Katharina joined Cherry as an investor based in Berlin. She attended the University of Denver and pursued a double major in finance and international business while playing for the Division I golf team in Colorado. Afterward, she completed her studies with an MSc degree in economics & strategy from Imperial College London. Prior to Cherry, Katharina gained experience in venture building at Rocket Internet, which ultimately sparked her interest in startups. She then held an operational role at Razor Group, an ecommerce aggregator, where she helped scale the company from 100 to > 350 employees. In her free time, Katharina tries to spend as much time as possible in nature, whether hiking, biking, or some other sports activity.

Nadja is an investor at Cherry based in London. She studied Data Science with business focus at Imperial College London and holds a business degree from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Before Cherry, Nadja focused on fintech working at Mastercard Consulting, after an initial quick stint at N26. After realizing her interests are in more technical approaches both industry and position-wise, she learned how to code and joined Cherry portfolio company Luminovo.ai alongside their first customer. During her time there she led product intelligence combining quantitate and qualitative scaling approaches. Besides work she has been a part of the startup ecosystem for years, helping to organize conferences such as Slush and Bits&Pretzels. Here at Cherry she is focused on all machine learning topics.

Luc is an investor helping lead Cherry's crypto fund: www.cherry.xyz

Jasper is a former entrepreneur and partner, leading B2B software and AI coverage. He established HV Capital's Berlin office and B2B software team, where he backed over a dozen companies, including Verbit. At Cherry, in addition to investment work, he dives into product-market-fit, finding the right go-to-market model, fundraising, and expanding into new markets. During his educational years he spent time living in England, Spain, and Latin America. He holds two degrees in business administration and graduated both with first class honors from Lancaster University Management School, England, and the European School of Business (ESB) Reutlingen, Germany. Jasper also worked as a researcher at RWTH Aachen for his (still unfinished) PhD, where he helped Professor Malte Brettel set up the university’s Centre for Entrepreneurship. Before joining HV, he bootstrapped greatcontent.com, an online platform selling creative texts in 18 languages to clients around the globe. After years as a solo founder and CEO, Jasper sold the platform to a publishing group. Jasper relaxes by reading The Economist and sci-fi books. He gets lost with game consoles, playing drums, and going sailing. As he has a Lego rocket, A-Wing, Batmobile, and Tallneck on his work desk, he humbly accepts the ‘tech nerd’ label.

Max is an investor at Cherry based in Berlin. He holds business degrees from WWU Münster as well as WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Before Cherry, Max had stints in M&A and consulting but was quickly drawn to the startup ecosystem. He worked on a consumer sustainability venture for company builder TruVenturo and later joined Moss to support their European expansion. Working across deals, he now spends most of his time in mobility, logistics, and proptech. A former competitive tennis player, you will now find Max hiking, skiing and climbing in the Alps in his spare time.

Based in Stockholm, Hampus joined Cherry in 2023. Prior to becoming an investor, he supported multiple European operators with their angel investments, including building some of their angel portfolio companies’ financial reporting and models. Now, he’s on the lookout for founders with grit, particularly within the Nordics or gaming & entertainment spaces across Europe. As an avid gamer in his younger years, he gets a little extra excited trying out prototypes and products of the sort. He holds a BSc in Business Administration & Economics from Stockholm University.

Brett is an investor and researcher helping lead Cherry's crypto fund: www.cherry.xyz

Dinika is a Principal at Cherry Ventures, based in London. Prior to Cherry, Dinika was an operator for more than four years at Uber, where she was part of the founding UberEats team in EMEA, and later General Manager of JUMP (e-bikes / scooters) in the UK. She also spent a year in the climate tech space at Kaluza, part of the Ovo Group (inc. Vertical Aerospace) a SaaS platform focused on electric grid optimization. Dinika started her career as a technology investment banker, and has spent several years as an angel investor and advisor to female founded startups, a deep area of passion of hers. She holds degrees from London Business School and Northwestern University in Illinois where she was a mathematics major.

Sophia is a Partner at Cherry Ventures. Based in Stockholm, Sophia brings her expertise on Nordic startups and a growing interest in the femtech space to the team. Sophia joined Cherry from Atomico, where she also served as Partner and created the firm's well-known Angel Program. Sophia is passionate about supporting early-stage companies, an interest she has discovered through 40+ angel investments of her own across Europe and North America. For seven years, Sophia also served as Spotify's Global Marketing Director, developing the audio platform from an apartment-based Swedish startup into an international household name. Aside from venture capital, she also acts as Board Director at the non-profit organization Race for the Baltic, is cofounder of AllBright.se, and is an innovation advisor to the Swedish Prime Minister. Sophia is a graduate from Stockholm University.

