Earlybird VC portfolio

Earlybird VC has 23 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 2 investments in the last 12 months.

Website: earlybird.com.

X: @EarlybirdVC.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 23.

Deals, last 12 months: 2.

Rounds led: 6 of 21.

Capital in their rounds: $898.81M.

Latest deal: Finmid · Oct 6, 2026.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Berlin, DE, founded in 1997. It led 6 of the 21 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Finmid's $19.05M Series A round in October 2026, alongside Main Set, Blossom Capital and Big Pi Ventures. By category, its portfolio leans toward Health and bio (6) and Manufacturing and industrial (4). It has co-invested with redalpine, Speedinvest and Wellington Management, most often redalpine (4 rounds).

About Earlybird VC

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Berlin, DE.

Founded: 1997.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Deep Tech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, InsurTech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.

Check size: $540K to $12M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 122.

Exits: 17.

Rounds led: 14.

Funds raised

Fund	Fund #	Size	Announced
EEarlybird Ventures Germany	IV	$200Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list	Jul 2013

What Earlybird VC invests in

Health and bio · 6 · 26%
Manufacturing and industrial · 4 · 17%
Developer tools and cloud · 4 · 17%
Legal and compliance · 3 · 13%
Fintech · 3 · 13%
Data and analytics · 3 · 13%
Consumer and social · 3 · 13%
Logistics and mobility · 2 · 9%

Earlybird VC recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
FFinmid	Series A · $19.05M	Oct 6, 2026	Main Set, Blossom Capital, Big Pi Ventures (lead)
CColibriTD	Seed · lead	Sep 3, 2026	SymbiaVC, IBM, IonQ +4
CCertivity	Series A · $15.34M	Aug 11, 2025	HTGF, Plug and Play, UVC Partners (lead) +1
PPortal Biotech	Series A · $35M · lead	Jul 1, 2025	SCVC, Pillar VC, 8VC +6
Rremberg	Series A · $17M	May 19, 2025	Acton Capital Partners (lead), Speedinvest, Oxx (lead) +1
AAktiia	Series B+ · $42M	May 5, 2025	Wellington Management (lead), K Fund, Khosla Ventures +5
GGrey Wolf Therapeutics	Series B+ · $50M	May 23, 2024	Intermediate Capital Group (lead), Pfizer Venture Investments, British Patient Capital +3
AArgá Medtech	Series B+ · $58.72M · lead	Feb 27, 2024	Gilde Healthcare (lead), Advent Life Sciences (lead)

How Earlybird VC invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	10 48%	$177.59M
Series B+	9 43%	$698.72M
Seed	2 10%	$22.5M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2015	2 10%	$10.6M
2018	1 5%	$25M
2019	2 10%	$186M
2020	2 10%	$140M
2021	3 14%	$216M
2022	1 5%	$12.6M
2023	2 10%	$71.5M
2024	2 10%	$108.72M
2025	4 19%	$109.34M
2026	2 10%	$19.05M

Earlybird VC portfolio companies

FFinmid$19.05MSeries A · Oct 2026
CColibriTDSeed · Sep 2026
CCertivity$15.34MSeries A · Aug 2025
PPortal Biotech$35MSeries A · Jul 2025
Rremberg$17MSeries A · May 2025
AAktiia$42MSeries B+ · May 2025
GGrey Wolf Therapeutics$50MSeries B+ · May 2024
AArgá Medtech$58.72MSeries B+ · Feb 2024
MM^ZERO$22.5MSeed · Apr 2023
SSimscale$29MSeries B+ · Nov 2021
AAleph Alpha$27MSeries A · Jul 2021
SSennder$160MSeries B+ · Jan 2021
PPolares Medical$40MSeries B+ · Jun 2020
NN26$100MSeries B+ · May 2020
IInkitt$16MSeries A · Aug 2019
UUpstashbacker
BBlack Forest Labsbacker
TThe Interaction Company of Californiabacker
KKeelbacker
HHilobacker
AAragobacker
MM0backer
FFirstWorkbacker

Company	Round with Earlybird VC	Total raised	Latest raise
FFinmid Lending and credit	Oct 6, 2026 Series A · $19.05M	$45.05M	Oct 6, 2026 Series A
CColibriTD Robotics and hardware	Sep 3, 2026 Seed · lead	$1.07M	Sep 3, 2026 Seed
CCertivity Legal and compliance	Aug 11, 2025 Series A · $15.34M	$15.34M	Aug 11, 2025 Series A
PPortal Biotech Health and bio	Jul 1, 2025 Series A · $35M · lead	$35M	Jul 1, 2025 Series A
Rremberg Manufacturing and industrial	May 19, 2025 Series A · $17M	$31.6M	May 19, 2025 Series A
AAktiia Health and bio	May 5, 2025 Series B+ · $42M	$42M	Jul 21, 2026 Series B+
GGrey Wolf Therapeutics Health and bio	May 23, 2024 Series B+ · $50M	$99M	May 23, 2024 Series B+
AArgá Medtech Health and bio	Feb 27, 2024 Series B+ · $58.72M · lead	$58.72M	Feb 27, 2024 Series B+
MM^ZERO	Apr 5, 2023 Seed · $22.5M	$62.5M	Aug 28, 2025 Series B+
SSimscale Developer tools and cloud	Nov 5, 2021 Series B+ · $29M	$29M	Sep 7, 2025 Series B+
AAleph Alpha Foundation models and research	Jul 27, 2021 Series A · $27M · lead	$527M	Nov 8, 2023 Series B+
SSennder Logistics and mobility	Jan 1, 2021 Series B+ · $160M	$483.7M	Nov 11, 2026 round
PPolares Medical Health and bio	Jun 25, 2020 Series B+ · $40M	$115M	Mar 3, 2026 Series B+
NN26 Fintech	May 5, 2020 Series B+ · $100M	$1.98B	Jun 12, 2026 Series B+
IInkitt Data and analytics	Aug 28, 2019 Series A · $16M	$115.9M	Feb 27, 2024 Series B+
UUpstash Data and analytics	backer · source	$10M	Sep 6, 2024 Series A
BBlack Forest Labs Climate and energy	backer · source	$31M	Aug 1, 2024 Seed
TThe Interaction Company of California	backer · source	$20M	Apr 9, 2026 round
KKeel	backer · source	undisclosed	—
HHilo Health and bio	backer	$19M	Jul 21, 2026 Series B+
AArago AI infrastructure and compute	backer	$26M	Jun 18, 2026 Seed
MM0 Fintech	backer	$75M	Aug 29, 2025 Series B+
FFirstWork AI agents	backer	$20.5M	Oct 21, 2026 Series A

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Venture funds Earlybird VC raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

Share is of the 21 rounds on Recent Funding that name Earlybird VC. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Earlybird VC, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/earlybird-vc (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.