Speedinvest
VC Fund
Vienna, Austria
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.
- Total investments:
- 609
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $384M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Speedinvest invests in
Stages Speedinvest invests in
Countries Speedinvest invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$8M
- Pre-Seed
- $713k–$3.8M
- Series A
- $4.1M–$33M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 103 (17%)
- FinTech 59 (10%)
- Financial Services 55 (9%)
- Information Technology 48 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 46 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 224 (37%)
- Series A 98 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 53 (9%)
- Series B 33 (5%)
- Funding Round 32 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 70 (11%)
- Germany 67 (11%)
- Austria 39 (6%)
- France 30 (5%)
- United States 27 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Florian Obst
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Gabriel Tirouflet
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Olga Shikhantsova
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Stefan Klestil
General Partner, Si F
|
General Partner, Si F | Total investments: 42 | Find email | |
Tom Lesche
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 21 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Kraken Technology Group
|
Kraken Technology Group is a maritime-technology company that designs and builds high-performance platforms for both civilian and defence use. Their services include composite modular manufacturing, powertrain development, and systems integration, often with autonomous capabilities. They also conduct research into advanced materials and structuraltechnologies for marine vessels. Kraken’s engineering team draws on experience from motorsport, defence, and naval operations to deliver scalable and versatile maritime solutions. | $174.5M / Series B / Jul 09, 2026 | |
Keyper
|
Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners. RealKeyper is a Dubai-based proptech platform offering smart property management, rent-now-pay-later solutions, tenant management,and real estate software tools. It helps landlords, tenants, and investors streamline leasing, rent collection, maintenance, and property operations through advanced digital solutions and real-time analytics. | $11M / Series A / Jul 09, 2026 | |
Gyre Energy
|
Gyre Energy cuts costs for cooling intensive operators. Cooling is 20% of global energy demand, accounting for up to 40% of electricity costs for data center operators, and up to 90% of electricity costs for cold storage operators. Gyre's platform technology leverages advanced AI and low-cost thermal storage to reduce energy use and enablelarge-scale distributed flexibility for cooling assets. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 07, 2026 | |
Seltz
|
Web Search Engine | $12.5M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | |
Astral Systems
|
Astral Systems is a pioneering transformative fusion technology to address real global health and energy challenges.Our mission is to provide innovative, cutting edge fusion technology that enhance access to critical medical isotopes, accelerate fusion research, and lay the groundwork for sustainable energy systems. | $30.4M / Series A / Jun 23, 2026 | |
Kyrok
|
Kyrok is a Berlin-based AI startup focused on supply chain teams in pharma and chemicals, with software for planning, inventory, procurement, and production. It says its tools sit on top of existing ERP systems and aim to reduce manual work and overstock/shortages. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 23, 2026 | |
Primer
|
Primer is a financial technology company that provides payment infrastructure designed to help businesses manage and optimize payment operations through a single platform. The company enables merchants to connect with multiple payment service providers, fraud prevention tools, digital wallets, and other commerce-related services without buildingseparate integrations for each one. Its platform includes tools for payment routing, transaction monitoring, reconciliation, and workflow automation, allowing businesses to manage different stages of the payment lifecycle in one system. Primer also supports international payment operations by helping companies handle multiple currencies, regional payment methods, and provider integrations across markets. The company works with businesses in industries such as retail, travel, fintech, marketplaces, and digital services to simplify the management of complex payment ecosystems. | $100M / Series C / May 20, 2026 | |
Fifth Dimension AI
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Fifth Dimension AI is to analyze high-value data faster, create better content, and perform performing marketing. | $26M / Series A / May 11, 2026 | |
BLOCKS
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BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users. | $6M / Pre-Seed / Apr 09, 2026 | |
Eunice
|
We are an AI fintech company solving B2B challenges in digital asset. Our first product is digital asset due diligence and monitoring to help financial institutions, regulators, and businesses navigate the complexities of the digital asset space. Powered by a proprietary knowledge base, Eunice’s platform enables token classification, risk analysis,and asset disclosure requirements. With a mission to bring transparency to the digital asset industry, Eunice builds products that drive regulatory clarity and operational efficiency, with the goal of accelerating the mainstream adoption of digital assets. | $8M / Seed / Mar 25, 2026 | |
| See all 609 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Speedinvest invest in?
Speedinvest invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 609 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Speedinvest's check size?
Speedinvest typically joins rounds of $1M–$8M at Seed, $713k–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $4.1M–$33M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Speedinvest participates in.
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Who are the partners at Speedinvest?
The team at Speedinvest includes Florian Obst (Associate), Gabriel Tirouflet (Venture Partner) and Olga Shikhantsova (Principal), among 21 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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