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Speedinvest has eight specialist investment teams based across EMEA, with sector and geographic expertise.

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Speedinvest is a European pre-seed, seed, and growth VC fund backing deep tech, B2B AI and infrastructure, fintech, and fundamental technologies that solve real-world problems. Its investors and network help build global companies from Europe and beyond.

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Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easiertechcrunch.com/2025/11/19/onepot-ai-raises-13m-to-help-make-chemical-drug-creation-easier/
Onepot AI raises $13 million to accelerate small-molecule synthesis for biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Its POT-1 lab and Phil, an AI organic chemist, synthesize customer-selected compounds and use detailed experimental data to train agents on which chemical reactions work. The company emerges from stealth with funding led by Fifty Years and plans a second San Francisco lab, team growth, and expansion of its compound discovery engine.
Nov 2025 · TechCrunchNews article
One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of modelstechcrunch.com/2025/05/26/one-of-europes-top-ai-researchers-raised-a-13m-seed-to-crack-the-holy-grail-of-models/
Matthias Niessner launches SpAItial with a $13 million seed round to develop foundation models that generate interactive 3D environments from text prompts. Earlybird Venture Capital leads the round, with participation from Speedinvest and angel investors. SpAItial aims to license its models to developers and is working toward larger, more realistic 3D spaces that could eventually let users create video games from text.
May 2025 · TechCrunchNews article
From their experiences at Uber and PayPal, Palm founders want to make moving cash easier for big companiestechcrunch.com/2024/09/03/from-their-experiences-at-uber-and-paypal-palm-founders-want-to-make-moving-cash-easier-for-big-companies/
Palm, founded by former Uber and PayPal executives Gurjit Pannu and Christian Sobkowski, raises $6.1 million in seed funding to simplify cash management for enterprise treasury teams. Its platform tracks cash movements, facilitates transfers among hundreds of bank accounts and subsidiaries, and automates cash forecasting; the founders say setup takes weeks and forecasts outperform human models at least 75% of the time. Palm serves unnamed NASDAQ- and NYSE-listed clients and plans to expand its product and engineering teams.
Sep 2024 · TechCrunchNews article
Speedinvest closes fourth fund at $380 million to back early-stage startups innEurope
Vienna-based venture firm Speedinvest closes its fourth early-stage fund at €350 million, about $380 million, exceeding its €300 million target. The final €50 million close includes new institutional investors such as Aviva, PwC Germany, Bitburger, ODDO BHF, and Abeille Assurances Ventures, alongside the European Investment Fund and Generali. Speedinvest says it will use the fund to support early-stage startups scaling globally; its assets under management now exceed €1 billion.
Jan 2024 · TechCrunchNews article