Earlybird Venture Capital, one of Europe’s most famous venture capital firms, today announces the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of Jason Whitmire who joins as Partner, focusing on early stage venture investing in mobile services, cloud computing, and digital media technologies.
Until June 2010 he served as General Manager & Vice President at Wind River Systems, where he founded and managed the company’s high growth mobile business (which according to the Wall Street Journal was the motivation behind Intel’s acquisition of Wind River for $884 million in July 2009). Previously Jason was shareholder and Managing Director of open source real-time Linux provider FSMLabs Inc. and played a key role in its acquisition by Wind River in 2007. Prior to that Mr. Whitmire co-founded the software business at Infineon Technologies, where he led the global licensing business for Infineon’s wireless software subsidiary, Comneon GmbH.
