Earlybird is a venture capital investor focused on European technology companies. Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all growth and development phases of a company. Amongst the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources, but also strategic and operational support as well as access to an international network and capital markets. Earlybird manages different funds with focuses on digital technologies in Eastern and Western Europe as well as health technologies. With over EUR 1 billion under management, seven IPOs and 23 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most successful venture capital firms in Europe.

UiPath designs and develops robotic process automation software. The platform offers foolproof development tools, automation of intricate processes, enhanced control, cloud and on-premise deployment, robust governance, and multiple robots on a single virtual machine. UiPath was founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, United States.

sennder is a digital road freight forwarder in continental Europe, linking large commercial shippers with small freight carriers. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency, and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phone, and fax and characterized by multi-layer subcontracting. sennder’s digital connection to over 10,000 vehicles in all segments allows for almost unlimited capacities, no matter what time of the day. sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers, and logistics management solutions to shippers. Real-time booking, a designated contact person always on hand, as well as precise live tracking, bring full transparency to any logistics supply chain. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middlemen, sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders.

Based out of Berlin, sennder was founded in 2015 by David Nothacker, Nicolaus Schefenacker and Julius Koehler. In 2020, Everoad, the French leader in digital freight forwarding based in Paris and founded by Maxime Legardez, merged with sennder to become Europe's leading digital freight forwarder. By merging with sennder, Everoad becomes "Everoad by sennder". Our mission as a data-based technology company is to revolutionize the logistics and transport industry by connecting small freight companies with large business groups. By introducing technology, we remove the challenges and inefficiencies associated with the transportation of goods across Europe, while increasing the degree of transparency in the marketplace and helping it to move more seamlessly. Since its foundation, sennder has raised over €120m from leading investors including, Accel, Lakestar, HV Holtzbrinck, Project A, Next47, SCG and Perpetual. In 2020, sennder also made a JV with Poste Italiane in Italy and acquired the European activities of Uber Freight. sennder has strategic partnerships with industry giants Scania and Siemens to guarantee continuous innovation and services using the most up-to-date technology. With a team of over 500 people in 7 countries, we move +50,000 loads across Europe, each month. sennder's teams are passionate about modernizing the freight market, an industry valued today at nearly €400bn, only in Europe.

Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with no paperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks. Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.

Hive is democratizing access to e-commerce operations. We're providing technology to enable D2C brands to run their operations on auto-pilot. Businesses can integrate their existing e-commerce stores with our own warehousing solution to get up and running. Hive takes care of inventory, orders and returns from start to finish, providing everyone with peace of mind.

Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that aims to lower the entry barriers to space. It develops launch vehicles dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. Based on rocket engineering research, environmentally friendly propellants, and advanced manufacturing, the company delivers small and medium payloads to orbit. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Germany.

smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45% compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.

Aleph Alpha transforms human-machine interactions. The company researches, develops, and operationalizes AI-based technology for the public and private sectors. Its generative AI solutions enable enterprises and governmental organizations to build intelligent products.

Inkitt is the world's first reader-powered book publisher. They have developed an algorithm that predicts bestsellers by analyzing reading behaviour. At Inkitt, they believe that every author should have an equal chance to succeed. That’s why they’re building the fairest and most objective publishing house in the world by finding hidden talents and turning them into globally successful authors. They're a team of 30 hard-working, extremely talented, and highly dedicated entrepreneurs and have raised $5m to level up and get closer to their goal: to help debut authors dominate the NY Times Best Seller list.

oBilet is the leading online bus ticket booking platform in Turkey. It is a great system for any bus traveller, making purchasing a domestic bus ticket from several companies simple and convenient at any time. It collects offerings from different bus companies, making it easy for the user to compare prices and choose the best option. Currently, the company has more than 150 bus firms on 40.000+ routes in the platform. oBilet also offers flight tickets but its primary focus is on the intercity bus market. Initially it started with team of two and 2000 tickets sold in a month. After pulling itself up by its bootstraps, oBilet took attraction of 2 Top Tier East Europe focused Venture Capitals (EarlyBird VC and EBRD’s venture capital investment arm) ended up with receiving funding. Now, operations are continued with the team of over 160 and statistics are highly impressive. During 2019, around 10 million tickets are sold, website is visited for over 160 million times and 5 million customers have downloaded mobile app which is selected Europe’s best travel application by MasterCard. The company expects even higher growth in 2020 through the high passenger potential of Turkey and dynamic atmosphere of the company. oBilet was founded by Yigit Gurocak and Ali Yilmaz in April, 2012. It is headquartered in Istanbul in Turkey.

Getsafe is a digital insurance company that creates a better insurance experience for everyone. Powered by its unique technological platform, Getsafe makes insurance simple, fair and accessible. As Getsafe replaces complexity and manual paperwork with smart bots and automation, customers can file claims or change their coverage in real time with just a few clicks.