Christian Meermann

All three Riplo founders arrived at the same problem from different directions. Tobias Haefele and Oliver Scott built internal tooling at QuantumBlack (McKinsey's AI arm) and watched teams rebuild ...

🚨Dream job alert! We are hiring an Analyst or Associate for our Berlin office🍒 Venture is a very small industry and there are only a few of these dream jobs out there. You get paid to be curious ...

Last week wrapped up START Summit in St. Gallen. Two sessions - one on what European founders need to change their approach, another with André Petry from Tacto on building AI in legacy industries...

Dash0 just raised $110M at $1B and we are tripling down here! 🦄 Huge congrats to Mirko, Ben, Michele, Oliver, and the whole team at Dash0! Watching you execute at insane speed and hit this milesto...

AI agents are executing code, accessing production systems, and making API calls autonomously (85% of developers already use them!) But traditional security tools weren't built for this - they mon...

Great time last week in SF, among the many meetings Cherry hosted a dinner with founders, operators, and investors. A few takeaways... -- Having been many times before, the energy specifically ar...

Congratulations to Julian Dames and the Flink team on raising $100M from Prosus Ventures and Btomorrow Ventures. We backed Flink in their first round back in February 2021 and watching Julian buil...

Big Tech is spending $650B on AI capex in 2026 - 3x more than two years ago. That compute demand isn't slowing down. The problem.... We don't just need cheaper energy. We need fundamentally more o...

I'm in San Francisco this week. The reality is most ambitious European founders we back will eventually build presence here, so it's good to spend time here meeting founders, operators, and connec...

Very excited to announce Plato’s whopping $15M Seed round today! 🍒🚀 When Benedikt pitched us the idea of Plato 2 years ago, this wasn’t a theoretical startup idea. He was solving a problem he had ...

Huge congrats to Finn Age Hänsel and the whole team at our portfolio company Sanity Group! 🚀 Today is a big day for them partnering up with Organigram Global to become the leading global CBD power...

The shift from software that "helps" to software that "does." Very excited to lead Sphinx' $7M seed round together with our friends at Y Combinator! 🍒 🚀 Most AI for Compliance is just a prettier ...

Super excited to have two new team members join us to help us find and support Europe's most ambitious founders: Ben Newsome joins as VP of Talent and People, based in London. He's built teams at ...

We're backing Heywa Labs to rebuild how humans interact with AI. Milena Nikolic and Martín Sturla spent nearly a decade at Google working on Search and Gemini. They watched as while AI models hav...

I'm very excited about the launch of entire.io — the world’s next developer platform. After very successfully leading GitHub as CEO for a bunch of years,Thomas Dohmke is onto his next big mission...

The best part of building Cherry Ventures is working with talented people who've done interesting things. Rhiannon Hames studied Space Engineering in Sydney, represented Australia at the Internati...

Massive congratulations to Sam Atkinson, Zach Bailet, and the entire Swap team on their $100M Series C led by ICONIQ and DST Global. The opportunity for Swap continues to be massive. By 2030, agen...

Really proud to see Ben announce their $27.5M Series B led by Mercia Ventures. Sebastian Fallert and David Duckworth started Ben in 2019 to fix employee benefits. Companies spend 10-30% of payroll...

2025 - what a year! 🍒🚀 We backed 16 new amazing companies this year, all of them in the wider AI space: From AI native observability with Dash0, visual AI powering Adobe and Meta (Black Forest Labs...

Congrats Dr. Sarah Bechstein, Florian Semler and the whole FORMEL SKIN team on your journey so far and on the exciting next steps together with George Pallis and the team at MANUAL! It has been an ...