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Lunar Ventures Fund II

Geography: Germany
Stage: Pre-Seed
Fund size: €50M
Focus: AI/ML and SaaS
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Lunar Ventures Fund II

Lunar Ventures Fund II is a venture capital firm based in Germany, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionGermany

Funding StagePre-Seed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

SaaS

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Technical deep-tech founder, day zero, Europe, unglamorous hard problem

deep tech

pre-seed / day zero

technical founders

FHE / AI infra

sovereign AI

agentic automation

DeSci

local-first

multi-agent systems

hard problems only

Bullish Signals

Zama: 1st fully homomorphic encryption unicornexternal

Portfolio: FHE, sovereign AI, DeSci, agentic automationexternal

Called 'best deep-tech fund Europe'external

Early in FHE, Transformers, Local-Firstexternal

Founders: 'actually add value' — Zama CEOwebsite

Acts as senior data scientist on teamwebsite

Multiple founder endorsements, unprompted, glowingwebsite

Portfolio: Zama, Deepset, Otera, Electric-SQL, Moleculewebsite

Founders call them 'no-brainer for pre-seed'website

In trenches pre-hype: FHE, Transformers, Local-Firstwebsite

Low-ego technical partner, in it when countswebsite

Built to be partner they wish existedwebsite

Rand Hindi (Zama): 'only VC for pre-seed'external

Mehak Mumtaz (iLoF): 'no-brainer for pre-seed'external

Milos Rusic (Deepset): 'best deep-tech fund Europe'external

James Arthur (Electric-SQL): 'very hard to express how good'external

Contrarian Signals

Very niche: deep tech + day zero onlyexternal

No individual GP names or bios listedexternal

Founder Do's

Be technical founder, day zero stage

Work on hard, real problems only

Show deep domain expertise in trenches

Expect hands-on technical support, data science rigor

Seek GP who acts like senior data scientist

Founder Don'ts

No hype-driven pitches, avoid post-seed

Skip shallow tech narratives

Don't approach if not hard-problem focused

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size€50M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Alberto Cresto, Mick Halsband, Elad Verbin

Lunar FundFund (Collective Entity)

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