Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath is a General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital in Munich and the founder of Data Driven VC, a widely read publication and community focused on applying data, automation, and AI to venture capital. He leads Earlybird's engineering team and the development of its proprietary data-driven platform EagleEye, and invests in AI, software infrastructure, developer tools, and robotics. He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Munich, where his research focused on machine learning and the value of data in venture capital.
“What used to be a spreadsheet, a Salesforce instance, and a shared inbox has turned into stacks of dozens of specialized tools, in-house AI models, and increasingly, software that firms build themselves”
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Source→“Graduation rates have collapsed from historic norms to roughly a fifth of companies, forcing a fundamental rebuild of fund models.”
“Stay driven, Andre”
“Every firm can now see the same companies on the same morning. The databases made sure of that, and the AI sourcing tools on top of them made it faster.”
“When fourteen firms see a company in the same week, the question that decides who invests is not who saw it, it is what happened next.”
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