Maximilian Spelmeyer

Managing Partner May Ventures | VC Investor | #AI #B2B #Pre-Seed #Seed

📍 St Gallen, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Lead Investor & Board Member
Dec 2025
Komplexität meistern. Mit System. Wer Komplexität verwaltet, verliert Zeit und Geld. conmeet verbindet alle Abläufe von Unternehmen in Bau & Handwerk in einem System. Vom Angebot über die Projektsteuerung und den Einkauf bis zur Rechnung – mit integriertem Controlling, Live-Banking und direkter Teamkommunikation. Alles auf einer Datenbasis.
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2022
Your partner in digital fund operations. Founded in 2021, fundcraft is Europe’s premier provider of end-to-end digital fund operations for the alternative asset management industry. Its integrated product offering encompasses every aspect of the fund lifecycle, from fundraising and investor onboarding to daily operations, data management, and reporting. fundcraft’s digital platform offers an open, collaborative, and transparent operating system that centralises data, processes, and interactions into a single source of truth. This enables seamless collaboration among stakeholders—fundcraft delivery experts, asset managers, accountants, auditors, tax advisors, and depositary banks—on a unified platform. By combining cutting-edge technology with expert product delivery, fundcraft automates every aspect of fund administration, including transfer agency, accounting, and risk management, enhancing efficiency, transparency, and control throughout the fund lifecycle. As a CSSF-licensed AIFM and central administrator, fundcraft supports over 220 Luxembourg-domiciled funds for Venture Capital, Funds of Funds and Private Equity firms, representing more than €11 billion in commitments​.
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2021
Coinfirm is the industry leader in blockchain analytics and investigations. Coinfirm creates a safer blockchain economy by being at the innovative forefront of crypto AML compliance, analytics and illicit asset tracing. Our industry-leading risk management helps 1.3M+ blockchain protocols scale sustainably. Founded in 2016 by experienced compliance, technology and finance professionals, we have become a globally-recognised RegTech firm. Our offices in the UK, Poland, US, Canada and Japan are supporting financial inclusion projects, combatting human trafficking and safeguarding the world’s digital economy. © 2023 Lukka, Inc. (d/b/a Coinfirm) | All Rights Reserved
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Jun 2021
We combine the security of private networks with the flexibility of the Internet.
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2021
Relio – the Swiss digital payment account for businesses. With its new approach to compliance and KYC, even complex companies can get an account with a Swiss IBAN after just a few clicks.
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Oct 2020
Keyrock is a global crypto investment firm offering industry-leading solutions in Market Making, OTC, Asset Management and Options for digital assets.
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2020
vestr is a Swiss fintech company dedicated to making active investment management simpler, more efficient, and transparent. Founded in 2017 by three industry professionals, weve grown into a diverse team of nearly 40 experts, including engineers, financial specialists, and thought leaders. We offer a cloud-based SaaS platform that is specifically designed for issuers of investment products, with a modern, web-based interface that simplifies the creation, management, and monitoring of investment products. Built to be scalable, secure, and intuitive, it automates complex, time-consuming processes with a vast array of powerful features built for investment banks and financial institutions. By digitizing and automating the entire value chain, our platform is fully configurable, supports any asset class, eliminates inefficiencies, reduces operational costs and risks, and integrates with banks’ existing infrastructure via a powerful API. Investment banks waste hundreds of hours on repetitive, manual tasks related to investment product workflows. These inefficiencies lead to high operational costs, increased compliance risks, and reduced agility. Our platform automates these workflows, reducing human error and ensuring seamless compliance, resulting in a 30x efficiency increase. This allows investment managers to focus on high-value tasks such as strategy development and client relationships while significantly accelerating time-to-market. Some of our clients have leveraged our platform to manage hundreds of investment products with teams as small as 4-5 people, demonstrating its ability to optimize resources and enhance productivity. Our product has evolved to serve any type of actively managed products, including: - Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs) - Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) - Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) - Total Return Swaps (TRSs) - Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) - Structured Notes Based in Switzerland, the global hub of innovation.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2020
Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. Founded in Switzerland in 2019 by experienced business professionals and scientists, Yokoy is the leading, all-in-one fintech platform that provides an AI-based full spend management suite for midsize and enterprise companies. By combining automation, API integrations and machine learning developed in Yokoy’s own cutting-edge research lab, the company offers expense management, supplier invoice management and smart corporate credit cards in a single intuitive tool. All underpinned by the most up-to-date security and stability. Yokoy’s mission is to finally rid the corporate spending world of the legacy processes that have plagued it for decades and is backed by leading investors including New York-based Left Lane Capital and London-based Balderton Capital. www.yokoy.io/en/imprint
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2020
PXL Visions identity verification solutions help companies automate their digital customer onboarding or KYC processes and increase conversion rates. Through automation, costs can be saved and revenues increased. The Swiss market leaders flexible and individually configurable solutions optimize verification processes through efficient, AI-based identity checks as a SaaS or on-premise application. The technologies developed and patented in-house by PXL Vision ensure fast, reliable and user-friendly identification processes that can be flexibly and natively integrated into existing processes. PXL Visions automated identity verification solutions are flexibly adaptable to different customer needs and use cases. From deployment to individual process steps and branding options to the security level, numerous components can be individually configured.
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2025
Lead Investor & Board Member
Dec 2025
Komplexität meistern. Mit System. Wer Komplexität verwaltet, verliert Zeit und Geld. conmeet verbindet alle Abläufe von Unternehmen in Bau & Handwerk in einem System. Vom Angebot über die Projektsteuerung und den Einkauf bis zur Rechnung – mit integriertem Controlling, Live-Banking und direkter Teamkommunikation. Alles auf einer Datenbasis.
2024
General Partner
May 2024
Currently working on something new and very exciting
Founding Partner
May 2024
Venture Capital for next generation tech-, industry and impact innovation at pre-Seed and Seed stage.
2022
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2022
Your partner in digital fund operations. Founded in 2021, fundcraft is Europe’s premier provider of end-to-end digital fund operations for the alternative asset management industry. Its integrated product offering encompasses every aspect of the fund lifecycle, from fundraising and investor onboarding to daily operations, data management, and reporting. fundcraft’s digital platform offers an open, collaborative, and transparent operating system that centralises data, processes, and interactions into a single source of truth. This enables seamless collaboration among stakeholders—fundcraft delivery experts, asset managers, accountants, auditors, tax advisors, and depositary banks—on a unified platform. By combining cutting-edge technology with expert product delivery, fundcraft automates every aspect of fund administration, including transfer agency, accounting, and risk management, enhancing efficiency, transparency, and control throughout the fund lifecycle. As a CSSF-licensed AIFM and central administrator, fundcraft supports over 220 Luxembourg-domiciled funds for Venture Capital, Funds of Funds and Private Equity firms, representing more than €11 billion in commitments​.
Chief Investment Officer & Managing Partner
Apr 2022
Tenity is a global innovation powerhouse shaping the future of finance and technology. With hubs across Europe and Asia, Tenity blends venture capital, open innovation and global ecosystem access to create value that compounds. Since launch, it has partnered with over 65 institutions, supported 1,600+ startups, and runs innovation programs in 15+ countries.
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