Femtech in France

Femtech is more than periods and pregnancy tests. Not sure what else it is? You’re missing a massive market! Shiraz Mahfoudhi and Marine Wetzel have more.

How to Build a Growth Model to Predict User Behavior

Growth models allow you to predict user behavior and growth, as well as prioritize your product and marketing roadmaps.

Taking Back Control of Your Phone: Our Investment in Opal

Opal has the mission to help people take control over their screens and use time mindfully.

Incubators and Accelerators are Driving Digital Health in France

After speaking to investors at BPIFrance and managers at leading incubators and accelerators of the Grand Est, here’s what we learned.

From Pen & Paper to Your Fingertips: Our Investment in Bukukas

Bukukas is digitally replacing pen and paper cashbooks and granting small and medium businesses access to the world of financial services in the process.

The Next Generation of Cloud Computing: Our Investment in Wasmer

Wasmer enables server-side execution of WebAssembly code at near-native performance and less disk space.

How To Create An Event With Impact For Your Audience

Learn the power of knowing your target audience and other things they don’t tell you when you start organizing events.

Entering The US Market: 3 Questions to Answer Before Diving In

Our US Business Development team helps you know when you’ll be ready to enter the US market, how to do it, and what to do once you’re there.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Embedded Finance

In simple terms, embedded finance is about adding financial capabilities, such as payments, lending, deposits, and insurance, to any product.

Startup Founder Coaching: Why Every Founder Needs One

Athletes often have coaches guiding them on their journey to become better versions of themselves and making them more successful. Who’s your coach?

The DACH Report: An Analysis of Tech and Venture Capital in the German-Speaking World

Alongside Frontline Ventures, we present the 2019/2020 analytical report on tech and VC in the DACH region.

Introducing Our Platform+ Team

Our in-house experts work with your team on value-adding operational projects so you can focus on executing your core vision.

Understanding the New Early-Stage Funding Cycle in Europe

The traditional early-stage funding cycle has always been pretty straightforward, but it's changing.

Pricing Strategies for Deep Tech Startups

Pricing strategies are vital in driving your business’ success, especially for first-time tech founders working on a disruptive Deep Tech product.

Digital Health in Europe: The Landscape in France

As part of our Digital Health series, our Shiraz Mahfoudhi takes an in-depth look at the sector in France.

Investing in Kianava: Europe’s First Full-Stack Chronic Care Provider

We’re thrilled to announce our lead investment in Kianava, a Berlin-based holistic medical care provider for people with chronic conditions.

Digital Health Exits in Europe: 10 Years Just Happened in 12 Months

In 2020, the Digital Health sector has been extremely active - unsurprisingly. This includes twelve months that have brought a wave of exits.

Speedinvest Partners with Female Founders to Level the Tech Playing Field for Women

Alongside Female Founders, Speedinvest is excited to find ways to better serve our current portfolio, as well as clear the way for female founders to succeed.

Yardlink Brings Budget Saving Transparency to the Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry

Yardlink is a B2B marketplace for the construction industry that digitizes the supply chain of equipment and machine rentals.

How do Deep Tech Companies find Product-Market Fit?

Growing without product-market fit often creates a money-burning machine destined to ultimately fail. How can Deep Tech companies avoid this fate?

Digital Health in Europe: Analysis of 600+ Startups from the Last Decade

As part of our Digital Health in Europe series, Felix Faltin takes a look at the 600+ startups in the sector from the last decade.

Industrial Tech: An Investment Category Reaches Critical Mass

The Speedinvest Industrial Tech team has partnered with Dealroom to publish an in-depth report about the status quo of the European Industrial Tech ecosystem.

Digital Health in Europe

Global Digital Health funding has doubled in the last year, the strongest time ever for the sector. In this series, we take a closer look at the trend.

Speedinvest’s Digital Health in Europe Blog Series: Data and Methods

We outline the data behind our Digital Health in Europe series, what startups we included and excluded, and how we categorized all the startups in our dataset.

Board Meeting Deck: Speedinvest's Open-Sourcing Template

The function of a board meeting is to periodically align the management team and investors on the overall direction of a company. Our agenda template makes it easy.

Financing the Internet Entrepreneur of Tomorrow: Our investment in Wayflyer

Wayflyer provides internet entrepreneurs with capital by merging performance marketing with financial gains.

Bad Actors are Eating Software

Cybersecurity is a critical topic with direct relevance on the geopolitical, national, business, and personal levels. Marcel van der Heijden has more.

Opening the Public Sector: Our Investment in Stotles

Speedinvest's Jeroen Arts shares how Stotles is opening up the public sector by allowing companies of all sizes to access public tender information.

Ready-to-Code: Our Investment in Gitpod

Gitpod makes the tedious and time-consuming task of setting up and managing complex development environments go away.

Breaking the Digital SME Insurance Paradigm: Our Investment in +Simple

By digitizing agents and brokers through their software platform, +Simple makes it easy to sell insurance policies online.

The Future of Work in France

Our working habits have been disrupted; the line between personal life and professional life has blurred; Working from home has become widespread.

Investing in People: Every Great Story Needs a Strong Beginning

We are extremely excited to congratulate Arnaud Bakker and Fred Hagenauer on their recent promotions to Principal.

How Do VCs Measure Traction in Deep Tech?

We individually break down how we at Speedinvest evaluate traction for enterprise, open-source and frontier tech during our investment decision process.

Finding a Market in Deep Tech

How do you identify the right market and acquire customers in Deep Tech? Find out what we learned from over 300 founder meetings in the last 12 months.

Construction Tech: The Digital Future of a Stubbornly Analog Industry

While most industries embrace digitalization, construction has remained broadly analog and antiquated. Are experts seeing any shift?

Investing in People: It’s Always a Team Effort

We’re excited to welcome Jeroen Arts to the Speedinvest Partnership as an Associate Partner.

Investing in People: Getting our Foot in the Fintech Door

We’re excited to welcome Anthony Danon to the Speedinvest Partnership as an Associate Partner.

3 Hacks to Build a Customer-Centric Product in Industrial Tech

Charlotte Nizieux, Markus Müller and Othmar Schwarz discuss how to build a customer-centric product in Industrial Tech.

Investing in People: An Unexpected Journey from Politics to Associate Partner

Andy Schwarzenbrunner talks a bit about his journey from politics to becoming Speedinvest’s newest associate partner.

BAE Systems Spins-Off SOC.OS

BAE Systems is spinning-off SOC.OS to bring affordable big company cybersecurity to small and medium businesses.

Fueling Digital Commerce in Bangladesh: Our Investment in ShopUp

ShopUp enables offline and online neighborhood mom-and-pop shops to sell through digital, social and retail channels.

Why Deep Tech Startups Need to be Looked at Differently.

Speedinvest’s Deep Tech team explains why they look at Deep Tech startups differently than other companies and what they’re looking for.