Q: Is a European HQ still relevant in a post-Covid world? A: Yes. Although decision making has become increasingly decentralised, selecting the right location for a European headquarters is a critical step on the journey to becoming a global business. Even if you are currently working with a distributed team…

It’s been one hell of a year 😱 Speedinvest and Frontline have partnered to produce a report on the DACH tech ecosystem since 2016. For 2019/2020, Helena Cavell & Felix Faltin (Speedinvest), decided to revamp the report completely to feature the big questions on all of our minds: What is…

This blog post was written by @helena_6251 and is part one of a two-part collaboration between Frontline & Speedinvest. Part 1 examines the impacts of Covid-19 on Telemedicine in the UK. Part 2 will cover DACH. …

This story was originally published here, and authored by Shay Garvey, Partner @Frontline For pretty much the last decade, the technology start-up ecosystem has been awash with capital. This is partly as a result of an explosion of companies developing groundbreaking technologies that promise major growth for investors. On the…

Celebrating Pointy I first got introduced to Mark in 2012 by his college friend Lucinda, whom I worked with at the time. We kept in touch and in 2014, Mark told me about his plans for Pointy. The vision at the time was to make all products in physical stores searchable. Indexing…

A Speedinvest & Frontline collaboration: The German-speaking startup and VC ecosystem — In 2017, Thomas Olszewski wrote: “The highest level of international VC participation in Europe has fueled the growth of dozens of German-born, global, and European champions” as the opening line to Startups and VC in Germany, 2017 — a collaboration with Speedinvest and Point Nine Capital. As the region has…

#BeMyFrontline An ode to the invincible entrepreneurs we work with everyday. Because, why not? #ValentinesDay2018

From KITTI to KITT understand.ai delivers training data for Level-5 automated vehicles No one can have missed the rise to power of artificial intelligence in the last couple of years and in particular the huge strides made in machine learning. The impact of this is being felt across many different…

The General Data Protection Regulation will come into force on May 25th, 2018. This wide sweeping legislation will materially impact all businesses in terms of how they collect and process personal data. …