Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin that come from science, and business in deep tech companies. The firm particularly invests across Europe into founders building high potential startups that specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning, blockchain,cybersecurity, big data, analytics, or other industries.
Founded 2017
Type Venture capital 2 Fund II Announced 2025-05-20
EUR50m closed; latest verified vehicle. Fund sums EUR90m are not verified current AUM.
€50M Fund I Announced 2021-10-13
EUR40m closed2021; earlier EUR20m target superseded.
€40M $1M $500K – $2M Europe $750K $500K – $1M Europe $700K $300K – $1M Zagreb, Croatia $652K $301K – $1M Berlin, Germany $652K $301K – $1M Berlin, Germany $652K $301K – $1M Oxford, United Kingdom $652K $301K – $1M Portugal $500K $250K – $1M Berlin, Germany $500K $250K – $1M London $25K $15K – $50K New York, New York — — – — — — – — — — – — — — – — — — – — — — – — — — – —
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£3M 2026-08-21 Oshen Lunar Ventures , Mick Halsband $— 2026-03-18 InfrOS Lunar Ventures $9M 2025-11-18 Emm Lunar Ventures , Alumni Ventures , Blue Lion Global , Labcorp $— 2025-06-04 Otera Lunar Ventures , Alpha Intelligence Capital , Red River West , Stride.VC $7M 2025-04-23 Neurolabs Lunar Ventures , Nauta Capital , LAUNCH , Techstart Ventures $— 2024-10-01 Runware Lunar Ventures $2M 2024-07-25 Lodestar Inflection , Lunar Ventures , Entrepreneurs First $— 2024-07-25 Lodestar Space Lunar Ventures $— 2023-08-09 Deepset Lunar Ventures , GV , Harpoon Ventures , Balderton Capital , System.One $— 2023-06-28 Reach Industries Lunar Ventures $7M 2023-06-05 Hathora Founders Fund , Upfront Ventures , Lunar Ventures , Stonks $— 2023-03-16 SemiQon Lunar Ventures $4M 2023-02-01 INSTILL AI Lunar Ventures , Gareth Jefferies $— 2022-09-01 Flipt Lunar Ventures $— 2022-08-26 Unify Lunar Ventures $— 2022-07-29 Otera Lunar Ventures $— 2022-07-28 iLoF Faber , Lunar Ventures , Alter Global , M12 , Scale Venture Partners , Quiet Capital , re.Mind Capital $— 2022-07-27 Stack Lunar Ventures $— 2022-05-01 Electric SQL Lunar Ventures $14M 2022-04-28 Deepset Lunar Ventures , Hoxton Ventures , GV , Harpoon Ventures , Sequoia Capital , System.One $— 2022-04-01 Hathora Lunar Ventures $— 2021-10-04 Wasp Lunar Ventures $— 2021-10-01 Codavel Lunar Ventures $— 2021-03-07 Deepset Lunar Ventures $— 2020-11-24 Molecule Lunar Ventures $1M 2020-10-30 NannyML Lunar Ventures , Elad Verbin $— 2020-07-22 Neurolabs Lunar Ventures $— 2020-04-01 Zama Lunar Ventures $— 2020-03-30 Mutable Lunar Ventures $— 2019-09-09 Kyso Lunar Ventures $— Unknown date NannyML Lunar Ventures , European Innovation Council (EIC) $1M Unknown date Wasp Lunar Ventures , 468 Capital , HV Capital $1M Unknown date Wasp Lunar Ventures , 468 Capital , Y Combinator , HV Capital $3M Unknown date INSTILL AI Lunar Ventures , Gaingels , RTP Global , Hive Ventures $— Unknown date Reach Industries Lunar Ventures , SFC Capital $3M Unknown date Runware Lunar Ventures $— Unknown date Xorq Lunar Ventures $— Unknown date WNSTN Lunar Ventures $— Unknown date Fermat Lunar Ventures $— Unknown date Embucket Lunar Ventures $— Unknown date Bruin Lunar Ventures $— Unknown date Axiom Therapeutics Lunar Ventures $— 2022-06-08 Samudai Lunar Ventures $— 2021-09-06 Mobius Labs Lunar Ventures
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team@apexlogos.ai · 37 minutes ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / LunarVentures / sha256:b564af70bdab60daca62fbc6278e8aca0dc0a23ec0f958d75057b65a4284019f / part 2 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
**iLoF is neuroscience-adjacent**: its optical biomarker technology has Alzheimer’s clinical-trial applications. The investee's [EU project factsheet](https://ilof.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EuropeanProjects_Website.pdf ), project approved 2022-02-03, specifies clinical validation for Alzheimer’s and patient recruitment. [Roche Portugal announcement](https://news.cision.com/pt/roche-portugal/r/anunciados-os-projetos-vencedores-de-building-tomorrow-together---innovation-in-dementia%2Cc637870790570000000 ), 2022-05-02 (release dated April 30), describes biological profiling for dementia-risk screening. This is a biological screening platform, not verified measurement or modulation of neural activity. Do not promote it to direct neurotech without additional evidence.
