Berlin · Pre-Seed–Seed · 16 people tracked
Investment thesis
Lunar Ventures invests in technical founders from day zero, favoring companies solving hard technology problems with real underlying tech and avoiding hype-driven bets. The firm emphasizes early conviction in emerging technologies, having engaged with areas such as fully homomorphic encryption, transformer models, and local-first software ahead of the mainstream. It positions itself as a technically sharp, low-ego partner that adds hands-on value, particularly at the pre-seed stage. Founders describe the firm as offering deep technical expertise akin to having a senior data scientist embedded on their team, and it presents itself as a leading deep-tech fund in Europe.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directories
What they invest in
from 23 of 24 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Developer Tools ×7Enterprise Software ×7SaaS ×7Biotech ×5Cloud Computing ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Crypto & Web3 ×3
HQs:United Kingdom×4United States×2Germany×1Finland×1France×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×62 founders×5
Where their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with education data
Imperial College London ×2Technical University of Munich ×2University of Bristol ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2University of Cambridge ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 11 founders with career history
Dyson ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 24 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22023 · 14 dated
Axiom Therapeutics runs a drug discovery platform for covalent inhibitors, applying machine learning to speed up physics-based simulations.
BiotechLondon, GB
Ryan Geiser(CEO)inChris Haggard(CTO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstSamos InvestmentsTranspose Platform Management
data.world offers a data marketplace that presents an organization's most-used data products in an e-commerce-style shopping experience, with domain-based organization and curated views.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsAKAR Ventures llcATPmark vcTexas VenturesUpslope VenturesAlbionVC+5 more
deepset builds Haystack, an open platform for creating, running, and governing AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, with an open-source foundation and an enterprise platform.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Milos Rusic(Founder)inMalte Pietsch(Founder)in
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Balderton CapitalSignalRank
Data platform for multi-agent applications.
Embucket is a managed SaaS repatriation platform that hosts bespoke rewrites of third-party SaaS on a customer's enterprise lakehouse, with an initial product offering a Snowflake-compatible, bring-your-own-cloud drop-in for Snowflake workloads.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsSchematic Ventures
Emm develops a medical-grade silicone menstrual cup embedded with ultra-thin sensors that tracks cycle metrics such as flow, duration, and frequency to give users personalised insights into their menstrual health.
Digital HealthFemTechHardware
Jenny Button(Founder)
Co-investorsBlue Lion GlobalSie VenturesStart CodonWormhole CapitalAlumni Ventures
Fermat provides a suite of AI tools with simple, form-based interfaces aimed at designers and creative teams, letting them generate work and adjust parameters to iterate.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaS
Pol Baladas(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetaworksBlue Wire CapitalCourtside VenturesGreylock PartnersQED Investors
GameFabric is a developer-first platform for deploying, scaling, and managing multiplayer game server fleets across bare metal and cloud infrastructure, including SteelShield DDoS protection engineered for UDP/TCP game traffic.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGaming
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Upfront VenturesFounders Fund
iLoF operates a cloud-based library of optical fingerprints built with photonics and AI, offering a non-invasive, blood-based screening test that stratifies patients for clinical trials.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthLondon, GB
Co-investorsFaberLince CapitalSie Ventures
Lodestar is developing Mithril, an autonomous AI system intended to fly defensive satellites in orbit.
