Michael Schuster
Founder and Managing Partner, CIO @ Speedinvest
Vienna, Austria
Michael Schuster is a seed investor at Speedinvest in Vienna focused on Software and SaaS. Michael has worked in the IT industry the past decade, riding the startup rollercoaster on a daily basis. From starting the first commercial bloghoster in Europe back when everybody asked “what is a blog?”, over to semantic technologies for collaboration, media companies and social media monitoring he has a broad experience in the daily life of ayoung tech company.Through his background in Computer Science and Economics and Business Administration he is able to work with startup teams and founders to get their product ready for prime time, address customers early in the life cycle and help build a team with the necessary skills.Within Speedinvest he oversees internal knowledge management, is evaluating startups in search, semantics, SaaS and other spaces.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Schuster invests in
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Countries Michael Schuster invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (21%)
- SaaS 5 (15%)
- FinTech 5 (15%)
- Financial Services 5 (15%)
- Banking 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (42%)
- Series A 4 (12%)
- Angel 3 (9%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (6%)
Country
- Austria 7 (21%)
- United Kingdom 4 (12%)
- United States 3 (9%)
- Germany 2 (6%)
- Bulgaria 2 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| ContextSDK enhances the app by leveraging real-time user context to increase conversions enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue. | Angel / Oct 24, 2023 | ||
| Dedicated to your health. We're a digital healthcare startup on a worldwide mission to improve the lives of people with chronic conditions. We're really good at analyzing data and want to use this superpower to change healthcare for the better. There’s great potential within all the health data we're all already collecting aboutourselves. We at juli strive to bring it all together!juli was founded in 2020, right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by a group of people that wanted to use their knowledge about big data for a better cause. Some of the founders suffer from a chronic condition themselves and have been on the lookout for many years to find out what triggers episodes and what helps to get better. Learn more | $3.8M / Seed / Mar 03, 2022 | ||
| DasLab provides digital workflows for medical tests and vaccinations for patients, doctors, and laboratories. DasLab was founded in 2020. | $7M / Seed / Feb 28, 2022 | ||
| Master your emotions in 5 minutes a day.Ahead is a personalized pocket coach that provides bite-sized, science-driven tools to boost emotional intelligence.Think of it as a pocket cheerleader towards a better, more fulfilling, clearer-minded way of life.Most of us continuously set goals for our life - for our career, our relationships, ourhealth. Yet, it’s damn hard to turn those goals into reality! We know - we’ve been there ourselves. That’s why we know there’s a way to make it work. And that’s what aHead is all about!Get early access: ahead-app.com | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 13, 2021 | ||
| CANDIS automates financial processes such as the collection of invoices, data capture, pre-accounting, and payments - for small and medium-sized companies through artificial intelligence. That enables companies and tax advisors to save time and have a better collaboration within finance teams. To date, Candis serves thousands of customers andinvests heavily in technology. | $14.2M / Series B / Jul 30, 2020 | ||
| TaxScouts is a tax preparation platform that makes tax planning easier. It allows drawing up of personal income tax online by certified accountants and its tax bot helps users to understand their personal income tax situation and suggests ways to reduce their tax bill.Founded by Mart Abramov, Kaupo Kõrv, and Daniel Karger in 2017, TaxScouts isheadquartered in London, England. | $1.6M / Seed / Jan 22, 2019 | ||
| CANDIS automates financial processes such as the collection of invoices, data capture, pre-accounting, and payments - for small and medium-sized companies through artificial intelligence. That enables companies and tax advisors to save time and have a better collaboration within finance teams. To date, Candis serves thousands of customers andinvests heavily in technology. | Series A / Sep 25, 2018 | ||
| Adventure begins at TourRadar. Our Adventure Booking Platform offers the world’s largest selection of multi-day organized adventures worldwide, helping people seize and savor every opportunity travel has to offer. TourRadar’s intuitive online platform seamlessly connects travelers and travel agents with 2,500+ operators, offering 50,000+organized adventures in more than 160 countries globally.With 24/7 customer service, flexible booking conditions and extensive insurance options, TourRadar gives travelers peace of mind. And the company’s Best Price Guarantee assures travelers get the best travel experiences for the best prices.Committed to both our travelers and our environment, TourRadar signed the Glasgow Declaration in an effort to foster positive change in the tourism industry. We enable all travelers to view and offset the carbon impact of their adventures, and we work tirelessly with local operators to help protect and strengthen the communities that benefit from adventure tourism. | $50M / Series C / Jun 26, 2018 | ||
| Clausematch is an award-winning regulatory technology (RegTech) company that enables heavily regulated organizations and other regulated companies to run their businesses safely and meet compliance obligations. Clausematch’s AI-powered platform provides end-to-end policy management and regulatory compliance solutions to help organizations navigatethe compliance lifecycle. | $5M / Series A / Apr 23, 2018 | ||
| tripmakery.com is an easy to use webapp that helps users to book group-accomodations all over Europe. With an database of 60.000 group hotels, tripmakery.com is the leading platform for larger group bookings. No matter whether 10 people travel together to Berlin or 50 people to Barcelona, tripmakery.com is the first platform to automate large groupbookings. Founded in 2015 by Robert Sasse and Ajmal Said in Vienna, tripmakery.com is backed by VC's like Speedinvest or Push Ventures and by the founders of 'hotel.de' one of the largest hotel-bookings platform in Germany. | $1.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 30, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
Speedinvest Contacts
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Tom Lesche
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What does Michael Schuster invest in?
Michael Schuster invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Austria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Michael Schuster closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 33 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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