Filip Dames
Founding Partner @ Cherry Ventures
Berlin, Germany
Filip Dames is a German entrepreneur and Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures, a European early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to Cherry he was a member of the founding team of Zalando (ZAL) and played a pivotal role in business development, including the international expansion and product development of the company. Filip was also the founderand CEO of Zalando Lounge, a shopping club within the Zalando group. Before Zalando, Filip was the founder and CEO of digital marketplace for art and collectibles.Filip Dames has received the "Investor of the Year 2022" award by the German Startup Association and is listed as Europe's Best Early-Stage Investors in 2022 by Business Insider. He appears on Forbes Midas List Europe recognising him as one of the top 25 technology investors on the continent. Filip serves on the board of KfW Capital as well as the Bundesverband dt. Startups (BVDS), the German Startup Association. He is a guest lecturer at IMD-Lausanne Business school and his alma mater, WHU. Filip is also an active supporter of the Ashoka network, an organization focused on helping founders establish social businesses worldwide. Together with his wife he established the a Family Foundation dedicated to supporting education and providing access to entrepreneurship for families from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Total investments:
- 72
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Filip Dames invests in
Stages Filip Dames invests in
Countries Filip Dames invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$17M
- Series A
- $8M–$44M
- Series B
- $16M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (15%)
- Information Technology 9 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (13%)
- FinTech 7 (10%)
- SaaS 5 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 25 (35%)
- Series A 18 (25%)
- Series B 10 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (6%)
Country
- Germany 24 (33%)
- United States 4 (6%)
- Sweden 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- United Arab Emirates 2 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Integral provides a digital platform for businesses covering accounting, payroll, tax compliance, and financial reporting. | $20.8M / Series A / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimize their finances. Thanks to a dynamic and up to 10x higher limit, our corporate credit card can handle even the highest spend. With virtual and physical credit cards, the entire team can spend easily and securely. Individual spending limits and real-timedata per card, merchant or team keep costs under control. The Moss app makes it easy to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignment. At the end of the month, all data and documents can be exported to any accounting software. | $40.4M / Series C / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| INXM develops Orchestrator, a process execution engine that turns user intent into executable workflows for enterprises. | $6.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Bremen-based software company ELISE GmbH has created the first low-code development platform for engineering. Engineers can use it to automate recurring tasks across all domains in a single environment. Thus, unlike in classical design processes, ELISE enables algorithm-based modeling. As a result of this automation, developers can return tocreative activities and ultimately design faster and better products. On ELISE, all data and the entire expert knowledge of the development process are integrated. Engineers are thus provided with technical capabilities that are otherwise only available to software developers, despite their diverse skills. This is achieved through a visual programming language for which no special IT knowledge is required. Users of ELISE work in numerous industries, including automotive, aerospace and medical technology. The platform’s potential has been proven at customers such as Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai, Brose and EDAG. With the help of ELISE, they were able to design individual components up to 90 percent faster than before. | $40M / Series B / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| Our vision is to make high-quality health products accessible for everyone. We will achieve this by enabling creators of health products to build and operate high-quality products with 10x efficiency. We are putting our initial focus on automating compliance and regulatory tasks for medical device manufacturers. Our product offering includesAI-enabled automation of major parts of the data collection, aggregation, evaluation, and reporting for post-market surveillance activities. | $20M / Series A / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| AI compliance analysts for banks and fintechs. | $7.1M / Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money. | $27.5M / Series B / Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| Forgent AI creates domain-specific AI agents to assist enterprises in securing, winning, and delivering public sector contracts. | $5.1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| qlub is a financial technology company that provides payment and ordering systems for restaurants. It develops a system where customers in restaurants can scan a QR code to access a digital menu and pay the bill using a mobile device. The same system can also support bill splitting, tipping, and payment without requiring a separate app. Theplatform is mainly used in dine-in restaurants, cafes, hotels, and similar venues. | $30M / Series B / Jul 21, 2025 | ||
| Proxima Fusion is a fusion energy company developing stellarator-based fusion power plants to deliver safe, carbon-free, and commercially viable electricity. The company focuses on commercializing quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators, a type of magnetic confinement fusion reactor designed to provide continuous and stable plasma operation. ProximaFusion collaborates closely with research institutions, industrial partners, and energy companies across Europe through the Alpha Alliance, a consortium established to scale the manufacturing and engineering capabilities needed for commercial fusion. The company leverages scientific breakthroughs from the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator while developing proprietary engineering, simulation, and manufacturing technologies to industrialize fusion power generation. | $149.6M / Series A / Jun 11, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
Cherry Ventures Contacts
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Alexander Langholz-Baikousis
CFO and Operating Partner
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Charlotte Bruce
Principal
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Nikolai Kraler
Software & Data Engineer in Residence
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Christian Meermann
Founding Partner
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Daniel Glasner
Founding Partner
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FAQ
What does Filip Dames invest in?
Filip Dames invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 72 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Filip Dames's check size?
Filip Dames typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$17M at Seed, $8M–$44M at Series A and $16M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Filip Dames participates in.
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When did Filip Dames last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Filip Dames closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 72 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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