Blocks 🇩🇪
Berlin-based AI startup that helps users cut their AWS cloud bills. Speedinvest led the round.
About Blocks
The main product is a cloud cost optimization service that leverages an AI-driven DevOps tool to monitor and manage AWS cloud expenses, ensuring at least a 20% reduction in costs without requiring infrastructure changes or code access. The technology utilizes automated monitoring to identify waste, enhance security, and provide actionable recommendations for cost savings.
Blocks is a Germany-based company founded in 2025, now around 27 people. It has raised $6M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founded by Jorge Fonturbel (Building; repeat founder; previously Amazon, Essor; INSEAD), Dr. Andreas Schroeter (Co-founder; repeat founder; previously Axel Springer, Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA; WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management), Oliver Merkel (Founder; repeat founder; previously Bain & Company, Flink).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Pre-seed · Generalist (71 funds), Pre-seed · AI (60 funds), Pre-seed · Fintech (59 funds).
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Pre-Seed · $6M · Apr 2026
Speedinvest- Speedinvest — Speedinvest is a Vienna-based European venture capital firm that invests in tech startups from pre-seed and seed through to later-stage rounds. · cheques £200k – £3M