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Cherry Ventures

Founders Christian Meermann Daniel Glasner Filip Felician Dames

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Total investments 204
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 109
Rounds per year 18.55
Lead investments 32
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 11
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
  • FinTech
  • SaaS
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Octomind

23 Feb 2024 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Saleor Commerce

Developer APIs
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Open Source
$8M05 Feb 2024 Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland

QOA

$15M01 Feb 2024 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Deeploi

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$7M24 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Morressier

Analytics
Event Management
Events
Information Technology
Market Research
Meeting Software
Software
Video Conferencing
$17M23 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

tacto

Enterprise Software
Industrial
Procurement
SaaS
Software
$59M11 Dec 2023 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

COSI Group

Commercial Real Estate
Hospitality
Travel
$64M25 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

HOLOGATE

Amusement Park and Arcade
Augmented Reality
Content
Content Delivery Network
Enterprise
Media and Entertainment
Simulation
Training
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$9M03 Aug 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Blenk Technologies

Internet
28 Jul 2023 Germany, Georgia, United States
News
SellerX Raises €100M in Funding

– SellerX, a Berlin, Germany-based Amazon FBA aggregator of third-party e-commerce businesses, raised €100 ($118)m in funding.
– The round was led by the Growth Fund of L Catterton, with participants from Belgian investment company Sofina, as well as existing investors Cherry Ventures, Felix Capital, and 83North.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

Juni Raises $21.5M in Series A Funding

– Juni is a Gothenburg, Sweden-based financial companion for e-commerce entrepreneurs.
– The company raised $21.5m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by partners of DST Global, Felix Capital, Cherry Ventures and other early investors.
– The new investment will be used to focus on product development and recruiting.

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Total investments 204
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 18.55
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 32
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Octomind

23 Feb 2024 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Saleor Commerce

Developer APIs
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Open Source
$8M05 Feb 2024 Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland

QOA

$15M01 Feb 2024 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Deeploi

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$7M24 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Morressier

Analytics
Event Management
Events
Information Technology
Market Research
Meeting Software
Software
Video Conferencing
$17M23 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

tacto

Enterprise Software
Industrial
Procurement
SaaS
Software
$59M11 Dec 2023 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

COSI Group

Commercial Real Estate
Hospitality
Travel
$64M25 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

HOLOGATE

Amusement Park and Arcade
Augmented Reality
Content
Content Delivery Network
Enterprise
Media and Entertainment
Simulation
Training
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$9M03 Aug 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Blenk Technologies

Internet
28 Jul 2023 Germany, Georgia, United States
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