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 Embedded Software

Nomos

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Nomos is an IT company specializing in embedded dynamic energy plans. It streamlines the implementation process, reducing it from months to days. The company's platform integrates electricity plans into various industries' product offerings, including heating systems, banking, and telecommunications. This enables businesses to provide dynamic electricity plans to European consumers and empower them with flexible energy solutions.

Forward Earth

Seed Round in 2024
Forward Earth is a technology company that specializes in carbon management. It develops AI-powered tools to help businesses track, calculate, and reduce their carbon footprint, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. The company focuses on providing these services to software providers, accounting firms, and supply chain businesses, enabling them to integrate carbon management into their operations and create value through emission reductions.

CELUS

Series A in 2022
CELUS provides a cloud-based software solution designed to simplify the development of embedded systems for electronics teams. Recognizing the growing demand for electronics amid a declining number of engineers, CELUS enables users to create complex designs without requiring extensive expertise in electronics. The platform leverages automation and artificial intelligence to generate essential components of the development process, including schematics, PCB floorplans, bills of materials (BOM), and embedded source code. By streamlining these interdependent tasks, CELUS aims to accelerate the development cycle and enhance productivity for teams working on electronics projects.

CELUS

Funding Round in 2020
CELUS provides a cloud-based software solution designed to simplify the development of embedded systems for electronics teams. Recognizing the growing demand for electronics amid a declining number of engineers, CELUS enables users to create complex designs without requiring extensive expertise in electronics. The platform leverages automation and artificial intelligence to generate essential components of the development process, including schematics, PCB floorplans, bills of materials (BOM), and embedded source code. By streamlining these interdependent tasks, CELUS aims to accelerate the development cycle and enhance productivity for teams working on electronics projects.
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