Earlybird Venture Capital
Earlybird is one of the most successful European venture investors, and currently manages €430 million in assets. Earlybird invests in innovative, fast-growing technology enabled services companies with outstanding management teams and high growth potential in international markets. Earlybird’s portfolio currently includes 25 companies and a number of market-leading consumer Internet and media firms such as Crowdpark, Madvertise, Mikini, Peak Games and Simfy. Since its inception, Earlybird has invested in over 70 companies. In addition to several successful trade sales, Earlybird has led six companies to an IPO at four different European exchanges.
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Target Partners
With €225 million Euros under management, Target Partners is one of the leading early-stage venture capital funds in Germany. The firm invests in start-up and early stage companies and supports them during their build-out and expansion phases. With many years of experience as managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, the team at Target Partners supports entrepreneurs in developing and marketing products and services, building organizations, raising money and taking companies public in Europe and the United States.
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Advisory Board
Sascha Stürze is a Co-founder and business angel of Crowdpark. He also is the founder and CEO of Analyx, a consultancy company for predictive consumer analytics.
Sascha studied Business & Information Systems at Dresden University of Technology with a focus on ERP and Data Mining. While still at university, he co-founded and worked as managing director of the German IT service provider Mediado, developing e-commerce solutions for medium-sized companies. After graduation, Sascha worked with McKinsey & Company for four years. As a consultant and team leader he focused on supporting clients in the High-Tech and Telecommunications sectors.
In 2011, Sascha founded Analyx Ventures, the seed engagement arm of Analyx, supporting passionate entrepreneurs in Central Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America.
Dr. Christian Nagel is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Earlybird Venture Capital. He has more than 17 years experience as an investor and entrepreneur with a focus on Web-enabled services and e-commerce. Before founding Earlybird, he was Co-founder and Managing Partner of SMB Industrieholding Wildau and DH Industrieholding Hohenthurm. He also worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Christian holds a Dipl. Wi-Ing. (Msc equivalent) degree from the Technical University of Hamburg and a Ph.D. degree from the University of St. Gallen.
His most successful exits include: Tipp24 (IPO Prime Standard FSE: TIM); Interhyp (IPO Prime Standard FSE: IYP); and Trade Sale BridgeCo to SMSC (NASDAQ: SMSC).
Christian is a board member of Crowdpark, Lumics, madvertise, Smava and Yoom.
Waldemar Jantz is a Partner at Target Partners in Munich. Waldemar has over 28 years of experience in venture capital and management in Germany and the U.S. and has brought numerous companies public. He co-founded Target Partners with his partners Berthold von Freyberg and Kurt Müller in 1999.
Between 1984 and 1999, Waldemar worked with TVM Capital, first heading the TVM office in Boston, then serving as Managing Partner in Munich. Over the course of his career, Waldemar has invested in more than 30 technology companies, eight of which went public on NASDAQ, “Neuer Markt” or the Zurich Stock Exchange. From 1979 to 1984, he worked in technical and marketing positions at two German computer firms. Waldemar has a degree in business.
Waldemar is a supervisory board member at Cube Optics AG and Locanis AG, as well as a board member at Dacos Software GmbH. He was also responsible for Target Partners' investment in NaWoTec GmbH which was sold to Carl Zeiss AG in 2005.
