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We are data scientists, physicists and founders who invest in what we know and love: Deep Tech. From AI to quantum technologies, materials to biotechnology, we back visionary European startups with global aspirations.

So, whether you’re a first-time founding team spinning out cutting-edge academic research, or experienced engineers building the next essential AI platform, we’ll use our extensive, industry-specific network to support you along every step of your unique journey.

Initial ticket size

€200k - 2m

We invest in

Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups

We get your vision

We’re operators and tech optimists turned investors; we get your vision. Tech and business change constantly. We keep you ahead of the curve by connecting you with founders from every stage of the startup journey to exchange experiences, ideas and best practices.

We're by your side

Turning tomorrow’s tech into profit today isn’t easy. Supported by our Platform+ team and global network of industry experts, we help establish your startup as a competitive player. No matter where you are in the process, our team is by your side.

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We think global

Want to conquer the globe? Start in the US. The experts in our Silicon Valley office have helped countless portfolio companies – including Bitmovin and Wikidocs – find product-market fit, plug into our extensive local network and navigate competitive US business culture.

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“When we raised our first, institutional Seed round, Speedinvest was a natural choice: Building a SaaS-enabled B2B marketplace, we couldn’t think of a better long-term, strategic partner. They believed in our vision before it was mainstream and share our belief that technology is the most powerful weapon we have in the fight for our planet’s future.”

Anna Alex

Co-Founder, Planetly

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Our Portfolio

Bitmovin

Bitmovin provides transcoding and media streaming solutions that allow video content to be played on any device and in any browser without buffering.

http://www.bitmovin.com/

Bitmovin provides transcoding and media streaming solutions for developers and businesses. The company has developed the market's fastest API driven cloud-based video encoding service and an HTML5 Player that allows adaptive content to be played on any device, in any browser without buffering. Their API based products help developers around the world solve video problems with cloud-native software that runs anywhere.

Since its founding in 2013, this Y Combinator alumni startup has created a portfolio of solutions for video streaming services that are used by companies like Periscope, RedBull Media House, The New York Times, and more for their adaptive video streaming and embedded video needs.

Year Invested

2014

Sector

Deep Tech

SaaS & Infra

QphoX

QphoX has designed a quantum transducer allowing quantum computers to be networked together.

https://qphox.eu/

QphoX’s proprietary quantum transducer coherently translates quantum information from the microwave to the optical domain, allowing for quantum processing units to be connected, scaled up, and used in quantum networks. Their solutions allow for small, high-fidelity quantum processors to be connected into a large, parallel quantum processing unit for more powerful distributed computation.

Year Invested

2021

Sector

Deep Tech

Porotech

Porotech is a University of Cambridge spin-out developing a unique high-performance and energy-efficient wide-band gap semiconductor - GaN.

https://www.porotech.co.uk/

Porotech is revolutionizing the semiconducting industry thanks to its multifunctional GaN semiconductor wafers. Their proprietary technology and unique production process allow for the creation of porous semiconductor materials and structures with enhanced behavior. GaN has important photonic properties which allow it to be used in LEDs and microLEDS, as well as energy efficient properties which have important applications in RF and power devices.

Year Invested

2021

Sector

Deep Tech

Scalarr

Scalarr is a machine learning-based anti-fraud solution for mobile companies, protecting them against app-install ad fraud to prevent losses.

https://scalarr.io/

When it comes to the biggest mobile advertising landscape threat, Scalarr uses 2 layers of the next‑generation Machine Learning algorithms that detects all types of mobile app-install fraud with dramatically improved accuracy up to 97%.

Year Invested

2018

Sector

Deep Tech

KETS

KETS is leveraging the properties of quantum mechanics to solve challenging problems in randomness generation and secure key distribution to enable ultra secure communications.

https://kets-quantum.com/

A spin-out of the University of Bristol’s world-leading center in integrated photonics, KETS has developed a photonic integrated chip Quantum Key Distribution module that has lower size, weight, and power than all current other offerings. KETS is using integrated photonic technologies to offer practical, miniaturized and cost-effective solutions.

Year Invested

2021

Sector

Deep Tech

TurinTech

Turin Tech has developed a unique platform to automate the entire process of creating, deploying and optimizing AI.

https://turintech.ai/

Turin Tech is enabling businesses to automatically build, optimize with multiple objectives and deploy models within days via their platform EvoML - the only platform that can optimize models at high speed and low latency, as well as embed code optimization for optimal performance without compromising accuracy or other business metrics.

Year Invested

2021

Sector

Deep Tech

Deep Render

Deep Render is building the next generation of image and video compression standards, based purely on modern Machine Learning methods, providing a 10x improvement over the current standards.

https://deeprender.ai/

Deep Render is an AI start-up, developing the next generation of image and video compression algorithms. Their proprietary and patented image-compression technology is at the forefront of machine learning research, providing a 10x improvement over the current industry standards.

Deep Render´s vision is to combine the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Information theory to unlock the fundamental limits of image and video compression. Their Biological compression approximates the neurological processes of the human eye through a non-linear, context-aware, learning-based approach, thereby creating a novel class of highly efficient compression algorithms. Moreover, while the traditional compression methods (HEIC; HEIF; AV1; VVC) have hit peak-innovation with significantly declining performance gains per iteration, Biological Compression technology is only starting.

Year Invested

2019

Sector

Deep Tech

Bitfount

Bitfount is a platform for federated AI and data collaboration.

https://www.bitfount.com/

Bitfount enables modellers to gather insights and train models from other people’s data. Because of the federated nature of the platform, Bitfount enables data providers to share the benefits of their data without ever having to give up control or privacy.

