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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 124 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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