Speedinvest

Speedinvest is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, with offices in Berlin, Paris, London, Munich, and San Francisco, that focuses on early-stage technology investments across Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe. The firm backs seed to early growth rounds in areas including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, consumer tech, software-as-a-service, and network effects, with a platform philosophy and hands-on support via an in-house Platform+ team that provides growth marketing, human resources, US business development, and networking assistance from day one. Typical investments range from a few hundred thousand euros up to about three million euros, with a preference for minority stakes up to around 20% and for taking co-entrepreneurial operational roles for six months to a year. Speedinvest was founded in 2011 and is known for combining capital with hands-on operational support to help portfolio companies scale.

Marie-Hélène Ametsreiter

Partner

Jeroen Arts

Partner

Julian Blessin Ph.D

General Partner

Charlie Boles

Senior Associate

Estelle Botbol

Principal

Past deals in PaaS

Pliant

Series B in 2025
Pliant is a European fintech that specializes in B2B payment solutions through an API-first platform designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and embed payments into financial workflows. It serves industries with complex payment needs, such as travel and fleet, by enabling greater efficiency, control, and profitability. The company targets two primary segments: businesses seeking operational automation and extended credit lines, and financial software platforms, ERP providers, and banks seeking to offer embedded finance and white-label credit card solutions. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant supports over 3,500 businesses and more than 20 partners, and operates as a licensed e-money institution issuing Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries. The platform provides customizable credit card management, automated transaction tracking, and real-time spending control to enhance financial oversight, reduce administrative workload, and optimize cash flow while maintaining security compliance.

Gigs

Series B in 2024
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to offer wireless subscriptions for smartphones and wearables. It provides an API and white-label solutions that allow brands to launch their own mobile plans across multiple networks globally while preserving brand identity and pricing control. The platform supports configuring and monetizing audiences by launching branded mobile services, including wholesale connectivity, checkout, payments, tax and compliance, and customer support tools. By enabling non-telecom brands to become mobile service providers, Gigs helps organizations operate as mobile virtual network operators and integrate carrier-grade connectivity with their existing products and channels. The company serves industries such as telecommunications, technology, and retail, focusing on simplifying service provisioning and carrier access for businesses seeking branded mobile offerings.

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 offers a banking and payments platform that aggregates multiple banks into a single API integration and unified onboarding, enabling crypto platforms to embed fiat payment flows into their technology stacks. Its fiat-as-a-service solution, regulated under traditional finance rules, provides access to IBANs and virtual accounts in local currencies, and supports local transfer rails such as SEPA, Faster Payments, Elixir, and Pix, with real-time foreign exchange. The company targets crypto sites with a crypto-focused, e-money-regulated software-as-a-service platform that delivers a banking and payments API powered by real-time data to embed and automate flows, broadening access to mainstream and local banking services and supporting participation in the Web3 economy.

Vitt

Seed Round in 2023
Vitt develops a financial payment platform that enables Software as a Service (SaaS) companies to access non-dilutive venture debt investments. The platform integrates with the client's billing stack and subscription management system, verifying potential payouts based on monthly recurring revenues. This allows clients to enhance their monthly payments without cash flow concerns.

Gitpod

Series A in 2022
Gitpod is an open-source developer platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments for cloud-based applications. It eliminates setup friction by delivering prebuilt workspaces and enabling teams to start coding immediately for each new task, whether creating features, fixing bugs, or performing code reviews. The platform integrates with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket and automatically prebuilds environments for all branches, treating environments as code to support automated provisioning, language engineering, modeling, diagramming, and parallel workspaces. This approach helps engineering teams focus on workflow and collaboration rather than environment setup.

Toqio

Series A in 2022
Toqio is a technology company founded in 2019 by Eduardo Martinez and Michael Galvin, with offices in London, Madrid, and Nairobi. It specializes in providing a platform that enables organizations to develop customized fintech solutions, either as mobile applications or web-based services. Toqio offers software integration tools tailored for the financial industry, facilitating various functions such as digital banking, onboarding, transaction monitoring, and the distribution of financial products and services. Its platform includes a marketplace of partners and supports configuration and customization, allowing companies to rapidly deploy data-driven financial propositions to their customers.

Gigs

Series A in 2022
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to offer wireless subscriptions for smartphones and wearables. It provides an API and white-label solutions that allow brands to launch their own mobile plans across multiple networks globally while preserving brand identity and pricing control. The platform supports configuring and monetizing audiences by launching branded mobile services, including wholesale connectivity, checkout, payments, tax and compliance, and customer support tools. By enabling non-telecom brands to become mobile service providers, Gigs helps organizations operate as mobile virtual network operators and integrate carrier-grade connectivity with their existing products and channels. The company serves industries such as telecommunications, technology, and retail, focusing on simplifying service provisioning and carrier access for businesses seeking branded mobile offerings.