Space TechEl Segundo, US
Neil Buchanan(CEO)inThomas Santini(CTO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstInflection.xyz
Molecule operates a blockchain-based platform supporting decentralized science (DeSci), funding research projects and connecting scientists and entrepreneurs.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechCrypto & Web3
Paul Kohlhaas(Founder)in
Co-investorsCompoundChemistryMercury FundSutter Hill Ventures
Molecule builds a blockchain-based ecosystem that connects scientists and entrepreneurs working on decentralized science projects, with a focus on AI-driven drug discovery and research funding.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechCrypto & Web3
Co-investorsFifty YearsInflection.xyzShine CapitalAME Cloud VenturesCherubic VenturesKdT Ventures
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York City, US
Co-investorsMomenta VenturesTechstarsFly VenturesSeraphim Space
Neurolabs provides near-real-time visibility into promotional compliance, pricing accuracy, product availability, and display execution for CPG brands through a crowdsourced field network.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechRetail Tech
Paul Pop(Founder)inPatric Fulop(Founder)in
Co-investorsNauta CapitalTechstart VenturesLAUNCHub Ventures
DeepOpinion builds an agentic AI platform aimed at automating the complex, manual work that bridges gaps between enterprise systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTechSaaS
Co-investorsHoxton Ventures
Otera builds an agentic AI platform that automates complex manual workflows across enterprise systems, addressing inefficiencies in the global enterprise software market.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsAlpha Intelligence Capital
Reach Industries builds frontier technologies for scientific and industrial work, starting with a visual AI copilot for laboratories.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechRoboticsLondon, GB
Chris Beck(Founder)inSilas Adekunle(CEO)in
Co-investorsBreakout VenturesEntrepreneur First
SemiQon develops silicon-based, cryo-optimized CMOS quantum processors aimed at making quantum computers more scalable, affordable, and sustainable.
HardwareQuantum ComputingSemiconductors
Janne Lehtinen(Co-founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsQAI VenturesVoima Ventures
Unify provides AI agents that handle routine business tasks across communications, sales, operations, and engineering by executing pre-built workflows or custom automation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSLondon, GB
Daniel Lenton(Founder)in
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstraction CapitalBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis CapitalSamsung Next+9 more
Wasp is an open-source framework for building full-stack web applications, using a configuration file to handle boilerplate for features like authentication, database, and deployment.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsHV Capital
WNSTN provides a white-label AI personalization and engagement layer that financial institutions, broker-dealers, and investing platforms embed into their customer experiences, offering personalized market insights, chat, and analytics across 70,000+ instruments and 7 asset classes.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Xorq provides a shared, executable semantic catalog and multi-engine execution layer that lets AI agents run governed queries against enterprise data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, Postgres, DuckDB, S3) with verification, lineage tracing, and caching.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Zama provides a protocol that encrypts transaction amounts, balances, and commercial references on public blockchains while keeping addresses public, enabling confidential onchain corporate payments such as cross-border vendor settlement, marketplace payouts, and treasury flows.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecurityDeep TechFintechSilicon Valley, FR
Rand Hindi(Founder)in
Co-investorsHack VCMetaplanetMulticoin CapitalStake CapitalVsquared VenturesBlockchange Ventures+4 more
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesData · theaiinsider.tech · Aug 24, 2026
Zama · kucoin.com · Aug 11, 2026
Lodestar · kalkinemedia.com · Jul 24, 2026
Bruin · dailybruin.com · Jul 18, 2026
Unify · m.economictimes.com · Jul 15, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Lunar Ventures made?
- Lunar Ventures has 19 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Lunar Ventures invest at?
- Lunar Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Lunar Ventures's typical check size?
- Lunar Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $2M.
- What sectors does Lunar Ventures focus on?
- Lunar Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Hardware, Robotics, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Lunar Ventures located?
- Lunar Ventures is headquartered in Berlin, DE.
- Does Lunar Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Lunar Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Lunar Ventures co-invest with?
- Lunar Ventures most often shares deals with Entrepreneur First, Sie Ventures, Balderton Capital, among 36 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the team#117 Mick Halsband, Lunar Ventures
The European VC · Mick Halsband
You are an Investor (even if you don't know it) - Elad Verbin, Lunar Ventures
Tilores · Elad Verbin
EUVC #43 Luis Shemtov and Elad Verbin, Founding Partners of Lunar Ventures
The European VC · Elad Verbin
Luis Shemtov on investing in European deep tech startups at Lunar Ventures
Jan Kartusek · Luis Shemtov · youtube.com
3Q AI with Elad Verbin of Lunar Ventures
Racefields Ltd · Elad Verbin
ZKP for CollabTech - Elad Verbin (Lunar Ventures / BIV)
Zero Knowledge · Elad Verbin
Co-investors · 11
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Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (Bosch Ventures) is the corporate venture capital arm of Bosch, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, with additional offices in Frankfurt, Sunnyvale, Boston, Tel Aviv, and Shanghai.
Firms observed investing alongside Lunar Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Lunar Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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