Lunar Ventures

Lunar Ventures is a seed-stage venture fund based in Berlin, focused on deep-tech investments. The firm is comprised of a team of three partners with expertise in both science and business within the deep tech sector. Lunar Ventures primarily invests in high-potential startups across Europe that are engaged in fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, big data, and analytics, among others. By supporting innovative founders, Lunar Ventures aims to foster the growth of transformative technologies in a rapidly evolving market.

Mario Branciforti

Investor

Alberto Cresto

Principal

Mick Halsband

Founding Partner

Luis Shemtov

Founding Partner

Elad Verbin Ph.D

Founding Partner

Benjamin Wolba

Associate

27 past transactions

Mutable

Seed Round in 2020
Mutable is an infrastructure platform that enables a consortium of Cable and Wireless providers to compete against traditional cloud infrastructure in the field of emerging tech.

Stack

Seed Round in 2021
Stack is a smart browser for internet multitaskers that manages all apps from one place. It increases the efficiency of working with the web for the average internet users by allowing simultaneous use of multiple web-apps within a neatly organized working environment. It is designed to make multitasking in web reality and work with the internet fun. Stack was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mobius Labs

Series A in 2021
Mobius Labs GmbH develops image and video understanding software, The company licenses out lightweight and state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. The company offers on device SDK and on premise installation. Mobius Labs GmbH was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Codavel

Seed Round in 2021
At Codavel, we are developing an innovative technological solution that allows you to overcome the inherent instability of the wireless last mile, such as Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G or even the upcoming 5G, and ensure high mobile app speed regardless of network conditions. By controlling network instability end-to-end, our SDK considerably improves end-user experience. Fast and efficient content delivery is key in a digitally connected world. Codavel is the key.

Neurolabs

Seed Round in 2022
Computer Vision algorithms for product recognition in Retail.

Neurolabs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Computer Vision algorithms for product recognition in Retail.

deepset

Series B in 2023
We are building the next enterprise search engine fueled by NLP and open-source. Building on top of latest NLP research we leverage question answering & transfer learning to provide granular, semantic search results tailored to different domains.

iLoF

Venture Round in 2022
iLoF - Intelligent Lab on Fiber is a patented photonics and Artificial Intelligence system identifies unique features of various gold-standard biomarkers, capturing their signature on a cloud-based library.

deepset

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We are building the next enterprise search engine fueled by NLP and open-source. Building on top of latest NLP research we leverage question answering & transfer learning to provide granular, semantic search results tailored to different domains.

NannyML

Pre Seed Round in 2020
NannyML develops an enterprise software for monitoring machine learning models in production and providing business insights to business stakeholders. Its platform enables decision-makers by monitoring the decisions that artificial intelligence (AI) takes, understanding how those decisions change over time, and how these changes affect the business. NannyML was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Leuven, Belgium.

Zama

Seed Round in 2021
Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance. Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks over encrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers. Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips.

ElectricSQL

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vaxine is based on AntidoteDB, a planet-scale database system that allows to serve data close to your users, wherever they are in the world.

deepset

Series A in 2022
We are building the next enterprise search engine fueled by NLP and open-source. Building on top of latest NLP research we leverage question answering & transfer learning to provide granular, semantic search results tailored to different domains.

Samudai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Samudai organizes information and provides tools to enable seamless coordination through an all-in-one platform. Samudai was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.

Mobius Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Mobius Labs GmbH develops image and video understanding software, The company licenses out lightweight and state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. The company offers on device SDK and on premise installation. Mobius Labs GmbH was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

DeepOpinion

Seed Round in 2022
DeepOpinion is delivering the future of text analysis/NLU for the industry. With DeepOpinion Studio and AutoNLU framework it is democratizing state-of-the-art natural language understanding for everyone - business users, developers and data scientists. DeepOpinion offers a growing library of pretrained models with world-leading accuracy as well as a range of tools to use them in production and create custom models - from DeepOpinion Studio and AutoNLU framework to an enterprise stack for on-premise deployments.

Zama

Venture Round in 2020
Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance. Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks over encrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers. Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips.

Kyso

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Kyso allows users to share their data science models. That means data scientists have to spend less time building models from scratch every time they’re performing a new study. It also includes tools for visualizing the results of those models. Kyso also offers visualisations inspired by data from politics, economics, social affairs, technology, science and much more.

Molecule

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Molecule GmbH develops a virtual accelerator platform that helps scientists to translate their discoveries into novel therapeutics for patients. It connects scientists with the funding needed for therapeutics development; and connects private investors with scientists to bring various treatments to patients. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland with a location in Berlin, Germany.

Reach Industries

Seed Round in 2023
Reach Industries focuses on developing cutting-edge products for companies. Reach Industries was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Bristol, UK.

NannyML

Pre Seed Round in 2023
NannyML develops an enterprise software for monitoring machine learning models in production and providing business insights to business stakeholders. Its platform enables decision-makers by monitoring the decisions that artificial intelligence (AI) takes, understanding how those decisions change over time, and how these changes affect the business. NannyML was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Leuven, Belgium.

Stack

Series A in 2022
Stack is a smart browser for internet multitaskers that manages all apps from one place. It increases the efficiency of working with the web for the average internet users by allowing simultaneous use of multiple web-apps within a neatly organized working environment. It is designed to make multitasking in web reality and work with the internet fun. Stack was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.