Earlybird is a venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven companies. It partners with digital pioneers to support innovation across various industries.

Earlybird

Earlybird Venture Capital focuses on European technology companies. Founded in 1997, Earlybird identifies and backs exceptional early-stage companies on a pan-European basis and supports them through their growth and development phases – providing financial resources, strategic support, and access to an international network & capital markets. Earlybird invests out of a family of independently-managed funds. Flagship funds with early-stage focus include Digital West (Western Europe), Digital East (Emerging Europe), and Health. Newer funds Earlybird-X (pre-seed in Western Europe & university spinoffs) and Growth Opportunities (a pan-Earlybird growth fund) offer even more agility. With EUR 2 billion under management across all fund streams, 9 IPOs, and 31 trade sales, Earlybird is one of Europe’s most established and active venture capital firms.

Further information is available at: www.earlybird.com, Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/EarlybirdVC. LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/company/earlybird-venture-capital or Facebook: www.facebook.com/EarlybirdVC

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👉 Meet Earlybird Health's Partner Florent Gros at the EIC & EuroQuity - Bpifrance Healthcare Investor Day.

📅 October 23, 2023
🇫🇷 Paris, France

As a jury member, Florent will pose questions and share valuable insights with HealthTech, Pharma, and MedTech companies pitching.

🧬 He'll be joined by fellow healthcare investors, including Mathias Frederiksen of Novartis Venture Fund, Estelle Botbol of Speedinvest, Milan Schreuer, MD of Miura Health Capital, and more.

🔗 Learn about the event at https://bit.ly/3rY6gPU

#EBVClive #EUeic #Healthcare #Health #Startups #VC

🇪🇸 Please welcome Barcelona-based Flanks to the portfolio & the #EBVCgang

🔐 The Open Wealth segment is the next big software category in Fintech and Flanks is poised to unlock it. Flanks develops the missing infrastructure layer for wealth managers to automate their service offerings to their customers, end-to-end. The opportunity for Open Wealth is in building the foundation for automation and intelligence in the wealth management sector...

Congratulations to Flanks team Joaquim De la Cruz, Alvaro Morales & Sergi Lao on their $8M Series A milestone!
 
😇 Glad to welcome angel investors and top Fintech founders Martin Kassing and Raffaele Terrone as well as join forces with existing investors, JME Ventures (Samuel Gil) & 4Founders Capital (Marek Fodor)

📰  Thank you to Christine Hall for covering this news in TechCrunch. 
👀  https://bit.ly/3S2jyFw

✍️ For a look behind the investment, read a new Medium blog post by Partner Tim Rehder, Principal Nina Mayer (Rinke), and teammate Ferdinand Dansard. 
🔗 See that link in the comments below.

cc: Jay Anna Harris-Theis, Elisheva Marcus, Stephanie Stein 

#FinTech #WealthTech #Automation #SeriesA #API #Barcelona #Europe

Earlybird Health's Partners Thom Rasche and John Yianni will head to San Francisco next week to attend the TCT Conference.

🫀 Organised by the renowned Cardiovascular Research Foundation, this conference brings together experts in cardiovascular intervention from different sectors, including clinicians, researchers, and innovators, all driven by the shared goal of enhancing patient outcomes.

If your company is at the forefront of transforming cardiovascular care, connect with Thom and John or drop us an email at health@earlybird.com

👉 For more on #TCT2023, visit https://bit.ly/3s2E9im

#EBVClive #Healthcare #SanFrancisco #USA

Congratulations to our portfolio company Upvest on a strategic collaboration with BlackRock AND on closing a €30M fundraising round... 💪

The partnership combines Upvest's innovative investment API with BlackRock's ETF and asset management expertise to help make investing more accessible for millions of Europeans. 📈
  
Our Partner Tim Rehder shares: "Upvest is poised for significant growth in the investment infrastructure space. We are excited to be part of their journey since day one and to double down in this round. This funding underscores their strong and unique position in the market; we believe that with Upvest’s Investment API (covering brokerage, settlement, and custody), any financial institution can now easily build modern investment experiences. By providing low-cost investment solutions, financial institutions can increase the availability and accessibility of investment solutions for millions of their customers. We're proud of the team for continuing on this strong track!"

Bravo to Martin Kassing, Dr. Til Rochow, Tobias Auferoth, CFA, Julian Lange, 💻 Juha Ristolainen, Konstantin Kotulla & the team

With: ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (Motive Ventures), Bessemer Venture Partners, HV Capital, Notion Capital and 10x Group 

cc: Nina Mayer (Rinke), Vincenzo Narciso, Jay Anna Harris-Theis, Elisheva Marcus

👀 See details in a Tech.eu article & Upvest's blog post – both linked below. ⬇️

🇪🇺 Europe can benefit from demonstrating more leadership in trustworthy AI innovation; this week we congratulate our portfolio company Xayn on just that.

