Earlybird is a venture capital investor focused on European technology companies 🚀 #venturecapital #vc #startup #digitaleconomy
Europe
Joined June 2009
- Tweets5.3K
- Following1.1K
- Followers26K
- Likes5.8K
Pinned Tweet
€10tn sits in German private capital. Almost none of it flows to long-term startup growth.
Investors still call venture too risky, too hard to regulate, and weaker than buyout. Earlybird & 23 other VCs published the data that busts all three myths.
Recap from the GVGF Forum 👇
For frontline work, hiring is only half the job.
Firstwork (@firstworkhr) is building the operating layer that turns ‘hired’ into ‘ready to work’ across compliance, onboarding and everything in between. We're proud to be backing Vardhan, Shubham, and the entire team on that journey!
Read ‘Why we’re backing Firstwork’ & more coverage below.
🗞️ Perspectives:
go.earlybird.com/yYH6MxT9Vn
Coverage by @TFNBreakingNews:
techfundingnews.com/firstwor…
Earlybird VC retweeted
A couple of weeks ago we hosted @FactoryAI for a roundtable on the future of software engineering.
One of the most impressive features Factory has is it's Missions offering - up to 22 days (!) of long-horizon coding agents working on large codebase refactoring as one example.
I asked Dmytro about Missions and their harness.
AI for VC Fund Operations, put to work.
Three days in Berlin with real fund-ops challenges. Teams working across reporting, deal flow, portfolio monitoring and institutional knowledge with workshops, build sprints and plenty of comparing notes along the way.
Thank you to everyone who participated and to our partners!
Europe needs to try more AI in its factories.
In our latest Founder Spotlight, Siddharth Khullar, founder & CEO of @ArisMachina, joined us to talk about industrial AI, getting customers on board, and hiring people for hard problems.
A look inside the conversation with @sidk_
The demo is where the easy story ends.
September at Gradient Descending moved from Barcelona to Munich to London, with discussions on what production AI actually needs once the demo is over.
Check out our full recap here: go.earlybird.com/PvNjwY4h3U
finmid (@wearefinmid) raised a €17m Series A extension and launched two major products with Bolt and Skroutz.
The bigger story: platforms are becoming the place where business financing actually happens. From fleet vehicles to merchant loans, the team is building the infrastructure behind it.
All in since Day One!
Our portfolio company @MarvelFusion just spun out Caelora, a wholly owned subsidiary that will commercialize high-energy laser systems. The systems are designed for continuous, industrial-grade operation.
Read more on the thread
Banks, ministries and industrial groups have had to choose between frontier AI and control over it.
Our portfolio company @Aleph__Alpha and @cohere just signed a transatlantic business combination built to end that dilemma.
Read more on the thread
Official Press Release: cohere.com/blog/cohere-and-a…
Earlybird VC retweeted
Orbit Achieved. Payload Deployed.
Mission 'Onward and Upward' delivered our first customer satellites to orbit, achieving major milestones:
✅ MaxQ
✅ Stage separation
✅ Stage 2 engine ignition
✅ Fairing separation
✅ ORBIT
✅ Second engine cutoff and transfer orbit injection
✅ Circularization burn completed
✅ Payload released
✅ Contact with first satellites acquired, remaining in progress
🚀 Space history, made in Europe.
Congrats to our portfolio company @isaraerospace on an impressive qualification flight!
With their rocket ‘Spectrum,’ they reached orbit and are the first commercial space company from Europe to deliver satellites into orbit and deploy payloads.
It’s a new chapter for European spaceflight. We are proud to back this pioneering space tech champion!
