Christian Meermann

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 ...

Congratulations to Black Forest Labs on their $300M Series B! This is what European frontier AI looks like when it wins globally. 🍒🚀 Special congrats to Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Andreas Blatt...

Raising from US LPs as a European GP comes down to three things... time, differentiation, and global competition. Great talk at Slush Day 0 on this topic with Katherine Wyble (WISIMCO), Julie Zhan...

Two robots → Two philosophies… Two futures? 🤖 1X's NEO (left): $20,000 upfront or $499/month subscription Xiaomi Technology's humanoid (right): $1,400 Last week, NEO's demo hit 20M+ views. Peopl...

The AI race is just as much a power race. Sightline Climate (CTVC)/Sightline tracked 294 data centre projects totaling 73.6GW of demand. Average project size is now 1GW - that's a nuclear power ...

An interesting chart is floating around LinkedIn comparing social media usage patterns over time. It got me thinking about AI adoption curves. From a revenue perspective, AI is already massive. O...

500+ people lined up at 9am on a Saturday morning in Berlin for the {Tech: Europe} Hackathon at The Delta Campus. Spent the day watching teams work through different tracks - some building AI tool...

Nothing says "serious conversation about global expansion" quite like doing it in Lederhosen at Bits & Pretzels. Our panel kept coming back to one thing… European founders are often *too* subtle a...

🍒 We are super excited to double down on Dash0 and co-lead the company’s $35M Series A with our friends at Accel. I first met Mirko Novakovic two years ago through a mutual friend, and it didn't ...

Duncan Barrigan (former CPO at GoCardless) is building AI agents for accounts receivable. Huge problem, and he's the right founder for it. Today, $100tn+ in B2B trade still runs on manual emails a...

On my way to Munich now for this year‘s Bits & Pretzels! 🥨🍒 And it’s only one day left to fill out the consultation below and select EU–INC for an even stronger EU tech ecosystem in the future! 🇪🇺

Looking forward to discussing "Crossing the Pond" at Bits & Pretzels next week with my good friend Jochen Engert (Flix) and Frauke Holzmeier (RTL). Most European startups still build for local mar...

💡Super excited to continue our partnership with Light as they close their $30M Series A. 🍒🚀 At Cherry Ventures, we had the opportunity to co-lead Light's pre-seed and are doubling down again in th...

Super excited to partner with Erik Heinelt, Timo Kuschma, and Leonard Wossnig leading Forgent's €4.3M pre-seed funding round! These superstars are tackling a massive, underserved market: Europe's ...

🍒 Team News 📰 A very warm welcome to Victor H., Jonas von Kalben, and Lilly Baltruschat – we’re thrilled to have you join the 🍒 team! Victor joins our investment team as Principal in the Berlin o...

🚨 Europe’s builder community is coming together in Berlin. On October 11–12, we’re co-hosting the *Big Berlin Hack* - 300+ builders - 36 hours of nonstop hacking - €10,000+ in prizes This is ...