Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath is a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital in Munich, where he leads the firm's AI and infrastructure investment practice. He leads Earlybird's engineering team in building EagleEye, a proprietary AI-powered sourcing and screening platform, and writes the Data-Driven VC newsletter on leveraging data and AI in venture capital. He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Munich focused on machine learning and the value of data in venture capital, and serves on the boards of companies including Aleph Alpha, Energy Robotics, and Ethon.AI.
“Why data governance ends up split three ways at Accel, and who owns which piece.”
Source→“The article surfaces four distinct real-world models (Chapter One, Accel, Georgian, RTP Global), implying there is no consensus answer”
Source→“shares firsthand experience scaling Earlybird's engineering team from one associate to eight FTEs and back down to three senior engineers”
Source→“The article's full panel discussion is paywalled. The summary below is drawn entirely from the substantive free-text content (the author's framing, the panel topic teaser, and the participant bios) plus the panel screenshot.”
Source→“Rahul Nath, Chief Product Officer at Accel... Jameson Seidel, General Partner at Chapter One... Madalin Mihailescu, CTO at Georgian... Jelmer de Jong, Partner at RTP Global...”
Source→“Structure the week to protect cognitive white space as a deliberate resource.”
“This leads to perhaps the most important question David asked me: If every VC has access to the same AI models, where does alpha come from?”
“When I joined Earlybird in 2017, I encountered something that surprised me. Some of the smartest people I'd ever met were spending enormous amounts of time doing repetitive manual work.”
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