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Cherry Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2012 · Active in 2026

Cherry Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Germany, founded in 2012. The page below shows 11 Power Law outcomes from Cherry Ventures's portfolio — 7 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Transportation · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are Germany · USA · France. Cherry ranks #206 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

11 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #206 · Global · 11 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 17% 5y
7
Decacorns ↓ 100% 5y
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 25% 5y
5
01 · Exits

Cherry’s biggest exits.

Cherry portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$12.9B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $5.9B
$1.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $4.8B
$1.1B acquisition · 2020
Entered Seed
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 11 Cherry Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. Germany7
  2. USA2
  3. France1
  4. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Transportation3
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  3. Fintech2
  4. Health Tech & Medtech1
  5. Energy1
  6. Other1
  7. AI1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A2
  2. Seed5
Estimated holdings

Cherry’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Cherry’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Cherry is a named shareholder, worth about $260M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 SwapMarketing · Colt 22.35% $600M $134M
  2. 2 FortoEnterprise Software · Unicorn 6% $2.1B $126M

Estimated value = Cherry’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Cherry also appears inside investor groups in Flink, Flix, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Cherry's 11 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
11 of 11 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Cherry stack up?

Cherry in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Cherry's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

44 founders across the 11 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and Rocket Internet are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
Germany37
Pakistan1
United Kingdom1
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UniversityCount
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management6
Technical University Munich4
HKUST MBA2
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg2
Munich Center for Digital Technology and Management2
Bucerius Law School2
Universidad de San Andres1
University of Ottawa1
Ocean University of China1
INSEAD Business School1
+21 more →
Origin companyCount
Rocket Internet9
Alphabet | Google5
Home244
994
Groupon3
Amazon3
DiDi3
Wise2
SAP2
Helpling1
+13 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Cherry.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Cherry Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cherry on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Cherry Ventures

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Cherry — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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