EF’s Matt Wichrowski is joining Berlin enterprise and ‘deeptech’ seed firm Fly Ventures as partner
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EF's Matt Wichrowski is joining Berlin enterprise and 'deeptech' seed firm Fly Ventures as partner
Entrepeneur First, the London headquartered "talent investor" and company builder backed by Silicon Valley's Greylock, is losing long-time employee Matt Wichrowski to a career in venture capital.
TechCrunch has learned that Wichrowski, who is currently running EF's "Launch" programme in Europe and is an angel investor, is joining Berlin-based Fly Ventures where he'll be giving the enterprise and 'deeptech' seed investor a bigger presence in London.
He's expected to make the move officially in late February or early March and will split 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 provided TechCrunch with the following statement:
"I'm extremely excited to be joining the Fly team. While I haven't started yet it does feel like the perfect partnership for me to join. Their investment focus (enterprise and deeptech seed) aligns very very well with the portfolio I worked with at Entrepreneur First/angel investments. And I'm really excited to build a lot of operational excellence within the fund like global network cultivation and platform support for our entrepreneurs. 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 impressed and now having gotten to know them more in depth over the past few months I'm thrilled to call them my (future) partners."
Meanwhile, I understand that Fly Ventures will still be headed up by partners Fredrik Bergenlid (tech lead) and Gabriel Matuschk