# Claire Cherry

> Claire Cherry is a pre-seed investor at Joyance Partners (London) backing Apps and Beauty. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Joyance Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joyance-partners)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-cherry-26822125/?originalSubdomain=uk

Claire Cherry is a pre-seed investor at Joyance Partners in London focused on Apps and Beauty. Claire Cherry is the Investment Partner at Ataraxia & Joyance.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$2.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Beauty | 1 | 20% |
| Fashion | 1 | 20% |
| Women's | 1 | 20% |
| Consumer | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 80% |
| China | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OVA | OVA is a reproductive health brand designed to support both men and women on their fertility journeys. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Luna Daily | Luna Daily operates as a Femtech startup, that aims to empower women to take better care of their bodies. | $3.7M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Sourcerie | Sourcerie is to assist those who are underserved by the beauty industry in locating the finest products and routines for them. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| BEDFOLK | Luxury bedding made ethically in the world's best mills and sold at a fraction of the traditional retail price. | $1.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2021 |  |
| Mico | MICO is a cellular social community dealing with the international markets MICO keeps your social chat experience safe, easy and fun. MICO provides text message, voice chat, video chat and more. MICO was established on May 30, 2014 by Chunjian Ye, Jia Wei, and Qinglai Zhang in Haidian, Beijing. | $180K |  |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Playfair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playfair-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Redrice Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redrice-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SyndicateRoom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/syndicateroom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Juice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/velocity-juice) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ventures Together](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ventures-together) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Vorwerk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vorwerk-direct-selling-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Joyance Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Joyance Partners invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve how we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.

5 contacts available at Joyance Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Holly Jacobus | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holly-jacobus |
| Andrew Nealon | Chief Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-nealon |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-c-smith |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-smith |
| Claire Cherry | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-cherry |

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## FAQ

### What does Claire Cherry invest in?

Claire Cherry invests primarily in Apps, Beauty and Fashion startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Claire Cherry's check size?

Claire Cherry typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Claire Cherry participates in.

### When did Claire Cherry last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Claire Cherry closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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