Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis
The Berlin firm, founded in 1997, has raised a new fund every three to four years through every market cycle. Fund VIII is oversubscribed, manages €2.5 billion across strategies, and bets heavily on AI infrastructure, foundation models, and deeptech. Earlybird Venture Capital has closed its eighth early-stage fund at €360 million, the largest in the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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