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 Open Source

Sona

Series A in 2024
Sona is a developer of a workforce management application for various industries. Its workforce technology is designed to change how employees manage their work and interact with their employers. Its features include a live schedule view, absence management, instant messaging, and Open Shifts, a shift booking platform matching shift vacancies with employees willing to take on more hours.

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.

Sona

Seed Round in 2022
Sona is a developer of a workforce management application for various industries. Its workforce technology is designed to change how employees manage their work and interact with their employers. Its features include a live schedule view, absence management, instant messaging, and Open Shifts, a shift booking platform matching shift vacancies with employees willing to take on more hours.

walt.id

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Walt.id is a technology company that develops open-source, decentralized identity and wallet infrastructure for developers and organizations. It specializes in creating a self-sovereign identity platform, enabling businesses and governments to integrate identity and trust into their web applications and services. The company offers a range of services, from digital identity infrastructure and identity proofing to identity wallets, enterprise support, and managed cloud services. This holistic approach helps businesses address various identity challenges.

Sona

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sona is a developer of a workforce management application for various industries. Its workforce technology is designed to change how employees manage their work and interact with their employers. Its features include a live schedule view, absence management, instant messaging, and Open Shifts, a shift booking platform matching shift vacancies with employees willing to take on more hours.

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.

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.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2016
CrateDB is an open-source, multi-model distributed database that combines SQL simplicity with NoSQL scalability. It enables real-time analytics of complex, high-volume data, including IoT and machine data.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2015
CrateDB is an open-source, multi-model distributed database that combines SQL simplicity with NoSQL scalability. It enables real-time analytics of complex, high-volume data, including IoT and machine data.
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