Cherry Ventures

Cherry Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs European founders, often acting as their first institutional investor. It focuses on seed and pre-seed investments across Europe and provides hands-on support in go-to-market strategy and scaling. The firm maintains offices in London, Paris, and Stockholm and backs companies across sectors such as fintech, consumer goods, health tech, industrials, climate tech, and software. Cherry Ventures has funded more than 50 seed-stage companies across Europe, including FlixBus and Infarm, reflecting an active, hands-on approach to helping startups achieve rapid growth.

Sophia Bendz

General Partner

Charlotte Bruce

Principal

Maximilian Brückner

Investor

Filip Dames

Partner

Yannis Heyken

Investor

Past deals in CAD

Trace.Space

Seed Round in 2025
Trace.Space is an AI-enhanced requirements management tool that enables engineers to capture, trace, and evolve product requirements without slowing their workflow. It features a simple UI, robust traceability, time-based and custom versioning, and item-level attributes, with flexible workflows that adapt to complex development processes. Designed in collaboration with engineers working on automotive, industrial, aerospace, and defence projects, the platform aims to improve productivity and product quality. It provides AI-powered capabilities to manage a substantial portion of the development lifecycle for industrial and automotive product manufacturers, helping them build and deliver new products to market faster.

Synera (ex-ELISE)

Series A in 2022
ELISE GmbH, established in 2018 as a spin-off from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, is based in Bremerhaven, Germany. The company specializes in software development aimed at enhancing the product development process for engineers. Its innovative platform enables users to visually create comprehensive workflows for automated product development, integrating established modeling and simulation tools with Generative Design. This approach allows engineers to efficiently design the technical DNA of their products, streamlining the entire development cycle.

Synera (ex-ELISE)

Seed Round in 2019
ELISE GmbH, established in 2018 as a spin-off from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, is based in Bremerhaven, Germany. The company specializes in software development aimed at enhancing the product development process for engineers. Its innovative platform enables users to visually create comprehensive workflows for automated product development, integrating established modeling and simulation tools with Generative Design. This approach allows engineers to efficiently design the technical DNA of their products, streamlining the entire development cycle.
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