Expedite Ventures
Neue Schönhauser Straße 2, Berlin, 10178, Germany
Overview
Expedite Ventures is a business angel group of CTOs and CPOs. We invest in tech founders and help them to create sustainable businesses through both capital and in-depth, hands-on mentoring. We are nerds at heart and passionate founders ourselves - many of us are still running startups. Our true hands-on mentoring approach is based on decades of collective experience in building and scaling technology companies – which we think is at least as valuable as funding. We encourage those who are already engineering today’s technology to get into the driver’s seat and become first-time founders. Our goal is especially to support underrepresented groups in tech, including female and immigrant entrepreneurs.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Software
Investment portfolio
- Agree
Participated · Seed · Sep 2024
Agree.com embeds invoicing and payment processing into its AI-powered e-signature platform, using OCR plus AI to auto-detect and label contract fields, signature blocks, and payment terms. The company makes e-signatures free to users and monetizes via transaction fees on money movement, plus a premium per-seat SaaS tier for larger teams. Agree launched in early September 2024 and has grown quickly to over 25,000 users after hitting 10,000 in its first three months and 20,000 seven weeks later; customers include beehiiv, Product Hunt, Rho, TaxGPT, Brico, and Thoropass. Founded in February 2024, the startup has seven employees and a founding team with multiple prior exits. Management emphasizes combining signing, collaboration, editable contracts, and payments in one workflow to displace incumbents. The company plans international expansion later this year, starting with the U.K., Canada, and Australia. Agree provides an all-in-one agreements platform that leverages generative AI and optical character recognition to combine contract drafting, e-signatures, invoicing, and payments. The platform enables users to receive payments via ACH, credit card, or wire and to sync transactions with major accounting software. Agree launched a beta earlier this year and has been working with early-stage founders and venture capital firms to facilitate SAFE contracts. The company plans to offer its e-signature feature to all consumers for free and to introduce an enterprise offering with accounts receivable automation, ERP and CRM integrations, and an API by the end of the year. Agree was founded by Marty Ringlein and Will Hubbard, two former founders and early-stage investors with product and engineering backgrounds. The company announced a $3M pre-seed raise to expand features and grow its engineering and product teams.
- YGO Trips
Participated · Equity · Aug 2024
YGO Trips builds an AI-powered travel platform that lets users combine any experiences (festivals, concerts, retreats, etc.) with flights and hotels and book them directly. Its proprietary AI combines natural language and visual elements to customize trips individually and provide an intuitive, user-friendly experience. The system can handle complex bookings in real time using an extensive partner network to account for prices, availability, and user preferences. The product is free to use and the company emphasizes fair travel pricing. Founded in January 2023 and based in Berlin, YGO Trips aims to modernize an industry it says is largely run on outdated technologies. With new capital, the company plans to expand its AI capabilities and accelerate growth.
- Vaayu
Participated · Seed · Jul 2021
Vaayu builds a platform that provides real-time monitoring of retail sales at a granular, transaction-specific level to calculate and reduce retailers' carbon footprints. The platform connects to shop platforms via point-of-sale systems and claims to calculate the carbon footprint of all daily transactions using a database of more than 600,000 data points. Vaayu plans to expand features to offer retailers emissions benchmarking against peers and to detail the carbon footprint of individual items. The company was founded during the pandemic by Namrata Sandhu, the former head of sustainability at Zalando, and CTO Luca Schmid, and is based in Berlin. It currently serves 50 customers, including Wunderman Thompson Commerce, SellerX, Astrid & Miyu and Missoma. Vaayu has closed an $11.5M seed round led by Atomico, bringing its total seed funding to date to $13M. Atomico partner Terese Hougaard will join Vaayu’s board, which the company says will now be comprised of 75% female participation. Vaayu builds a carbon-tracking platform tailored to retailers that integrates with point-of-sale systems such as Shopify and Webflow and pulls in logistics, operations and packaging data to monitor emissions. The product automates emissions calculations—Vaayu says retailers can get a carbon footprint in three clicks—and enables targeted reductions without manual spreadsheets. The company was founded in 2020 by Namrata Sandhu (CEO), Anita Daminov (CPO) and Luca Schmid (CTO). Vaayu currently serves 25 global brand customers, including Missoma, Armed Angels and Organic Basics. Financially, it has raised $1.57M in pre-seed funding led by CapitalT and plans to develop the product further to reach more retailers. Vaayu claims its approach could help cut CO2 in half by 2030, and investors have highlighted the product's scalability and quick implementation.