Lunar Ventures Closes First Fund, at €40M
Summary
Created in 2019 in Berlin, the founding partners are: • Dr. Elad Verbin, a computer science researcher with experience leading R&D in academia and industry; • Mick Halsband, a CTO and software architect who has over two decades of experience at startups and Israeli intelligence; and • Luis Shemtov, a product expert and strategist who previously founded several startups. They are joined by Principal Alberto Cresto, who has led over 20 DeepTech investments across the US and Europe. Lunar Ventures is investing up to €1M into early-stage DeepTech startups that are software focused. Its core theme is frontier computer science, looking at everything from democratising machine learning to cryptography, and new cloud infrastructures to next generation databases. The firm has already invested in 12 startups across Europe, including Zama, deepset, and Molecule.