Oliver Holle

In 1997, Oliver was working on his PhD thesis in Economics at Columbia University when he decided to switch paths and found a company. This was long before Europe was familiar with terms like mobile, entrepreneur or startup. And, the “crazy” decision laid the foundation for Oliver to later become a Founding Partner and CEO of Speedinvest.

After raising way too much money and spending it all in the first tech bubble of the early 2000’s, Oliver and his team battled for three long years against insolvency. They finally emerged with a successful pivot into mobile data. Oliver then merged his company with two other startups and became 3united AG – a highly profitable European leader in mobile content and messaging. 3united was acquired by Verisign and took Oliver to Silicon Valley, where he spent two years with one of the most ambitious US-based tech companies of the era.