Our Portfolio

Our investments include seed, pre-seed and A rounds and might even happen before the actual launch of a company. Here are some of our latest cherries.

    • Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become needlessly complicated. False claims, conflicting messages in the media and weak regulations in the wellness industry are constant sources of confusion. We are increasingly exposed to stress and environmental toxins that compromise our health. ALOHA works to address these challenges and make an impact. The company was founded by Constantin Bisanz and was recently voted New York City’s „Hottest Start-Up“. Cherry Ventures invested in the very frist seed round

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    • Amorelie.de is a Berlin-Based eCommerce company focusing on high-quality erotic toys and lingerie. The company was founded by Lea Sophie Cramer and Sebastian Pollock and is one of Europe’s most exciting eCommerce start-ups in Europe. After a great start in Germany, Amorelie is now shipping to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Cherry Ventures was one of the seed investors and continued financing throughout the series A.

    • AUTO1 Group is a used car purchaser based in Berlin. The company operates serveral outlets in Europe and the U.S. and offers customers an easy and fair process to sell their used car. Cherry was one of the seed investors, later rounds included DST Global, DN Capital and Piton Capital.

    • Caroobi is a vertical marketplace for instant booking of car repair and maintenance services. In more complex cases, Caroobi offers phone support with its experienced team of mechanics, assisting the diagnosis of the customers’ car problems. For garages, Caroobi offers a channel to acquire new customers without having to deal with complex marketing or cumbersome payment issues.

    • Founded by two friends who believed there had to be a better way to buy a diamond, Enchanted Diamonds is committed to providing the highest level of service, a stress-free experience, and creating happy, lifelong customers. Cherry Ventures was one of the seed backers

    • Enfold is a U.S.-based technology company founded by serial entrepreneur I-J Gujral. Enfold is a leading worldwide provider of digital file cabinets. While Enfold currently provides this service directly to consumers through several public portals, it is mainly in the business of licensing portals on a private-label basis to companies. Enfold portals are multi-language and multi-country by design, so that they are relevant to small companies that operate in one country as well as enormous multi-nationals that operate worldwide. Cherry Ventures invested in the seed round.

    • Enmacc aims to become the world’s leading OTC marketplace for energy trading
      by connecting all market participants via a highly scalable tech-platform.
      The company digitalizes today’s manual and inefficient processes to simplify
      transactions, mitigate risks and increase productivity.

    • Farmalisto is a South American online pharmacy currently operating in Colombia and Mexico. The company was founded by an ecommerce veteran and a former executive of the pharmaceutical industry forming the ideal founders team. Farmalisto started operations in Colombia in 2014 and quickly expanded to Mexico. Farmalisto is growing rapidly, combining the ecommerce megatrend and the high growth of emerging markets with increasing online and mobile penetration. Cherry Ventures was one of the seed investors.

    • Flaschenpost is an on-demand platform for instant beverage deliveries. Flaschenpost operates a very efficient and tech-driven logistics and delivery setup that offers customers highest convenience at attractive prices and no extra delivery costs.

    • Flixbus MeinFernbus is Germany’s leading long-distance bus provider. After the privatization of the German intercity bus market beginning of 2013, FlixBus started offering modern mobility at excellent prices. After 2 years of tremendous growth, Flixbus merged with MeinFernbus to gain clear market leadership with a market share currently above 70%. After the merger FlixBus MeinFernbus is still following ambitious goals such as growing towards 1,000 buses until end of 2015 and expanding to more European countries. Cherry Ventures was one of the seed investors (pre-launch) and supports now the new large company.

    • Freighthub is a digital Freight Forwarder bringing real time quotes, transparent pricing and supply chain analytics to a billion dollar industry.

    • HappyFresh is on a mission to make your shopping more convenient and fun by delivering fresh groceries to you from great stores around your city in as little as one hour. HappyFresh lets you shop all your favorite products from great grocery stores around the city at the tap of a button. Simply add products to your cart, check out, and choose a delivery slot that suits your schedule.

    • Through the production and operation of their modular farming systems that yield highly nutritious and organic (pesticide-free) products (currently mainly leafy greens – herbs, salads, etc.) on a daily basis in strategic centers of consumption, Infarm is leading the way in the urban farming space and is on a mission to help cities become self-sufficient in their food production by building a brand new, transparent and dynamic food system.

      Infarm’s modular vertical farming units are deployed in supermarkets, restaurants, hotels and other areas where demand is prevalent who then pay a monthly fee for the growing capacity they are subscribing to. Each hydroponic farm is monitored and controlled through their robust software platform, driven by IoT technologies. With this model, the company aims to build a distributed network of vertical farms inside the city.

    • Joblift is a metasearch-engine for job offerings. The service aggregates offerings from various platforms and a multitude of jobs directly posted on companies’ websites. Using a number of different filters, users can customize their jobs search and then get directly to the source of the posting.  While enhancing the quality of the search results for users, Joblift improves also the relevancy of candidates for companies, thereby reducing costs and time through superior technology.

