Andre Retterath

General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital | Founder Data Driven VC

📍 Greater Munich Metropolitan Area, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Germany20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Feb 2026
Recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery.
Board Member & Investor
Oct 2025
Global Voice AI Infrastructure - local to every customer Extending your voice stack across regions, models, and runtimes — compliant by default
Board Member & Investor
May 2025
TopK focuses on providing the most relevant search results while your engineering teams can focus on what matters the most - building your product. The platform combines AI-powered query understanding with adaptive ranking to provide the most relevant results in your domain. Get started today and have a look at our documentation.
Board Member & Investor
May 2025
SpAItial is pioneering Spatial Foundation Models (SFMs), a groundbreaking AI paradigm designed to generate and reason about the appearance and physics of real and imagined environments. SFMs possess an intrinsic understanding of space-time, enabling transformative shifts in applications at the intersection of virtual and physical worlds. Unlike existing generative AI technologies such as LLMs, image, or video models, SFMs operate natively in physical space. This significantly advances their cognitive capabilities, which mimics human understanding. SFMs promise to revolutionize various applications across industries, from creating immersive virtual worlds for gaming and entertainment, to advancing CAD engineering and construction, to powering next-generation VR/AR experiences, and enabling sophisticated, physically-intelligent robotics.
Board Member & Investor
Apr 2025
Easy to use digital assistants for small business owners. From social media, sales, recruiting and personal guidance. That can complete tasks 24/7 and on-demand. With integrations to most common platforms. Powered by your company knowledge. We believe the future of work is play.
Investor
Sep 2024
We’re the leading frontier AI research lab, continuously building the most advanced technology that shapes the visual understanding of the world. Our team pioneered Stable Diffusion, Stable Video Diffusion, and FLUX.1 and 2 – benchmarks in the evolution of generative AI. Today, these foundations power millions of creations worldwide, from individual artists to enterprise applications. Our most recent models power a wide range of products – turning imagination into reality with precision, speed, and creative control.
Board Member & Investor
Apr 2024
Ceartas.io is an AI-powered platform that protects creators, brands, and enterprises from piracy, IP theft, and deepfakes. By leveraging advanced AI, Ceartas detects illegal content online and issues swift takedown notices to websites and search engines. Founded to empower creators and businesses, Ceartas delivers seamless global protection through tailored services for individuals and enterprises. Trusted for its innovation, Ceartas is a leader in content protection.
Board Member / Seed Investor
Feb 2023
The EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System is a powerful software suite to achieve operational excellence at scale. Our products are used by world-leading manufacturers and have already proven to reduce production waste by up to 50% while increasing job satisfaction of factory workers. We aim for nothing less than setting a new gold standard for AI in manufacturing. To learn more about EthonAI, visit www.ethon.ai.
Board Member / Series A Investor
Aug 2022
Workist automates B2B transactions around the world to end manual document processing
Board Member / Series A Investor
Jul 2022
CELUS is a deep tech software venture based in Munich, Germany. The CELUS Design Platform uses AI and complex algorithms to automatically turn functions and requirements into fully functional electronics solutions. Our cloud solution selects all necessary components to generate the bill of materials and corresponding schematics: From thought to circuit in record time! Our software finds the right solution out of millions of possibilities. It selects digital twins of electronics components and electronic circuits, thereby replacing the PDF-based data sheets and application notes conventionally consulted in the design process of new projects. By automating many manual steps in the development process, we drastically shorten the time-to-market on top of extending the capacity and efficiency of your development teams. This way we are building a full ecosystem of component manufacturers, distributors, EDA suppliers and customers working together in a collaborative way.
