EF’s Matt Wichrowski is becoming a member of Berlin enterprise and ‘deeptech’ seed agency Fly Ventures as companion

Posted On Jan 14, 2020 By admin With Comments Off

Entrepeneur First, the London headquartered” knack investor” and companionship builder backed by Silicon Valley’s Greylock, is losing long-time employee Matt Wichrowski to a job in venture capital.

TechCrunch was discovered that Wichrowski, who is currently running EF’s ” Start ” programme in Europe and is an angel investor, is attaching Berlin-based Fly Ventures where he’ll be giving the enterprise and’ deeptech’ grain investor a bigger presence in London.

He’s expected to conclude the travel officially in late February or early March and will divide his time between Berlin and London. It is also thought that Wichrowski’s recruitment will coincide with Fly Venture beginning to invest out of its rumoured second fund.

Confirming that he is joining Fly Ventures, Wichrowski supported TechCrunch with the next statement 😛 TAGEND

” I’m excessively aroused to be joining the Fly team. While I haven’t started yet it does definitely sounds like the perfect partnership for me to join. Their investment focus( endeavor and deeptech seed) aligns unusually very well with the portfolio I worked with at Entrepreneur First/ angel speculations. And I’m really excited to build a lot of operational excellence within the fund like global system cultivation and stage support for our inventors. But for sure the most exciting element for me is the team I’ll be working with. I’ve worked with Fly via EF for a few years now and have always been affected and now having gotten to know them more in depth over the past few months I’m thrilled to call them my( future) spouses .”

Meanwhile, I understand that Fly Ventures will still be pate up by marriages Fredrik Bergenlid( tech cause) and Gabriel Matuschka( investment extend ), and there are no plans to open an formal London office as such — Berlin shall be maintained Fly’s home.

However, the VC firm has already made a number of deep tech investments in the U.K ., including Wayve, Bloomsbury AI( exited to Facebook ), and Scape. The latter two were co-investments with EF, while the broader thinking is that deep tech investing in Europe asks U.K. coverage, hence Wichrowski’s appointment.

To that result, Wichrowski’s has been actively involved with the U.K. early-stage tech scene for several years, including angel backing CloudNC , among other. He proceeded over to the U.K. in 2014, from his home in Chicago, when he studied for an MBA at London Business School. He’s worked at Entrepreneur First since 2016 and constructed much of the company builder’s seed stage funding produce. Wichrowski likewise devoted 18 months working for EF out of Boston, where he preceded U.S. investor relations and system building.

Sources at EF tell me Wichrowski is highly regarded amongst the leadership team, while EF itself has come a long way since 2016. A fun happening: he primarily participated EF on a 3 month contract but has ended up doing a four year stint at the company builder. Not a bad control, I’d say.