Year Invested

2021

Sector

Deep Tech

Stateless

Stateless makes complex network functions easy to manage, fast, and scalable to meet today’s “as a service” demands.

https://www.stateless.net/

Stateless was founded in 2016 with a vision to fundamentally re-think the architecture of network devices to meet today’s “as a service” demands. The company has developed first of its kind technology to allow network functions like firewalls and load balancers to be easily offered and consumed through the “as a service” model. The company’s platform and network functions move networking infrastructures of all kinds into the cloud era, giving operators the flexibility and functionality today’s users badly need. Stateless is based in Boulder, CO and is a spin-off of research conducted by co-founders Murad Kablan and Eric Keller.

Year Invested

2017

Sector

Deep Tech

SaaS & Infra

prewave

prewave predicts supply chain and sustainability risks.

https://www.prewave.ai/

Enterprises with complex supply chain networks face a multitude of disruption risks along their entire supply chain and transportation routes. prewave analyzes social media data with advanced machine learning techniques to predict upcoming risk events in supply chain networks.

Year Invested

2018

Sector

Deep Tech

SaaS & Infra

Pimloc

Pimloc provides specialist deep learning services for video security and data privacy applications and has developed a world leading platform for the ingestion, detection, classification, and protection of image and video content.

https://www.pimloc.com/

Pimloc is a British tech company which provides specialist deep learning services for video security and data privacy applications. Pimloc is engaged on a number of fronts covering video data privacy, online content moderation and security. It has developed a world leading platform for the ingestion, detection, classification, and protection of image and video content.

The Pimloc platform has been trained by showing it millions of images across a wide range of content. It has learned how to recognize and classify faces, objects, and even scenes in images it has never seen before.

Year Invested

2020

Sector

Deep Tech

Crate.io

Crate.io is a database company that makes it easy to store and analyze massive amounts of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine data in real-time.

https://crate.io/

The next wave of big data will be generated by IoT (Internet of Things) devices such as sensors, wearables, and vehicles, generating millions of data points per second.
Crate.io was founded to help companies process this data and establish a standard for database developers. CrateDB is a decentralized SQL database for managing machine data and analyzing it in real time. It makes traditional central databases obsolete and allows companies to store their data on different application services providing simplicity and scalability.

Year Invested

2014

Sector

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MindsDB

MindsDB improves the predictive power of your data by enabling the addition of reliable third-party data from a variety of trusted sources.

https://mindsdb.com/

MindsDB helps organizations use machine learning and artificial intelligence to obtain predictive insights that can allow them to make better business decisions. MindsDB trains, tests and then selects the most accurate state of the art AI models to apply to your data allowing for accurate predictions and forecasting.

Year Invested

2018

Sector

Deep Tech

SaaS & Infra

Aircloak

Aircloak allows organizations to safely share, analyze and monetize sensitive datasets while complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

https://aircloak.com/

Aircloak was founded in 2014 to commercialize and build on privacy protection research done at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. It now provides a solution that helps organizations safely share, analyze and monetize sensitive datasets.

Its technology was found to satisfy the three criteria for anonymization techniques as described by the EU, and approved for GDPR-level anonymity for all data types and use cases by CNIL – the French data protection authority. Today, the company has licensed its solutions to financial services organization, communications providers and works with healthcare organizations.

Year Invested

2017

Sector

Deep Tech

SaaS & Infra

Dronamics

Dronamics is developing advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems that are optimized for heavy payloads and long range for commercial and special logistics.

https://www.dronamics.com/

Dronamics is re-inventing the future of cargo shipping through drones. Their Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are considerably cheaper to build and operate than existing aircrafts and can carry up to 350 kg payloads across routes exceeding 2,500 km. Dronamics’ technology is particularly promising to impact logistics in the developing world. The company’s vision is to open new trade routes, make same-day international delivery feasible, and serve the billions of people living outside of main trade centers.

Year Invested

2015

Sector

Deep Tech

MyDataModels

MyDataModels believes that Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science should be open and available all.

https://www.mydatamodels.com/

MyDataModels is the developer of TADA, an analytics platform powered by Artificial Intelligence. Powerful and easy to use, TADA helps companies analyze and extract value from data. The platform generates highly interpretable and accurate predictive models, and contrary to traditional machine learning methods, the solution works with small data sets. No coding or data science expertise are required!

French-based MyDataModels' unique technology is the preferred solution for healthcare, research, industry and embedded systems.

Year Invested

2020

Sector

Deep Tech

SaaS & Infra

Indoo.rs

Indoo.rs (acquired by Esri in 2019) helps end-users locate themselves and others inside buildings, such as airports or shopping malls, using indoo.rs’ navigation solutions.

https://indoo.rs/

Indoo.rs creates advanced indoor mapping, localization, and routing technology as well as an SDK for developers and device manufacturers. They allow end-users to accurately locate themselves and others inside buildings, such as an airport, shopping mall or exhibition center, using mobile devices. The company has developed various products for navigation, proximity, and asset tracking as well as navigations solutions for visually impaired people.

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Indoo.rs’ award-winning technology is being used to power navigation solutions at NYC’s Penn Station, serving more than 650,000 travelers each day, as well as in airport navigation applications to help the visually impaired find their way around.

Year Invested

2012

Sector

Deep Tech

Wikidocs

Wikidocs (acquired by Atlassian) is a real-time collaboration framework that turns web pages into live, editable “docs” services in minutes.

https://www.atlassian.com/

Wikidocs was a real-time collaboration framework that turns any web page into a live, editable ‘docs’ service in minutes with the ability to build content, create, edit, and share – all at once. The solution saved users the hours of wait and back and forth communication waiting to receive the latest version with changes.

Wikidocs offered this service through an API and a few lines of Javascript to be added to client websites.

Wikidocs was acquired by Atlassian in 2014.

Year Invested

2012

Sector

Deep Tech

SaaS & Infra

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