Conundrum

Growth

Year Invested

2025

Developing autonomous ground systems for next-generation European defense.

ARX Robotics is a Munich-based defense tech company building autonomous unmanned ground systems (UGVs) designed to strengthen Europe’s defense capabilities through software-defined technologies. Its systems are already in use by several European armed forces.

The company develops scalable hardware platforms and AI-powered software that modernize and network military vehicles and systems. ARX follows a fully European approach – from its proprietary Mithra OS to its supply chain – to ensure strategic independence in critical defense infrastructure.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/arx-robotics

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apiday

Building the operating system of ESG data for forward-thinking companies.

Sector

AI & Infra

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2021

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

apiday

Sector

AI & Infra

Year Invested

2021

Building the operating system of ESG data for forward-thinking companies.

apiday’s purpose is to enable every company to be sustainability minded by helping them manage their ESG data as systematically and accurately as their financial data.

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With the apiday SaaS tool, companies gain control of their sustainability agenda, answer ESG data requests in moments, reduce reputational risks and unlock new opportunities.

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https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/apiday

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Breathe Battery Technologies

Building physics-based battery management software to support the electrification of our planet’s transport systems.

Sector

Deep Tech

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2021

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Breathe Battery Technologies

Sector

Year Invested

2021

Building physics-based battery management software to support the electrification of our planet’s transport systems.

Breathe Battery Technologies is a London-based startup and 2019 spin-out from Imperial College London founded by Dr. Yan Zhao, Dr. Ian Campbell and Professor Greg Offer. The company was founded in pursuit of universally clean air and a sustainable Earth. Today, Breathe is actively developing the technologies to improve battery safety, performance and cost to support the electrification of our planet’s transport systems.

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We create battery management software that provides deep insights into battery health. These insights are then used to improve the battery and to provide great software products to the automotive and consumer electronics markets.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/breathe-battery-technologies

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Celus

Empowering development teams to easily build embedded systems.

Sector

Deep Tech

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2019

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Celus

Sector

Year Invested

2019

Empowering development teams to easily build embedded systems.

The AI-powered CELUS Engineering Platform generates schematics, PCB-Layouts and BOM at the touch of a button.

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By automating all the manual steps in the engineering process, reducing development times by up to 90%.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/celus

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Conundrum

Industrial automation powered by AI.

Sector

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2018

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Conundrum

Sector

Year Invested

2018

Industrial automation powered by AI.

Conundrum helps industrial companies to leapfrog into Industry 4.0 by leveraging value hidden in data and introducing AI-driven technologies.

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https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/conundrum

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Crate.io

Distributed SQL database for real-time industrial data and IoT applications.

Sector

AI & Infra

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2014

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Crate.io

Sector

AI & Infra

Year Invested

2014

Distributed SQL database for real-time industrial data and IoT applications.

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.
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Crate.io was founded to help companies process this data and establish a standard for database developers with its decentralized SQL database for managing machine data and analyzing it in real time. Making traditional central databases obsolete and allowing companies to store their data on different application services, providing simplicity and scalability.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/crate-io

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cylib

Sustainable technology for Li-ion battery recycling, for a true circular economy.

Sector

Deep Tech

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2022

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

cylib

Sector

Year Invested

2022

Sustainable technology for Li-ion battery recycling, for a true circular economy.

cylib aims to secure global raw material demands by recycling Li-ion batteries. This is realized by a proprietary, resource-efficient and environmentally friendly end-to-end process. The holistic cylib-process gives commodities another life by treating used batteries and transforming them into marketable raw materials. With cylib’s process, it is possible to recover all battery components. This also includes Lithium and Graphite among other materials that are currently not recovered from batteries in the EU.

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The recycling process was developed over many years of research at RWTH Aachen University and contains all the relevant process steps, like mechanical, thermal and chemical treatments to reach high yields.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/cylib

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drag&bot

Supporting production companies to cost-effectively automate with industrial robots.

Sector

Exits

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2018

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

drag&bot

Sector

Exits

Year Invested

2018

Supporting production companies to cost-effectively automate with industrial robots.

drag&bot (acquired by KEBA in 2022) is an intuitive, web-based software platform for easy setup, programming and operation of industrial robots. With its graphical interface no prior robotics skills are needed to step your company into the era of automation. Their solution can be deployed across all relevant, industrial robotic systems and offers a high degree of flexibility, making industrial robots economical even for small production batches.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/drag-bot

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