Lunar Ventures
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin that come from science, and business in deep tech companies. The firm particularly invests across Europe into founders building high potential startups that specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, big data, analytics, or other industries.
- Total investments:
- 43
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $56M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lunar Ventures invests in
Stages Lunar Ventures invests in
Countries Lunar Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$8.9M
- Pre-Seed
- $35k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$14M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (23%)
- Information Technology 9 (21%)
- Machine Learning 6 (14%)
- SaaS 5 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 13 (30%)
- Series A 5 (12%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
Country
- United Kingdom 9 (21%)
- United States 5 (12%)
- Germany 3 (7%)
- Croatia 2 (5%)
- Portugal 2 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alberto Cresto
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Elad Verbin
Lead Scientist & Founding Partner
|
Lead Scientist & Founding Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Benjamin Wolba
Venture Capital Associate
|
Venture Capital Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Luis Shemtov
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Mick Halsband
Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
|
Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zenithon is building machine learning models to provide a step change in the development and optimization of technology. The company's mission is to keep humanity on the exponential by enabling radically faster and more accurate design and optimization. Their team develops physics grounded machine learning models that make complex simulations dramatically faster, enabling more simulations, more iterations and more ways to explore what is possible. | $10M / Seed / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Hop Aero develops hypersonic rocket cargo systems that provide rapid point-to-point delivery across long distances. The company focuses on rocket cargo vehicles designed to transport supplies to austere and contested locations within minutes. Its systems aim to support logistics operations that require fast response times and resilient supply chains. Hop Aero positions its technology as part of a broader physical internet concept, enabling high-speed movement of physical goods similar to data on the internet. The company targets users that need time-critical delivery capabilities in challenging operational environments. | $11M / Seed / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking. | $5M / Seed / Aug 21, 2026 | ||
| Emm is developing the next generation of consumer health tools to manage your health on your terms. We want to empower everyone to change the quality of their life by inherently understanding their health though technology and specialist knowledge. | $8.9M / Seed / Nov 19, 2025 | ||
| Setting the global standard for image recognition powered by synthetic data. | $7.8M / Series A / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| Wasp is a programming language for building full-stack web applications. Wasp is a simple configuration language for building enterprise web apps with less code and best practices. The company was founded by Martin Sosic and Matija Sosic in 2020 and is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia. | $3.7M / Seed / Apr 21, 2025 | ||
| Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API. | $3M / Seed / Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| DeepOpinion is a No-Code B2B SaaS platform empowering every business user to create their own automation applications - their own “AI Co-Workers” - to free their time from repetitive cognitive tasks that previously required human intelligence. In our code-less DeepOpinion Studio, new automation applications can be easily created within minutesoffering fast time-to-value. Customers from various industries are already using DeepOpinion to automate various cognitive tasks. Use cases include automated classification and routing of incoming messages in customer support, automated requirements management in tendering processes, automated analysis of customer satisfaction across different touchpoints, automated error management, and more. | $12.3M / Series A / Sep 26, 2024 | ||
| Lodestar is developing in-orbit 3D printing technology to build the largest structures ever to exist in space. Founded by two off-earth manufacturing researchers, we’re disrupting the way we think about sending material to orbit. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 25, 2024 | ||
| Combine All Models for Faster, Cheaper, and Better Responses Than Any Single Model | $8M / Seed / May 22, 2024 | ||
| See all 43 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lunar Ventures invest in?
Lunar Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lunar Ventures invest in?
Lunar Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8.9M at Seed, $35k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$14M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lunar Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lunar Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Lunar Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Lunar Ventures?
The team at Lunar Ventures includes Alberto Cresto (General Partner), Elad Verbin (Lead Scientist & Founding Partner) and Benjamin Wolba (Venture Capital Associate), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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