Carlo joined Cherry in 2016. Before Cherry, he gained first-hand experience as an entrepreneur transforming his family's healthcare business. He has also started two companies, a marketplace in the travel industry (that failed) and a DTC beverage company (that grows nicely). Before that, he started his career at the M&A division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He holds a bachelors in business administration from the University of Mannheim and an MBA from MIT Sloan. He spends his free time with various activities ranging from soccer to skiing to hiking, as long as they're outdoors. Carlo is particularly interested in dedicated solutions to solving the climate crisis, improving the current financial system, or providing better healthcare. The bolder the idea, the better.

Dimitri is an investor at Cherry based in London. He started his career in sales and business development in fintech before joining the financial markets division at Morgan Stanley. During his MBA at London Business School, Dimitri spent time in VC at Notion Capital focusing on B2B SaaS and fintech investments. He also worked on launching his own startup and supported a number of projects for Berlin-based marketplace business, Vanilla Steel. Before joining Cherry, Dimitri was on the portfolio business development team at Insight Partners, helping to accelerate the go-to-market of portfolio companies. Outside of tech, Dimitri spent a couple of years in motorsport and when he’s not at the racetrack, he is planning his next skiing, hiking or scuba diving trip.

Christian is a Founding Partner at Cherry. After a few years at Boston Consulting Group, Christian joined Zalando as its first CMO. Christian was responsible for building and managing the group’s marketing efforts (like, for example, performance marketing, CRM, PR, TV, and brand marketing). He then joined the management board of Peek&Cloppenburg and was responsible for the company’s online business. He holds a masters (Diplom) in business administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He has lived and worked in the US, Spain, Brazil, and South Africa. Christian gets excited about founders that are as passionate about execution as they are about building a strong and sustainable brand. He has a particular focus on logistics and mobility as well a food technology companies.

Max joined Cherry in 2021. He studied law in Barcelona and Berlin and passed the bar exam in 2020. Before Cherry, Max worked as a legal trainee in private equity at Freshfields, but rounded out his interests working at Zenjob as a project manager, consulting at Boston Consulting Group, and in VC at Acton Capital. Though working across deals, Max primarily focuses on fintech at Cherry. Outside of venture, Max can be found catching up on the latest in international politics, playing tennis, or planning his next travels.

Patrick is an investor helping lead Cherry's new crypto fund: www.cherry.xyz

Filip is a Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures and a founder at heart. Before Cherry, he started his first startup company in 2008, a digital marketplace for art and collectibles (long before there were NFTs). He then joined Zalando (ZAL:GR) as member of the founding team. At Zalando, Filip led business development, which included the international expansion as well as product. Filip was also founder and CEO of the group’s shopping club, Zalando Lounge. He left Zalando at the time of the group IPO in 2014 to fully focus on Cherry with Christian accompanied by the idea to build the VC he would have wanted to have by his side as an entrepreneur.  Filip is also an active supporter of the Ashoka network, helping founders start social businesses around the world. Together with his wife, he started a family foundation supporting education and access to entrepreneurship for families from disadvantaged backgrounds. Filip serves on the board of KfW Capital as well as the Bundesverband dt. Startups (BVDS). He holds a masters of science degree from WHU-Beisheim School of Management. At Cherry, Filip primarily invests in software companies with a focus on fintech, retail infrastructure, and healthcare.

Marie co-founded and led Aiden.ai as CEO. The AI-powered marketing analyst that helps growth marketers at SMBs by generating optimization recommendations across Facebook, Snap, Google Ads and Twitter. The startup was acquired by Twitter in 2019, where she is now director of product management. Marie is also an angel investor in 20 startups across Europe and the US, 40% of which have diverse founders.

Josefin co-founded and led KRY as CEO and COO. Kry is a European leader in digital healthcare, providing patients with the means to see a doctor via video or chat on their smartphone or tablet. Now, Josefin is CEO of MANTLE, a CBD-focused wellbeing company she founded in 2019.

Nicole is the office, team, and events manager of Cherry's London office. Prior to joining Cherry, Nicole held positions as an executive and personal assistant within the financial services, technology, and accounting sectors, where she developed her creative and organizational skills. Nicole holds a bachelor's in criminology from Southampton Solent University. She has a passion for art, food, travel, and reality television.

Juliette is Chief of Staff at Cherry Ventures. She joined us from J.P. Morgan in Paris, where she worked with high-growth technology companies across Europe. As Chief of Staff, she is involved in supporting the firm's long-term strategic planning while, in parallel, helping us drive operational excellence and support Europe's brightest and most daring founders. Outside of venture, Juliette can be found at the boxing gym preparing for her next fight or spending quality time with her friends and family between Berlin and Paris.

