Berlin · Pre-Seed–Seed · 16 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 · 16 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directories
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Lunar Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 25 of 28 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Developer Tools ×9Enterprise Software ×9SaaS ×7Data & Infrastructure ×6Cloud Computing ×5Biotech ×4Deep Tech ×4
HQs:United Kingdom×4United States×2Germany×1Finland×1France×1Croatia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 12 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×5
Where their founders studiedfrom 16 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 17 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×9Engineering ×6Business & Management ×4Chemistry ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 14 founders with career history
Dyson ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 28 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 22023 · 12022 · 22021 · 32020 · 212 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-investorsCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Entrepreneur FirstSamos InvestmentsTranspose Platform ManagementVerve Ventures
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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
Co-investorsCDP Venture CapitalETF PartnersGrowth CapitalItalian Angels for GrowthMoonstone Venture CapitalPrimo Ventures+2 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 llcATPmark vcTexas VenturesUpslope VenturesAlbionVC+5 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)in
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Balderton CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Harpoon VenturesSignalRankSystem.One
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)in
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 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
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(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-investorsBackedCompoundFifty YearsInflection.xyzShine CapitalSignature Ventures+8 more
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York City, US
Co-investorsMomenta VenturesTechstarsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Fly VenturesSeraphim Space
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 Tech
Paul Pop(Founder)inPatric Fulop(Co-founder)inRemus Pop(Co-Founder & CRO)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
Stefan Engl(CEO and Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAlpha Intelligence Capital
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
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Co-investorsBreakout VenturesEntrepreneur First
Singapore-based Web3 startup building an all-in-one coordination and productivity platform for DAOs.
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesA&T CapitalBuilders TribeDWeb3 CapitalSino Global Capital
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 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)inDouglas Kitani(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstraction CapitalBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis CapitalM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)+10 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 CapitalMetis VenturesY Combinator468 Capital+3 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
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
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Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
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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 28 tracked investments, including 4 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, Inflection.xyz, Sie Ventures, among 42 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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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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