Paul Klemm
Partner at Earlybird Investor
Paul Klemm
Partner at Earlybird Investor
Bavaria
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Principal
2020 - 2022
Associate
2019 - 2020
Analyst
2017 - 2019
Board Observer / Investor
2019
🦀 Aiven offers a fully managed, open source multi-cloud data platform 👫 Oskari Saarenmaa, Hannu Valtonen, Heikki Nousiainen, Mika Eloranta, 🦄 Earlybird led the $10m Series A and has ever been a supporter of the company. Total funding amounts to $420m+ (latest valuation at $3bn, Series D), co-investors include Lifeline Ventures, IVP, Atomico, Salesforce Ventures, World Innovation Lab, Eurazeo and Blackrock
Board Member / Investor
2021
🐝 HiveMQ is a cloud native messaging middleware that powers data movement for IoT and beyond 👫 Christian Götz, Dominik Obermaier, Christoph Schäbel 🌱 Earlybird led the €9.3m Series Seed in 04/2021, followed by co-leading the company's €40m Series A in May 2022. Co-investors include Senovo, Molten Ventures, Mubadala and Mirko Novakovic,
Board Observer / Investor
2019
🚀 Isar Aerospace is a European launch platform, creating access to space for small and medium-sized satellites 👫 Daniel Metzler, Josef Fleischmann, Markus Brandl 🌱 Earlybird co-led the €15m Series A as well as the €75m Series B. Total funding amounts to €155m+, co-investors include Vsquared, Airbus Ventures, Lakestar, HV Capital and Porsche SE
Board Member / Investor
2022
🐻 The remberg XRM is re-inventing CRMs to work for things 👫 David Hahn, Julian Madrzak, Cecil Wöbker, Hagen Schmidtchen 🌱 Earlybird led the €11m Series A in 02/2022, with co-investments from SpeedInvest, Fly Ventures, Hanno Renner, Bastian Nominacher, Michi Wax and Daniel Dines
Board Member / Investor
2022
🍉. Ripe is a B2B SaaS sales infrastructure, connecting product data with the sales stack to enable seamless PLG journeys 👫. Elin Lütz & Jonatan Dykert 🌱 Earlybird led Ripe's $2m pre-seed round in 09/2022, co-investors include Alliance Ventures, Johannes Schildt, Sara Brooks and many more B2B SaaS champions
Board Member / Investor
2022
👩💻. EdTech platform connecting world class tech operators (content creators) and talents (demand side) in live cohort-based classes 👫. Marius Hepp, Johannes Schnell-Kretschmer 🌱 Earlybird led Junto's €5m Seed round in 08/2022, co-investors include Emerge Education, Picus and an amazing angel lineup
Board Member / Investor
2021
🤲 Deed is a workforce giving platform, making it easy for employees to donate and volunteer with good causes 👫 Deevee Kashi, Steven Liu 🌱 Earlybird led the $10m Series A in 12/2021, with co-investments from Paua Ventures, Y Combinator, PruVen Capital and Dara Khosrowshahi
Board Member / Investor
2021
👩🏫 Edyoucated is thriving to become the next generation workforce development platform based on a granular understanding of skill-based learning 👫 Marius Vennemann, David Middelbeck, Jannik Weichert, Jan Papenbrock 🌱 Earlybird led the €2.1m Seed round in June 2021. Among others, early investors include First Momentum, the Flaschenpost team, Personio co-founder Ignaz Forstmeier and Christian Rebernik
Board Member / Investor
2018
🌇 Targomo is a cloud native location intelligence platform 👫 Henning Hollburg 🌱 Earlybird led the €5.5m Series Seed in 06/2018, co-investors include German Deep Tech