# Earlybird Digital East Fund

> Earlybird Digital East Fund is a VC fund in Istanbul. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Earlybird Digital East Fund is an investment firm that focuses on early stage companies in Eastern Europe and Turkey.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$10M |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Picus | Picus developed a novel and holistic approach to IT security: Continuous Security Validation. The Picus Security Validation Platform simulates real-world cyber threats to evaluate and optimize cybersecurity measures, ensuring organizations are prepared for potential security breaches. Picus enables businesses to test their security controlscontinuously, identifying gaps and weaknesses in their defenses. The company's technology integrates with existing security tools, providing actionable insights to enhance an organization’s ability to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber-attacks. | $45M | Series C | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Picus | Picus developed a novel and holistic approach to IT security: Continuous Security Validation. The Picus Security Validation Platform simulates real-world cyber threats to evaluate and optimize cybersecurity measures, ensuring organizations are prepared for potential security breaches. Picus enables businesses to test their security controlscontinuously, identifying gaps and weaknesses in their defenses. The company's technology integrates with existing security tools, providing actionable insights to enhance an organization’s ability to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber-attacks. | $45M | Series C | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| FintechOS | FintechOS is driving a paradigm shift in the way financial products and services are created by making banks and insurers truly customer-centric. We consolidate critical data from multiple sources like existing databases and ecosystem APIs and these rich data insights are automatically plugged into every step of the customer journey to create trulypersonalized offerings. Our tech integrates seamlessly with existing IT systems and our low code tools quickly empower organizations to design personalized customer experiences. These capabilities free our customers to tailor products, services, and interactions to a segment of one, increase ROI and decrease time-to-market. | $60M | Series B | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Simr (formerly UberCloud) | UberCloud helps enterprises migrate their complex engineering workflows to the cloud. Engineers can run their simulation tools with high performance and reliability. UberCloud's complete software platform lets enterprises build flexible HPC services in their own cloud accounts, delivering business agility and lower TCO. With deep expertise inapplications such as Ansys, UberCloud delivers a high performance solution that is secure and easy to administer.For software vendors (ISVs) UberCloud's software containers dramatically simplify software maintenance and support. UberCloud's application containers are fully portable, accessible, and usable on workstations, and servers, and any cloud. Software containers are currently available for software from ANSYS, CD-adapco/Siemens, Dassault, Mathworks, COMSOL, NICE, Numeca, OpenFOAM, SIMULIA, etc., on computing clouds from Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, among others. | $20M | Series A | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Midas | Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks. | $45M | Series A | Apr 19, 2024 |  |
| Midas | Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks. | $45M | Series A | Apr 19, 2024 |  |
| Draftwise | DraftWise provides an AI-powered contract and negotiation platform that assists law firms in procuring quality contracts. The company's platform provides lawyers with data-driven intelligence that improves the contract workflow, from first draft to client win. | $20M | Series A | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| Upstash | Upstash develops serverless data platform for developers of data-intensive applications using a consumption-based pricing model. | $10M | Series A | Feb 08, 2024 |  |
| Sessions | Sessions is a platform for one-of-a-kind meetings and webinars. Sessions provides marketers and sales professionals with everything they need to avoid the Frazzle and conduct effective meetings that constantly wow with a combination of automatic scheduling, video conferencing, embedded files, and apps that keep everything on schedule. | $1.6M | Seed | Jan 04, 2024 |  |
| Binalyze | Automated Investigation and Response Platform Powered by Digital Forensics | $19M | Series A | Sep 12, 2023 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 42 deals together
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [OTB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/otb-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Riverwood Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverwood-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Turkven Private Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/turkven-private-equity) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What is Earlybird Digital East Fund's check size?

Earlybird Digital East Fund typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Earlybird Digital East Fund participates in.

### When did Earlybird Digital East Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Earlybird Digital East Fund closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 45 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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