seed + speed Ventures
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seed + speed Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Berlin that invests in early-stage B2B software and software-driven hardware startups in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Europe. They provide initial tickets of €500K to €2.0M and follow-on funding up to €5.0M, along with sales and marketing support.
seed + speed Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in B2B software and software-driven hardware. Its stated cheque size is €500K to €2.0M initial ticket size; up to €5.0M total commitment. 50 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in Pre-Seed and Seed B2B startups primarily in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Europe.”
— seed + speed Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- DE, CH, AT, Europe
- Sectors
- B2B software, software-driven hardware
- Cheque size
- €500K to €2.0M initial ticket size; up to €5.0M total commitment
- Portfolio
- 50 companies
Team, as seed + speed Ventures publishes it
- Prof. Dr. h. c. Carsten Maschmeyer Founder and Managing Director
- Alexander Kölpin Founder and Managing Director
- Daniel Steffen Senior Investment Manager
- Isabelle Thierfelder Senior Investment Manager
- Dr. Jesko Petersen Legal Counsel
- Stefanie Mercedes Kindt Investment Manager
- Petra Kurschat Team Manager
- Andreas de Greiff Investment Manager
- Isabell Gollmer Investment Manager
- Nelly Karsch Associate
- Maria von der Lieck Associate
- Marius Eisfeld Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on seedandspeed.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 82 co-investors found.
- SICTIC 3 shared companies: orderlion.com, covalo.com, 11dynamics.com
- Übermorgen Ventures 3 shared companies: e-mobilio.de, carbonfuture.earth, delicious-data.com
- Motive Partners 2 shared companies: getpliant.com, finperks.com
- ZAKA VC 2 shared companies: orderlion.com, e-mobilio.de
- Curiosity VC 2 shared companies: fundrbird.com, orq.ai
- Redstone 2 shared companies: finanzguru.de, kertos.io
- aws Gründerfonds 2 shared companies: optimuse.com, visplore.com
- Matterwave Ventures 2 shared companies: optimuse.com, visplore.com
- Calm/Storm Ventures 1 shared company: getpliant.com
- First Momentum Ventures 1 shared company: getpliant.com
and 72 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page seed + speed Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.seedandspeed.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.seedandspeed.com/teampeople
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Record 163 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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