Venture Partner,
Cathay Innovation

Michael Schuster

Location

DACH
Venture Partner,
Cathay Innovation

Michael Schuster

Michael Schuster is Venture Partner for Cathay Innovation, for the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

Michael brings more than 15 years’ experience as an investor. After studying Computer Science and co-founding multiple SaaS companies building information and data retrieval products using natural language processing (NLP), he then co-founded Speedinvest, where he spend 12 years, a European Seed Stage venture fund and grew it to 1bn+ AUM and 100+ people, with a portfolio of more than 300 companies. Over the span of his career, he was involved in pre-seed and seed financings in a variety of sectors and is now focusing on growth as European innovative companies mature, particularly in the field of healthcare, fintech, Artificial Intelligence and energy transition. Michael holds a MBA from the University of Vienna.