Philipp Semmer

Philipp Semmer is a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital and the Co-founder of U2V, operating out of Berlin, Germany. At U2V, he manages an independent €60 million fund dedicated to financing deeptech university spinouts, while continuing to oversee his existing portfolio at Earlybird X. His recent investment activity includes participating in a €7 million funding round for TastyUrban in 2025, an €8 million round for AIPERIA in 2024, and a €3 million financing round for Involve Space. Before transitioning to venture capital as a Partner at Motu Ventures in 2013, he spent seven years as a Partner at the international law firm Hogan Lovells and worked as an Associate at Sullivan and Cromwell. Semmer leverages his legal expertise and academic foundation from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to focus on early-stage deeptech, Web3, and FinTech investments.