About Stefan Klestil

Stefan is General Partner at Speedinvest, a pan-European early-stage tech fund with offices in Vienna, Berlin, London, Munich and San Francisco. At Speedinvest, he is responsible for FinTech investments across EMEA and beyond and takes a very hands-on approach to support founders on business and product strategy, busdev and corpdev. Speedinvest is seeking to support the best teams in Europe to create the next generation of financial services unicorns. Speedinvest has been ranked as the most active FinTech investor in Europe by CB Insights and PitchBook. Stefan is regular speaker at Money 2020 in Europe and Asia, Paris FinTech Forum and Noah. Stefan has more than 20 years of experience in the international payments and banking technology space as Advisor, Operator and Investor. He is early investor and advisory/board member/observer at N26, Wefox, Curve, Billie, FinCompare, BNext, Ready2Order and Luko. Also, Stefan has successfully exited payworks (to Visa), iyzico (to payU/Naspers) and Holvi (to BBVA) he was an active board member in all three companies. In addition, Stefan is supporting the founders of Primer, Bank Open, Bitpanda, Shopup, Wayflyer, Fairmoney, +Simple, Lemonway, Credi2 and Factris Previously, he was President Central and Southern Europe at First Data, Partner at Roland Berger, and Principal at A.T. Kearney based in New York and Vienna. He holds Master Degrees from Columbia University and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration