private partnership industry venture capital founded 1997 headquarters berlin germany products venture capital growth capital total assets 1 billion citation needed website www.earlybird.com earlybird is a european venture investment firm . it manages around us 1 billion 1 in assets for an international investor base and is currently in its fourth fund generation focusing mainly on the technology and health technology sectors . the firm is one of the largest european venture and growth capital investors and the largest outside of the uk . contents 1 history 2 investment philosophy 3 earlybird health tech fund 4 earlybird digital east fund 5 current portfolio 5.1 tech 11 5.2 health tech 12 6 past investments 6.1 ipos 6.2 trade sales 7 references 8 external links history edit earlybird was founded in 1997 2 by the investment partners hendrik brandis christian nagel roland manger and rolf mathies . the firm has offices in berlin munich and istanbul . earlybird moved its headquarters from hamburg to berlin in 2012 3 in support of the expanding innovative network of startups in the german capital . 4 it closed its latest fund of 150m in 2012 which will focus on early stage investments in disruptive global consumer and enterprise businesses across europe . 5 in 2012 earlybird brought on 6 silicon valley based konstantin guericke the co founder of linkedin and former ceo of jaxtr as a venture partner in order to facilitate the global expansion of earlybird s portfolio companies . 7 in 2013 earlybird announced a new fund targeting turkey and cee regions managed by a team of four partners dan lupu roland manger cem sertoglu and evren ucok . 8 investment philosophy edit earlybird s main investment philosophy is to focus on truly disruptive non linear companies that disrupt large markets with a strong product or technology at their heart . earlybird is particularly interested in companies that build engagement or network effects and that reach proof points and scalability with a high degree of capital efficiency . earlybird looks for investment opportunities with european dna but global ambitions . 9 earlybird s investments cover multiple stages of a company s investment needs ranging from early stage to expansionary and growth stages with investment sizes between 200k and 20m . 10 earlybird health tech fund edit the earlybird health tech fund is oriented towards funding innovative medical technology companies with experienced entrepreneurial teams and products with an existing clinical proof of concept and a defined regulatory pathway . the investment focus is on therapeutic medical device companies diagnostic medical device companies web enabled and scalable health services as well as health it services . earlybird digital east fund edit the earlybird digital east fund is focused on providing early stage equity capital to high potential technology companies in turkey and central & eastern europe . the key interest areas of the fund are consumer internet enterprise software and tech enabled services . current portfolio edit since its inception in 1997 earlybird has invested in close to 100 companies and its portfolio currently consists of 24 companies . some of these are tech 11 edit 6wunderkinder auctionata azeti networks b2x care solutions carpooling.com conject eyeem flipps hazelcast light blue optics madvertise moped nfon oneshield peak games simfy simscale smava socialbakers the football app tjobs traxpay ubitricity versus videdressing health tech 12 edit ebs technologies miracor hemoteq past investments edit earlybird has had considerable success with its three fund generations to date evidenced by six large ipos across four different stock exchanges 13 and 14 trade sales . 14 ipos edit interhyp tipp24 und wilex listed on the prime standard frankfurt esmertec listed on swiss exchange zurich entelos listed on the london stock exchange noemalife listed on the borsa italiana milan trade sales edit element 5 to digital river identify to bmc software alantos to amgen abaxx to cordys amaxa to lonza dooyoo to leguide bridgeco to smsc purple labs to myriad group upek to authentic scoreloop to rim bmeye to edwards lifesciences corporation zonare to mindrav medical references edit crunchbase earlybird website blog wall street journal reuters video techcrunch techcrunch thenextweb techcrunch slideshare jason whitmire earlybird website earlybird tech portfolio earlybird health tech portfolio crunchbase european venture club external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title earlybird venture capital & oldid 732547876 categories venture capital firmshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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