**Neurolabs is not neurotech despite its name**: [official company website](https://www.neurolabs.ai/ ), undated/accessed 2026-10-06, describes image-based retail shelf, pricing and promotion monitoring. Lunar is a verified portfolio investor. [Axios](https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-b9de2644-9d2d-4b35-a804-aef1054bea7e ), April 2025 reporting, identifies participation in a $7.8m Series A led by Nauta; exact publication date was not exposed in the inspected search result. No brain technology supported.
Search indexing of Seedtable surfaced “Neuro AI” on a Lunar investor page, but no official relationship or neural technology was verified. Treat as an unresolved aggregator lead, not an investment fact.
## Conflicts, missing information and later review
- Prefer dated €40m/€50m fund commitments over aggregator USD conversions. Do not treat fund targets, aggregate funds, checks or investee rounds as AUM.
- Keep official 500K–2M currency unspecified until confirmed; dated Fund II €750k–€1m describes launch policy and need not conflict with broader current checks.
- Resolve formation year and Signal location conflicts with legal/firm confirmation. Snapshot partner names/titles may include historical roles and duplicates; no current team audit completed.
- Deduplicate Wasp/GoldiOrg identity and repeated Runware, NannyML, Reach and other participation entries before later ingestion. Lodestar and Lodestar Space likely refer to the same company; verify identity rather than create another entity.
- iLoF 2022 equity versus grant totals and publication dates need reconciliation. A March 2026 SAFE appears in [S&P Capital IQ via MarketScreener](https://ae.marketscreener.com/news/ilof-intelligent-lab-on-fiber-limited-announced-that-it-has-received-0-2-million-in-funding-from-ce7e5fdede8df527 ), dated 2026-03-09, naming returning Lunar, but currency/amount rendering is malformed (“?200,000 million”); do not ingest the number. No official transaction announcement verified.
- Undated current pages were accessed 2026-10-06. Official portfolio establishes relationship, not ownership, check, lead status, fund allocation or earliest date. Historical investee funding sources establish participation only in specified rounds.
- Current iLoF website contains apparent template residue in its footer; technical and investor claims were therefore cross-checked with EIT Health/project factsheet. No efficacy or regulatory claim was adopted from this page.
- Sifted accessible introduction supports Fund II close; full article access limited. LinkedIn launch text was search-index accessible. Other sources were directly opened or their publicly indexed report text inspected as stated above. This research does not assert exhaustive historical portfolio coverage. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 37 minutes ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / LunarVentures / sha256:b564af70bdab60daca62fbc6278e8aca0dc0a23ec0f958d75057b65a4284019f / part 1 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
# Lunar Ventures
- Exact Adex ID: `LunarVentures`
- Canonical Adex page: https://adex.page/firms/LunarVentures
- Official website: https://www.lunar.vc/
- Research completed/accessed: **2026-10-06**. This is research for subsequent review; no Adex changes were made.
Lunar is a deep-tech investor backing technical founders before revenue, with a current pre-seed strategy and verified investments in cryptography, quantum hardware, robotics and photonics-based biotechnology. Latest-known fund announcement found is **€50 million Fund II, closed in May 2025**. No verified direct neurotech investment was found; iLoF is a relevant neuroscience-adjacent biomarker and clinical-trial investment, while Neurolabs is retail computer vision.
