Speedinvest operates as a founder-led Vienna-based fund that functions as a "gearbox" between fast-moving startups and slower LPs, running an unusually heavy operational platform with more than 20 full-time specialists who work directly with portfolio companies on marketing, sales, HR, and U.S. expansion. The fund built a deeply thematic network effects franchise that systematically screens for strong, defensible network effects as the core moat and committed early to a permanent U.S. office in Silicon Valley to help European portfolio companies break into the U.S. market and raise American capital.