Cherry Ventures
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Cherry Ventures is an early-stage, pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2012. It invests in European founders across various sectors, with a focus on seed-stage startups.
Cherry Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in B2B software, fintech, industrials and healthtech. Its stated cheque size is €2 million and €7 million. 130 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We don’t invest in companies. We invest in founders.”
— Cherry Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Europe
- Sectors
- B2B software, fintech, industrials, healthtech, climatetech, consumer
- Cheque size
- €2 million and €7 million
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 130 companies
Team, as Cherry Ventures publishes it
- Filip Dames Founding Partner
- Christian Meermann Founding Partner
- Dinika Mahtani Partner
- Sophia Bendz Partner
- Victor Huerbe Principal
- Nadja Reischel Principal
- Lily Petherick Investor
- Julius de Gruyter Investor
- Patrick Doran Investor
- Lutz Finger Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on cherry.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 co-investors found.
- Vsquared Ventures 2 shared companies: exploration.space, fundrbird.com
- Balderton Capital 1 shared company: exploration.space
- EQT Ventures 1 shared company: exploration.space
- EQT Ventures 1 shared company: exploration.space
- Omnes Capital 1 shared company: exploration.space
- Plural 1 shared company: exploration.space
- Red River West 1 shared company: exploration.space
- Rymdkapital 1 shared company: exploration.space
- Sophia Business Angels 1 shared company: exploration.space
- 365 Capital 1 shared company: fundrbird.com
and 41 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cherry Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://cherry.vc/name, is_investor, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, status, confidence
- https://cherry.vc/aboutlayer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, description, founded, portfolio_count
- https://cherry.vc/teampeople
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Record 148 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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