Venture Capital

Earlybird Venture Capital

Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, with additional offices in Munich, London, and Milan. Earlybird identifies and backs exceptional early-stage technology companies across Europe, investing from pre-seed and seed through Series A with initial tickets up to roughly EUR 12 million, and following on through growth. The firm organizes around specialized fund streams: Digital West (Western Europe), Digital East (emerging Europe and Turkey), Health, Earlybird-X (pre-seed and university spinouts), and a pan-Earlybird Growth Opportunities fund. Its thesis spans Applications (B2B and B2C), Software Infrastructure, and DeepTech, with active investment in fintech, generative AI, deep tech, and frontier areas such as nuclear fusion and space. With more than EUR 2 billion (self-reported ~EUR 2.5B) under management, Earlybird is one of Europe's most established and active venture firms, with a track record including multiple IPOs and dozens of trade sales, and notable investments such as UiPath, N26, Aiven, Isar Aerospace, and Peak Games.

118 portfolio companies 118 publish APIs here 12 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries ADeep TechFintechArtificial IntelligenceSoftware InfrastructureEurope
Portfolio Strength across 118 profiled portfolio companies on the network
6 top-rated API companies 1 exemplar · 5 strong
21 agent-ready companies 3 agent-native · 18 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 21.3
Agent-Readiness human-only 11.3

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Earlybird Venture Capital has 118 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 118 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Uipath, Upvest, Spaitial Ai, Sikoia, Slng.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Emerging 27 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 54 Almost no public developer surface

Properties

Portfolio

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Team

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Content

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Firm

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: earlybird
name: Earlybird Venture Capital
description: >-
  Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in
  1997 and headquartered in Berlin, with additional offices in Munich, London,
  and Milan. Earlybird identifies and backs exceptional early-stage technology
  companies across Europe, investing from pre-seed and seed through Series A with
  initial tickets up to roughly EUR 12 million, and following on through growth.
  The firm organizes around specialized fund streams: Digital West (Western
  Europe), Digital East (emerging Europe and Turkey), Health, Earlybird-X
  (pre-seed and university spinouts), and a pan-Earlybird Growth Opportunities
  fund. Its thesis spans Applications (B2B and B2C), Software Infrastructure, and
  DeepTech, with active investment in fintech, generative AI, deep tech, and
  frontier areas such as nuclear fusion and space. With more than EUR 2 billion
  (self-reported ~EUR 2.5B) under management, Earlybird is one of Europe's most
  established and active venture firms, with a track record including multiple
  IPOs and dozens of trade sales, and notable investments such as UiPath, N26,
  Aiven, Isar Aerospace, and Peak Games.
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  onboarding: unknown
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  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://earlybird.com/favicon.ico
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x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Deep Tech
  - Fintech
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Software Infrastructure
  - Europe
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    url: https://earlybird.com/companies
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    url: https://earlybird.com/contact-us
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    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/earlybird-venture-capital
  - type: Twitter
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    data:
      - 'Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Series A (with follow-on growth)'
      - 'Typical check: initial tickets up to ~EUR 12M'
      - 'Sectors: Applications (B2B/B2C), Software Infrastructure, DeepTech, fintech, AI, fusion, space'
      - 'Geography: Pan-European (Western Europe, Emerging Europe, Turkey)'
      - 'AUM: >EUR 2B (self-reported ~EUR 2.5B)'
      - 'Founded: 1997'
      - 'HQ: Berlin, Germany (offices in Munich, London, Milan)'
      - 'Funds: Digital West, Digital East, Health, Earlybird-X, Growth Opportunities'
    sources:
      - https://earlybird.com/
      - https://earlybird.com/about-us
    updated: '2026-07-17'
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