Cherry Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Berlin, Germany

Total investments

209

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

112

Rounds per year

19.00

Lead investments

32

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

11

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSupply Chain ManagementSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Cherry Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Berlin. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

The fund was created by Christian Meermann, Daniel P. Glasner, Filip Felician Dames. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Cherry Ventures, startups are often financed by LocalGlobe, DN Capital, Cavalry Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DN Capital, Piton Capital, TA Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Piton Capital, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Global Founders Capital.

Opposing the other organizations, this Cherry Ventures works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Cherry Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Auto1 Group, Flixbus, FreightHub. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistHealthcareManufacturingB2B/EnterpriseLogistics Show 14 more
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
2M — 7M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 300000000
Fund raised date
2022-01-20

Analytics

Total investments
209
Lead investments
32
Exits
11
Rounds per year
19.00
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Software (66)
  • Information Technology (25)
  • E-Commerce (25)
  • FinTech (25)
  • SaaS (23)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (131)
  • Sweden (14)
  • United Kingdom (19)
  • United States (16)
  • Austria (5)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
113M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
6.85
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
COSI Group 25 Sep 2023 Travel, Commercial Real Estate, Hospitality Late Stage Venture 64M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Light 12 Jun 2024 Seed 13M Hovedstaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

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