Lunar Ventures
Pre-Seed · 9 people tracked
Investment thesis
Pre-seed deep‑tech software fund run by R&D experts with deep CS backgrounds, backing technical founders who struggled to explain early, technical AI infrastructure, cryptography, dev tools, and semiconductor ideas.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's websiteAlberto Cresto wrote a 2021 white paper on privacy-enhancing technologies, built a platform tracking 100+ trends, champions founder protections (retain ≥51% post‑Series A) and focused on privacy infrastructure and cryptography.
Elad Verbin, an algorithms-focused investor and former computer scientist, targets pre-seed deep-tech moonshots in ML, cryptography, blockchains and compilers, uses a structured first-meeting recipe and publishes essays on behavioral crypto-economics.
Eyal Baroz, robotics partner, 25+-year technologist-operator, focuses on the teleoperation stack and targets pre-incorporation teams seeking €500K–€1.5M led by founders who've experienced teleoperation problems, treating it as apprenticeship to autonomy.
Mick Halsband is a former CTO who helps future CTOs, applying hands-on engineering and architecture experience across AI, graphics, medical devices and fintech to shape day-one roadmaps in early-stage deep-tech.
Morris Clay, a serial AI and deeptech founder promoted from Chief Engineer to General Partner, focuses on pre-seed–Series A developer tools and infrastructure, writing $250k–$1M and acting as technical peer.
Peter Crane blends his operator-founder perspective as Co‑Founder and CEO of Caeruleus Genomics with a D.Phil in chemical biology and AstraZeneca/Synthace experience for early-stage computational biology and chemistry ventures.
Florent-Aurélien Couturier-Crouzillac pairs rare experience scaling infrastructure software to over $1B ARR with early-stage deep-tech investing and is an accessible, visible connector between technical founders and growth-stage investors.
Lawrence Lundy-Bryan is an in-house futurist who runs a dedicated research function, publishes long-form theses, and maintains State of the Future, a deep-tech tracker mapping frontier computing, fusion, and geothermal.
What they invest in
from 1 of 6 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×1Biotech ×1Crypto & Web3 ×1
Investments · 6 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathFrequently asked questions
- What stage does Lunar Ventures invest at?
- Lunar Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed stage.
- What sectors does Lunar Ventures focus on?
- Lunar Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Hardware.
- Does Lunar Ventures lead rounds?
- Lunar Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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