VERSUS IO has completed its Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. The round also includes additional investments from 500 Startups led by Dave McClure who initially invested $100,000 in December 2012, seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds and angel investors Lars Dittrich and Dario Suter. To date VERSUS IO has raised $1 million in total.

Earlybird Venture Capital has closed a $6 million Series A funding in Videdressing.com, a social marketplace dedicated to fashion. Earlybird, DN Capital and Piton Capital co-led the round and were joined by Generis Capital.

Social media analytics platform Socialbakers has secured $6 million funding for expansion. The round was led by Index Ventures, with follow-on funding from first-round investor Earlybird Venture Capital.

Earlybird Venture Capital portfolio Company BMEYE has been acquired by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, a heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring business. BMEYE is a Dutch company that specializes in the development of non-invasive technology for advanced hemodynamic monitoring.

Traxpay, a business-to-business real-time payment provider, has secured $4 million in funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital. Traxpay is headquartered in Mountain View, California with R&D operations in Cologne, Germany. The company also announced the appointment of John Bruggeman as chief executive officer. PRESS RELEASE Traxpay, the business-to-business (B2B) real-time payment provider, today announced a [...]

German venture investor Earlybird Venture Capital has appinted LinkedIn co-founder Konstantin Guericke as a venture partner. He will help grow the firm’s portfolio companies as they expand from Europe into the US market, in addition to identifying and evaluating attractive areas of opportunity for investment. PRESS RELEASE Earlybird Venture Capital today announced that it has [...]

Earlybird Venture Capital holds an initial close on its fourth fund and says the German market is poised to grow

Earlybird Venture Capital, which relocated from Hamburg to Berlin in December, announced today it has held an initial close of $100 million on its fourth fund. The firm’s LPs are located in Japan, the Middle East and Russia, as well as in the United States and other parts of Europe. The fund is targeted at [...]

Peak Games has acquired Saudi social gaming company Kammelna Games. Terms of the deal were not released. Peak Games is backed by investors including Earlybird Venture Capital and Hummingbird Ventures. The company has offices in Istanbul, Ankara, Amman, Barcelona, Damman, Berlin and San Francisco. PRESS RELEASE Peak Games, the fastest-growing emerging markets games company in [...]

Italian asset manager Azimut and German Earlybird Venture Capital have launched a new venture capital fund investing in the technology sector in Italy.