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Berlin · Pre-Seed–Seed · 15 people tracked
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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 · 15 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
3 people who came through Lunar Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 27 of 32 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Developer Tools ×10Enterprise Software ×9Data & Infrastructure ×7SaaS ×7Cloud Computing ×5Deep Tech ×5Biotech ×4
HQs:United States×5United Kingdom×4Finland×2Germany×1France×1Croatia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 14 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×43 founders×24+ founders×4
Where their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with education data
The University of Edinburgh ×3University of Bristol ×3Imperial College London ×2Technical University of Munich ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2University of Cambridge ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 18 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×10Engineering ×6Business & Management ×4Chemistry ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 15 founders with career history
Dyson ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 32 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 22024 · 12023 · 12022 · 22021 · 42020 · 215 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)inSofia Dahoune(Director)
Co-investorsCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Entrepreneur FirstSamos InvestmentsTranspose Platform ManagementVerve VenturesUniversity of Cambridge Enterprise
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Bruin is a data platform that connects to databases, CRMs, analytics, and billing systems to provide instant insights and dashboards.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSBerlin, DE
Burak Karakan(Founder)inSabri Karagönen(Founder)
Co-investorsMaterialized View CapitalTechstars
Cubbit provides distributed cloud storage infrastructure that combines on-premises and cloud technologies to give companies data sovereignty and cost control.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeep TechIoTBologna, IT
Alessandro Cillario(Founder)inLorenzo Posani(Founder)Marco Moschettini(Founder)Stefano Onofri(Founder)
Co-investorsCDP Venture CapitalETF PartnersGrowth CapitalGrowth EngineItalian Angels for GrowthLocalGlobe+6 more
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 llcAlumni VenturesATPmark vcTexas VenturesUpslope Ventures+6 more
deepset builds tools for developing custom LLM agents and applications, and created Haystack, an open-source Python framework used as an enterprise standard for AI agents and applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Milos Rusic(Founder)inMalte Pietsch(Founder)inTimo Möller(Founder)
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Balderton CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Harpoon VenturesSignalRankSystem.One
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)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBlue LionBlue Lion GlobalKaya VenturesSie VenturesStart Codon+1 more
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 game server orchestration platform that unifies bare metal and cloud infrastructure under a single API for multiplayer game studios.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGaming
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Upfront VenturesFounders Fund
Hop Aero develops rocket-based cargo delivery systems designed to transport supplies to remote or contested locations at high speeds, primarily serving U.S. military and allied defense applications.
Advanced ManufacturingLos Angeles, US
Jacob Balaj(CTO)inMatija Milenovic(CEO)inElizabeth Nava(Office \u0026 Operations Manager)
Co-investorsY CombinatorAERAlumni VenturesBatch VenturesBlast.ClubFounders Factory+10 more
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 VenturesBerggruen Holdings
Lodestar is developing Mithril, an autonomous AI system intended to fly defensive satellites in orbit.
Space TechEl Segundo, US
Neil Buchanan(Founder)inThomas Santini(Founder)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstInflection.xyzSeven Seven SixCharlie Songhurst
Mobius Labs was a Berlin-based AI startup building computer vision SDKs and multimodal models (Aana) enabling natural-language search across images and video.
Co-investorsAPEX VenturesAtlanticExpedite VenturesSpace CapitalAtlantic LabsGreylock Partners
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)inNeeta Singal(Founder)Saurabh Singal(Founder)Saurabh Singal Neeta Singal(Founder)Tyler Golato(Founder)Vincent Weisser(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtria VenturesBackedBoxGroupCompoundFifty YearsIncrypt Blockchain+13 more
Mutable operates a Public Edge Cloud that pools operators' underutilized servers into low-latency compute for developers.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York City, US
Co-investorsMomenta VenturesTechstarsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Fly VenturesSeraphim Space
Mystic provides an API platform that deploys and runs machine learning models either on shared serverless infrastructure or on customer systems, handling operational tasks like load balancing, scaling, and GPU resource management without requiring dedicated MLOps staff.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Paul Hetherington(Founder)inOscar RoviraTim Morgan(Operations)Rosie Bennett(COO)
Co-investorsY CombinatorAGE CryptoBuilders VCDeep VenturesGood News VenturesGreat Oaks Venture Capital+2 more
NannyML provides machine learning model monitoring and degradation detection for financial institutions, helping prevent costly model failures in lending, fraud detection, and risk assessment.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Hakim Elakhrass(Founder)inWojtek Kuberski(Founder)in
Co-investorsVolta Ventures
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 TechSaaS
Paul Pop(Founder)inPatric Fulop(Co-founder)inRemus Pop(Co-Founder & CRO)in
Co-investorsLAUNCHub VenturesNauta CapitalTechstart Ventures7percent 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 SoftwareInsurTechSaaS
Stefan Engl(CEO and Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAlpha Intelligence CapitalHoxton VenturesRed River West
Reach Industries builds a visual intelligence layer for science, combining AI, software, and hardware to support work in the life sciences.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechRoboticsLondon, GB
Chris Beck(Co-founder & CTO)inSilas Adekunle(Co-founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBreakout VenturesEntrepreneur FirstPassion CapitalId4 Ventures LimitedSOSV
Singapore-based Web3 startup building an all-in-one coordination and productivity platform for DAOs.
