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August 22, 2024

Earlybird Digital East - the team behind one of Europe’s most successful VC funds - is breaking away from the Earlybird family

It is one of the top performing European VC funds — helped majorly by its early bet on Romanian software firm UiPath.

Anne Sraders

3 min read

Earlybird Digital East — the VC firm known for making one of European tech’s most successful bets, by leading Romanian unicorn UiPath’s $1.6m seed round in 2015 —  is spinning off from the Earlybird family, Sifted has learnt.

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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