Andre Retterath is a General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital based in the firm's Munich office, where his stated focus is Software Infra & Models. Earlybird states he joined the Munich office in 2017 to launch and head the firm's AI and infrastructure investment practice, with emphasis on frontier models, databases, and developer, design and automation tools. He also leads the Earlybird Flywheel team across engineering, marketing and communications, community and events, and portfolio acceleration. Before Earlybird he spent over five years as a process automation engineer at ThyssenKrupp and worked as a management consultant with GE North America.
Education
PhD, Technical University of Munich (thesis: Machine Learning and the Value of Data in Venture Capital)
MSc in Management
BEng in Mechatronics Engineering
Studies at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Georgia Institute of Technology
Previous Experience
Process automation engineer, ThyssenKrupp (over 5 years)