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.