The continued success of our portfolio (5 EMEA unicorns and nearly 20 future unicorns) is why Dealroom ranked us as a top 10 Seed investor in their 2022 EMEA VC Prominence Ranking.
Speaking of rankings, Sifted has also named us the most active Climate Tech investor in Europe. We’re especially proud to be funding Europe’s future alongside some of the most respected VCs in the business.
Also this past month:
Our portfolio raised more than €150 million in follow-on funding
The Bengaluru-headquartered neobank, Open, has raised a new round of funding at a valuation of $1 billion. They also became our first unicorn outside of EMEA, and our 6th globally.
The logistics startup offers fulfillment services from seven countries and is rapidly expanding its digital network to help e-commerce retailers ship to any European customer the next day.
Led by Chief Architect for Siri Understanding, Blaise Thomson, and former CPTO at DueDil Naaman Tammuz, Bitfount is upping the collaboration between parties that work with sensitive datasets.
Timberhub is bringing the traditional $600B timber industry into the 21st century by managing procurement, finance, and transportation - and enabling buyers to verify the origin of the timber, allowing them to make more sustainable purchases.
The UAE-based startup is on a mission to empower SMEs across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP) region by offering an all-in-one spend management platform.
Yang Tran of the Speedinvest SaaS & Infra team lays out how competitive companies run on increasingly complex software, elevating the role of the software developer.
The pair of Partners from our Marketplaces & Consumer team dive into the cold start problem and how to overcome it; how they evaluate early-stage deals; Web 3.0, DAO, crypto, and more!
Driving Seed stage Industrial Tech investments in manufacturing, logistics, construction, Climate Tech, and more, Marie-Hélène talks about achieving your goals by being bold.
There’s a gap between the software digital-focused climate tech companies versus ones that are really into more development of new ideas, R&D, infrastructure, and hardware.
Our home city is going to welcome founders, startups, and VCs from across Europe for the annual ViennaUP conference. Our team and portfolio companies will be participating in multiple panels and events. Check out the program below.
LTST is Europe’s leading event for female entrepreneurship. Our Deepali Nangia will be speaking, and Marie-Hélène Ametsreiter and Markus Lang will be on the jury judging startup pitches. The winning startup will enter directly into our DD process.
Led by our Andrea Zitna and Earlybird’s Alice Strecker & Marie-Thérèse von Buttlar, sign up to get informal support on how to make your digital health startup succeed.
With a mission to back the boldest Digital Health founders and help them to succeed, we’re looking for an Associate and Principal to complete our small, but mighty team.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €600m+ AUM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris and Vienna. Our focused investment teams partner with founders building Consumer Tech, Deep Tech, Digital Health, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Marketplaces, and SaaS startups.
Each of our portfolio companies also has full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of their journeys.