## Starting evidence and identity
Read `_sources/LunarVentures.adex.json`, exact record `LunarVentures`, retrieved 2026-10-06. It describes a Berlin seed deep-tech firm founded in 2017, provides https://signal.nfx.com/firms/lunar-ventures , has null check-size fields, and contains 44 investment participation entries. Its source list includes official pages, reporting and Goldilocks aggregation. Examples include Zama (2020), Deepset, iLoF, SemiQon, Lodestar and Oshen. Snapshot entries are leads, not independent verification. Duplicate Wasp identities/participations, Runware and other records mean the entry count is not a verified count of investments.
[NFX Signal firm profile](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/lunar-ventures ) was directly readable, undated, accessed 2026-10-06. It describes a seed deep-tech investor, dates formation to 2017, and lists partner-level pre-seed/seed DeepTech interests. Its header says New York while its description says Berlin; listed locations span several countries. Mick Halsband appears twice with differing check ranges. These fields and personal check preferences should not establish firm headquarters, current staffing or uniform firm check sizes. Intro paths require sign-in. Signal is corroborative discovery evidence only.
Berlin identity is supported by [VCWire's Fund II announcement](https://vcwire.tech/2025/05/20/lunar-ventures-launches-e50m-fund-ii/ ), 2025-05-20. The 2017 formation claim remains unresolved: [2019 Lunar presentation hosted by Absolvo](https://absolvo.hu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/190910_VC-into_Mick-Halsband-Lunar-Ventures_compressed2.pdf ) demonstrates operation in 2019 but does not establish incorporation year. Review founding-year evidence before changing it.
## Funds, stages and checks
| Vehicle / metric | Finding | Evidence and date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fund I | €40m closed; earlier €20m target, reported twice oversubscribed. Closed in 2021. | [VCWire](https://vcwire.tech/2025/05/20/lunar-ventures-launches-e50m-fund-ii/ ), 2025-05-20; [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/lunar-ventures-launches-technically-oriented-e40m-fund-aimed-at-deeptech-startups/ ), 2021-10-13 confirms €40m close. |
| Fund II | €50m **closed**, pre-seed deep-tech across Europe and the US; latest-known vehicle found. | [Sifted](https://sifted.eu/articles/lunar-ventures-raises-50m ), 2025-05-20, explicit close in accessible article introduction. [Firm announcement on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lunar-ventures_were-excited-to-announce-the-launch-of-activity-7330506652380483587-NIjw ), May 2025 announcement corroborates launch/amount; indexed text read, relative date only. |
| Fund II deployment at launch | 25–30 intended companies; €750k–€1m investments, eight made by announcement. | [VCWire](https://vcwire.tech/2025/05/20/lunar-ventures-launches-e50m-fund-ii/ ), 2025-05-20. Launch strategy, not audited current deployment. |
| Current official checks | Leads rounds at 500K–2M; page does **not** specify currency. | [Official approach](https://www.lunar.vc/about ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. Do not silently turn this into USD or EUR. |
The current [official approach](https://www.lunar.vc/about ) explicitly supports **pre-revenue** investment and focuses on AI/data infrastructure, privacy technologies/cryptography, tech-bio, science with ML, space and robotics. [Homepage](https://www.lunar.vc/ ) emphasizes initial founder support. Historical pre-seed/seed descriptions and later Series A participation should be retained separately: participating in follow-ons does not turn the current mandate into a general Series A strategy. Searches for newer funds through 2026 found no later verified vehicle. €90m is the arithmetic sum of the two known fund sizes, **not verified current AUM**; no independent AUM figure was established.
