamlessly within the app, without incurring excessive fees. Rather than focusing on selling numerous products, Bnext collaborates with fintechs to present the best available offers, encompassing services such as real estate investments, mutual funds, loans, and crowdfunding. By progressively integrating leading market products, Bnext aims to redefine banking by becoming a comprehensive financial service provider without the limitations of a traditional bank.

Invesdor

Venture Round in 2020
Invesdor is a fintech platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It operates an equity crowdfunding platform that facilitates investments in ambitious growth companies across Northern Europe, enabling investors from over 70 countries to participate in equity and bond offerings. Invesdor aims to streamline the fundraising process and make investment opportunities accessible to both large and small investors. The company's client base includes private and publicly traded firms from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the UK, supported by its offices in Helsinki and Stockholm. Through its innovative services, Invesdor contributes to the next generation of financial solutions for emerging businesses in the region.

Bnext

Series A in 2019
Bnext is a fintech platform based in Madrid, Spain, that functions as a supermarket for financial products. It offers users the ability to create a current account quickly, providing nearly all the functionalities of a traditional bank without the need to engage with one. Users can consolidate their financial information by linking external accounts on the platform. The core innovation of Bnext is its Marketplace, where users can explore a diverse range of financial products from various fintechs and banks, all selected to meet their specific needs. This platform allows users to purchase and manage these products seamlessly within the app, without incurring excessive fees. Rather than focusing on selling numerous products, Bnext collaborates with fintechs to present the best available offers, encompassing services such as real estate investments, mutual funds, loans, and crowdfunding. By progressively integrating leading market products, Bnext aims to redefine banking by becoming a comprehensive financial service provider without the limitations of a traditional bank.

Invesdor Österreich (Finnest GmbH)

Seed Round in 2015
Finnest GmbH is an online crowdfunding platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The company focuses on providing established small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with alternative access to the capital market, enabling investors to participate in private placements of financially sound businesses. Finnest has developed a unique approach that combines corporate financing with crowd-investing, utilizing a reverse blind auction system where investors propose investment offers and set their own annual interest rates. This method incorporates elements from traditional book-building mechanisms used in corporate bonds, along with marketing and loyalty effects typical of crowd financing. Finnest primarily assists investors from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland in offering qualified subordinated loans to selected companies in Austria and Germany. In 2019, Finnest became a subsidiary of Invesdor Oy.

Riverse

Riverse is a B2B platform that facilitates the certification and transaction of carbon credits, specifically targeting greentech manufacturing companies in Europe. The platform streamlines the process of issuing and selling carbon credits, allowing companies to generate revenue within weeks. By focusing on technology-driven, circular economy projects, Riverse provides essential services such as impact measurement, verification, and monetization. This enables industrial decarbonization initiatives to earn financial support for scaling their operations. Riverse aims to build a standardized approach to carbon credits while enhancing the monitoring, reporting, and verification of environmental impacts, thereby promoting a more sustainable industry.
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