They are among the winners of the first German AI Innovation Award by the F.A.Z.-Institut, the German KI Bundesverband, along with the esteemed Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW as a scientific partner. 🏅

Recognizing groundbreaking AI innovations, the jury selected Xayn as a 'middleweight winner' because of their energy-efficient and privacy-protecting AI system. As a pioneer in next-gen AI, they build secure, sovereign, and sustainable AI systems that leverage the power of language models at scale. 💻

Here's what XAYN CEO & Co-founder Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, PhD shares: “With Xayn, we’re pioneering safe, sovereign, and sustainable AI with European values. And we’re proud that the prestigious jury of scientists, AI experts, and journalists honored us with the first German KI Innovation Award. Europe already has a vibrant AI research ecosystem —  what we need now is to put all this knowledge into work to secure Europe’s place in the global AI race.”

cc: Tim Rehder, Jay Anna Harris-Theis, Elisheva Marcus, Dr. Clara Herdeanu

#KIInnovationAward #KI #AI #LLM #Europe #Innovation #EBVCgang #Xayn

📸 Congrats to ALL winners & thanks to Dirk Beichert for the final 2 pictures.

Here is something to look forward to: SaaStock gathers the highest concentration of SaaS companies in Europe.

🇮🇪 If you are headed to Dublin for SaaStock next week, meet us there!

🗓️ From Oct 16-18, get to know our Earlybird Digital West teammates Akash Bajwa, Laurin Class, and Principal Laura Waldenstrom.

🍉 Elin Lütz, Founder & CEO of our portfolio company Ripe, attends too.

🎙️ Laura and Laurin will join the Judging Panel during the SaaStock Pitch Competition 2023. Additionally, Laura will host a round table on the topic “The AI revolution and Investment Impacts in SaaS”

🤝 Reach out to connect to them before or during the event.

#EBVCteam #SaaS #Europe #Events #AI #Pitching #Investment #Dublin

🧬 How are TechBio companies leveraging cutting-edge technologies to tackle pressing challenges, such as the need for targeted, rapid life-saving treatments?

Join Earlybird Health’s Rabab Nasrallah, PhD at the TechBio UK conference by the BioIndustry Association (BIA) to explore data-driven discovery and its potential to reshape the future of the healthcare industry and beyond.

📅 October 18, 2023
🇬🇧 London, UK
👉 Learn more about the event at https://bit.ly/490FgA7

If you are a healthcare company at the interface of biotechnology and technology, get in touch with Rabab or pitch your investment opportunity to our Health Team at https://lnkd.in/eVbqqrKx

#EBVClive #TechBio #UK #Startups #VC

📈 In a world of uncertainty, protection matters. Today we congratulate our insurtech portfolio company Getsafe which has officially acquired Luko Insurance’s German customer base.

💪 This is a strong signal of growth and performance and we are proud of CEO & co-founder Christian Wiens and the whole Getsafe team. 

🌎 They have 550,000 customers trusting them with risk protection across 4 markets. 

💚 Getsafe is becoming a leading insurance platform for young Europeans – providing protection for their present and future. Using technology, Getsafe helps a new generation deal with the tough challenges of the next century. As an insurance company, they play a central role in solving challenges while making personal protection accessible, data-driven, and prevention-focused. 

cc: Dr. Christian Nagel, Nina Mayer (Rinke), Jay Anna Harris-Theis, Elisheva Marcus & Partech

👀 For insights on the M&A and Getsafe's unique approach, dive into Anna Heim's article in TechCrunch: https://lnkd.in/eA5SnzV8

🔗 Head to the comments for links to additional coverage in 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷.

#EBVCgang #InsurTech #Aquistions #Europe #Startups #Leadership #DTC #Product

“We are witnessing the perfect AI storm, where three major ingredients that evolved throughout the past 70 years have finally come together: Advanced algorithms, large-scale datasets, and access to powerful compute.” - Dr. Andre Retterath

✍️ In the kick-off of a new series, TechCrunch journalist Anna Heim spoke with expert investors on the future of AI – going way beyond the hype. 

💪 Thanks for featuring our Partner Andre, among other informed perspectives.

With: pi Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, Underscore VC,  Elaia, Ripple Ventures and Bloomberg Beta

cc:  Laurin Class, Akash Bajwa, Elisheva Marcus

👀 Here's a weekend read: https://lnkd.in/drv9JEJR

#AI #VC #Algorithms #LLM #Data #EBVCnews

Earlybird Health’s Partner Thom Rasche will be joining MedTech innovators and startups at the MedFIT Event next week!

📅 October 10-11, 2023 
📍 Strasbourg, France
 👉 Info at https://bit.ly/3rJTHrl

Are you interested in learning more about the importance of integrating regulatory, reimbursement, and clinical research planning to secure commercial success?

🎙️Thom will speak about it in the "From Idea to Market Access: Best Practices in Aligning Your Regulatory & Reimbursement Strategies" session alongside  Kristine Morrill of Medevise, Jessica Garestier of Dentons, and Artur Olesch about Digital Health.

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