Moritz is Cherry’s General Counsel and leads the firm’s legal, regulatory, compliance and ESG functions. He is passionate about helping Europe’s boldest founders scale their businesses and enjoys providing strategic counsel to Cherry’s founders on matters relating to governance, litigation, and dispute resolution. Moritz was previously a member of the legal team at Lakestar, a European multi-stage venture fund, and a private equity associate at Freshfields. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Münster before going on to work at the German Foreign Office and various international law firms in New York and Berlin. He is a native speaker of English and German, and actively working on protecting his French against either of the former’s impact.

Catherine is Head of Communications & Platform at Cherry Ventures, bringing several years of professional journalism experience to the team. Most recently, she was a freelance journalist reporting on German tech for Silicon Allee and Sifted, a Financial Times-backed news site. She moved to Berlin as a Fulbright scholar in 2018 to research art restitution after spending several years as CNN’s White House and Capitol Hill assignment editor. Catherine hails from the Washington, DC area and earned her bachelors degree with honors in English literature from Dartmouth College.

Alex is CFO and Operating Partner at Cherry. He works across all aspects of Cherry’s fund and internal operations, finance, and investor relations. In addition, our founders value him as a sparring partner on all finance related topics. Alex joined the firm as Head of Finance in 2016 after spending several years in investment banking, most recently at Morgan Stanley in London. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Alex was involved in several large public offerings including the IPOs of Zalando and Rocket Internet. He holds a masters of science in finance and accounting from EBS Business School.

As Head of Talent Advisory, Louisa supports our founders around matters involving recruiting global top talent, hyper-growth, and scaling. She is passionate about using data to aid strategic decision-making, advising on operational excellence, process optimization, and performance improvement. Louisa has lived all over the world and brings experience in executive search with international firms — including having founded her own agency — plus in-house, most recently at N26 as Global Head of People Operational Excellence.

James Hunter is Cherry's Head of Finance and Investor Relations. Before Cherry, he previously covered strategic and corporate finance at Hopin and worked at Goldman Sachs for seven years. There, he spent time working in both alternative capital markets and tech, media, and telecom investment banking.

Lexi joined Cherry Ventures in 2017 and now manages internal operations at the firm. Prior to Cherry, she worked as an office manager and junior SEA manager at Magine TV, a Swedish startup in Berlin. Lexi perfected her organizational skills by working in the film industry as a production and project manager for several years. She loves food, dancing, and her guilty pleasure — trash TV.

Christina joined the Cherry team as an executive assistant. She previously worked several years as an executive assistant at Leverton GmbH, a tech startup, and at Design Hotels AG, a hotel marketing corporation, both in Berlin. Prior to moving to Germany, she lived in London and worked at Burberry on its global launch of its multi-language e-commerce platform. Christina has lived in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, the UK, and Germany and has a passion for languages. She speaks five languages and holds a language degree in Spanish and Italian from the University of Manchester. She loves great food, traveling, and learning about new cultures.

Conny is Cherry's People Operations Manager. Christian, Filip, and Conny have been working as a team for many years during her time at Zalando. She previously worked with the German-American Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia and at several other international companies. Conny studied event management in Leipzig, Germany. She is a huge fan of travel and loves visiting her friends in the US.

Rossa is an accounting and finance professional with over eight years of experience in the fund industry. Having graduated from Dublin City University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in Business Studies, he worked as an auditor for EY Dublin in the Asset Management department for two and a half years. Following this he moved to Luxembourg where he joined EY Luxembourg auditing Private Equity and Real Estate funds for a year and a half. Thereafter, he worked with Langham Hall Luxembourg S.à r.l. in the Fund Administration department for three and a half years.

Tatiana holds a bachelors in economics and political science from the University of California, San Diego and a masters in economics from the London School of Economics. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Hebrew. After living for many years in London, then Tel Aviv, California, Madrid and Barcelona, she decided to finally unpack her suitcases permanently in Berlin.

Silva is our operations and administration manager, joining Cherry in January 2023. In her role, she runs the firm's accounting and drives operational projects across the team. Prior to Cherry, Silva was a professional pianist performing with orchestras across Europe. Silva's fascination with numbers is what led her from the world of classical music to venture capital accounting and operations, seeing numbers as a key correlation between the two. A native of Bulgaria, she moved to Germany in 2014 and is proud to call Berlin home. When not tickling the piano keys or at Cherry, she can be found cooking, traveling, or trying a new sport (like axe throwing). She's a graduate of the University of West London. She speaks English, German, and Bulgarian fluently.