Ferdinand Dansard

VC @ Earlybird

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Unconditional service provider, sparring partner & cheerleader to entrepreneurs. Curious VC investor mostly excited about the AI stack - from infrastructure up to applied AI across verticals.

Experience

  • Investor at Earlybird Venture Capital
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Backing founders from Pre-Seed to Series A

  • Merantix Capital (Berlin, Germany)
    • Fundraising Associate to the CEO
      Apr 2022 - Oct 2022 · 7 mos

      Supporting Cambrium to prepare, manage, and secure its Seed round

    • Venture Architect
      Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 · 6 mos

      Ideating, validating, and incubating new AI venture cases as well as supporting all portfolio founders in fundraising

    • Business Development
      May 2021 - Sep 2021 · 5 mos

      Swiss Army Knife

  • Product at Trade Republic
    2020 - 2021 · 1 yr

    Managing and owning the "AI Automation" project Scaling from 50 to 500 employees

  • Growth at Pleo
    2019 - 2020 · 1 yr

    Launching new markets in Germany, Sweden & Ireland Scaling from 70 to 250 employees

  • Brand Ambassador at N26
    2018 - 2020 · 2 yrs

    Marketing N26 in Europe & US