"The main thing for founders to consider is keeping it simple”: Interview with Oliver Holle, CEO and co-founder of VC Speedinvest
Summary
Having started out as a founder himself, Oliver Holle, knows firsthand that working with an investor can dramatically reduce pain points and help navigate challenges. Speedinvest is built based on my own experience as a first time founder, struggling for years before finding success and eventually selling to one of the most ambitious Silicon Valley tech companies of the era. The development of deep tech, such as ML and NLP, is incredibly exciting at the moment, as is the huge boom in marketplaces technologies, which have expanded rapidly over the past couple of years in particular. What has changed is that these days investors want to have both a massive upside potential and a realistic and not-too-distant path to profitability (or at least healthy gross margins) if funding dries up. Nine years in, we have found our strategic sweet spot – offering a unique combination of sector-focused investment teams and a super-charged professional services unit that supports horizontally.