BRANDL TALOS advised Springtime and its Founders on growth equity investment from Scottish Equity Partners

Press release • Venture Capital & Start Ups from Roman Rericha, Adrian Zuschmann, Joseph Gstöttner, Daniel Habich

Springtime Technologies, a leading provider of AI-driven accounts payable automation software, has received a significant growth equity investment from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), one of Europe's most respected growth equity firms. This strategic partnership marks an exciting new chapter in Springtime's 20-year journey of empowering enterprises with innovative solutions for financial operations.

Springtime’s flagship product, Invoicetrack, streamlines finance and operations workflows through automated data extraction and ingestion capabilities, an AI-powered matching engine, and country-specific processing expertise which has been embedded in the solution. These capabilities enable customers to efficiently process invoices across more than 70 countries.

» I really enjoyed working with Roman, Adrian and the entire BRANDL TALOS team. Their expertise relating growth investments was a decisive factor in the success of this milestone transaction for Springtime. I am already looking forward to further co-operation. «

Markus Hübl, CEO and Founder of Springtime

A team of BRANDL TALOS led by Roman Rericha and Adrian Zuschmann advised Springtime and its Founders on this important milestone. Further team members included Joseph Gstöttner and Daniel Habich. Springtime has been further supported by Nomos Legal (Hartmut Schmidtmayr and Mirjam Sorgo). i5 invest (Johannes Raidl, Andras Timar and Sheila Kastner) acted as sole financial advisor to Springtime.

The team

Roman Rericha

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Partner / Fund Formation, Venture Capital & Start Ups, Corporate Law & Transactions

Roman represents clients in complex cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. Austrian and international venture capital funds regularly turn to him for assisting with investments in Austria. His expert advice also guides start-ups through large-scale financing rounds.

University of Vienna, Faculty of Law (Mag. iur. 2005),
Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, (Mag. rer.soc.oec. 2007)

Adrian Zuschmann

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Attorney at Law / Corporate Law & Transactions, Venture Capital & Start Ups, Fund Formation

Adrian advises and represents Austrian and international institutional and strategic investors, founders and (start-up) companies in the context of financing rounds, M&A, investments in portfolio companies and exit transactions.

A second focus is advising Austrian fund initiatives on the formation and structuring of funds as well as in connection with their ongoing operational matters.

Queen Mary University of London (MSc Law & Finance 2020)
University of Vienna, Faculty of Law (Magister iuris 2015)

Joseph Gstöttner

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Associate / Corporate Law & Transactions, Venture Capital & Start Ups

Joseph is part of our team since 2022.

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (LL.M. 2022)

Daniel Habich

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Associate / Venture Capital & Start Ups, Corporate Law & Transactions

Daniel is part of our team since 2022, at that time as research assistant. Since 2023 he has started working for us as associate.

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Business Law (Master of Laws 2022)
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Business Law (Bachelor of Laws 2020)

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