Barend Vanden Brande is a venture-capital investor who founded Hummingbird Ventures, an early-stage fund with notable crypto investments including Kraken. Barend Vanden Brande's Twitter Score is 7.2 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #124,223 among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Barend Vanden Brande also founded Nomads, a fund-of-funds, and launched Magnificent Grants in 2023. Hummingbird Ventures made an early-stage investment in Kraken in 2014, as well as an early-stage investment in Ready, a smart wallet for crypto, in 2017, with both positions now exited. Around that same period, Vanden Brande indicated that Hummingbird Ventures' third fund would extend its mandate to include crypto markets.
Barend Vanden Brande previously worked at Big Bang Ventures as a Managing Partner and before that served as a Financial Analyst at SG Cowen. Barend Vanden Brande has been active on X since 2011 and has published 203 posts. Barend Vanden Brande has been mentioned by 4 accounts, with 5 total mentions.
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