Speedinvest
Vienna-based European seed VC with a London office; led seeds for Breathe and Gyre Energy
- Venture capital
- Type
- Venture capital
- Based in
- Outside the UK
- Stages
- Pre-seed, Seed, Series B+, Growth
- Sector focus
- AI & Data, Climate & Energy, Deeptech, Fintech, Healthtech, Consumer, SaaS & B2B
- Cheque size
- €250K–€5M early stage; €5M–€30M growth
- Fund size
- Undisclosed
- Founded
- 2011
- Website
- speedinvest.com
Speedinvest is a European venture firm headquartered in Vienna with offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris and Abu Dhabi. It invests from inception to seed with cheques of €250,000 to €5 million and runs a separate growth strategy writing €5 to 30 million from Series B onwards. The firm has made more than 400 investments through eight specialist teams covering AI and infrastructure, climate and industrial tech, deep tech, fintech, health and bio, marketplaces and consumer, and it leads most of its initial rounds. UK deals include leading Breathe Battery Technologies' 2021 seed, co-leading Doccla's 2021 seed and leading Gyre Energy's 2026 pre-seed.
Team
- Oliver Holle, CEO & Managing Partner
- Daniel Keiper-Knorr, Founding Partner, Fundraising
- Werner Zahnt, Founding Partner, Corporate Development
- Markus Lang, General Partner
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