Nomads Team1
Firat is the Managing Partner at Hummingbird. His current portfolio includes Aspire, BillionToOne, Brigit and Kernal Biologics. He previously worked with Frontier Car Group, Gram Games, Peak Games and Merlin prior to their acquisition.
Barend is the founder of Hummingbird, Nomads and Magnificent Grants with over 20+ years of venture capital experience. He is involved with Showpad, Kraken and Pristyn Care.
Wouter is a Partner at Hummingbird involved in Nomads. Prior to this, he spent 10+ years in venture as founding partner at Greyhound Capital, and as MD at Atomico leading value creation. Wouter is also the founder of The Big Search, Europe's leading executive search firm for technology.
Wouter has an MSc in Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Lukas is a Partner at Hummingbird, involved a.o. with Automata and Basecamp Research. Joining in 2016, Lukas structured both Hummingbird's and Nomad's operations including fund management, portfolio investments, investor relations and continues to lead the operations team across the two.
Yavuzhan leads the investment activities as a part of the Nomads team. Prior to Hummingbird, he was an early-stage investor focused on CEE and Turkey. He also worked at Oliver Wyman where he advised financial institutions on strategy and risk.
He studied mathematics at Bogazici University and did his graduate studies in finance at the London School of Economics
Jordan leads the research activities as a part of the Nomads team. Prior to Hummingbird he founded Vineyard Holdings, a long-short public markets firm, and worked as a strategy consultant advising financial institutions on corporate development and digital strategy.
He studied Law and Economics at Stellenbosch University