A lot has happened since Isar Aerospace raised Europe’s largest Series B in SpaceTech in December of 2020. Today, we are happy to announce the extension of the company’s Series B by another $75m. The round is led by HV Capital, Lombard Odier and Porsche SE and brings Isar’s total…

We are excited to lead a €2.1m Seed round for edyoucated in support of the four co-founders — Marius Venneann, David Middelbeck, Jannik Weichert, and Jan Papenbrock — previously backed by First Momentum and business angels such as the folks from Flaschenpost (Stephen Weich, Niklas Plath, Christopher Huesmann, Aron Spohr…

Why we invested in HiveMQ — We are thrilled to lead the € 9.3m seed financing round of Landshut-based HiveMQ alongside Senovo and prominent angel investors. Here is why we think the time has come for HiveMQ to empower enterprises to move IoT data effortlessly. Data is the decisive advantage in tomorrow’s world There’s no denying it — the Internet of Things (IoT) is…

Leveraging Product- & Customer-Focus with Inclusive Leadership — In May 2019, we announced Earlybird Venture Capital’s first investment in Aiven when leading the company’s $10M Series A round. Just 9 months later in February 2020, we doubled down in their $40M Series B round, enabling Aiven to sustain its tremendous growth trajectory. Today we are pumped to announce…

Insights from Europe’s biggest-ever venture capital financed SpaceTech funding round — One year ago, we announced our investment into Isar Aerospace. Today, we are happy to share that we have co-led the Series B round jointly with Lakestar and VSquared. …

Start-ups disrupting the industrial value chain is a win-win-win — for engineers making cool “stuff”, for customers with access to that stuff, and for the planet Have you ever wondered why objects look the way they do? Why is the building outside your window shaped the way it is? Or…

After only nine months, we are doubling down on Aiven In May of 2019, we announced that Earlybird Venture Capital was backing Aiven by leading its $10m Series A. Not even 9 months later, we are excited to continue with Aiven on their path to deploy completely open-source, integrable cloud…

We are excited to announce that we are investing in SimScale’s €27m Series C round, which is led by Insight Partners. Earlybird could not be more proud of the team behind SimScale and its achievements. …

Doing our part for the planet is a core aspect of “The Power of And” — combining our focus on delivering financial returns with social impact — as we outlined in our “Year in Review” (link). …