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September 5, 2023

Earlybird loses its French investment team less than two years after launching in Paris

Both members of Earlybird’s Paris-based investment team have left, just a year and a half after the VC opened a French office

The Paris-based investment team of German VC Earlybird — an early backer of UiPath and N26 — is leaving the firm only a year and a half after it opened an office in the French capital, according to two sources close to the matter. 

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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