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Akash Bajwa

Principal at Earlybird Investor

United Kingdom

Overview 

Akash Bajwa is a Principal at Earlybird Venture Capital in the United Kingdom, specializing in investing in Seed stage companies in the Web3/Crypto and FinTech sectors. With a background in investment management, private equity, and audit, Akash has successfully invested in companies like Payable and held roles at renowned organizations like Barclays and Deloitte UK.

Work Experience 

  • Principal

    2024 - Current

    Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests at pre-seed to Series A across Europe. With EUR 2.5 billion under management across fund streams and a history of 9 IPOs and 33 trade sales, Earlybird is among Europe’s most established and active venture capital firms.

  • Investor

    2022 - 2024

  • Investor

    2025

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor

    2024

  • Investor

    2024

  • Board Observer

    2022

  • Investor

    2022 - 2025

  • Board Observer (Acquired by Sana AI)

    2023 - 2024

  • London Chapter Lead

    2022 - 2024

EVCA is a non-profit association that supports the next generation of venture capital investors.

  • Investment Team

    2020 - 2022

    Augmentum Fintech PLC is one of Europe’s leading venture capital investors focusing exclusively on the fintech sector. Augmentum invests in early and later stage fast growing fintech businesses that are disrupting the banking, insurance, asset management and wider financial services sectors. Augmentum is the only listed fintech-focused venture capital firm in the UK, having launched on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in 2018, giving businesses access to patient funding and support, unrestricted by conventional fund timelines.

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