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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 venture capital industry and deeptech startups, including robotics, spacetech and defence tech. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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