Cloudberry VC

About Cloudberry VC

Cloudberry VC is Europe's first dedicated semiconductor-focused venture fund with €30M. Based in Helsinki and London, backed by strategic partners like GlobalFoundries. Invests €400K-€1M in pre-seed and seed stage startups working on semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionFinland

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

Investor Signals Profile

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Sweet Spot

European pre-seed/seed founders building semiconductor, photonics, or advanced materials startups

semiconductors

photonics

heterogeneous computing

advanced materials

deep-tech hardware

Bullish Signals

€30M first close announced, actively seeking core portfolio companies nowblog

Strategic partners GlobalFoundries and Radiant provide portfolio companies manufacturing accessblog

Only European VC fully dedicated to semiconductors — no competition in nicheblog

Active at EPIC Summit — stronger pipeline, sharpened photonics thesislinkedin

European photonics ecosystem flagged as large and ambitiouslinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Rejects software-style narratives; hardware timelines and capital intensity are non-negotiableblog

Not interested in incremental transistor shrink plays — wants architectural reinventionblog

Founder Do's

Show system-level innovation, not just incremental chip improvements

Highlight European roots and access to local manufacturing or research infrastructure

Demonstrate understanding of long timelines and capital intensity upfront

Connect your tech to AI, energy, mobility, or defense use cases

Engage early — Fund I is actively building its core portfolio now

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch SaaS-style growth narratives for hardware companies

Don't underestimate scaling assumptions — misaligned timelines are a known failure mode

Don't approach without deep technical differentiation at the architecture or materials level

Key GPs & Partners

Cloudberry VC Team

General Partners

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Fund Overview

Fund Size€30M

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Key People

Rene Kromhof, Veera Pietikäinen, Lawrence Lundy-Bryan, Tuomas Hollman, Lukas Steinmann

Cloudberry VC TeamGeneral Partners