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Earlybird Venture Capital
Venture Capital · Founded 1997 · Berlin, Germany
Earlybird Venture Capital’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Earlybird Venture Capital still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Earlybird Venture Capital directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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N26
10.5%
$6.0B
$630M
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Black Forest Labs
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$3.3B
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Aiven
10%
$3.0B
$300M
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4
Forto
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$2.1B
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5
Isar Aerospace
10.5%
$1.2B
$116M
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6
smava
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$1.1B
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7
Onefootball
9%
$1.0B
$90M
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8
Oviva
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$937M
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9
McMakler
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$440M
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10
Inkitt
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$400M
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Estimated value = Earlybird Venture Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Earlybird Venture Capital’s biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Earlybird Venture Capital’s transaction record.
Where Earlybird Venture Capital’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 190 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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Germany116
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USA37
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UK18
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Switzerland16
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France10
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Ireland5
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Italy5
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Belgium3
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Finland3
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Spain3
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Sweden3
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Austria2
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Enterprise Software58
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Health52
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Fintech34
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Marketing15
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Transportation14
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Energy12
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Semiconductors12
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Real Estate11
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Media10
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Home Living8
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Food7
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Legal7
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Series A82
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Seed80
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Series B+25
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Early Growth108
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Breakout Stage84
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Late Growth34
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Mature7
Inside Earlybird Venture Capital’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 190 tracked.
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VoWhere Earlybird Venture Capital’s portfolio founders come from.
166 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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Germany83
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United States16
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Switzerland15
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France12
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United Kingdom12
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Spain6
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Türkiye4
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Austria3
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Slovakia3
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Finland2
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Technical University Munich26
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ETH Zurich9
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Technical University of Darmstadt6
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University of Heidelberg6
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
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Munich Center for Digital Technology and Management5
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Georgia Institute of Technology4
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Humboldt University of Berlin4
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Technical University of Vienna4
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University of St.Gallen4
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McKinsey & Company7
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Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication5
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IBM4
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Technical University Munich4
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Alphabet | Google3
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Bain & Company3
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BMW Group3
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French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS3
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Intel Corporation3
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Intel NAND Memory Unit3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.








Key people at Earlybird Venture Capital.




