Celus

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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The UK-based technology company's software helps industrial companies address the following: predictive maintenance, quality control and industrial processes optimization. Its software is based on its proprietary machine learning technologies for industrial time series analysis.

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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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Deep Render

Using deep learning and quantum techniques to develop next-generation image and video codecs.

Sector

Deep Tech

Year Invested

2019

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Deep Render

Sector

Year Invested

2019

Using deep learning and quantum techniques to develop next-generation image and video codecs.

Deep Render is an AI company 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.

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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.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/deep-render

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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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Dronamics

Heavy-duty, long-range cargo drone capable of same-day deliveries across continents.

Sector

Deep Tech

Year Invested

2015

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Dronamics

Sector

Year Invested

2015

Heavy-duty, long-range cargo drone capable of same-day deliveries across continents.

Dronamics is reinventing the future of cargo shipping through drones.

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Specializing in middle-mile cargo logistics through unpiloted aircraft, Dronamics has developed the Black Swan, a proprietary, heavy-duty cargo drone designed to offer high-capacity, long-range air freight services. The Black Swan drone can carry up to 350 kg (770 lbs) across distances of up to 2,500 km (1,550 miles), which is significant for unpiloted air cargo.

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This capability allows Dronamics to undercut traditional air freight costs, making rapid delivery accessible to remote and underserved regions.

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

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Emmi AI

Revolutionizing industrial engineering with next-generation AI simulation technology.

Sector

Deep Tech

Year Invested

2025

A Speedinvest Portfolio Company

Emmi AI

Sector

Year Invested

2025

Revolutionizing industrial engineering with next-generation AI simulation technology.

Emmi AI tackles previously unsolvable industrial engineering challenges by applying cutting-edge AI to physics-based simulations. The Austrian-based company dramatically accelerates complex simulations, reducing run times from days or weeks to seconds, enabling industries like aerospace and automotive to overcome critical bottlenecks and unlock unprecedented efficiency.

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Emmi AI's unique strength lies in its fusion of deep learning expertise and deep industrial understanding, validated by significant early customer contracts. With the vision to deliver the 'GPT moment' in physics AI, they are building intelligent, data-driven digital twins that learn and optimize in real time, paving the way for a new era of AI-enabled engineering.

https://www.speedinvest.com/portfolio/emmi-ai

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