Cherry Ventures (V)

Germany

Seed

About Cherry Ventures (V)

Cherry Ventures (V) is a venture capital firm based in Germany, focusing on Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, Climate & Sustainability, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionGermany

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

Ai Ml

Climate Sustainability

Saas

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Technical European founders building AI-native, agent-first B2B software

AI agents

open source

developer tools

data infrastructure

Generative UX

outcome-based SaaS

clean energy / climate

Europe-first

AI coworkers

Bullish Signals

Portfolio co launches open-source AI agent toolexternal

31% accuracy gain, 70% cost reduction benchmarkexternal

€500M raised, targeting Europe's first $1T coexternal

16 new portfolio cos in 2025 aloneexternal

€1B follow-on raised by portfolio in 2025external

4 exits in 2025external

Plato $14.5M seed — led by Atomicoexternal

Co-Power seed led by Cherry — energy infraexternal

Entire launches repo agent platform, open sourcesocial

Proxima Fusion €411M raises, now €2.4B valuedsocial

Dash0 founder: founder-led sales essential at scalesocial

Plato flags churn, surfaces upsells, automates workflowssocial

35 events across 14 cities, 5 new team memberssocial

Tellidot raised $15M for AI customer ops platformsocial

Heywa Labs $5M seed, London generative UX startupsocial

Ben Series B $27.5M (Mercia, Atomico co-led)social

Kiku €4M to redefine frontline conversational hiringsocial

Swap adds CFO/CTO/SVP — scaling to 10K merchantssocial

Black Forest Labs: Martin Scorsese as advisorsocial

Contrarian Signals

Portfolio exit via acquisition (Rows → Superhuman)external

Broad thesis: energy + edtech + AI agentsexternal

Backing non-SaaS: fusion (Proxima), conversational hiring (Kiku)social

Backing celebrity advisors (Scorsese at BFL)social

Founder Do's

Build open source with clear benchmarks

Show cost + accuracy improvements

Focus on agent-native infra

Think first principles on new interaction paradigms

Target large legacy markets with AI overlay

Hire world-class operators early (CFO/CTO/product leads)

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch incremental SaaS — outcome-based required

Don't ignore Europe-first narrative

Don't skip founder-led sales at early stage

Key GPs & Partners

Filip Dames

Partner

thought leaderSaaS-nativeEurope-focused

Dinika Mahtani

Partner

Generative UXmedia-visibleEurope advocate

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$500M

Saves0

Website

Key People

Filip Dames, Christian Meermann

Filip DamesPartner

Dinika MahtaniPartner

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