Account Executive
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will guide small-business customers through their finance applications, understand their business and funding needs, and match them with appropriate lenders and products. You will manage commercial lending-partner relationships, maintain accurate Salesforce records, monitor customer and market trends, and share successes across relevant communication channels.
Requirements
- Experience working for a commercial finance brokerage or in a customer-facing commercial-finance sales role
- Track record of meeting and exceeding revenue-based targets
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Customer service
- Organisation
- Analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Relationship building
Responsibilities
- Contact, engage, and manage small-business customers through the application process
- Build and nurture relationships with commercial lending partners
- Articulate the Funding Options proposition and service
- Develop knowledge of business finance, lenders, and market products
- Explain finance options across multiple business-finance product classes
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date prospect information in Salesforce
- Monitor trends and add new or enhanced customer-profile information to Salesforce
- Keep up to date with industry, market, and competitor trends
- Share stories and successes through relevant communication channels
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Group Life Insurance
- Vitality Health Insurance
- 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days
- 3 days volunteering time off per year
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Pension contribution
- All-day snacks bar
- Enhanced family-friendly leave
- Sabbatical leave