Earlybird Venture Capital
| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Venture Capital |
| Founded 📆 | 1997 |
| Founder 👔 | Hendrik Brandis, Roland Manger, Rolf Mathies, Christian Nagel |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Berlin, Munich, Istanbul, Cologne |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| 💎 AUM | 1billion€ |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | http://earlybird.com/ |
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Introduction[edit]
Earlybird Venture Capital is a Venture Capital firm.[1]. Their focus lies primarily on investing in early stage tech companies across Continental Europe[1]. The firm was founded in 1997 and currently has four office locations in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, and Istanbul. To this point, Earlybird has around 1 billion euros of assets under management, seven IPOs and 22 trade sales[2]. Investments include N26, UiPath, Shapeshift, Smava, NFON and Interhyp, among others[3].
History[edit]
Earlybird Venture Capital was founded in 1997 in Hamburg by Hendrik Brandis, Roland Manger, Rolf Mathies and Christian Nagel. One year after Earlybird was founded, a second office was opened in Munich. After residing in Hamburg for 15 years, the company relocated to Berlin Mitte in 2012[4]. Subsequently, Earlybird also started to focus on eastern Europe, which resulted in the launch of their third office in Istanbul in 2013[5].
In the first four generations, Earlybird invested in digital and health technologies. Ultimately, they started to separate into three different funds, starting with the Digital West Fund in 2012, the Digital East Fund in 2013[5] and the Health Tech Fund in 2016[6].
Furthermore, in 2016 Earlybird merged with the Berlin-based early stage venture firm “Heilemann Ventures”, founded by Fabian and Ferry Heilemann[7].
Today, Earlybird has one billion euros of assets under management[8], invested in around 120 companies and exited seven companies in IPOs and 22 trade sales[9].
Investment philosophy[edit]
Earlybird specializes in early stage investments in Seed and Series A rounds. The company mainly invests in businesses located in continental Europe and is split into different funds[10].
Earlybird Digital West Fund[edit]
The Digital West Team focuses mostly on early stage digital technology innovations in GSA, Nordics, UK, Benelux, France and Southern Europe. Offices are located in Berlin and Munich[11]
Earlybird Digital East Fund[edit]
The Digital East fund was founded by Cem Sertoglu, Dan Lupu, Evren Ucok and Roland Manger primarily concentrates on early stage digital technologies in Eastern Europe and Turkey. The Digital East fund, currently in its first generation, is located in Istanbul.[5]
Earlybird Health Tech Fund[edit]
The Health Tech team focuses on early and later stage opportunities in digital health, medical devices, diagnostics and enabling technologies in Europe. The fund’s main location is in Berlin with a second office being located in Cologne.[6]
A selection of investments[edit]
- UiPath[12]
- Interhyp[13]
- Tipp24[14]
- Shape shift[15]
- Peak Games[16]
- N26[17]
- Wunderlist[18]
- Onefootball[19]
- Hazelcast[20]
- NFON[21]
- Noemalife[22]
- Smava[23]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Earlybird Venture Capital | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ "The top 100 early-stage venture capital investors in Europe in 2018". Salesflare Blog. 2018-08-30. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Portfolio - Earlybird". earlybird.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Tornado Insider - Radar company - Earlybird". www.tornado-insider.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "EarlyBird Raising $130M To Fund Startups In Turkey And Central Eastern Europe". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "EarlyBird Venture Capital launches $135m medtech fund - MassDevice". www.massdevice.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ Treija, Ieva. "New Fund - Earlybird Digital West - aims for a size of eur 150 million | EU-Startups". www.eu-startups.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Dublin-listed Draper Esprit partners with German VC Earlybird as merger looms". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Deep Tech Startups Become Focus Of New Venture Capital Fund". 150sec. 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Deep Tech Startups Become Focus Of New Venture Capital Fund". 150sec. 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Earlybird closes €175 million fund to invest in early-stage European startups - Tech.eu". Tech.eu. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ Inc., UiPath. "Our Investors". www.uipath.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Tornado Insider - Press Release - Earlybird". www.tornado-insider.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Earlybird Venture Capital — Venture Funds — Business angels and industry experts - participants of IDCEE". idcee.org. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "ShapeShift raises $10.4 million to grow its cryptocurrency exchange platform". VentureBeat. 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ Bedigian, Louis. "New $5 Million Investment Fuels Peak Games' Growth in Emerging Markets". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Number26 Grabs $10.6 Million To Bring Its Bank Of The Future To Everyone". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "6Wunderkinder, Maker Of To-Do App Wunderlist, Has Raised Up To A $30M Series B, In Sequoia's First Step Into Germany". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ Bertoni, Steven. "OneFootball Aims To Be The App That Wins The World Cup". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Hazelcast Announces $11M Fundraising | Hazelcast Blog". blog.hazelcast.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Earlybird invests in IP telephony start-up nfon | Science|Business". sciencebusiness.net. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "Earlybird Invests $5m in Peak Games". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ↑ "German Online Loans Platform Smava Raises $16M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
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