Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund
Gent, Belgium
Hummingbird Ventures is a venture capital partner for outlier founders building generational companies. Hummingbird teamed up with several transformative companies, including Kraken, BillionToOne, Lovable, Etched, Peak Games, Deliveroo and many others.
- Total investments:
- 171
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
- Fund size:
- $140M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Hummingbird Ventures invests in
Stages Hummingbird Ventures invests in
Countries Hummingbird Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$24M
- Series A
- $2M–$51M
- Series B
- $2.5M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 19 (11%)
- FinTech 13 (8%)
- Financial Services 13 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (6%)
- Internet 10 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 46 (27%)
- Seed 41 (24%)
- Series B 23 (13%)
- Series C 7 (4%)
- Series D 6 (4%)
Country
- United States 33 (19%)
- Turkey 8 (5%)
- United Kingdom 8 (5%)
- India 5 (3%)
- Belgium 5 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Akshay Mehra
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Barend Van den Brande
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Firat Ileri
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 32 | Find email | |
Lola Wajskop
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Lukas Decoster
Chief Financial Officer & General Counsel
|
Chief Financial Officer & General Counsel | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our mission at HealthLeap is to improve global health through better nutrition. We're addressing one of the most significant contributors to global deaths by building a clinical assistant to help healthcare professionals better treat/prevent disease-related malnutrition — the "silent killer" that worsens health outcomes fornearly all sick patients. It is associated with a 3-5x increase in mortality during a hospital stay and affects 30-50% of all hospital patients, but only 5% are diagnosed. | $30M / Series A / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Watney Robotics specializes in the development of autonomous robotic systems designed to operate and manage data centers and supercomputing infrastructure. By partnering with hyperscale computing providers, Watney Robotics aims to facilitate significant computational scaling. The company's innovative solutions focus on automating physicalinfrastructure tasks, thereby increasing efficiency and reliability in data center operations. Recently, Watney Robotics secured funding from A* and Abstract, underscoring investor confidence in their mission and technological capabilities. | $80M / Series A / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation. | $312M / Series B / Aug 03, 2026 | ||
| Full stack data solutions for embodied AI solutions. | $55M / Seed / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Monumental develops autonomous robotics and software systems for the construction industry, with a focus on automating on-site masonry and building workflows. Its technology combines a fleet of autonomous robots with Atrium, an integrated software platform that plans, coordinates, monitors, and manages robotic construction activities. The companydesigns and operates its robotics hardware, machine vision systems, and software to enable robots to work alongside construction teams on active job sites. Its solutions support tasks such as bricklaying, site mapping, project planning, progress tracking, and quality monitoring through a unified digital workflow. Monumental deploys its technology on residential, commercial, and infrastructure construction projects to improve the consistency and efficiency of repetitive building processes while integrating with existing construction practices. | $32M / Series B / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system. | $320M / Series H / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Optimizing cell therapy with spatial biology | $20M / Series A / May 27, 2026 | ||
| White Circle detects and fixes AI vulnerabilities automatically, keeping your system under control. | $11M / Seed / May 12, 2026 | ||
| OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation. | $220M / Series A / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Etched.ai designing specialized chips for language model inference. | $500M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| See all 171 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Hummingbird Ventures invest in?
Hummingbird Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 171 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Hummingbird Ventures's check size?
Hummingbird Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$24M at Seed, $2M–$51M at Series A and $2.5M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hummingbird Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Hummingbird Ventures?
The team at Hummingbird Ventures includes Akshay Mehra (Investor), Barend Van den Brande (Founding Partner) and Firat Ileri (Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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