Akash Bajwa

Principal at Earlybird Investor

United Kingdom

Overview

Akash Bajwa is a Principal at Earlybird Venture Capital in the United Kingdom, specializing in investing in Seed stage companies in the Web3/Crypto and FinTech sectors. With a background in investment management, private equity, and audit, Akash has successfully invested in companies like Payable and held roles at renowned organizations like Barclays and Deloitte UK.

Work Experience

Earlybird Venture Capital

Principal
2024 - Current
Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European early-stage VC. We backed category-leaders like N26, UI-Path, InterHyp, Smava, Peak Games, Aiven, Onefootball, Sennder and Isar Aerospace.
Investor
2022 - 2024
Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European early-stage VC. We backed category-leaders like N26, UI-Path, InterHyp, Smava, Peak Games, Aiven, Onefootball, Sennder and Isar Aerospace. Earlybird has 2 billion euros of assets under management and offices in Berlin, Munich, Paris, London and Istanbul. With eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Ceartas DMCA

Investor
2024

Ctrl

Board Observer
2023

M^0 Labs

Investor
2023

Payable

Investor
2022

MOSTLY AI

Board Observer
2022

EVCA

London Chapter Lead
2022

EVCA is a non-profit association that supports the next generation of venture capital investors.

evca.org

Augmentum Fintech

Investment Team
2020 - 2022
Augmentum Fintech PLC is one of Europe’s leading venture capital investors focusing exclusively on the fintech sector. Augmentum invests in early and later stage fast growing fintech businesses that are disrupting the banking, insurance, asset management and wider financial services sectors. Augmentum is the only listed fintech-focused venture capital firm in the UK, having launched on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in 2018, giving businesses access to patient funding and support, unrestricted by conventional fund timelines.