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Hummingbird VC

London, United Kingdom · Invests in North America; Europe; Asia; LATAM; MENA; US · Website

Pre-SeedSeedSeries AE-commerce & MarketplacesGamingB2B SaaSAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFintechBiotech & Life SciencesFintech & PaymentsSemiconductors & HardwareHealthcare & Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools & Infrastructure

Thesis

We back outliers of the outliers - founders with unreasonable ambition who can filter out 95% of conventional VC advice. We seek category-defining companies aiming for $10B+ outcomes, not incremental improvements. Our conviction is deep, selective, and global. We don't meddle - we provide brutal honesty, talent upgrades, and capital for survival through near-death moments.

Likely not a fit for

No check-the-box approaches, pedigree focus, or portfolio diversification. We avoid large portfolios (signal of incompetence), provincial thinking, mediocre founders, and traditional board control models. We reject hard-coded specialization in favor of adaptive, founder-led discovery.

How they invest

Lead or follow
Leads or follows
Typical decision
~2 weeks
Warm intro
Not required
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

15 contacts on file

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Firat Ileri

General PartnerManaging Partner · Primary contact

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Barend Van den Brande

General PartnerFounding Partner

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Lukas Decoster

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Mario Gabriele

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Akshay Mehra

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Haya Hanna

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Katherine Jones

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Patrick Lundgren

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Peter Devlin

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Alejandra Orozco

Platform & OpsChief of Staff

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Konrad Kordowski

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Marc Rizk

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Alptug Polatkan

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Ani Mouradyan

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Wouter Gort

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Portfolio

RevolutFintech Payments

Revolut helps you spend, send, and save smarter, offering a seamless financial platform for personal and business customers.

KrakenFintech Payments

Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform offering services for individual and institutional traders. It provides support, trading tools, and institutional crypto trading solutions.

DeliverooEcommerce Marketplaces

Deliveroo is a food delivery service that offers food, groceries, pharmacy, and gifts. It partners with restaurants and retailers to deliver products quickly.

Peak GamesGaming

Peak Games is a leading mobile gaming company, committed to developing innovative products with its driven and talented team. Peak Games focuses on creating highly-rated mobile games including the top-10 grossing Toy Blast and the recently launched Toon Blast, which are engaging and inspiring millions of users around the world.

Gram GamesGaming

Gram Games is a mobile entertainment company focused on social games, delivering engaging social games for the mobile world to create real bonds through play.

LovableEnterprise Software

Lovable is a retailer specializing in intimate apparel for both men and women. The company offers a wide range of products with promotions including sales of up to 50% off, secure payment options, and free shipping on orders over €75.

EtchedEnterprise Software

Etched is a company specializing in high-performance AI inference systems. It offers advanced solutions for demanding workloads.

BillionToOneHealthcare Digital

BillionToOne is a molecular diagnostics company focused on creating accessible prenatal screening and liquid biopsy tests.

EnvedaBiotech Life Sciences

Enveda Bio leverages evolutionary intelligence for drug discovery, utilizing a large foundation model called PRISM for analyzing small molecule mass spectra.

AsporaFintech Payments

Aspora provides secure and fast money transfers to India at guaranteed Google rates, focusing on serving Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) globally.

Basecamp ResearchBiotech Life Sciences

Basecamp Research focuses on expanding biological knowledge through the development of a global biodiscovery pipeline and the creation of BaseData™, a biological database designed for training AI foundation models.

AutomataBiotech Life Sciences

Automata Technologies is a leading automation company powering life sciences labs with its LINQ platform, which automates lab workflows and is designed to be easily adoptable by various research institutions and pharmaceutical companies.

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Hummingbird VC - Comprehensive Research Investment Philosophy & Thesis Hummingbird VC operates under the philosophy of "Fuori di Testa" (out-of-your-mind ambition). The firm is known for an unconventional approach to venture investing that prioritizes founder psychology and ambition over traditional metrics. Core Investment Principles Backing Outliers: The firm specifically seeks "outliers of the

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