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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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