## Named previous deep-tech investments
The [official portfolio](https://www.lunar.vc/portfolio ), undated/accessed 2026-10-06, directly attributes the following companies to Lunar. Firm-level relationships below do not rely on partners' prior employers.
| Company | Technology / investment evidence | Date, round and caveats |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Zama** | Fully homomorphic encryption: computations on encrypted data, a substantive cryptography technology. Official homepage names Lunar as an early investor and includes a founder pre-seed testimonial. | [Nordic9](https://nordic9.com/news/zama-raised-preseed-capital/ ), 2020-04-07, reports $1.1m pre-seed with Lunar and Plug and Play. Snapshot's 2020-04-01 may be transaction versus publication date; exact date needs reconciliation. Lunar's check not disclosed. |
| **SemiQon / Semiqon** | Silicon quantum processors; quantum-dot qubits and integrated control electronics. Direct firm investment attribution in [Lunar's technical investment essay](https://medium.com/lunar-ventures/semiqon-ultra-compact-silicon-quantum-processors-78f71fb5ff7 ), 2023-04-05, alongside Voima Ventures, Tiny.vc and angels. | Essay establishes backing by April 2023, but gives no Lunar check or precise round closing date. Snapshot's 2023-03-16 is not independently confirmed. Current portfolio describes cryogenic CMOS chips. |
| **Oshen** | Autonomous marine sensing robots; hardware, energy systems and autonomy provide the deep-tech rationale. | [UKTN](https://www.uktech.news/deep-tech/oshen-raises-3-65m-to-scale-ocean-sensing-robot-fleet-20260821 ), 2026-08-21: £3.65m round led by Lunar, alongside AlbionVC, Twin Track and Concept. Snapshot $5m is a different currency representation, not a second financing; do not equate FX amounts without contemporaneous basis. |
| **Lodestar Space** | Space robotics. [Momentus official collaboration announcement](https://investors.momentus.space/news-releases/news-release-details/momentus-enters-collaboration-agreement-lodestar-space-robotics/ ), 2024-09-13, confirms robotic-arm integration and £800k UKSA grant. Official Lunar portfolio supports attribution. | Lunar/Inflection co-led pre-seed; $2.5m reported includes grants ([TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/25/lodestars-robotic-arm-is-an-orbital-first-responder-for-satellites-in-need/ ), 2024-07-25). Exact equity/check undisclosed. |
| **iLoF** | Photonics and machine learning create biological fingerprints for patient screening and trial stratification. Investee [official site](https://ilof.tech/ ) includes Lunar among investors/partners; official Lunar portfolio corroborates. | [EIT Health ecosystem report](https://eithealth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/InnoStars-Innovation-Ecosystem-Maturity-Assessment.pdf ), file July 2024, confirms a 2022 approximately $4m Faber-led equity round with Lunar participation. [Nordic9](https://nordic9.com/news/ilof-raised-41-million-in-a-seed-funding-round-led-by-faber-ventures/ ), 2022-07-23, gives $4.1m seed. Snapshot July 28 differs; exact announcement date requires reconciliation. |
Other officially named technical portfolio companies include **Deepset** (AI infrastructure), **Axiom Therapeutics** (AI-assisted covalent drug discovery) and **Hop Aero** (hypersonic cargo rockets). These are relationship-level evidence only here; dates, rounds and amounts are not verified. Ordinary developer tools or agent applications were not automatically counted as deep tech.
## Neurotech evidence and exclusions
**No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked.** Checks covered the saved investments, directly read Signal/official portfolio, and targeted searches for Lunar with neurotech, brain investments and Neuro AI. This conclusion concerns direct neural-interface, neurostimulation or brain-signal technology, not every neuroscience-related application. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 26 days ago
MATCH 
Otera$— · 2025-06-04
iLoF$— · 2022-07-28
Alumni Ventures
Emm$9M · 2025-11-18
Balderton Capital
Deepset$— · 2023-08-09
Blue Lion Global
NannyML$1M · 2020-10-30
Lodestar$2M · 2024-07-25
Founders Fund
Hathora$7M · 2023-06-05
INSTILL AI$3M · Unknown date
Gareth Jefferies
Inflection
Oshen£3M · 2026-08-21
Neurolabs$7M · 2025-04-23
Quiet Capital
re.Mind Capital
RTP Global
Reach Industries$— · Unknown date
Techstart Ventures
Upfront Ventures
Y Combinator
Wasp$1M · Unknown date
