Earlybird VC

Unveiling a brand that reflects who we are today: Earlybird & Earlybird Health ✨ Launching a Catalyst Program of top operators, celebrating next-gen GPs @AndreRetterath, @PauEB, & @TimRehder & uniting under a common vision: we’re all in from day one. 🚀earlybird.com

cc: @AndreRetterath , @AkashBajwa96 Read more on the @nytimes : nytimes.com/2026/05/13/tec…

Our portfolio company Recursive emerges from stealth with a $650M round. Their thesis: The fastest path to superintelligence is AI that improves itself through open-ended discovery, the same process behind biological evolution. Congrats to the team! Read more below.

More details in La Repubblica (🇮🇹): repubblica.it/tecnologia/202…

Further coverage by @tech_eu: tech.eu/2026/05/12/pil…

Construction remains one of the most operationally fragmented industries Pillar is building the layer that connects on-site activity with real-time financial visibility. Today, we’re excited to lead their €12M Seed round together with @Base10Partners. Welcome to Earlybird!

Explore the full agenda here: deeptech.build/agenda

Every ecosystem needs champions. European deep tech is no exception. DTM is Europe’s go-to marketplace for founders, researchers, investors & customers. Building in deep tech? Meet the team in Berlin! See you at #DTM26 on May 20–21

Further coverage in @tech_eu: tech.eu/2026/05/05/ger…

Read more in @EU_Startups: eu-startups.com/2026/05/german…

Quantum computing has long shown what’s possible. eleQtron is showing what works. €57M Series A, one of the largest at this stage worldwide, with €54M+ in signed contracts. Congrats to the team & proud to have been a partner from before the breakthrough!

💰@EarlybirdVC has closed Fund VIII at €360 million. techfundingnews.com/earlybird-360m… Supported by major institutions and family offices, Earlybird now manages €2.5 billion in total assets #ai #deeptech #innovation #investment #vcfunding #venturecapital #eutech #vcnews

GM, line up for the show today, see you in five: - Jarek Kutylowski, Co-Founder DeepL (@DeepLcom) - @antoni_kiszka, Founder of @derpetuals & Thiel Fellow - @AndreRetterath, GP at Earlybird (@EarlybirdVC) - Marcus Behrendt, CEO of BMW i Ventures - @paddy_dex, Co-Founder of Dex (@meetdexai) - @TheHolyKau, Partner at EQT (@eqtventures) - Patrick Forquer, CRO at Legora (@WeAreLegora)

Berlin-based #VC firm @EarlybirdVC has closed its eighth early-stage tech #fund at €360 million. This marks the pan-European VC firm’s largest raise to date. 🇩🇪 💰🚀 eu-startups.com/2026/04/earlyb…

Congrats to our portco @m0 on the partnership!

Let's go, let's go! 🇪🇺👏 @AndreRetterath

Further coverage on @tech_eu: tech.eu/2026/04/30/ear…

We’ve closed our €360M Fund VIII. Our largest to date. Backing early-stage companies across AI, Software Infra & Foundation Models, and DeepTech, with the same long-term approach we’ve followed since 1997. More in our Perspectives: earlybird.com/perspectives/f…

Today, our portfolio company @SpAItial_AI is launching Echo-2, a frontier model for physically-grounded 3D world generation. On the WorldScore benchmark, Echo-2 sets a new state of the art across content alignment, subjective quality, and overall world score — outperforming Marble 1.1, HW-World 2.0, and Lyra 2.0. But 3D consistency is just the first step. The next frontier is temporal and physical consistency: scenes that not only look real but behave according to physics. That's the missing layer between the digital and physical worlds, and the foundation embodied AI will ultimately need. Unlike video models that predict frames one at a time (and quietly let geometry drift, objects vanish, and scale wander), Echo-2 generates a spatially persistent 3D scene. You can walk through it, edit it, restyle it, and render it in real time on any device, including in a browser tab. A few things this unlocks: - Digital twins of real environments from a single photo, no scanning rigs required - Interactive 3D worlds for games, generated in minutes - Sim2Real training environments for robotics at scale - Scene understanding and editing — add, remove, or restyle objects with geometric accuracy - Instant virtual staging and architectural visualization from 2D floor plans Huge congrats to @MattNiessner @davnov134 @rmbrualla Luke Rogers and team! See the link to try Echo-2 in your browser. cc @AndreRetterath @EarlybirdVC @speedinvest

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Pixels are not enough for Robots or AI that need to operate in the world. Our Portfolio Company @SpAItial_AI just introduced Echo-2, a great step towards digitally representing the real world. Read more over here: spaitial.ai/blog/echo-2-re…