Board Member & Investor
Apr 2022
Keel is what happens when three people need to build and scale an operations business with no help from off-the-shelf tooling. Before we founded Keel in 2022, we worked at Echo, Europe’s fastest growing online pharmacy that was later acquired by Pharmacy2U. As CEO, CTO and Head of Product, we worked across technology and physical operations shipping 50k medicines to 600k customers daily. When we left, the business had grown to £100m annual revenue. Through this journey, we built a ton of custom software to run our operations. We hadn’t intended to, but we had no choice. Off-the-shelf was inflexible, and we just needed to get things done! By building the tools ourselves, we realised that custom software massively raises the quality of ops, and also that most ops teams won’t ever have access to their own purpose-built tools. That’s why we built Keel. Keel offers operators all the benefits of custom software, without having a team of engineers to build it all for you. Engineers typically focus on revenue-generating activities, and we want ops teams to be able to deliver top quality output, time and again, through access to exceptional tooling. Keel bridges the gap between ops and eng. It’s accessible enough that an ops person can get all the insights and usable tools they need from it, but it’s built on engineering best practices so developers can enjoy extending it to meet the needs of your growing company. Whether you’re managing stock ordering or reimbursing expenses, there are in-built internal tools that help you do common processes out-of-the-box, and connecting to your other tech is seamless. And then it’s fully flexible, meaning your engineers can make it fit exactly your process and solve your exact problem, with no compromises and no rebuilding later. Our full service onboarding with our highly experienced team will get you set up and feeling confident, meaning you can be sure you’ve got the solution you need before you commit. Chat to us now!
Board Member / Series A Investor
Jul 2021
Aleph Alpha delivers cutting-edge AI innovation from research to deployment. Our full-stack solution, PhariaAI, enables enterprises and public institutions to build sovereign, secure, and trustworthy applications – without compromising control.
Board Member / Seed Investor
May 2021
Ctrl is committed to driving business growth by enhancing sales process adoption & efficiency. Positioned atop your existing CRM, our platform leverages advanced AI, from scoring your qualification criteria to automatically tracking whether key activities are met in each deal. This comprehensive approach ensures consistent deal execution and thorough inspection, boosting quota attainment and improving rep performance. Ctrl empowers your team to work effectively and improve key KPIs.
Board Member / Seed Investor
Apr 2021
thingsTHINKING differs from known approaches in NLP/NLU since it analyzes the meaning of concepts (aka semantics) of natural language. Therefore thingsTHINKING runs comprehensive and precise analyses not unlike a human agent. Studies with large companies show the validity of this concept in various areas. Capturing the meaning of sentences is the centerpiece of thingsTHINKING‘s technology and can be transferred to other use cases like Bots, Requirements Engineering, Auditing, LegalTech, InsurTech and many other AI aspects that can be augmented using semantic analysis. thingsTHINKING is tried and tested with industry partners. We work with suppliers of virtual assistants and other vendors in the AI space, the automotive industry as well as the “Big Four” in the areas auditing and tax.
Board Member / Seed Investor
Dec 2020
Korial is the enterprise artificial intelligence platform that makes fully autonomous industrial operations possible – across any asset, any device, any environment, and any scale. By unifying robots, drones, sensors, and data into one AI operating layer, it continuously turns raw telemetry into verified insight and orchestrated action that improves safety, reliability and efficiency.
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Feb 2026
Recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery.
2025
Board Member & Investor
Oct 2025
Global Voice AI Infrastructure - local to every customer Extending your voice stack across regions, models, and runtimes — compliant by default
Board Member & Investor
May 2025
TopK focuses on providing the most relevant search results while your engineering teams can focus on what matters the most - building your product. The platform combines AI-powered query understanding with adaptive ranking to provide the most relevant results in your domain. Get started today and have a look at our documentation.
Board Member & Investor
May 2025
SpAItial is pioneering Spatial Foundation Models (SFMs), a groundbreaking AI paradigm designed to generate and reason about the appearance and physics of real and imagined environments. SFMs possess an intrinsic understanding of space-time, enabling transformative shifts in applications at the intersection of virtual and physical worlds. Unlike existing generative AI technologies such as LLMs, image, or video models, SFMs operate natively in physical space. This significantly advances their cognitive capabilities, which mimics human understanding. SFMs promise to revolutionize various applications across industries, from creating immersive virtual worlds for gaming and entertainment, to advancing CAD engineering and construction, to powering next-generation VR/AR experiences, and enabling sophisticated, physically-intelligent robotics.
Board Member & Investor
Apr 2025
Easy to use digital assistants for small business owners. From social media, sales, recruiting and personal guidance. That can complete tasks 24/7 and on-demand. With integrations to most common platforms. Powered by your company knowledge. We believe the future of work is play.
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