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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 82 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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