# Hummingbird Ventures

> Hummingbird Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 161 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Belgium
- Total investments: 161
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/hummigbird-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/HummingbirdVC
- Website: http://www.hummingbird.vc
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hummingbird-Ventures/148599205195838

Hummingbird Ventures is a venture capital partner for outlier founders building generational companies. Hummingbird teamed up with many transformative companies, including Kraken, Peak Games, Deliveroo, BillionToOne, Showpad, OneCard, Pristyn Care, Gram Games and many others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$24M |
| Series A | $2M–$35M |
| Series B | $4M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 12 | 7% |
| FinTech | 10 | 6% |
| Biotechnology | 10 | 6% |
| Internet | 9 | 6% |

141 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 40 | 25% |
| Seed | 38 | 24% |
| Series B | 19 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 6% |
| Series C | 7 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 17% |
| Turkey | 8 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 5% |
| India | 5 | 3% |
| Belgium | 5 | 3% |

19 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Akshay Mehra | Investor | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akshay-mehra-1f84 |
| Barend Van den Brande | Founding Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barend-van-den-brande |
| Firat Ileri | Partner | 30 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firat-ileri |
| Lola Wajskop | Investor | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lola-wajskop |
| Lukas Decoster | Chief Financial Officer & General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lukas-decoster |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OLIX | 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 |  |
| microagi | Full stack data solutions for embodied AI solutions. | $55M | Seed | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Monumental | 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 |  |
| Airwallex | 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 |  |
| Waypoint Bio | Optimizing cell therapy with spatial biology | $20M | Series A | May 27, 2026 |  |
| White Circle | White Circle detects and fixes AI vulnerabilities automatically, keeping your system under control. | $11M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| OLIX | 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 | Etched.ai designing specialized chips for language model inference. | $500M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Pristyn Care | Pristyn Care is a Health Care Startup that is disrupting Day Care Procedures. It is founded by Ex Consultant Surgeons from Medanta, Max, Birla and ex UrbanClap, Mobikwik Strategy & Business Head. Pristyn Care's team is young and passionate, and we see massive opportunity in the healthcare industry. By leveraging technology, and a set ofsimple yet powerful processes and operations, we wish to build an ecosystem which can organize the world of day care procedures. We are leveraging some of the most advanced tech developments in the field of healthcare for this goal. | $4M |  | Jul 23, 2025 |  |
| Pristyn Care | Pristyn Care is a Health Care Startup that is disrupting Day Care Procedures. It is founded by Ex Consultant Surgeons from Medanta, Max, Birla and ex UrbanClap, Mobikwik Strategy & Business Head. Pristyn Care's team is young and passionate, and we see massive opportunity in the healthcare industry. By leveraging technology, and a set ofsimple yet powerful processes and operations, we wish to build an ecosystem which can organize the world of day care procedures. We are leveraging some of the most advanced tech developments in the field of healthcare for this goal. | $4M | Series E | Jul 23, 2025 |  |

10 of 161 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Fifty Years](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifty-years) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Z47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-india) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hummingbird Ventures invest in?

Hummingbird Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 161 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 $1.1M–$24M at Seed, $2M–$35M at Series A and $4M–$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.

### How do I contact Hummingbird Ventures?

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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.

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