Upvest

Series B in 2022
Upvest provides an investment API and blockchain wallet infrastructure that enables businesses and financial institutions to offer investment products and wallet experiences within their apps. Its modular, scalable platform supports portfolios, savings plans and micro-investing features such as roundups, while offering the digital infrastructure needed for licenses, vendor management, and back- and middle-office operations. The API also connects to blockchain networks and tokenized platforms, enabling DApps and exchanges to build wallet-enabled experiences for end users and allowing cross-border, secure access to investment products.

Actiondesk

Seed Round in 2022
ActionDesk is a French software company based in Asnières-sur-Seine. It specializes in developing data management solutions that enable users to import, refresh, and synchronize data from various applications such as SQL, Stripe, Salesforce, and HubSpot directly into spreadsheets. The platform allows for automatic data importing, calculation, and manipulation, making it accessible for non-technical teams to build workflow automation using familiar spreadsheet tools.

Fiat Republic

Seed Round in 2022
Fiat Republic offers a banking and payments platform that aggregates multiple banks into a single API integration and unified onboarding, enabling crypto platforms to embed fiat payment flows into their technology stacks. Its fiat-as-a-service solution, regulated under traditional finance rules, provides access to IBANs and virtual accounts in local currencies, and supports local transfer rails such as SEPA, Faster Payments, Elixir, and Pix, with real-time foreign exchange. The company targets crypto sites with a crypto-focused, e-money-regulated software-as-a-service platform that delivers a banking and payments API powered by real-time data to embed and automate flows, broadening access to mainstream and local banking services and supporting participation in the Web3 economy.

Vitt

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vitt develops a financial payment platform that enables Software as a Service (SaaS) companies to access non-dilutive venture debt investments. The platform integrates with the client's billing stack and subscription management system, verifying potential payouts based on monthly recurring revenues. This allows clients to enhance their monthly payments without cash flow concerns.

Primer

Series B in 2021
Primer API Limited operates an online platform that consolidates fragmented payment ecosystems for e-commerce merchants and online payment facilitators. Founded in 2019 and based in London, the company provides solutions to optimize both front and backend payment flows, aiming to enhance authorization rates, minimize costs, and facilitate market expansion. Primer enables users to seamlessly connect with various third-party services, including payment service providers, fraud detection systems, and subscription billing engines. Its platform allows merchants to easily integrate new payment methods, streamline fraud mitigation, and implement sophisticated transaction routing without requiring coding skills. Through these capabilities, Primer enhances the overall commerce experience for customers and empowers businesses to improve their operational efficiency.

Qovery

Seed Round in 2021
Qovery is a Paris-based company that provides a container as a service platform for developing and deploying applications. The platform automates cloud infrastructure provisioning, offers self-service capabilities for developers, and integrates with existing tools while enforcing governance and security policies and cost optimization. By enabling teams to provision infrastructure with minimal manual management, Qovery aims to accelerate development cycles, improve engineering efficiency, and reduce infrastructure overhead. Founded in 2019, Qovery focuses on streamlining software development and deployment processes through automation and scalable cloud infrastructure management.

Toqio

Seed Round in 2021
Toqio is a technology company founded in 2019 by Eduardo Martinez and Michael Galvin, with offices in London, Madrid, and Nairobi. It specializes in providing a platform that enables organizations to develop customized fintech solutions, either as mobile applications or web-based services. Toqio offers software integration tools tailored for the financial industry, facilitating various functions such as digital banking, onboarding, transaction monitoring, and the distribution of financial products and services. Its platform includes a marketplace of partners and supports configuration and customization, allowing companies to rapidly deploy data-driven financial propositions to their customers.

Gitpod

Venture Round in 2021
Gitpod is an open-source developer platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments for cloud-based applications. It eliminates setup friction by delivering prebuilt workspaces and enabling teams to start coding immediately for each new task, whether creating features, fixing bugs, or performing code reviews. The platform integrates with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket and automatically prebuilds environments for all branches, treating environments as code to support automated provisioning, language engineering, modeling, diagramming, and parallel workspaces. This approach helps engineering teams focus on workflow and collaboration rather than environment setup.

Gigs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gigs is a telecom-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to offer wireless subscriptions for smartphones and wearables. It provides an API and white-label solutions that allow brands to launch their own mobile plans across multiple networks globally while preserving brand identity and pricing control. The platform supports configuring and monetizing audiences by launching branded mobile services, including wholesale connectivity, checkout, payments, tax and compliance, and customer support tools. By enabling non-telecom brands to become mobile service providers, Gigs helps organizations operate as mobile virtual network operators and integrate carrier-grade connectivity with their existing products and channels. The company serves industries such as telecommunications, technology, and retail, focusing on simplifying service provisioning and carrier access for businesses seeking branded mobile offerings.

Primer

Series A in 2020
Primer API Limited operates an online platform that consolidates fragmented payment ecosystems for e-commerce merchants and online payment facilitators. Founded in 2019 and based in London, the company provides solutions to optimize both front and backend payment flows, aiming to enhance authorization rates, minimize costs, and facilitate market expansion. Primer enables users to seamlessly connect with various third-party services, including payment service providers, fraud detection systems, and subscription billing engines. Its platform allows merchants to easily integrate new payment methods, streamline fraud mitigation, and implement sophisticated transaction routing without requiring coding skills. Through these capabilities, Primer enhances the overall commerce experience for customers and empowers businesses to improve their operational efficiency.

