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Dr. Hendrik Brandis is a Co-founder and Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, focusing on DeepTech (including energy and spacetech) and Enterprise Software. With over 27 years of investment, operational, and entrepreneurial experience, Hendrik has played a pivotal role in supporting and scaling cutting-edge technology startups across Europe. As a board member of several Earlybird portfolio companies, including top players Isar Aerospace, eleQtron, Greenlyte, Onefootball, B2X Care Solutions, and Simscale, he actively guides pioneering ventures.
Before co-founding Earlybird, Hendrik was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led the firm’s SME company initiative and helped establish McKinsey New Venture. Earlier in his career, he gained hands-on entrepreneurial and engineering experience as a Project Manager at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (now part of Airbus), specializing in the design and advanced manufacturing of composite aircraft structures.
Hendrik holds a Dipl.-Ing. (MSc equivalent) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Munich. He has also served as a board member of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) and as Chairman of the EVCA Venture Capital Platform Council, shaping the European investment landscape.
Outside of venture capital, Hendrik is a passionate world-champion sailor.