    • Kitchen Stories makes the kitchen at home our favourite place to be once more. Ranging from quick and easy to the perfect multi-course menu – the app offers a wide range of more than 100 dishes with that special something that you can prepare every day.

    • Lenda allows homeowners to refinance their home without receiving a sales call. At a lower interest rate and lower closing costs and time, there is no more convenient way to finance your home. Cherry Ventures invested in the seed round.

    • Lesara is a Berlin-Based eCommerce company focusing on discount products of various categories. The company was founded by Roman Kirsch, a young and successful serial entrepreneur. Lesara is one of Germany’s fastest growin ecommerce companies, setting up already solid structures for the future with a sourcing and operations office in China. Lesara is currently shipping to Germany, Austria and Switzerland and planning to expand further. Cherry Ventures was one of the seed investors and continued financing throughout the series A together with several large VCs.

    • Memorado is a Berlin-Based consumer internet company focusing on brain training for a broad range of customers. Memorado is growing quickly, mainly driven by mobile and virality through social media. Memorado’s IQ test has been featured on facebook with more than 2 billion viral newsfeed impressions in summer 2014. Memorado is the number one iOS app in 22 countries in the education category. Cherry Ventures was one of the seed investors.

    • Move24 is an innovative marketplace changing the way people organize their moves. With its self-learning routing algorithm Move24 is able to offer customers a fixed price and a hassle-free customer experience. Move24 operates moving jobs itself, but also falls back on certified professional partner companies in peak times.

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    • Quandoo is the easiest and fastest way to reserve a table in your favourite restaurant. The company provides a SaaS solution to restaurants and generates tousands of table bookings all over Europe. The start-up is financed by several prominent investors – Cherry Ventures was one of the seed backers.

      In March 2015, Quandoo was acquired by Japan’s Recruit Holding for 200M EUR.

    • Save is one of Cherry’s most recent investments. The company is based in France and offers a highly convenient repair service for your smartphone. With Save, you can leave your phone with a cracked display, shop and come back 20 minutes later to pick up your phone.

      • Launch: 2014
      • Investment:
        • Seed
      • Founders: Christian Tiessen, Jochen Siegert, Dr. Steffen Wachenfeld
      • http://www.savedo.de

      Savedo is a FinTech company that helps customers find the most attractive and fully secured fixed term deposit opportunities across Europe. Cherry Ventures invested in the very frist seed round.

      • Launch: 2015
      • Investment:
        • Seed
      • Founders: Janosch Novak, Uli Erxleben, Stefan Korsch
      • http://www.smacc.io

      SMACC is a Potsdam-based startup revoluzioning the way small and medium-sized businesses do their financial accounting. SMACC’s software helps its clients to master their every day financial tasks, increasing efficiency, transparency and control. Cherry invested in the seed round.

    • Spryker is a Berlin-based company offering an innovative e-commerce technology for category leaders based on a solid, lightweight architecture to fit custom requirements. Spryker is the result of more than 250 e-commerce projects and based on the experience that extensible architectures are superior to large feature sets. Spryker was founded by Alexander Graf and Nils Seebach, two e-commerce enthusiasts who are already working in the e-commerce technology space for several years. After the recent series A, Spryker is already growing rapidly, managing the high inbound demand of clients wanting to switch quickly to Spryker’s technology. Cherry Ventures was co-leading the Series A in May 2015.

    • STYLA (formerly AMAZINE) is a SaaS solution for online companies wanting to invest in digital storytelling and content commerce – it is THE newest and smartest approach to efficient content marketing. Styla’s technology enables companies to transform content into an exciting shopable magazine without any time consuming layout or html work. Cherry Ventures invested in the Seed round and continued investing in the Series A.

    • TeaTox is a new tea brand that breaks with tradition. The brand focuses both on the powerful effects of tea as well as on the special moment of drinking a cup of tea. The result is TEATOX: powerful organic tea blends of high quality with special effects for body, mind and soul. Unlike conventional tea brands TEATOX teas consider the human as a whole. Cherry Ventures supported the team from the start and invested pre-launch.

    • TourRadar is an online marketplace to compare & book group tours to over 200 countries of the world.

    • Vicomi is a visual platform that gives publishers tools to measure user sentiment and thereby increase engagement. Cherry Ventures invested in the very frist seed round.

    • Watchmaster is the fastest-growing digital marketplace for buying and selling new and pre-owned luxury watches. Watchmaster addresses a global, growing market of €100B+. The company sources these watches from both, consumers and watch dealers and provides value-adding services such as refurbishment and certification.
      Since its launch in July 2016 Watchmaster has been operational in Europe, Asia and the US.

    • Weengs is an innovative, hassle-free and tech-enabled shipping solution for small and medium-sized businesses.

    • Wunder is a carpooling app born in Hamburg and raised in many emerging markets. Since 2014 Wunder is building the most convenient and affordable way of moving within the city. Thanks to Wunder, millions of people are able to find others going in the same direction and share the ride.