More Capital. More Markets. More Scale.
The best companies think globally from day one, and they need the capital, networks, and partners that match that ambition.
This month, we took two important steps to make that possible. We signed a €40m commitment from EIB Global to deepen our investment in African founders and strengthen Europe–Africa innovation ties, and launched a joint venture with Japan’s SBI Group (one of Japan’s largest financial services groups) to bring more long-term capital and strategic access from Japan into Europe.
Together, these partnerships expand what we can offer across the platform: giving founders earlier access to global capital, new markets, and customers, while building stronger bridges into the regions shaping the next wave of innovation.
More capital. More connections. More to come. That’s the Power of More.
What else is happening...
→ Have You Heard? Sona (UK), Rivia (Switzerland), Saúde Bliss (Brazil), and Eunice (UK) announce fresh new funding.
→ Speedinvest News: We've partnered with Deel to bring one of the most exciting global startup competitions to Berlin on April 20. Founders can secure $50K as one of up to 100 regional winners and advance to a global stage where up to 10 companies receive $1M+ in capital! Apply now.
→ Our Perspective: A new wave of AI-native consumer startups is emerging across Europe. We mapped them. Our Marketplaces and Consumer team mapped them.
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Have You Heard?
Our portfolio's latest funding announcements
Sona raises a $45M Series B to bring AI to the frontline economy.
We first backed the team at pre-Seed, and it’s been impressive to see how quickly Steffen, Ben, Oli, and the team have turned a long-term vision into a platform already powering scheduling, HR, payroll, and core operations for large, real-world businesses.
Axios has more on the round led by N47.
Rivia, our Zurich-based company using AI to power clinical trial intelligence, has raised $15 million in Series A funding in a round led by Earlybird, with participation from Defiant.
Rivia's AI agents and data engine help to collate fragmented clinical trial data into a more streamlined process, lowering costs and improving efficiency. Tech.eu covered the funding round.
BONUS: Rivia's founder & CEO, Erik Scalfaro, sits down with our Estelle Botbol for a deep dive coffee chat about the company on our blog.
Brazil-based Saúde Bliss announces an $11M Series A to put health insurance broker back offices on autopilot with AI.
The AI-powered insurance platform streamlines how small and medium-sized businesses access, compare, and secure coverage. Our investors, Deepali Nangia and Alvaro Perezcano, share why we’re excited to continue supporting the team & what's next for the company on our blog.
London-based Eunice AI raises $8M to turn due diligence into something institutions can actually defend.
As alternative assets scale and regulation tightens, due diligence is still fragmented and manual. Eunice fixes that with AI-driven, audit-ready, asset-level assessments that make decisions transparent and defensible without removing human judgment. Already working with Coinbase, Crypto.com, and Copper.co, they’re now expanding into private markets where the same problem exists on a much larger scale. Sifted has the story.
Welcome to the Family
AI solved the coding problem, not the production problem. Tower turns AI pipelines into systems that actually run.
Founded by Snowflake alumni Serhii Sokolenko and Brad Heller, the Berlin-based company provides a unified platform where humans and AI agents can work side by side to turn AI-generated pipelines into production-ready systems. It brings storage and compute into a single environment, integrates with major data engines, and ensures companies retain full ownership of their data.
We’re excited to lead Tower’s $6.4m Seed round alongside DIG Ventures, with participation from Flyer One Ventures. Read more in Tech.eu.
Portfolio Headlines & Highlights
News and updates from across our portfolio
Six Speedinvest portfolio companies are featured in VivaTech’s 2026 “Top 100 Rising European Startups” list.
Huge congrats to Runware (AI infrastructure & models, UK), GetVocal AI (AI voice & conversational tech, France), ARX Robotics (Defense tech, Germany), Flowdesk (Fintech, France), Sona (HR tech, UK), and Mews (Travel tech, Czech Republic).
- Tide and Gigs, both from our portfolio, have joined force to offer UK-based small and medium-sized businesses a mobile plan, powered by Gigs' eSim technology.
- Bitpanda announces Nirav Tolia, Dr. Katrin Stark, and Karl-Theodor Guttenberg as new members of the Bitpanda Board of Directors.
- Finary has obtained a Securities Broker License from the French Prudential Authority, ACPR, marking a major milestone toward becoming an all-in-one, AI-powered platform for managing investments across Europe.
- Qphox has launched Quantum Transducer, a breakthrough product that directly aims at bridging the gap between microwave-based qubits and established optical telecommunications technologies.
Our Perspective
Sector-focused expertise and insights on the VC ecosystem at large
Our portfolio company, MoPhones, is the first African startup to receive NICE (Non-Dilutive Investment in Callable Equity) funding from Saudi Arabia's STV.
What's the big deal? It's a game-changer for startups on the continent, potentially heralding new options for growing tech companies.
Deepali Nangia and Varun Rekhi break down the opportunity on our blog and explain why new capital models like NICE could unlock a new path to scale for African startups.
- Our General Partner Stefan Klestil spoke to the Istanbul Slush'D podcast, discussing the Turkish FinTech ecosystem, venture capital, and the realities of building and scaling startups in emerging markets.
- In a recent Venture Lab episode (watch here), our Partner Will Wells breaks down what it takes to go from breakthrough science to a scalable company, where founders lose momentum, and how to build in markets that don’t follow traditional playbooks.
- Our GP Andreas Schwarzenbrunner joined the German podcast Future Weekly to discuss how venture capital works, pre-seed investing, key trends like AI, defense, and robotics, and the role of startups and investors in shaping Europe’s future.
- Our GP, Markus Lang, spoke to Brutkasten about the impact of AI on the Venture Capital industry and where the market is headed in 2026.
Who's Hiring?
There are more than 1,000 vacancies across our portfolio. Browse open jobs below and on our website.
- Seqera: Legal & People Generalist - Barcelona
- Finary: Staff Mobile Engineer - Remote
- Kittl: Growth Associate - Berlin
- ARX Robotics: Senior People Manager - London
- Orakl Oncology: Senior AI Engineer - Paris
- mimic: Senior Robotics Engineer - Zürich
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