Gitpod

Seed Round in 2020
Gitpod is an open-source developer platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments for cloud-based applications. It eliminates setup friction by delivering prebuilt workspaces and enabling teams to start coding immediately for each new task, whether creating features, fixing bugs, or performing code reviews. The platform integrates with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket and automatically prebuilds environments for all branches, treating environments as code to support automated provisioning, language engineering, modeling, diagramming, and parallel workspaces. This approach helps engineering teams focus on workflow and collaboration rather than environment setup.

Primer

Seed Round in 2020
Primer API Limited operates an online platform that consolidates fragmented payment ecosystems for e-commerce merchants and online payment facilitators. Founded in 2019 and based in London, the company provides solutions to optimize both front and backend payment flows, aiming to enhance authorization rates, minimize costs, and facilitate market expansion. Primer enables users to seamlessly connect with various third-party services, including payment service providers, fraud detection systems, and subscription billing engines. Its platform allows merchants to easily integrate new payment methods, streamline fraud mitigation, and implement sophisticated transaction routing without requiring coding skills. Through these capabilities, Primer enhances the overall commerce experience for customers and empowers businesses to improve their operational efficiency.

Planetly

Seed Round in 2020
Planetly is a Berlin-based software company specializing in intelligent carbon management. It provides a platform that automates the process from data collection to reduction strategies and offsetting measures, helping businesses gain transparency into their carbon footprint and take pragmatic action against climate change. Planetly serves various sectors including banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail, and IT, assisting them in analyzing, reducing, and offsetting their organizational carbon footprints.

Primer

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Primer API Limited operates an online platform that consolidates fragmented payment ecosystems for e-commerce merchants and online payment facilitators. Founded in 2019 and based in London, the company provides solutions to optimize both front and backend payment flows, aiming to enhance authorization rates, minimize costs, and facilitate market expansion. Primer enables users to seamlessly connect with various third-party services, including payment service providers, fraud detection systems, and subscription billing engines. Its platform allows merchants to easily integrate new payment methods, streamline fraud mitigation, and implement sophisticated transaction routing without requiring coding skills. Through these capabilities, Primer enhances the overall commerce experience for customers and empowers businesses to improve their operational efficiency.

Actiondesk

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ActionDesk is a French software company based in Asnières-sur-Seine. It specializes in developing data management solutions that enable users to import, refresh, and synchronize data from various applications such as SQL, Stripe, Salesforce, and HubSpot directly into spreadsheets. The platform allows for automatic data importing, calculation, and manipulation, making it accessible for non-technical teams to build workflow automation using familiar spreadsheet tools.

Payworks

Series B in 2018
Payworks is a technology company specializing in next-generation Point of Sale payment gateway solutions. Headquartered in Germany, with additional offices in the UK, the US, and Poland, Payworks offers a cloud-based platform that enables developers to seamlessly integrate card payment functionality into their applications. This technology allows businesses to securely process EMV, contactless, and mobile wallet transactions efficiently at the Point of Sale. By providing its services to leading acquirers and payment providers worldwide, Payworks aims to enhance the payment experience for merchants and customers alike. The company was acquired by Visa in July 2019, further solidifying its position in the payment technology landscape.

Upvest

Seed Round in 2017
Upvest provides an investment API and blockchain wallet infrastructure that enables businesses and financial institutions to offer investment products and wallet experiences within their apps. Its modular, scalable platform supports portfolios, savings plans and micro-investing features such as roundups, while offering the digital infrastructure needed for licenses, vendor management, and back- and middle-office operations. The API also connects to blockchain networks and tokenized platforms, enabling DApps and exchanges to build wallet-enabled experiences for end users and allowing cross-border, secure access to investment products.

Payworks

Series A in 2016
Payworks is a technology company specializing in next-generation Point of Sale payment gateway solutions. Headquartered in Germany, with additional offices in the UK, the US, and Poland, Payworks offers a cloud-based platform that enables developers to seamlessly integrate card payment functionality into their applications. This technology allows businesses to securely process EMV, contactless, and mobile wallet transactions efficiently at the Point of Sale. By providing its services to leading acquirers and payment providers worldwide, Payworks aims to enhance the payment experience for merchants and customers alike. The company was acquired by Visa in July 2019, further solidifying its position in the payment technology landscape.

Payworks

Seed Round in 2013
Payworks is a technology company specializing in next-generation Point of Sale payment gateway solutions. Headquartered in Germany, with additional offices in the UK, the US, and Poland, Payworks offers a cloud-based platform that enables developers to seamlessly integrate card payment functionality into their applications. This technology allows businesses to securely process EMV, contactless, and mobile wallet transactions efficiently at the Point of Sale. By providing its services to leading acquirers and payment providers worldwide, Payworks aims to enhance the payment experience for merchants and customers alike. The company was acquired by Visa in July 2019, further solidifying its position in the payment technology landscape.
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