Earlybird
earlybird.com Direct investor
Earlybird is a European venture capital firm founded in 1997, investing in early-stage technology companies across Europe. It focuses on applications, software infrastructure, and deep tech, providing support from pre-seed to Series A.
Earlybird is a venture capital firm headquartered in Berlin, Germany, founded in 1997. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in applications, software Infrastructure and DeepTech. Its stated cheque size is Initial ticket sizes up to €12m. €2.5B under management, as it reports.
“Earlybird backs Pre-Seed to Series A founders in emerging tech – from fintech to nuclear fusion.”
— Earlybird, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Europe
- Sectors
- Applications, Software Infrastructure, DeepTech
- Cheque size
- Initial ticket sizes up to €12m
- Founded
- 1997
- Assets under management
- €2.5B
Team, as Earlybird publishes it
- Dr. Christian Nagel Co-Founder and General Partner
- Dr. Hendrik Brandis Co-Founder and General Partner
- Dr. Andre Retterath General Partner
- Paul Klemm General Partner
- Tim Rehder General Partner
- Akash Bajwa Principal
- Laura Waldenstrom Principal
- Dr. Moritz Belling Principal
- Nina Mayer Principal
- Laurin Class Investment Team
- Stefano Gonelle Ribas Investment Team
- Paul-Christoph Altunay Investment Team
Names and roles exactly as listed on earlybird.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 124 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Molten Ventures 7 shared companies: aiven.io, fintechos.com, hivemq.com, isaraerospace.com…
- LEA Partners GmbH 3 shared companies: bfl.ai, aleph-alpha.com, workist.com
- Cipio Partners 3 shared companies: fintechos.com, isaraerospace.com, b2x.com
- HV Capital 3 shared companies: isaraerospace.com, marvelfusion.com, upvest.co
- Redalpine Venture Partners 3 shared companies: n26.com, sennder.com, inkitt.com
- Northzone 2 shared companies: bfl.ai, crosslend.com
- Salesforce Ventures 2 shared companies: bfl.ai, snyk.io
- Visionaries Club GMBH 2 shared companies: bfl.ai, hellohakuna.com
- IVP 2 shared companies: aiven.io, uipath.com
- UVC Partners 2 shared companies: isaraerospace.com, aleph-alpha.com
and 114 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Earlybird publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://earlybird.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, status, confidence
- https://earlybird.com/about-ushq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, founded, people
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Record 150 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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