Venture capital firm

Hummingbird Ventures

Compiled from public sources

Hummingbird Ventures is a London-headquartered venture capital firm, early-stage asset manager, and general partner founded in 2010 by Founder and Managing Partner Barend Van den Brande and Co-Founder Firat Ileri. Operating as a high-conviction, thesis-driven venture capital general partner backing outlier founders building generational companies globally, the firm's core investment strategy centres on leading and participating in Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. Hummingbird Ventures targets category-defining platforms operating across software-as-a-service (SaaS), artificial intelligence, healthtech, biotechnology, financial technology (fintech), and digital marketplaces.

Investment focus

Sectors
Financial servicesConsumerManufacturing and industrialsHealthcareTechnology
Stages and strategies
Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B+Growth
Instruments
Equity
Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Asia, Americas, Middle East

Funds managed

Selected portfolio and direct investments

  • Healthleap Inc.

Recent investments and transactions

All transactions

Sources

  1. Partner Researchers, accessed 14 November 2026