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesA&T CapitalAkshay BDBalaji SrinivasanBuilders TribeDWeb3 Capital+5 more
SemiQon designs and fabricates semiconductor-based quantum processing units (chips) intended to make quantum computers more compact and affordable.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingSemiconductorsEspoo, FI
Janne Lehtinen(CTO & Co-founder)in
Co-investorsVoima VenturesQAI VenturesTranspose Platform Management
SemiQon develops silicon-based, CMOS quantum processors designed to be cryogenic-ready and scalable toward million-qubit quantum computers.
Deep TechQuantum ComputingSemiconductors
Himadri Majumdar(Founder)Janne Lehtinen(CTO & Co-founder)Markku Kainlauri(Founder)Mika Prunnila(Founder)
Co-investorsVoima 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(Hiring Manager)inDouglas Kitani(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Austin Hughes(Founder)Austin Hughes Connor Heggie(Founder)Connor Heggie(Founder)Daniel Lenton (Hiring)(Hiring Manager)
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesAbstraction CapitalBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis Capital+23 more
Wasp is a full-stack web framework that reduces boilerplate code and provides built-in structure for web application development.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareZagreb, HR
Matija Šošić(Founder)inMartin Sosic(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstraction Capitalbig_betsBrighter CapitalFifth Quarter VenturesMetis VenturesY Combinator+6 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-investors468 CapitalAbstraction CapitalAcequia Capital (AceCap)HV CapitalTokyo Black
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
Co-investorsMaterialized View Capital
Zama provides encryption technology for onchain finance that keeps blockchain addresses public while encrypting transaction amounts and commercial references at the token level.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecurityDeep TechFintechSilicon Valley, FR
Rand Hindi(Founder)inPascal Paillier(Founder)
Co-investorsCoinListHack VCMetaplanetMulticoin CapitalSignum CapitalStake Capital+6 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Oshen
Exits · 1
1 acquisitionsMobius Labsacq. by Dropbox
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesMobius Labs · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Emm · eu-startups.com · Nov 19, 2025
Neurolabs · finsmes.com · Apr 23, 2025
Wasp · finsmes.com · Apr 21, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Lunar Ventures made?
- Lunar Ventures has 32 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 5 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, Gaingels, Materialized View Capital, among 67 tracked co-investors.
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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
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Racefields Ltd · Elad Verbin
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Co-investors · 11
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Wormhole Capital is the investment arm of Vivek Garipalli's family office, backing exceptional founders building transformative, category-defining companies, typically at the early and incubation stages.
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Causal is a financial planning and analysis platform that enables finance teams to move beyond traditional spreadsheet-based planning by integrating data from multiple sources and providing dynamic forecasting, budgeting, and scenario planning capabilities.
Astanor Ventures is an impact-focused investment firm dedicated to transforming the agrifood system by backing innovation across the value chain from 'soil and sea to gut'.
Beyond is a venture firm that incentivizes limited partners and operators to contribute talent and expertise alongside capital, enabling portfolio companies to receive targeted value-add support from a distributed network of skilled individuals.
Anzu Partners is an investment firm backing breakthrough clean tech, industrial, and life science technologies, working alongside founders through a team of investors, operators, scientists, and engineers.
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (Bosch Ventures) is the corporate venture capital arm of Robert Bosch, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, with offices across Europe, the US, Israel, and China.
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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