Berlin-based VC Earlybird and Paris-based investor AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners) are teaming up to raise a new defence fund, two sources familiar with the firm tell Sifted.
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Earlybird raising €500m defence fund with French investor AVP, sources say
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