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 Personal Finance

Friday Finance

Series A in 2022
Friday Finance is a next-generation financial management platform for startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Friday Finance transforms B2B finance for SMBs in Europe by building the simplest way for businesses to collect, pay, and finance invoices. Friday Finance connects with existing bank accounts of its users and provides real-time visibility into their cash flow. The company was established in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Pemo

Seed Round in 2022
Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform. Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accounting integration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.

Abhi

Series A in 2022
Abhi is a financial wellness platform that provides employees with salary advances based on their accrued wages. Abhi is a salary advance app that plans to change the game of how people spend their money. It allows its users to withdraw a portion of their accrued salary into any bank account, as well as helps employers reduce the workload on HR and finance departments while facilitating employee needs. Abhi was founded in 2021 and is based in Pakistan.

Finary

Series A in 2022
Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth. The company was started in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.

Unstoppable Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Unstoppable Finance is building a next-gen crypto wallet to bring DeFi to retail investors globally.

FairMoney

Series B in 2021
FairMoney is a mobile banking platform founded in 2017, operating from Paris, France, and Lagos, Nigeria. The platform specializes in providing credit to private and business borrowers, particularly targeting underbanked populations in emerging markets. By leveraging smartphone data, FairMoney develops an instant credit score for users, facilitating access to various loan types, including personal, business, medical, and car loans. The company has disbursed over 350,000 loans and aims to make financial services more accessible and affordable for millions in Africa and South-East Asia. With a team of 45 professionals and backing from European and American investors, FairMoney is committed to transforming the financial landscape for underserved communities.

Friday Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Friday Finance is a next-generation financial management platform for startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Friday Finance transforms B2B finance for SMBs in Europe by building the simplest way for businesses to collect, pay, and finance invoices. Friday Finance connects with existing bank accounts of its users and provides real-time visibility into their cash flow. The company was established in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Finary

Seed Round in 2021
Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth. The company was started in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.

Lizza

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Marketplace for e-commerce brands and content creators.
FinCompare GmbH is a fintech startup based in Berlin, Germany, that provides a financing platform tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller, the company enables businesses to access a wide array of financing options, including corporate loans, factoring, leasing, warehouse financing, and mezzanine capital. Through its online platform, FinCompare allows users to independently compare offers from various banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers, simplifying the financing process with a digital application system. This one-stop destination for financing questions empowers SMEs to make informed decisions, facilitating their ability to secure loans from reliable lenders while enhancing risk management.

FairMoney

Series A in 2019
FairMoney is a mobile banking platform founded in 2017, operating from Paris, France, and Lagos, Nigeria. The platform specializes in providing credit to private and business borrowers, particularly targeting underbanked populations in emerging markets. By leveraging smartphone data, FairMoney develops an instant credit score for users, facilitating access to various loan types, including personal, business, medical, and car loans. The company has disbursed over 350,000 loans and aims to make financial services more accessible and affordable for millions in Africa and South-East Asia. With a team of 45 professionals and backing from European and American investors, FairMoney is committed to transforming the financial landscape for underserved communities.
FinCompare GmbH is a fintech startup based in Berlin, Germany, that provides a financing platform tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller, the company enables businesses to access a wide array of financing options, including corporate loans, factoring, leasing, warehouse financing, and mezzanine capital. Through its online platform, FinCompare allows users to independently compare offers from various banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers, simplifying the financing process with a digital application system. This one-stop destination for financing questions empowers SMEs to make informed decisions, facilitating their ability to secure loans from reliable lenders while enhancing risk management.

FairMoney

Seed Round in 2018
FairMoney is a mobile banking platform founded in 2017, operating from Paris, France, and Lagos, Nigeria. The platform specializes in providing credit to private and business borrowers, particularly targeting underbanked populations in emerging markets. By leveraging smartphone data, FairMoney develops an instant credit score for users, facilitating access to various loan types, including personal, business, medical, and car loans. The company has disbursed over 350,000 loans and aims to make financial services more accessible and affordable for millions in Africa and South-East Asia. With a team of 45 professionals and backing from European and American investors, FairMoney is committed to transforming the financial landscape for underserved communities.

Loot

Series A in 2017
Loot Financial Services Ltd., based in London, provides innovative financial solutions through its current account and contactless Mastercard services. Established in 2014, the company offers a digital application that simplifies money management by combining a prepaid debit card with budgeting tools. Users benefit from features such as real-time spending tracking and the ability to set weekly budgets, allowing them to manage their finances effectively without the need for manual entry of expenses. Loot is focused on enhancing user experience by offering insights into spending patterns and enabling users to pause and unpause their cards as needed.
FinCompare GmbH is a fintech startup based in Berlin, Germany, that provides a financing platform tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller, the company enables businesses to access a wide array of financing options, including corporate loans, factoring, leasing, warehouse financing, and mezzanine capital. Through its online platform, FinCompare allows users to independently compare offers from various banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers, simplifying the financing process with a digital application system. This one-stop destination for financing questions empowers SMEs to make informed decisions, facilitating their ability to secure loans from reliable lenders while enhancing risk management.

Loot

Venture Round in 2016
Loot Financial Services Ltd., based in London, provides innovative financial solutions through its current account and contactless Mastercard services. Established in 2014, the company offers a digital application that simplifies money management by combining a prepaid debit card with budgeting tools. Users benefit from features such as real-time spending tracking and the ability to set weekly budgets, allowing them to manage their finances effectively without the need for manual entry of expenses. Loot is focused on enhancing user experience by offering insights into spending patterns and enabling users to pause and unpause their cards as needed.

Loot

Venture Round in 2016
Loot Financial Services Ltd., based in London, provides innovative financial solutions through its current account and contactless Mastercard services. Established in 2014, the company offers a digital application that simplifies money management by combining a prepaid debit card with budgeting tools. Users benefit from features such as real-time spending tracking and the ability to set weekly budgets, allowing them to manage their finances effectively without the need for manual entry of expenses. Loot is focused on enhancing user experience by offering insights into spending patterns and enabling users to pause and unpause their cards as needed.

Pleo

Seed Round in 2016
Behind Pleo is the core belief to make everyone feel valued at work, driven by the mission to revolutionize business spending for forward-thinking teams everywhere - so things like a fun-to-use spend management app that automatically tracks work-related spending & generates expense reports, paired with the powerful tools businesses need to create full visibility and management of every penny spent. It was founded in 2015 by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra and is based in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.
Finnest is a corporate finance platform which provides established SMEs with an alternative access to the capital market and offers investors a key to private placements of financially sound enterprises. The company has developed a unique combination of corporate financing and crowd-investing. The system is derived from book-building mechanisms known from corporate bonds and combines them with marketing and loyalty effects found in the crowd. Via a reverse blind auction, investors offer corporations an investment and fix the annual interest rates themselves. At the end of the bookbuilding phase, the companies select the most attractive offers with 1 click. Finnest was founded by ex-banker Günther Lindenlaub and ex-eBay manager Joerg Bartussek in 2014. It is currently headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Holvi

Seed Round in 2014
Holvi offers small businesses, from solopreneurs and freelancers to micro businesses and growing startups, a home for their finances. With a business account and Mastercard®, invoicing and bookkeeping tools all in one place, Holvi simplifies the time-consuming distractions of financial admin, helping business owners to manage their balance. Holvi is a licensed Payment Institution, not a traditional bank. We are authorised by the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) of Finland for operations across the EU.
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