Current Firm
Hummingbird VC
Focus
Fintech, Biotech
Barend Van den Brande is a philosophy-driven venture investor at Hummingbird VC who approaches investing as an exercise in understanding human nature, opening internal memos with discussions of concepts like Cartesian dualism and focusing intensely on finding founders he calls beautiful misfits with non-linear lives and unusual cognitive wiring. He maintains extreme selectivity with roughly a 0.1% hit rate, investing in only four companies per year while also designing and building houses in challenging locations like the Alps as a creative outlet to balance the slow feedback cycles of venture capital.
Barend Van den Brande is a Founding Partner, Hummingbird VC at Hummingbird VC, based in London, UK.
Barend's investment focus spans Fintech, Biotech, Enterprise, Deeptech, Digital Health, SaaS, primarily investing at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+ stages. This specialization allows for deep domain knowledge and strong network effects that benefit portfolio companies.
Barend Van den Brande is a Founding Partner, Hummingbird VC at Hummingbird VC, based in London, UK. Their investment focus includes Fintech, Biotech, Enterprise.
Barend Van den Brande focuses on investments in Fintech, Biotech, Enterprise, Deeptech, Digital Health, SaaS through Hummingbird VC. These focus areas reflect their domain expertise and the types of startups they actively seek to back.
Barend Van den Brande is currently at Hummingbird VC, headquartered in London, UK, serving as Founding Partner, Hummingbird VC.