A Speedinvest portfolio company

YardLink

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Year Invested

2019

Construction equipment rental B2B marketplace.

Plant and Tool Hire Made Easy. YardLink is taking the hassle out of hiring equipment. YardLink aggregates supply and optimizes distance to the closest rental. Guaranteed reliability of service and availability of the equipment.

United Kingdom

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Opal

Become indistractable.

Sector

Health & Bio

Marketplaces & Consumer

AI & Infra

Year Invested

2020

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Opal

Sector

Health & Bio

Marketplaces & Consumer

AI & Infra

Year Invested

2020

Become indistractable.

Some companies specialize in stealing our time on screens, using features like notifications, infinite scrolling, A.I. curated feeds, subconscious triggers and disappearing stories. Opal helps you take control of your technology, so you can regain time that's been stolen from you.

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Their app identifies and blocks distractions, allows you to set screen timers, personal intentions for your time, and receive personalized nudges to help you find balance each day.

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

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Ozé

Empowering African micro-SMEs to grow and scale.

Sector

Fintech & DeFi

Marketplaces & Consumer

Middle East, Africa & Beyond

Year Invested

2021

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Ozé

Sector

Fintech & DeFi

Marketplaces & Consumer

Middle East, Africa & Beyond

Year Invested

2021

Empowering African micro-SMEs to grow and scale.

Despite merchants and micro-SMEs forming the pillars on which West African economies stand, these businesses have been overwhelmingly ignored and neglected by mobile-based financial service providers. Ozé helps capture, analyze and improve the performance of business owners in Ghana and Nigeria with the ambition to become a pan-African player.

Through their digital accounting system, which enables users to keep track of their records, AR and AP and get access to credit, Ozé users are able to operate like large businesses and, therefore, empowers micro-SMEs to grow and scale far beyond their current reach. Having partnered with the region’s biggest banks, SME banks and local fintechs, Ozé is able to provide its users with products from traditional financial institutions but with the seamless interface and usability of a social media platform.

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

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Packhelp

Enabling businesses to offer customers the best unboxing experience possible.

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Growth

Year Invested

2018

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Packhelp

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Growth

Year Invested

2018

Enabling businesses to offer customers the best unboxing experience possible.

Packhelp allows its clients to quickly design and order custom packaging. A very user-friendly box editor, revolutionary low minimum order size and fast, high-quality production are the reasons why Packhelp’s services are being used by both small e-commerce entrepreneurs and multinational corporations.

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Packhelp’s mission is to enable every company – regardless of its size – to offer the best unboxing experience possible. Customers can expect new products and services that will push their packaging experience to the next level.

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

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PalmHR

Simply a better HR experience.

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Middle East, Africa & Beyond

Year Invested

2022

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

PalmHR

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Middle East, Africa & Beyond

Year Invested

2022

Simply a better HR experience.

A SaaS based platform for businesses, palm.hr fully automates HR management to transform employee experiences. Founded in 2019 in Riyadh, palm.hr’s innovative technology is designed to elevate HR functioning with a number of solutions to create efficiencies for businesses.

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Planetly

Building the easiest tools for your business to analyse, reduce and offset your carbon footprint.

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Exits

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2020

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Planetly

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Exits

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2020

Building the easiest tools for your business to analyse, reduce and offset your carbon footprint.

Planetly (acquired by OneTrust in 2021) is a climate-tech-company developing digital tools enabling companies to analyze, reduce and compensate their Co2 emissions. By completely automating the process of data acquisition, Planetly provides real-time analysis of the carbon footprint and the required transparency and tools reduce it.

Planetly was founded by Berlin serial entrepreneurs Anna Alex and Benedikt Franke in January 2020.

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

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Playbrush

Gamifying children’s teeth brushing routine.

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Exits

Year Invested

2015

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Playbrush

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Exits

Year Invested

2015

Gamifying children’s teeth brushing routine.

Playbrush (aquired by Sunstar Global in 2021) is a London and Vienna-based technology company that digitizes oral care for children.

With Playbrush, boring brushing routines suddenly become an exciting adventure. The colorful, smart toothbrush attachment fits onto the handle of any manual toothbrush so kids control planes, paint masterpieces and win dance battles via their brushing movements. Personalized feedback, statistics and brushing rewards mean brushing is now not only fun, but also effective. The Playbrush comes with a variety of games, a data monitoring application for parents and regular toothbrush and toothpaste supplies.

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

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RIVAL

Bringing user-generated content to AR/VR.

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Year Invested

2025

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RIVAL

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Year Invested

2025

Bringing user-generated content to AR/VR.

Rival is building a platform that allows users to browse through immersive 3D short-form content in their spatial computing headset, in a similar fashion to how TikTok or Instagram Reels work with conventional videos.

Enabling users to produce and distribute 3D experiences via their first-of-its-kind 2D-3D foundational model, Rival enables the creator economy to transition to VR, solving the industry's biggest problem - its lack of content.

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

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Raus

Creating getaways with smart, sustainable cabins near major cities.

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2021

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Raus

Sector

Marketplaces & Consumer

Climate Tech & Industrial Tech

Year Invested

2021

Creating getaways with smart, sustainable cabins near major cities.

Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers city-dwellers new opportunities to take a break from big city life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough to completely unwind. Founded in 2021 by school friends Christopher Eilers, Johann Ahlers and Julian Trautwein in Berlin, Raus' mission is to provide seamless access to restful space outside your daily routine.

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

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