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.

Marie-Helene Ametsreiter

Partner

Anthony Danon

Principal

Sophia Escheu

Associate

Felix Faltin

Principal

Joerg Floeck

Executive Chairman

Heinrich Gröller

Partner

Frederik Hagenauer

Partner

Oliver Holle

Founder, CEO and Managing Partner

Daniel Keiper-Knorr

General Partner and Founder

Stefan Klestil

Partner

Namratha Kothapalli

Principal

Markus Lang

Partner

Tom Filip Lesche

Partner

Enrique Martínez-Hausmann

Principal

Wissam Nadreddine

Principal

Florian Obst

Associate

Mathias Ockenfels

Partner

Alvaro Perezcano

Senior Associate

Magda Posluszny

Associate

Leonard Schmid

Senior Associate

Andreas Schwarzenbrunner

Principal

Olga Shikhantsova

Principal

Sameer Singh

Venture Partner

Evgeny Slavin

Senior Associate

Philip Specht

Senior Associate

Katharine Spooner

Senior Associate

Werner Zahnt

Founder and Partner

Past deals in API

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 that specializes in securing and managing both human and non-human identities, including those of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The company focuses on creating an identity-centric data platform that combines identity and business information into a cohesive operational data layer. This integration supports various functions such as authorization, application management, and analytics. By utilizing a knowledge graph data model and incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning, IndyKite provides developers with flexible application programming interfaces. The platform is also supported by an expanding open-source ecosystem, which enhances its utility and accessibility.

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.

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 business banking platform focused exclusively on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Its mission is to streamline banking and administrative tasks for business owners, enabling them to save time and money. The platform allows users to open accounts quickly and provides a range of tools designed to automate essential activities, such as invoicing and expense management. Additionally, Tide offers integrations with accounting software, auto-categorization of transactions, payroll services, and credit options. By focusing solely on the needs of SMEs, Tide aims to deliver tailored solutions that enhance operational efficiency and support the growth of small businesses. As a result, Tide is emerging as a leader in the UK’s SME challenger banking sector.

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.

Impala

Series A in 2019
Our vision is to make every trip perfect. By building a future in which travel is seamless. Impala connects room sellers and hotels, instantly. We empower you to build, innovate and sell. We are the infrastructure that enables sellers to build better products, faster. Unlike bed-banks or affiliate schemes, you can get started in 30 seconds. Our Booking API is a mega-channel that attracts more bookings for hotels without having to pay integration fees or police rate parity.

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.

Impala

Seed Round in 2018
Our vision is to make every trip perfect. By building a future in which travel is seamless. Impala connects room sellers and hotels, instantly. We empower you to build, innovate and sell. We are the infrastructure that enables sellers to build better products, faster. Unlike bed-banks or affiliate schemes, you can get started in 30 seconds. Our Booking API is a mega-channel that attracts more bookings for hotels without having to pay integration fees or police rate parity.

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 is a company based in Boulder, Colorado, focused on transforming connectivity through its software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) solutions. The platform enables colocation providers to offer scalable and flexible routing, security, and automation services at network interconnection points. By integrating software-based network functions with network function virtualization, Stateless allows providers to manage and connect various endpoints, including data centers, tenant sites, and hyperscale clouds. This innovative approach facilitates the creation of multi-tenant connectivity services, making it easier and more cost-effective for cloud service providers to deliver essential network services. Founded by Murad Kablan and Eric Keller, Stateless is a spinoff of their research aimed at enhancing network functionality and efficiency.

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 is an online based publishing software which already manages over 200,000 books. They provide an easy way for publishers to publish digital and print on demand books and distribute them in all relevant online bookstores and e-readers worldwide. Open Publishing offers a variety of basic and advanced features for publishers (like a web presence, e-commerce solution, multi-channel distribution and royalty payments) and makes them accessible both to small publishers and publishing startups trough automation and a competitive price point. Their platform uses an open API and encourages other systems and web applications to integrate with its publishing engine. Currently they offer integration with systems such as PayPal, Google Analytics and several other services.
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