# Lunar Ventures

> Lunar Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last fund: May 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lunar-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lunar_vc
- Website: http://lunarventures.eu/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $35k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 23% |
| SaaS | 5 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 13% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 33% |
| Series A | 5 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 18% |
| United States | 4 | 10% |
| Germany | 3 | 8% |
| Croatia | 2 | 5% |
| Portugal | 2 | 5% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alberto Cresto | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-cresto |
| Elad Verbin | Lead Scientist & Founding Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-elad-verbin |
| Benjamin Wolba | Venture Capital Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-wolba |
| Luis Shemtov | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-or-shemtov |
| Mick Halsband | Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mick-halsband |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Emm | 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 |  |
| Neurolabs | Setting the global standard for image recognition powered by synthetic data. | $7.8M | Series A | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Wasp | 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 | 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 |  |
| Runware | 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 | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Otera (previously DeepOpinion) | 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 Space | 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 |  |
| Unify | Combine All Models for Faster, Cheaper, and Better Responses Than Any Single Model | $8M | Seed | May 22, 2024 |  |
| NannyML | NannyML is an early stage venture funded start-up. Our product bridges the gap between business and AI in production, monitoring decisions made by ML systems, and ensuring they are stable and reliable, while extracting and communicating insights to business stakeholders. We work to become the product for monitoring AI in production.At NannyMLwe build enterprise software for detecting and correcting ML systems in production. That includes detecting data and concept drift, estimating performance loss and suggesting corrective actions as well as a dashboard that presents all these insights for business and technical users. Our goal is to ensure that ML systems keep adding value and that insights that can be extracted from ML systems are clearly communicated to business stakeholders. We want to make ML in production effortless to interact with and extract value from. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| deepset | deepset builds the technology enterprises rely on to create custom, production-ready AI applications. We are the company behind Haystack, the leading open-source AI orchestration framework, and the deepset AI Platform for building mission-critical AI agents and applications. Since 2018, we’ve helped organizations such as Siemens, Airbus, TheEconomist, and the German Armed Forces bring the latest in large language models and NLP into real-world use, delivering proven open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions adopted by thousands of AI teams worldwide. | $29.6M | Series B | Aug 09, 2023 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lunar Ventures invest in?

Lunar Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 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 Lunar Ventures's check size?

Lunar Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$8M at Seed, $35k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lunar Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Lunar Ventures?

Public channels for Lunar Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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