Lunar Ventures

Lunar runs a broad general partner group for a fund of its size, weighted toward people who built the technology rather than financed it. The general partners are Morris Clay, a software engineer and founder with more than fifteen years across big tech and machine learning startups; Alberto Cresto, who has led more than forty deep tech investments across the US and Europe; Mick Halsband, a chief technology officer and software architect with two decades building mission-critical systems; Or Shemtov, a three-time founder with a public company exit who covers product, operations and growth; and Elad Verbin, a computer scientist focused on algorithmic startups and machine learning.

Domain partners cover the categories the firm underwrites: Eyal Baroz on robotics, after 25 years in semiconductors, defense and telecommunications, and Peter Crane on tech-bio, a former chemical biologist. Lawrence Lundy-Bryan and Florent-Aurelien Couturier-Crouzillac serve as venture partners, and Cindy Wei covers tech-bio on the investment team.

Lunar Ventures raises small, early and European. The firm launched with a debut fund of roughly EUR 40 million dedicated to deep tech pre-seed, an underserved slot in a market where most European seed capital arrives later and larger. In 2025 it closed a EUR 50 million Fund II backed by institutional limited partners including Isomer Capital, Exor's Lingotto, the Intesa Sanpaolo endowment and the Grinnell College endowment, alongside a group of technology founders and general partners from other European funds. That puts committed capital at roughly EUR 90 million across the two vintages.

Lunar has made more than 47 investments to date, writing first cheques into technical teams at day zero. As a German fund it does not file Form D with the SEC, so no US regulatory record corroborates the fund sizes. The current portfolio spans fully homomorphic encryption, sovereign AI infrastructure, agentic process automation, multi-agent data platforms and decentralized science, with Zama, Deepset, Otera, Electric-SQL and Molecule as named positions.